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Editorial

Universal health coverage: ensuring that nobody is left behind

Bhardwaj V, Philips M
2023-09-25 • BMJ Opinion (blog)
2023-09-25 • BMJ Opinion (blog)
Technical Report
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Evidence Brief

Missing (from) the UHC targets: leaving behind the most vulnerable

Philips M, Bhardwaj V
2023-09-14
2023-09-14
Through providing free medical care to people in conflict settings, natural disasters, pandemics, and among people excluded from the health system, MSF teams see first-hand the challenge...
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Research

Providing universal access to antiretroviral therapy in Thyolo, Malawi through task shifting and decentralization of HIV/AIDS care

Bemelmans M, van den Akker T, Ford NP, Philips M, Zachariah R,  et al.
2010-12-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2010-12-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Objective  To describe how district-wide access to HIV/AIDS care was achieved and maintained in Thyolo District, Malawi. Method  In mid-2003, the Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Fro...
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Commentary

User fees or equity funds in low-income countries

Brikci N, Philips M
2007-01-06 • Lancet
2007-01-06 • Lancet
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Research

Task shifting in HIV/AIDS: opportunities, challenges and proposed actions for sub-Saharan Africa

Zachariah R, Ford NP, Philips M, Lynch S, Massaquoi M,  et al.
2009-06-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2009-06-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a crisis in human health resources due to a critical shortage of health workers. The shortage is compounded by a high burden of infectious diseases; emigrati...
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Research

Out-of-pocket costs of AIDS care in China: are free antiretroviral drugs enough?

Moon S, Van Leemput L, Durier N, Jambert E, Dahmane A,  et al.
2008-09-01 • AIDS Care
2008-09-01 • AIDS Care
Financial access to HIV care and treatment can be difficult for many people in China, where the government provides free antiretroviral drugs but does not cover the cost of other medical...
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Letter

Reply to: What about health system strengthening and internal brain drain? [letter]

Zachariah R, Ford NP, Philips M, Draguez B, Harries AD
2009-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2009-05-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Journal Article
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Research

Keeping health staff healthy: evaluation of a workplace initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from HIV/AIDS in Malawi

Bemelmans M, van den Akker T, Pasulani O, Saddiq Tayub N, Hermann K,  et al.
2011-01-05 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
2011-01-05 • Journal of the International AIDS Society
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: In Malawi, the dramatic shortage of human resources for health is negatively impacted by HIV-related morbidity and mortality among health workers and their relative...
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Research

No cash, no care: how user fees endanger health—lessons learnt regarding financial barriers to healthcare services in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Haiti and Mali

Ponsar F, Tayler-Smith K, Philips M, Gerard S, Van Herp M,  et al.
2011-05-19 • International Health
2011-05-19 • International Health
Although user fees are a common form of healthcare financing in resource-poor countries, there is growing consensus that their use compromises health service utilisation and population h...
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Research

Mortality reduction associated with HIV/AIDS care and antiretroviral treatment in rural Malawi: evidence from registers, coffin sales and funerals

Mwagomba B, Zachariah R, Massaquoi M, Misindi D, Manzi M,  et al.
2010-05-04 • PLOS One
2010-05-04 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND: To report on the trend in all-cause mortality in a rural district of Malawi that has successfully scaled-up HIV/AIDS care including antiretroviral treatment (ART) to its popu...
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Research

Reduced tuberculosis case notification associated with scaling up antiretroviral treatment in rural Malawi

Zachariah R, Bemelmans M, Akesson A, Gomani P, Phiri K,  et al.
2011-07-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2011-07-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
OBJECTIVE
To report on the trends in new and recurrent tuberculosis (TB) case notifications in a rural district of Malawi that has embarked on large-scale roll-out of antiretroviral ...
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Research

The uncertain future of lay counsellors: continuation of HIV services in Lesotho under pressure

Bemelmans M, Goux D, Baert S, van Cutsem G, Motsamai M,  et al.
2015-11-05 • Health Policy and Planning
2015-11-05 • Health Policy and Planning
Between 2006 and 2011, when antiretroviral therapy (ART) was scaled up in a context of severe human resources shortages, transferring responsibility for elements in human immunodeficienc...
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Research

Foci of schistosomiasis mekongi, Northern Cambodia: II. Distribution of infection and morbidity

Stich AH, Biays S, Odermatt P, Men C, Saem C,  et al.
1999-10-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
1999-10-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
In the province of Kracheh, in Northern Cambodia, a baseline epidemiological survey on Schistosoma mekongi was conducted along the Mekong River between December 1994 and April 1995. The ...
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Research

Six-monthly appointment spacing for clinical visits as a model for retention in HIV care in Conakry-Guinea: a cohort study

Bekolo CE, Diallo AK, Philips M, Yuma JD, Stefano LD,  et al.
2017-12-13 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2017-12-13 • BMC Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
The outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) in 2014 led to massive dropouts in HIV care in Guinea. Meanwhile, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was implementing a six-month...
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Research

Abolishing user fees for children and pregnant women trebled uptake of malaria-related interventions in Kangaba, Mali

Ponsar F, Van Herp M, Zachariah R, Gerard S, Philips M,  et al.
2011-11-11 • Health Policy and Planning
2011-11-11 • Health Policy and Planning
Malaria is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 in Mali. Health centres provide primary care, including malaria treatment, under a system of cost recovery...
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Commentary

The Global Financing Facility at five: time for a change?

Seidelmann L, Koutsoumpa M, Federspiel F, Philips M
2020-08-10 • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
2020-08-10 • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
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Commentary

Health in the service of state-building in fragile and conflict affected contexts: an additional challenge in the medical-humanitarian environment

Philips M, Derderian K
2015-03-29 • Conflict and Health
2015-03-29 • Conflict and Health
Global health policy and development aid trends also affect humanitarian health work. Reconstruction, rehabilitation and development initiatives start increasingly earlier after crisis, ...
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Letter

Ebola: a failure of international collective action

Philips M, Markham A
2014-09-10 • Lancet
2014-09-10 • Lancet
Journal Article
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Research

Removal of user fees and system strengthening improves access to maternity care, maternal and neonatal mortality in a district hospital in Lesotho

Steele SJ, Sugianto H, Baglione Q, Sedlimaier S, Niyibizi AA,  et al.
2018-10-26 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2018-10-26 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVE
Lesotho has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. While at primary health care (PHC) level maternity care is free, at hospital level co-payments are req...