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"Driving the devil away": qualitative insights into miraculous cures for AIDS in a rural Tanzanian ward

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"Men are always scared to test with their partners … it is like taking them to the Police": Motivations for and barriers to couples' HIV counselling and testing in Rakai, Uganda: a qualitative study

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A comparative analysis of national HIV policies in six African countries with generalized epidemics

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

A qualitative study of the determinants of HIV guidelines implementation in two south-eastern districts of Tanzania

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Absence of asymptomatic malaria in schoolchildren of Quibdó, Chocó

scientific article published in March 2004

Access to and value of information to support good practice for staff in Kenyan hospitals

scientific article published on 14 May 2015

Active trachoma in children aged three to nine years in rural communities in Ethiopia: prevalence, indicators and risk factors

scientific article published on February 2005

Adjusting the HIV prevalence for non-respondents using mortality rates in an open cohort in northwest Tanzania

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Adult life expectancy trends in the era of antiretroviral treatment in rural Uganda (1991-2012).

scientific article published on January 2016

Age-specific mortality patterns in HIV-infected individuals: a comparative analysis of African community study data

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Agents of change among people living with HIV and their social networks: stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial of the NAMWEZA intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Agreement between physicians and non-physician clinicians in starting antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence about need, uptake and impact from community-based cohort studies

scientific article published on August 2012

Antiretroviral therapy uptake and coverage in four HIV community cohort studies in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article (publication date: August 2012)

Asking semi-literate adolescents about sexual behaviour: the validity of assisted self-completion questionnaire (ASCQ) data in rural Tanzania

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Assessing health system interventions: key points when considering the value of randomization

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Assessment of paediatric inpatient care during a multifaceted quality improvement intervention in Kenyan district hospitals--use of prospectively collected case record data

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Association between HIV-2 infection and genital ulcer diseases among male sexually transmitted disease patients in The Gambia ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1992

Association of the Paediatric Admission Quality of Care score with mortality in Kenyan hospitals: a validation study

scientific article published in February 2018

Associations between gestational anthropometry, maternal HIV, and fetal and early infancy growth in a prospective rural/semi-rural Tanzanian cohort, 2012-13.

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Behavioural comorbidity in Tanzanian children with epilepsy: a community-based case-control study

scientific article published on December 2011

Biological and behavioural impact of an adolescent sexual health intervention in Tanzania: a community-randomized trial

scientific article published on September 2007

Blood glucose as a predictor of mortality in children admitted to the hospital with febrile illness in Tanzania

scientific article published on July 2013

CLINICAL outcomes and loss to follow-up among people living with HIV participating in the NAMWEZA intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 28 March 2017

Cause-specific mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh

scientific article published on 22 March 2006

Challenges with routine data sources for PMTCT programme monitoring in East Africa: insights from Tanzania

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Changes in patterns of retention in HIV care and antiretroviral treatment in Tanzania between 2008 and 2016: an analysis of routinely collected national programme data

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Characterizing a Leak in the HIV Care Cascade: Assessing Linkage Between HIV Testing and Care in Tanzania

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Circumcision among adolescent boys in rural northwestern Tanzania

scientific article published on 28 June 2008

Clustering based on adherence data

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Co-morbidity of epilepsy in Tanzanian children: a community-based case-control study

scientific article published on 29 November 2011

Coming home to die? The association between migration and mortality in rural Tanzania before and after ART scale-up

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Competing risk of mortality on loss to follow-up outcome among patients with HIV on ART: a retrospective cohort study from the Zimbabwe national ART programme

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Correlates of previous couples' HIV counseling and testing uptake among married individuals in three HIV prevalence strata in Rakai, Uganda

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Cryptosporidium prevalence and risk factors among mothers and infants 0 to 6 months in rural and semi-rural Northwest Tanzania: a prospective cohort study

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Data Resource Profile: Network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA Network).

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Deciphering the complex distribution of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtypes among different cohorts in Northern Tanzania

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Decline in sexually transmitted infection prevalence and HIV incidence in female barworkers attending prevention and care services in Mbeya Region, Tanzania

scientific article published on February 2006

Do accurate HIV and antiretroviral therapy knowledge, and previous testing experiences increase the uptake of HIV voluntary counselling and testing? Results from a cohort study in rural Tanzania

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Does the Spectrum model accurately predict trends in adult mortality? Evaluation of model estimates using empirical data from a rural HIV community cohort study in North-Western Tanzania

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Duration from seroconversion to eligibility for antiretroviral therapy and from ART eligibility to death in adult HIV-infected patients from low and middle-income countries: collaborative analysis of prospective studies

scientific article published on August 2008

Dynamic logistic regression model and population attributable fraction to investigate the association between adherence, missed visits and mortality: a study of HIV-infected adults surviving the first year of ART.

