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Bedell RA, van Lettow M, Meaney C, Corbett EL, Chan AK, et al.

2017-12-15 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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C-reactive protein (CRP) is an inflammatory biomarker that may identify patients at risk of infections or death. Mortality among HIV-infected persons commencing antiretr...

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Bemelmans M, van den Akker T, Ford NP, Philips M, Zachariah R, et al.

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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Khader A, Zachariah R

2012-07-29 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

Recording and reporting systems borrowed from the DOTS framework for tuberculosis control can be used to record, monitor and report on chronic disease. In a primary healthcare clinic run...

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de Plecker E, Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Trelles M, Caluwaerts C, et al.

2017-02-07 • PLOS One

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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...

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Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, Kizito W, Vandenbulcke A, et al.

2011-08-10 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Harries AD, Takarinda KC, Zachariah R

2016-01-01 • Africa Health

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van Griensven J, De Naeyer L, Mushi T, Ubarijoro S, Gashumba D, et al.

2007-08-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

This study was conducted among individuals placed on WHO-recommended first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) at two urban health centres in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to determine (a) the ...

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Gerdin M, Clarke M, Allen C, Kayabu B, Summerskill W, et al.

2014-04-22 • PLOS Medicine

Martin Gerdin and colleagues argue that disaster health interventions and decision-making can benefit from an evidence-based approach Please see later in the article for the Editors' Sum...

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Ali E, Ferir MC, Reid AJ, Gray H, van den Boogaard W, et al.

2016-12-15 • Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

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Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines in November 2013 and left a trail of destruction. As part of its emergency response, Médecins Sans Frontières distributed materials for ...

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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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Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Vandeborne A, et al.

2013-08-21 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

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In Burundi, the annual incidence of obstetric fistula is estimated to be 0.2-0.5% of all deliveries, with 1000-2000 new cases per year. Despite this relatively high incide...

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Bissell K, Harries AD, Reid A, Edginton ME, Hinderaker SG, et al.

2012-09-21 • Public Health Action

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Lin YD, Li L, Mi F, Du J, Dong Y, et al.

2012-07-25 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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There is a high burden of both diabetes (DM) and tuberculosis (TB) in China, and as DM increases the risk of TB and adversely affects TB treatment outcomes, there is a need...

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Harries K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, Firmenich P, Mathela R, et al.

2009-09-23 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

In an urban district hospital in Burkina Faso we investigated the relative proportions of HIV-1, HIV-2 and HIV-1/2 among those tested, the baseline sociodemographic and clinical characte...

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Zachariah R, Teck R, Ascurra O, Humblet P, Harries AD

2006-01-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Malawi offers antiretroviral treatment (ART) to all HIV-positive adults who are clinically classified as being in WHO clinical stage III or IV without 'universal' CD4 testing. This study...

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Zachariah R, Reid AJ, Van der Bergh R, Dahmane A, Kosgei RJ, et al.

2013-05-30 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Zachariah R, Spielmann M P, Harries AD, Nkhoma W, Chantulo A, et al.

2003-03-01 • International Journal of STD and AIDS

In Thyolo District, Malawi, a study was conducted among commercial sex workers (CSWs) attending mobile clinics in order to; determine the prevalence and pattern of sexually transmitted i...

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Zachariah R, Tayler-Smith K, Ngamvithayapong-Yana J, Ota M, Murakami K, et al.

2010-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Harries AD, Zachariah R, Lawn SD, Rosen S

2010-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been one of the success stories of sub-Saharan Africa, where coverage has increased from about 2% in 2003 to more than 40% 5 years later....

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Zachariah R, Kumar AMV, Reid A, Van der Bergh R, Isaakidis P, et al.

2014-09-21 • Public Health Action

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Predictive value of C-reactive protein for tuberculosis, bloodstream infection or death among HIV-infected individuals with chronic, non-specific symptoms and negative sputum smear microscopy

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

Cohort monitoring of persons with hypertension: an illustrated example from a primary healthcare clinic for Palestine refugees in Jordan

Emergency obstetric care in a rural district of Burundi: What are the surgical needs?

Antiretroviral treatment uptake and attrition among HIV-positive patients with tuberculosis in Kibera, Kenya

AIDS Review

High prevalence of lipoatrophy among patients on stavudine-containing first-line antiretroviral therapy regimens in Rwanda

Optimal evidence in difficult settings: improving health interventions and decision making in disasters

"Providing a Roof" and more to communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: the Médecins Sans Frontières experience

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

Obstetric fistula in Burundi: a comprehensive approach to managing women with this neglected disease

Operational research training: the course and beyond

Screening of patients with diabetes mellitus for tuberculosis in China

Baseline characteristics, response to and outcome of antiretroviral therapy among patients with HIV-1, HIV-2 and dual infection in Burkina Faso

Targeting CD4 testing to a clinical subgroup of patients could limit unnecessary CD4 measurements, premature antiretroviral treatment and costs in Thyolo District, Malawi

Applying the ICMJE authorship criteria to operational research in low-income countries: the need to engage programme managers and policy makers [letter]

Sexually Transmitted Infections and Sexual Behaviour Among Commercial Sex Workers in a Rural District of Malawi

The published research paper: is it an important indicator of successful operational research at programme level?

Strategies to improve patient retention on antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa

Open access for operational research publications from low- and middle-income countries: who pays?