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High burden of symptomatic and asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections in a routine decentralised HIV care setting in Eswatini: A cross-sectional study

Kerschberger B, Ntshalintshali N, Mafomisa MI, Mabhena E, Daka M,  et al.
2025-07-22 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2025-07-22 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Sexually transmitted infections are a global public health concern. We aimed to assess the burden of a diverse range of sexually transmitted infectio...

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Risk factors for cholera mortality: a scoping review

Pampaka D, Alberti K, Olson D, Ciglenecki I, Barboza P
2025-04-02 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2025-04-02 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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Cholera is an easily treatable disease, but many people are still unnecessarily dying from it. To improve current case management practices and preve...

Sustained high fatality during TB therapy amid rapid decline in TB mortality at population level: A retrospective cohort and ecological analysis from Shiselweni, Eswatini

Kerschberger B, Vambe D, Schomaker M, Mabhena E, Daka M,  et al.
2024-03-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2024-03-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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Despite declining TB notifications in Southern Africa, TB‐related deaths remain high. We describe patient‐ and population‐level trends in TB‐related deaths in Eswatini ove...

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

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
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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...

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...

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

Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, Kizito W, Vandenbulcke A,  et al.
2011-08-10 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2011-08-10 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

Plasmodium vivax resistance to chloroquine in Dawei, southern Myanmar

Guthmann JP, Pittet A, Lesage A, Imwong M, Lindegardh N,  et al.
2008-01-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2008-01-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of chloroquine in the treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria in in Dawei District, southern Myanmar. METHODS: Enrolled patients at Sonsinphya clinic >6 m...

Screening of patients with diabetes mellitus for tuberculosis in China

Lin YD, Li L, Mi F, Du J, Dong Y,  et al.
2012-07-25 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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...

Impact of the shift from NCHS growth reference to WHO(2006) growth standards in a therapeutic feeding programme in Niger

Minetti A, Shams Eldin M, Defourny I, Harczi G
2009-09-14 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2009-09-14 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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To describe the implementation of the WHO(2006) growth standards in a therapeutic feeding programme.

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Using programme monitoring data from 21,769 chil...

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

Zachariah R, Reid AJ, Van der Bergh R, Dahmane A, Kosgei RJ,  et al.
2013-05-30 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2013-05-30 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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

Zachariah R, Tayler-Smith K, Ngamvithayapong-Yana J, Ota M, Murakami K,  et al.
2010-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2010-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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

Harries AD, Zachariah R, Lawn SD, Rosen S
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....

Evaluation of two rapid screening assays for detecting hepatitis C antibodies in resource-constrained settings

Kosack CS, Nick S
2016-03-06 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2016-03-06 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the OraQuick HCV rapid antibody test from OraSure and the Multisure HCV antibody assay from MP Biomedicals.

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Five...

Barriers to prompt and effective treatment of malaria in northern Sri Lanka

Reilley B, Abeyasinghe R, Pakianathar MV
2002-09-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2002-09-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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For the past 18 years, northern Sri Lanka has been affected by armed ethnic conflict. This has had a heavy impact on displacement of civilians, health delivery services, n...

Human African trypanosomiasis amongst urban residents in Kinshasa: a case-control study

Robays J, Ebeja Kadima A, Lutumba P, Miaka mia Bilenge C, Kande Betu Ku Mesu V,  et al.
2004-08-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2004-08-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) cases have been reported in urban residents of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo since 1996. We set up a case-cont...

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

Khader A, Zachariah R
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...

Compliance to follow up and adherence to medication in hypertensive patients in an urban informal settlement in Kenya: comparison of three models of care

Kuria N, Reid AJ, Owiti P, Tweya H, Kibet CK,  et al.
2018-05-19 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2018-05-19 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
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To determine and compare, among three models of care, compliance with scheduled clinic appointments and adherence to antihypertensive medication of patients in an informal ...

Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality in rural Africa: an experience from Burundi

Tayler-Smith K, Zachariah R, Manzi M, van den Boogaard W, Nyandwi G,  et al.
2013-02-18 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2013-02-18 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the reduction in maternal mortality associated with the emergency obstetric care provided by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and to compare this to the fifth Mille...

Pricing of drugs and donations: options for sustainable equity pricing

Perez-Casas C, Herranz E, Ford NP
2001-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2001-11-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
Effective medicines exist to treat or alleviate many diseases which predominate in the developing world and cause high mortality and morbidity rates. Price should not be an obstacle prev...

Ebola outbreak in rural West Africa: epidemiology, clinical features and outcomes

Dallatomasinas S, Crestani R, Squire JS, Declerck H, Caleo GNC,  et al.
2015-01-07 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
2015-01-07 • Tropical Medicine and International Health
To describe Ebola cases in the district Ebola Management Centre of in Kailahun, a remote rural district of Sierra Leone, in terms of geographic origin, patient and hospitalization charac...