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Shah SK, Van der Bergh R, Prinsloo JR, Rehman G, Bibi A, et al.

2016-03-01 • International Health

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In developing countries such as Pakistan, poor training of mid-level cadres of health providers, combined with unregulated availability of labour-inducing medication can c...

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Nwe TW, Oo T, Wai KT, Zhou SS, van Griensven J, et al.

2017-04-25 • Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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This study examined evolving malaria profiles from January, 2010 to December, 2014 to evaluate achievements and challenges of implementing measures to prevent and control ...

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Shah SK, Van der Bergh R, Van Bellinghen B, Severy N, Sadiq S, et al.

2014-06-25 • PLOS One

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North West Pakistan is an area ravaged by conflict and population displacement for over three decades. Recently, drone attacks and military operations have aggravated unde...

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Some D, Edwards JK, Reid AJ, Van der Bergh R, Kosqei RJ, et al.

2016-01-26 • PLOS One

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In sub-Saharan Africa there is an increasing need to leverage available health care workers to provide care for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). This study was conducted ...

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Soe KT, Saw S, van Griensven J, Zhou SS, Win L, et al.

2017-03-24 • Infectious Diseases of Poverty

National tuberculosis (TB) programs increasingly engage with international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), especially to provide TB care in complex settings where community invol...

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Housen TSS, Lenglet AD, Shah SK, Sha H, Pintaldi G, et al.

2019-12-12 • Conflict and Health

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The negative psychological impact of living in a setting of protracted conflict has been well studied, however there is a recognized need to understand the role that non-...

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Housen TSS, Lenglet AD, Ariti C, Ara S, Shah SK, et al.

2018-03-19 • Transcultural Psychiatry

The present study aimed to culturally adapt, translate, and validate the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 (HSCL-25) and the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire-Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms Checkli...

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Furin J, Alirol E, Allen E, Fielding K, Merle CS, et al.

2016-03-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a growing public health problem, and for the first time in decades, new drugs for the treatment of this disease have been developed. These new dru...

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Housen TSS, Shah SK, Janes S, Pintaldi G, Lenglet AD, et al.

2018-07-01

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Jatau B, Avong YK, Ogundahunsi O, Shah SK, Tayler-Smith K, et al.

2015-06-22 • PLOS One

The World Health Organisation (WHO) introduced the twelve early warning indicators for monitoring and evaluating drug Procurement and Supply management (PSM) systems, intended to prevent...

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Nwe TW, Saw S, Le Win L, Mon MM, van Griensven J, et al.

2017-09-01 • Infectious Diseases of Poverty

As part of the WHO End TB strategy, national tuberculosis (TB) programs increasingly aim to engage all private and public TB care providers. Engagement of communities, civil society orga...

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Fentress M, Ezibon P, Bulabek A, Schwanfelder C, Schrift D, et al.

2021-09-27 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Lung ultrasound is increasingly used as a diagnostic tool for pulmonary pathologies by nonspecialist clinicians in resource-limited settings where chest X-ray may not be readily availabl...

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Decroo T, Van der Bergh R, Kumar AMV, Zachariah R, Schillberg EBL, et al.

2018-01-01 • Global Health Action

The Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT-IT) has been shown to be very effective in strengthening capacity for conducting operational research, publishing in scienti...

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Nachman S, Ahmed AO, Amanullah F, Becerra M, Botgros R, et al.

2015-06-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases

Children younger than 18 years account for a substantial proportion of patients with tuberculosis worldwide. Available treatments for paediatric drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuber...

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Hemat H, Shah SK, Isaakidis P, Das M, Kyaw NTT, et al.

2017-03-10 • PLOS One

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing healthcare in Afghanistan since 1981 including specialized health services for trauma patients in Kunduz Trauma Center (K...

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Nadimpalli A, Tsung JW, Sanchez R, Shah SK, Zelikova E, et al.

2019-09-01 • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are the leading cause of deaths in children < 5 years old worldwide, particularly affecting low-resource settings such as Aweil, South Sudan. I...

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Vogt F, Kalenga L, Lukela J, Salumu F, Diallo I, et al.

2017-03-01 • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (1999)

Facility-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) provision for stable patients with HIV congests health services in resource-limited countries. We assessed outcomes and risk factors for attri...

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Housen TSS, Lenglet AD, Ariti C, Shah SK, Shah H, et al.

2017-10-15 • BMJ Global Health

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Following the partition of India in 1947, the Kashmir Valley has been subject to continual political insecurity and ongoing conflict, the region remains highly militarised...

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Unregulated usage of labour-inducing medication in a region of Pakistan with poor drug regulatory control: characteristics and risk patterns

Malaria profiles and challenges in artemisinin resistance containment in Myanmar

Offering mental health services in a conflict affected region of Pakistan: who comes, and why?

Task Shifting the Management of Non-Communicable Diseases to Nurses in Kibera, Kenya: Does It Work?

International Non-Governmental Organizations' Provision of Community-Based Tuberculosis Care for Hard-To-Reach Populations in Myanmar, 2013-2014

Trauma in the Kashmir Valley and the mediating effect of stressors of daily life on symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety

Validation of mental health screening instruments in the Kashmir Valley, India

Drug-resistant tuberculosis clinical trials: proposed core research definitions in adults

Prevalence of depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress related symptoms in the Kashmir Valley – a cross sectional study, 2015

Procurement and Supply Management System for MDR-TB in Nigeria: Are the Early Warning Targets for Drug Stock Outs and Over Stock of Drugs Being Achieved?

Engagement of Public and Private Medical Facilities in Tuberculosis Care in Myanmar: Contributions and Trends Over an Eight-Year Period

A lung ultrasound scanning technique for children and adults in low-resource settings: preliminary experiences in sub-Saharan Africa

Blended SORT-IT for operational research capacity building: the model, its successes and challenges

Towards early inclusion of children in tuberculosis drugs trials: a consensus statement

Before the bombing: high burden of traumatic injuries in Kunduz Trauma Center, Kunduz, Afghanistan

Feasibility of training clinical officers in point-of-care ultrasound for pediatric respiratory diseases in Aweil, South Sudan

Decentralizing ART supply for stable HIV patients to community-based distribution centers: program outcomes from an urban context in Kinshasa, DRC

Prevalence of anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in the Kashmir Valley