Given the well-known linkage between diabetes mellitus (DM) and tuberculosis (TB), the World Health Organization recommends bidirectional screening. Here we report the first screening ef...
de Plecker E, Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Trelles M, Caluwaerts C, et al.
2017-02-07 • PLOS One
2017-02-07 • PLOS One
OBJECTIVES In a rural district hospital in Burundi offering Emergency Obstetric care-(EmOC), we assessed the a) characteristics of women at risk of, or with an obstetric complication...
Joshi B, Chinnakali P, Shrestha A, Das M, Kumar AMV, et al.
2015-06-21 • Public Health Action
2015-06-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING Seven intervention districts with intensified childhood tuberculosis (TB) case-finding strategies implemented by a non-governmental organisation and seven control districts u...
Sagili KD, Satyanarayana S, Chadha SS, Wilson NC, Kumar AMV, et al.
2018-02-01 • Global Health Action
2018-02-01 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND:
The Global Fund encourages operational research (OR) in all its grants; however very few reports describe this aspect. In India, Project Axshya was supported by a Global...
2018-06-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2018-06-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
In Zimbabwe, while the Xpert MTB/RIF assay is being used for diagnosing tuberculosis and rifampicin-resistance, re-treatment tuberculosis (TB) patients are still expected to have culture...
2016-08-17 • BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
2016-08-17 • BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
With an estimated 65 million Diabetes Mellitus (DM) patients, India ranks second in the world in terms of DM burden. The emphasis of current medical practice has been on pharmacotherapy ...
Zachariah R, Rust S, Berger SD, Guillerm N, Bissell K, et al.
2016-08-09 • PLOS One
2016-08-09 • PLOS One
Research capacity is weakest in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) where operational research is highly relevant and needed. Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative ...
Reddy K, Ananthakrishnan R, Jacob AG, Das M, Isaakidis P, et al.
2015-12-21 • Public Health Action
2015-12-21 • Public Health Action
India mainly uses passive case finding to detect tuberculosis (TB) patients through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP). An intensified case finding (ICF) interve...
Rusovich V, Kumar AMV, Skrahina A, Hurevich H, Astrauko A, et al.
2014-12-21 • Public Health Action
2014-12-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING Belarus (Eastern Europe) is facing an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). In 2012, rapid molecular diagnostics were prioritised for sputum smear-positive p...
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...
Operational research (OR) in public health aims to investigate strategies, interventions, tools or knowledge that can enhance the quality, coverage, effectiveness or performance of healt...
