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Mental health and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health-related university students: a cross-sectional multi-center study

Khongyot T, Takyi A, Ndzeshang DS, Fai KGN, Win TZ,  et al.
2025-05-19 • Tropical Medicine and Health
2025-05-19 • Tropical Medicine and Health

BACKGROUND

The mental health problems during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may have influenced their decision to receive the COVID-19 vaccine...

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The genetic diversity of Nipah virus across spatial scales

Cortes-Azuero O, Lefrancq N, Nikolay B, McKee C, Cappelle J,  et al.
2024-12-16 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2024-12-16 • Journal of Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND

Nipah virus (NiV), a highly lethal virus in humans, circulates in Pteropus bats throughout South and Southeast Asia. Difficulty in obtaining viral genomes from bats m...

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Outcomes for efavirenz versus nevirapine-containing regimens for treatment of HIV-1 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Pillay P, Ford NP, Shubber Z, Ferrand RA
2013-07-22 • PLOS One
2013-07-22 • PLOS One
INTRODUCTION
There is conflicting evidence and practice regarding the use of the non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI) efavirenz (EFV) and nevirapine (NVP) in first...
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CMV retinitis in China and SE Asia: the way forward

Heiden D, Saranchuk P
2011-11-24 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2011-11-24 • BMC Infectious Diseases
AIDS-related CMV retinitis is a common clinical problem in patients with advanced HIV/AIDS in China and Southeast Asia. The disease is causing blindness, and current clinical management,...
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Tuberculosis treatment in a refugee and migrant population: 20 years of experience on the Thai-Burmese border

Minetti A, Camelique O, Hsa Thaw K, Thi SS, Swaddiwudhipong W,  et al.
2010-12-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2010-12-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
SETTING
Although tuberculosis (TB) is a curable disease, it remains a major global health problem and an important cause of morbidity and mortality among vulnerable populations, incl...
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Letter

Zidovudine to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission in developing countries: a view from Thailand

Kumphitak A, Cawthorne P, Lakhonphol S, Kasi-Sedapan S, Sanaeha S,  et al.
1999-03-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
1999-03-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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Comparison of chloroquine, sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, mefloquine and mefloquine-artesunate for the treatment of falciparum malaria in Kachin State, North Myanmar

Smithuis FM, Shahmanesh M, Kyaw MK, Savran O, Lwin S,  et al.
2004-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2004-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Multi-drug resistant falciparum malaria is widespread in Asia. In Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam the national protocols have changed largely to artesunate combined treatment regimens but...
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Treatment outcomes of patients on Second-line Antiretroviral Therapy in resource-limited settings: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Ajose O, Mookerjee S, Mills EJ, Boulle AM, Ford NP
2012-05-15 • AIDS
2012-05-15 • AIDS
A growing proportion of patients on antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings have switched to second-line regimens. We carried out a systematic review in order to summarize re...
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Research

Viral Load Monitoring as a Tool to Reinforce Adherence: A Systematic Review

Bonner K, Mezochow A, Roberts TR, Ford NP, Cohn J
2013-06-14 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
2013-06-14 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)
Viral load monitoring has been proposed as a tool to reinforce adherence, but outcomes have never been systematically assessed.
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Field evaluation of a simple fluorescence method for detection of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis in sputum specimens during treatment follow-up

Schramm B, Hewison CCH, Bonte L, Jones W, Camelique O,  et al.
2012-05-30 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
2012-05-30 • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Simple tuberculosis (TB) treatment monitoring tools are needed. We assessed the performance of fluorescein-diacetate (FDA) smear microscopy for detection of viable Mycobacterium tubercul...
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Electrocardiographic safety evaluation of dihydroartemisinin piperaquine in the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria

Mytton OT, Ashley EA, Peto L, Price RN, La Y,  et al.
2007-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2007-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) could become a leading fixed combination malaria treatment worldwide. Although there is accumulating evidence of efficacy and safety from clinical tri...
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Relapses of Plasmodium vivax infection usually result from activation of heterologous hypnozoites

Imwong M, Snounou G, Pukrittayakamee S, Tanomsing N, Kim JH,  et al.
2007-04-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2007-04-01 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND: Relapses originating from hypnozoites are characteristic of Plasmodium vivax infections. Thus, reappearance of parasitemia after treatment can result from relapse, recrudesce...
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In resource-limited settings good early outcomes can be achieved in children using adult fixed-dose combination antiretroviral therapy

O'Brien DP, Sauvageot D, Zachariah R, Humblet P
2006-10-03 • AIDS
2006-10-03 • AIDS
OBJECTIVES
To (a) determine early treatment outcomes and (b) assess safety in children treated with adult fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretroviral tablets.

SETTING
S...
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Commentary

Global trade and access to medicines: AIDS treatments in Thailand

Wilson D, Cawthorne P, Ford NP, Aongsonwang S
1999-11-27 • Lancet
1999-11-27 • Lancet
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Refugee camp health services utilisation by non-camp residents as an indicator of unaddressed health needs of surrounding populations: a perspective from Mae La refugee camp in Thailand during 2006 and 2007

Alexakis LC, Athanisiou M, Konstantinou A
2019-04-17 • Pan African Medical Journal
2019-04-17 • Pan African Medical Journal
INTRODUCTION:
This study explored the differences on the level of medical care required by camp and non-camp resident patients during utilisation of the health services in Mae La re...
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Review

Strategies for access to affordable hepatitis C testing and treatment in Asia

Khwairakpam G, Burry J
2019-01-01 • Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
2019-01-01 • Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
With increasing availability of generic direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) and associated price reductions, various governments, multilateral institutions, and donors have started providing...
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Sustaining Access to Antiretroviral Therapy in the Less-Developed World: Lessons from Brazil and Thailand

Ford NP, Wilson D, Chaves GC, Lotrowska M, Kijtiwatchakul K
2007-07-01 • AIDS
2007-07-01 • AIDS
ANTIRETROVIRAL ROLLOUT IN BRAZIL AND THAILAND: Brazil and Thailand are among few developing countries to achieve universal access to antiretroviral therapy. Three factors were critical t...
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A biregional survey and review of first-line treatment failure and second-line paediatric antiretroviral access and use in Asia and southern Africa

van Cutsem G, Saphonn V, Saramony S, Vibol U, Zhang FJ,  et al.
2011-04-08 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2011-04-08 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
To better understand the need for paediatric second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART), an ART management survey and a cross-sectional analysis of second-line ART use were conducted in th...
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Short Report

Barriers to health care for Burmese migrants in Phang Nga province, Thailand

Veerman R, Reid AJ
2010-12-29 • Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
2010-12-29 • Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
The article describes barriers to health care experienced by Burmese migrants in a province of Thailand based on the experience of Medecins Sans Frontieres over the past three years. In ...
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Building leadership capacity and future leaders in operational research in low-income countries: why and how?

Zachariah R, Reid AJ, Srinath S, Chakaya JM, Legins K,  et al.
2011-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2011-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Very limited operational research (OR) emerges from programme settings in low-income countries where the greatest burden of disease lies. The price paid for this void includes a lack of ...