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"When My Information Changes, I Alter My Conclusions." What Can We Learn From the Failures to Adaptively Respond to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and the Under Preparedness of Health Systems to Manage COVID-19?

scientific article published on 29 November 2020

'Never let a crisis go to waste': post-Ebola agenda-setting for health system strengthening in Guinea

scientific article published on 15 December 2019

A qualitative assessment of a community antiretroviral therapy group model in Tete, Mozambique

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Access to Treatment for Diabetes and Hypertension in Rural Cambodia: Performance of Existing Social Health Protection Schemes

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Access to health care for all? User fees plus a Health Equity Fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia.

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Access to medicines from a health system perspective

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Adapting a community-based ART delivery model to the patients' needs: a mixed methods research in Tete, Mozambique

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Addressing access barriers to health services: an analytical framework for selecting appropriate interventions in low-income Asian countries

scientific article published on May 12, 2011

Analysis of human resources for health strategies and policies in 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in response to GFATM and PEPFAR-funded HIV-activities

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Are Expert Patients an Untapped Resource for ART Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Attrition of HIV-infected individuals not yet eligible for antiretroviral treatment: do we care?

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Beyond health aid: would an international equalization scheme for universal health coverage serve the international collective interest?

scientific article published on 21 May 2014

Boosting facility deliveries with results-based financing: a mixed-methods evaluation of the government midwifery incentive scheme in Cambodia.

scientific article published on 15 August 2015

Brief Report: Long-term Outcomes and Their Determinants in Patients on Antiretroviral Treatment in Ethiopia, 2005/6-2011/12: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

scientific article published on 11 July 2015

COVID-19: Does the infectious inoculum dose-response relationship contribute to understanding heterogeneity in disease severity and transmission dynamics?

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Can social accountability improve access to free public health care for the poor? Analysis of three Health Equity Fund configurations in Cambodia, 2015-17

scientific article published on 03 May 2020

Catastrophic health expenditure

scientific article published on September 20, 2003

Commentary: Operational Guidance in the 2013 WHO consolidated antiretroviral guidelines

scientific article published on March 2014

Community health extension program of Ethiopia, 2003–2018: successes and challenges toward universal coverage for primary healthcare services

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Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience--capitalizing on new opportunities

scientific article published on 09 April 2009

Composition of pluralistic health systems: how much can we learn from household surveys? An exploration in Cambodia

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Correspondence regarding 'Assefa Y, et al., BMC Health Services Research. 2011; 11 (1):81 and 2014; 14(1):45': The Positive-Deviance approach for translating evidence into practice to improve patient retention in HIV care.

scientific article published on 21 March 2018

Crowding out: are relations between international health aid and government health funding too complex to be captured in averages only?

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District-level strategies to control the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe: a practical example of precision public health

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

Do patents prevent access to drugs for HIV in developing countries?

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Ebola virus disease outbreak in Guinea: what effects on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services?

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Editorial: Iatrogenic poverty

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Editorial: The AIDS crisis, cost-effectiveness and academic activism

scientific article published in December 2002

Effectiveness and acceptability of delivery of antiretroviral treatment in health centres by health officers and nurses in Ethiopia

scientific article published on 17 November 2011

Effectiveness and sustainability of a diagonal investment approach to strengthen the primary health-care system in Ethiopia

scientific article published in The Lancet

Evaluation of scaling-up should take into account financial access: Comment on: Evaluating the scale-up for maternal and child survival: a common framework.

scientific article published on March 2012

Five-year experience with scaling-up access to antiretroviral treatment in an HIV care programme in Cambodia

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From conceptual pluralism to practical agreement on policy: global responsibility for global health

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

From primary health care to universal health coverage-one step forward and two steps back

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Global health security and universal health coverage: Understanding convergences and divergences for a synergistic response

scientific article published on 30 December 2020

Global responsibilities for global health rights

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HIV/AIDS Competent Households: Interaction between a Health-Enabling Environment and Community-Based Treatment Adherence Support for People Living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa

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Health system strengthening and scaling up antiretroviral therapy: the need for context-specific delivery models: comment on Schneider et al.

scientific article published on May 2006

Health systems frameworks in their political context: framing divergent agendas.

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Health workforce development and retention in Guinea: a policy analysis post-Ebola

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

How labour intensive is a doctor-based delivery model for antiretroviral treatment (ART)? Evidence from an observational study in Siem Reap, Cambodia

scientific article published on May 2007

How to improve patient retention in an antiretroviral treatment program in Ethiopia: a mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Human resource aspects of antiretroviral treatment delivery models: current practices and recommendations

scientific article published on January 2010

Human resources for health.

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Impact of baseline health and community support on antiretroviral treatment outcomes in HIV patients in South Africa

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Impact of community-based support services on antiretroviral treatment programme delivery and outcomes in resource-limited countries: a synthetic review

scientific article published on 9 July 2012

Implementation of a new program of gestational diabetes screening and management in Morocco: a qualitative exploration of health workers' perceptions

scientific article published on 24 May 2020

Impossible to “wean” when more aid is needed.

scientific article published in November 2008

Improving access to hospital care for the poor: comparative analysis of four health equity funds in Cambodia.

scientific article published on 25 May 2007

Interactions between critical health system functions and HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programmes

scientific article published in November 2010

Is Option B+ the best choice?

