Impacts of performance-based financing on health system performance: evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Health systems' weakness remains one of the primary obstacles towards achieving universal access to quality healthcare in low-income settings. Performance-based financing (PBF) programs ha
Health planning approach integrating a health literacy concept and using community health teams in Tajikistan: 'work for the sake of my health and the... (Publications)
The Enhancing Primary Health Care Services project supported the Ministry of Health and Social Protection in nine pilot health districts in Tajikistan to strengthen family medicine-oriented primary he
Effect of the KaziBantu school-based health intervention on non communicable disease risk factors of children from low-income schools in Gqeberha,... (Publications)
This study aimed to determine the effects of a 20-week school-based intervention programme on non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors of children from low-income schools in Gqeberha, South Africa.
Norovirus acute gastroenteritis among US and European travellers to areas of moderate to high risk of travellers' diarrhoea: a prospective cohort... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a major medical condition for travellers worldwide, particularly travellers to low- and middle-income countries. Norovirus (NoV) is the most common cause of
Human <em>Taenia martis</em> neurocysticercosis, Switzerland (Publications)
Neurocysticercosis is almost exclusively caused by Taenia solium tapeworms. We describe a case of neurocysticercosis in Switzerland caused by infection with Taenia martis, the marten tapeworm, and rev
What Africa can do to accelerate and sustain progress against malaria (Publications)
After a longstanding global presence, malaria is now largely non-existent or suppressed in most parts of the world. Today, cases and deaths are primarily concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa. According
Model-informed target product profiles of long-acting-injectables for use as seasonal malaria prevention (Publications)
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) has proven highly efficacious in reducing malaria incidence. However, the continued success of SMC is threatened by the spread of resistance against one of its m