OBJECTIVE Determining interventions to address food insecurity and poverty, as well as setting targets to be achieved in a specific time period have been a persistent challenge for d...
Aw B, Ade S, Hinderaker SG, Dlamini N, Takarinda KC, et al.
2017-09-01 • Public Health Action
2017-09-01 • Public Health Action
Setting: The National Tuberculosis Programme, Mauritania. Objective: To compare the diagnosis and treatment outcomes of childhood tuberculosis (TB) cases (aged <15 years) registered betw...
Oladimeji O, Isaakidis P, Zachariah R, Hinderaker SG, Koghali M, et al.
2013-09-21 • Public Health Action
2013-09-21 • Public Health Action
Ethics approval of research studies is essential for the protection and rights of study subjects, whether this is for prospective research or record reviews. This article shares a painfu...
2012-06-16 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2012-06-16 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
The words 'defaulter', 'suspect' and 'control' have been part of the language of tuberculosis (TB) services for many decades, and they continue to be used in international guidelines and...
2016-12-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2016-12-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
BACKGROUND Among the 216 districts in Ghana, 98 were declared endemic for lymphatic filariasis in 1999 after mapping. Pursuing the goal of elimination, WHO recommends annual treatmen...
Sunyoto T, Van der Bergh R, Valles P, Gutierrez RO, Ayada L, et al.
2014-11-06 • BMC Health Services Research
2014-11-06 • BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIn resource-poor settings, where health systems are frequently stretched to their capacity, access to emergency care is often limited. Triage systems have been proposed as a to...
Delamou A, Diallo MO, Béavogui AH, Delvaux T, Millimono SL, et al.
2015-02-23 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2015-02-23 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Female genital fistula remains a public health concern in developing countries. From January 2007 to September 2013, the Fistula Care project, managed by EngenderHealth in partnership wi...
2014-12-03 • American Journal of Infection Control
Molfino L, Kumar AMV, Isaakidis P, Van der Bergh R, Khogali MA, et al.
2014-04-08 • Global Health Action
2014-04-08 • Global Health Action
Background : In Mozambique, antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up has been successfully implemented. However, attrition in care remains a major programmatic challenge. In 2009, an interm...
2011-02-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2011-02-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Operational research (OR) has become a hot topic at national meetings, international conferences and donor fora. The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)...
