Bedell RA, van Lettow M, Meaney C, Corbett EL, Chan AK, et al.
2017-12-15 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2017-12-15 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
BACKGROUND:
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...
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...
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...
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
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 ...
Gerdin M, Clarke M, Allen C, Kayabu B, Summerskill W, et al.
2014-04-22 • PLOS Medicine
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...
Ali E, Ferir MC, Reid AJ, Gray H, van den Boogaard W, et al.
2016-12-15 • Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
2016-12-15 • Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness
OBJECTIVES 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 ...
Shah SK, Van der Bergh R, Prinsloo JR, Rehman G, Bibi A, et al.
2016-03-01 • International Health
2016-03-01 • International Health
BACKGROUND 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...
Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Vandeborne A, et al.
2013-08-21 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
2013-08-21 • BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BACKGROUND 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...
2012-07-25 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2012-07-25 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVE 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...
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
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...
Zachariah R, Teck R, Ascurra O, Humblet P, Harries AD
2006-01-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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...
Zachariah R, Spielmann M P, Harries AD, Nkhoma W, Chantulo A, et al.
2003-03-01 • International Journal of STD and AIDS
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...
2010-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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....
2012-07-29 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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...