Keeping health facilities safe: one way of strengthening the interaction between disease-specific programmes and health systems

scientific article published on December 2010

Leaving no one behind: lessons from implementation of policies for universal HIV treatment to universal health coverage

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Management of Chronic Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Fertilisation between HIV/AIDS and Diabetes Care

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Medicines without doctors: why the Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to expand AIDS treatment

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Nurse management of HIV-infected patients

scientific article published on September 25, 2010

Out-of-pocket health expenditure and debt in poor households: evidence from Cambodia

scientific article published on February 2004

Outcomes of antiretroviral treatment program in Ethiopia: Retention of patients in care is a major challenge and varies across health facilities

scientific article published on April 18, 2011

Patient-mix, programmatic characteristics, retention and predictors of attrition among patients starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) before and after the implementation of HIV "Treat All" in Zimbabwe

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Payments for health care in India

scientific article published on 01 December 2006

Performance of the Antiretroviral Treatment Program in Ethiopia, 2005-2015: strengths and weaknesses toward ending AIDS.

scientific article published on 19 May 2017

Positive spill-over effects of ART scale up on wider health systems development: evidence from Ethiopia and Malawi

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Poverty and user fees for public health care in low-income countries: lessons from Uganda and Cambodia

scientific article published on December 2006

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and the health-related Millennium Development Goals: time for a public health approach

scientific article published in July 2011

Primary Health Care in the 21st century: primary care providers and people's empowerment

scientific article published on 9 February 2010

Primary health care contributions to universal health coverage, Ethiopia

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Public health impact of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: seizing opportunities for the future

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Public-sector ART in the Free State Province, South Africa: Community support as an important determinant of outcome

scientific article published in October 2009

Rapid scale-up of antiretroviral treatment in Ethiopia: successes and system-wide effects

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Reduction in child mortality in Niger

article by David Hercot et al published 1 January 2013 in The Lancet

Retention and predictors of attrition among patients who started antiretroviral therapy in Zimbabwe's national antiretroviral therapy programme between 2012 and 2015

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Scale-up integrated care for diabetes and hypertension in Cambodia, Slovenia and Belgium (SCUBY): a study design for a quasi-experimental multiple case study

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in southern Africa: who will do the job?

scientific article published on July 2004

Scaling up antiretroviral treatment and improving patient retention in care: lessons from Ethiopia, 2005-2013.

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Scaling-up antiretroviral treatment in Southern African countries with human resource shortage: how will health systems adapt?

scientific article published on 10 March 2008

Self-reported serious illnesses in rural Cambodia: a cross-sectional survey

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Short and long term retention in antiretroviral care in health facilities in rural Malawi and Zimbabwe

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Simplified tools for measuring retention in care in antiretroviral treatment program in Ethiopia: cohort and current retention in care

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Strengthening health systems in low-income countries by enhancing organizational capacities and improving institutions

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Successes and challenges of the millennium development goals in Ethiopia: lessons for the sustainable development goals.

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Sustainability of a community-based anti-retroviral care delivery model - a qualitative research study in Tete, Mozambique

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Tackling health workforce shortages during antiretroviral treatment scale-up--experiences from Ethiopia and Malawi

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Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic in West Africa: have we learned from Ebola in Guinea?

scientific article published on 16 September 2020

Task shifting: the answer to the human resources crisis in Africa?

scientific article published on 21 June 2009

The 'diagonal' approach to Global Fund financing: a cure for the broader malaise of health systems?

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The COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics-how and why?

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: thinking ahead on programmatic tasks and related operational research

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The Health Systems Funding Platform: Is this where we thought we were going?

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The Need for a Dynamic Approach to Health System-Centered Innovations Comment on "What Health System Challenges Should Responsible Innovation in Health Address? Insights From an International Scoping Review"

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

The contribution of international health volunteers to the health workforce in sub-Saharan Africa

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The growing caseload of chronic life-long conditions calls for a move towards full self-management in low-income countries

scientific article published on 10 October 2011

The landscape of community health insurance in India: an overview based on 10 case studies

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The need for strong general health services in India and elsewhere

scientific article published in The Lancet

The real challenges for scaling up ART in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in March 2006

The role of 'hidden' community volunteers in community-based health service delivery platforms: examples from sub-Saharan Africa

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Therapeutic feeding centres for severe malnutrition

scientific article published in The Lancet

Three global health reports: towards a growing consensus?

scientific article published on 23 April 2009

Toward Universal Access to HIV Counseling and Testing and Antiretroviral Treatment in Ethiopia: Looking Beyond HIV Testing and ART Initiation

scientific article published on August 1, 2010

Toward a typology of health-related informal credit: an exploration of borrowing practices for paying for health care by the poor in Cambodia

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Towards achieving the fast-track targets and ending the epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia: successes and challenges

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Tracing the policy implementation of commitments made by national governments and other entities at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

Translating knowledge into policy and action to promote health equity: The Health Equity Fund policy process in Cambodia 2000-2008.

scientific article published in March 2010

Unpacking the dynamics of double stigma: how the HIV-TB co-epidemic alters TB stigma and its management among healthcare workers

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Using targeted vouchers and health equity funds to improve access to skilled birth attendants for poor women: a case study in three rural health districts in Cambodia

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Willingness to comply with physical distancing measures against COVID-19 in four African countries

scientific article published on 01 September 2020