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Dysglycemia associations with adipose tissue among HIV-infected patients after 2 years of antiretroviral therapy in Mwanza: a follow-up cross-sectional study

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Educational Attainment as a Predictor of HIV Testing Uptake Among Women of Child-Bearing Age: Analysis of 2014 Demographic and Health Survey in Zambia

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Effect of HIV infection on pregnancy-related mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: secondary analyses of pooled community-based data from the network for Analysing Longitudinal Population-based HIV/AIDS data on Africa (ALPHA).

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Effect of antiretroviral therapy on fertility rate among women living with HIV in Tabora, Tanzania: An historical cohort study

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Effect of context on respiratory rate measurement in identifying non-severe pneumonia in African children

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Effect of genital herpes on cervicovaginal HIV shedding in women co-infected with HIV AND HSV-2 in Tanzania

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Effectiveness of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programmes in Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania

scientific article published on 6 January 2014

Effects of cotrimoxazole on hematologic parameters in HIV-infected adults in a community-based clinic in Entebbe, Uganda

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Effects of schistosomiasis on susceptibility to HIV-1 infection and HIV-1 viral load at HIV-1 seroconversion: A nested case-control study.

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

Elevated blood pressure and correlates in a cohort of HIV-infected adults who started antiretroviral therapy when undernourished

scientific article published on 26 May 2017

Elevated iron status strongly predicts mortality in West African adults with HIV infection

scientific article published on December 2007

Epilepsy in Tanzanian children: association with perinatal events and other risk factors

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

Estimating 'net' HIV-related mortality and the importance of background mortality rates

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Estimating incidence from prevalence in generalised HIV epidemics: methods and validation

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Estimating incidence of HIV infection in Uganda

scientific article published in January 2009

Estimating levels of HIV testing coverage and use in prevention of mother-to-child transmission among women of reproductive age in Zambia

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Estimating the burden of shigellosis in Thailand: 36-month population-based surveillance study

scientific article published on October 2005

Evaluation of a demand-creation intervention for couples' HIV testing services among married or cohabiting individuals in Rakai, Uganda: a cluster-randomized intervention trial

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Evaluation of knowledge levels amongst village AIDS committees after undergoing HIV educational sessions: results from a pilot study in rural Tanzania

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Explaining the uptake of paediatric guidelines in a Kenyan tertiary hospital--mixed methods research

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Exploring sources of variability in adherence to guidelines across hospitals in low-income settings: a multi-level analysis of a cross-sectional survey of 22 hospitals

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Factors associated with uptake of services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a community cohort in rural Tanzania

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Feasibility and effectiveness of cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for HIV-1-infected adults attending an HIV/AIDS clinic in Uganda

scientific article published on July 2006

Feasibility of Establishing HIV Case-Based Surveillance to Measure Progress Along the Health Sector Cascade: Situational Assessments in Tanzania, South Africa, and Kenya.

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From policy to practice: exploring the implementation of antiretroviral therapy access and retention policies between 2013 and 2016 in six sub-Saharan African countries

scientific article published on 21 November 2017

From trial intervention to scale-up: costs of an adolescent sexual health program in Mwanza, Tanzania

scientific article published on October 2006

Good adherence to HAART and improved survival in a community HIV/AIDS treatment and care programme: the experience of The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Kampala, Uganda

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Growth parameters and childhood epilepsy in Hai District, Tanzania: a community-based study

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HIV policy and implementation: a national policy review and an implementation case study of a rural area of northern Malawi

scientific article published on 21 April 2016

HIV policy implementation in two health and demographic surveillance sites in Uganda: findings from a national policy review, health facility surveys and key informant interviews

scientific article published on 05 April 2017

HIV-1 disease progression and mortality before the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy in rural Uganda

scientific article published on November 2007

HIV-1 seroprevalence and risk factors for HIV infection among first-time psychiatric admissions in Uganda

scientific article published on February 2011

Health & Demographic Surveillance System Profile: The Magu Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Magu HDSS)

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Herpes simplex virus type 2 infection increases HIV incidence: a prospective study in rural Tanzania

