The complexity of scaling up an mHealth intervention: the case of SMS for Life in Tanzania from a health systems integration perspective (Publications)
BACKGROUND: SMS for Life was one of the earliest large-scale implementations of mHealth innovations worldwide. Its goal was to increase visibility to antimalarial stock-outs through the use of SMS tec
Search for the active ingredients from a 2-aminothiazole DMSO stock solution with antimalarial activity (Publications)
Chemical decomposition of DMSO stock solutions is a common incident that can mislead biological screening campaigns. Here, we share our case study of 2-aminothiazole 1, originating from an antimalaria
Preclinical and clinical characteristics of the trichuricidal drug oxantel pamoate and clinical development plans: a review (Publications)
Soil-transmitted helminths (Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm and Trichuris trichiura) infect about one-fifth of the world's population. The currently available drugs are all highly efficacious against A
The "double burden of malnutrition" in the Amazon: dietary change and drastic increases in obesity and anemia over 40 years among the Awajun (Publications)
Undernutrition and overnutrition are interconnected. Yet few studies have examined the "double burden of malnutrition" (DBM) over time in indigenous communities. We investigated changes in the food sy
New antiparasitic flexible triaryl diamidines, their prodrugs and aza analogues: synthesis, <em>in vitro</em> and<em> in vivo</em> biological... (Publications)
Dicationic diamidines have been well established as potent antiparasitic agents with proven activity against tropical diseases like trypanosomiasis and malaria. This work presents the synthesis of new
Primary care case management of febrile children: insights from the ePOCT routine care cohort in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (Publications)
Aim: To provide insight in the primary health care (PHC) case management of febrile children under-five in Dar es Salaam, and to identify areas for improving quality of care. Methods: We used data fro
Spatial prediction of malaria prevalence in Papua New Guinea: a comparison of Bayesian decision network and multivariate regression modelling... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Considerable progress towards controlling malaria has been made in Papua New Guinea through the national malaria control programme's free distribution of long-lasting insecticidal nets, im
Estimation of heat-attributable mortality using the cross-validated best temperature metric in Switzerland and South Korea (Publications)
This study presents a novel method for estimating the heat-attributable fractions (HAF) based on the cross-validated best temperature metric. We analyzed the association of eight temperature metrics (
