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Pampaka D, Alberti K, Olson D, Ciglenecki I, Barboza P

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...

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Kerschberger B, Vambe D, Schomaker M, Mabhena E, Daka M, et al.

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...

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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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Kosack CS, Nick S

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...

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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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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

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...

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Guthmann JP, Pittet A, Lesage A, Imwong M, Lindegardh N, et al.

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...

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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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Minetti A, Shams Eldin M, Defourny I, Harczi G

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...

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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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Reilley B, Abeyasinghe R, Pakianathar MV

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...

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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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Mwaba J, Ferreras E, Chizema Kawesha E, Mwimbe D, Tafirenyika F, et al.

2018-05-31 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

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To assess the performance of the SD Bioline Cholera Ag O1/O139 rapid diagnostic test (RDT) compared to a reference standard combining culture and PCR for the diagnosis of c...

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Kuria N, Reid AJ, Owiti P, Tweya H, Kibet CK, et al.

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 ...

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van den Broek IVF, van der Wardt S, Talukder L, Chakma S, Brockman A, et al.

2004-06-01 • Tropical Medicine and International Health

OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy of antimalarial treatment and molecular markers of Plasmodium falciparum resistance in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. METHODS: A total of 203...

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

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...

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Perez-Casas C, Herranz E, Ford NP

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...

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Risk factors for cholera mortality: a scoping review

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

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

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

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

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

Plasmodium vivax resistance to chloroquine in Dawei, southern Myanmar

Screening of patients with diabetes mellitus for tuberculosis in China

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

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

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

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

Evaluation of the SD Bioline cholera rapid diagnostic test during the 2016 cholera outbreak in Lusaka, Zambia

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

Drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum from the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

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

Pricing of drugs and donations: options for sustainable equity pricing