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Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases: case study of the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone

Caleo G, Lokuge K, Kardamanidis K, Greig J, Belava J,  et al.
2024-04-25 • Global Health Action
2024-04-25 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND
There is a lack of empirical data on design effects (DEFF) for mortality rate for highly clustered data such as with Ebola virus disease (EVD), along with a lack of docume...
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Care-seeking patterns and timely access to care among survivors of sexual violence in North Kivu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a retrospective file-based study

Reinholdz H, Agardh A, Verputten M, Byenda J, Frielingsdorf H
2024-04-25 • Global Health Action
2024-04-25 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND
Sexual violence is widespread in war-torn North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Timely access to care is crucial for the healing and wellbeing...
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Time, space and health: using the life history calendar methodology applied to mobility in a medical-humanitarian organisation

Cubides JC, Jorgensen N, Peiter PC
2022-10-06 • Global Health Action
2022-10-06 • Global Health Action
In the medical humanitarian context, the challenging task of collecting health information from people on the move constitutes a key element to identifying critical health care needs and...
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Operational research within a Global Fund supported tuberculosis project in India: why, how and its contribution towards change in policy and practice

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...
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The rite of passage of becoming a humanitarian health worker: experiences of retention in Sweden

Albuquerque S, Eriksson A, Alvesson HM
2018-01-15 • Global Health Action
2018-01-15 • Global Health Action
Low retention of humanitarian workers poses constraints on humanitarian organisations' capacity to respond effectively to disasters. Research has focused on reasons for humanitarian work...
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Second-line failure and first experience with third-line antiretroviral therapy in Mumbai, India

Khan S, Das M, Andries A, Deshpande A, Mansoor H,  et al.
2014-07-30 • Global Health Action
2014-07-30 • Global Health Action
There are limited data on the failure of second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the use of third-line ART in people living with HIV in resource-limited settings. Since 2011, the Mé...
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Antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory infections among children in rural China: a cross-sectional study of outpatient prescriptions

Zhang Z, Hu Y, Zou G, Lin MF, Zeng J,  et al.
2017-05-02 • Global Health Action
2017-05-02 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND
Overuse of antibiotics contributes to the development of antimicrobial resistance.

OBJECTIVE
This study aims to assess the condition of antibiotic use at heal...
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High attrition among HIV-infected patients with advanced disease treated in an intermediary referral center in Maputo, Mozambique

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...
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Too complicated for the field? Measuring quality of care in humanitarian aid settings

Kersten R, Bosse G, Dorner F, Slavuckij A, Marx M
2013-05-16 • Global Health Action
2013-05-16 • Global Health Action
While quality of care is a major concern in the western world, not many studies investigate this topic in low-income countries. Even less is known about the quality of care in humanitari...
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Leprosy Trends at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Mumbai, India, From 2008 to 2015

Muthuvel T, Isaakidis P, Shewade HD, Kattuppara L, Singh RS,  et al.
2016-11-23 • Global Health Action
2016-11-23 • Global Health Action
Leprosy remains an important cause of preventable disabilities. After the advent of multidrug therapy, new leprosy cases have come down dramatically. Despite this achievement, India, whi...
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Feasibility of using Determine TB-LAM to diagnose tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients in programmatic conditions: a multisite study

Cossa L, Harrison RE, Mpunga J, Lobo S, Kisaka Kimupelenge P,  et al.
2019-10-15 • Global Health Action
2019-10-15 • Global Health Action
Background: Determine TB-LAM is a urine-based point-of-care assay for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB).
Objective: To assess the feasibility of using LAM to diagnose TB in adult HIV-...
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Blended SORT-IT for operational research capacity building: the model, its successes and challenges

Decroo T, Van der Bergh R, Kumar AMV, Zachariah R, Schillberg EBL,  et al.
2018-01-01 • Global Health Action
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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Paragonimiasis in Tuberculosis Patients in Nagaland, India

Das M, Doleckova K, Shenoy R, Mahanta J, Narain K,  et al.
2016-09-23 • Global Health Action
2016-09-23 • Global Health Action
One of the infections that mimic tuberculosis (TB) is paragonimiasis (PRG), a foodborne parasitic disease caused by lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus. In the northeastern states of In...
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Distribution of advanced HIV disease from three high HIV prevalence settings in Sub-Saharan Africa: a secondary analysis data from three population-based cross-sectional surveys in Eshowe (South Africa), Ndhiwa (Kenya) and Chiradzulu (Malawi)

Chihana ML, Huerga H, van Cutsem G, Ellman T, Goemaere E,  et al.
2019-01-01 • Global Health Action
2019-01-01 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND
Despite substantial progress in antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale up, some people living with HIV (PLHIV) continue to present with advanced HIV disease, contributing to o...
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Does the structured operational research and training initiative (SORT IT) continue to influence health policy and/or practice?

Tripathy JP, Kumar AMV, Guillerm N, Berger SD, Bissell K,  et al.
2018-08-01 • Global Health Action
2018-08-01 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND
The Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) is a successful model of integrated operational research and capacity building with about 90% of part...