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Hopefulness Fosters Affective and Cognitive Constructs for Actions to Cope and Enhance Quality of Life among People Living with HIV in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

scientific article published on 24 June 2014

How have ART treatment programmes changed the patterns of excess mortality in people living with HIV? Estimates from four countries in East and Southern Africa

scientific article published on 22 April 2014

Hypertension, kidney disease, HIV and antiretroviral therapy among Tanzanian adults: a cross-sectional study

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Identifying gaps in HIV policy and practice along the HIV care continuum: evidence from a national policy review and health facility surveys in urban and rural Kenya

scientific article published on November 2017

Identifying gaps in HIV service delivery across the diagnosis-to-treatment cascade: findings from health facility surveys in six sub-Saharan countries

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Immunological failure of first-line and switch to second-line antiretroviral therapy among HIV-infected persons in Tanzania: analysis of routinely collected national data

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Immunological findings in African patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and HIV-2 infection

scientific article published on September 1, 1992

Impact of health education on active trachoma in hyperendemic rural communities in Ethiopia

scientific article published on April 2006

Impact of linkage quality on inferences drawn from analyses using data with high rates of linkage errors in rural Tanzania

scholarly article by Christopher Rentsch et al published 10 December 2018 in BMC Medical Research Methodology

Impact of schistosome infection on long-term HIV/AIDS outcomes

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Impact of the MEMA kwa Vijana adolescent sexual and reproductive health interventions on use of health services by young people in rural Mwanza, Tanzania: results of a cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on 11 June 2010

Implementation effectiveness of revised (post-2010) World Health Organization guidelines on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV using routinely collected data in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic literature review

scientific article published on October 2017

Implementing prevention policies for mother-to-child transmission of HIV in rural Malawi, South Africa and United Republic of Tanzania, 2013-2016

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Improvement in mortality and retention among adult HIV-infected patients in the first 12 months of antiretroviral therapy in Dodoma urban district, Tanzania

scientific article published on 27 March 2015

Increasing Proportion of HIV-Infected Pregnant Zambian Women Attending Antenatal Care Are Already on Antiretroviral Therapy (2010–2015).

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Increasing trend of exclusive breastfeeding over 12 years period (2002-2014) among women in Moshi, Tanzania

scholarly article by Ola Jahanpour et al published 4 December 2018 in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Inpatient child mortality by travel time to hospital in a rural area of Tanzania

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InterVA-4 as a public health tool for measuring HIV/AIDS mortality: a validation study from five African countries

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Lactate clearance as a prognostic marker of mortality in severely ill febrile children in East Africa.

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Longitudinal analysis of mature breastmilk and serum immune composition among mixed HIV-status mothers and their infants

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Low rates of repeat HIV testing despite increased availability of antiretroviral therapy in rural Tanzania: findings from 2003-2010.

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Measuring HIV-related mortality in the first decade of anti-retroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on December 2014

Micronutrient supplementation has limited effects on intestinal infectious disease and mortality in a Zambian population of mixed HIV status: a cluster randomized trial

scientific article published on October 2008

Mortality in HIV infection is independently predicted by host iron status and SLC11A1 and HP genotypes, with new evidence of a gene-nutrient interaction

scientific article published on 27 May 2009

Moving towards routine evaluation of quality of inpatient pediatric care in Kenya

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No association between fertility desire and HIV infections among men and women: Findings from community-based studies before and after implementation of an early antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation program in the rural district of North-western

scientific article published in 2022

No differences in cellular immune responses between asymptomatic HIV type 1- and type 2-infected Gambian patients

scientific article published on 21 January 2004

Non-disclosure of HIV testing history in population-based surveys: implications for estimating a UNAIDS 90-90-90 target

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Nutritional status of children living in a community with high HIV prevalence in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional population-based survey

scientific article published on 17 February 2010

Open-access technology: where should it lead us?

scientific article published on March 2017

Patterns of individual and population-level adherence to antiretroviral therapy and risk factors for poor adherence in the first year of the DART trial in Uganda and Zimbabwe

scientific article published on August 2008

Performance of health workers in the management of seriously sick children at a Kenyan tertiary hospital: before and after a training intervention

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Physical activity and associated factors from a cross-sectional survey among adults in northern Tanzania

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Point-of-care measurement of blood lactate in children admitted with febrile illness to an African District Hospital

scientific article published on September 2011

Point-of-contact Interactive Record Linkage (PIRL): A software tool to prospectively link demographic surveillance and health facility data

Point-of-contact Interactive Record Linkage (PIRL): A software tool to prospectively link demographic surveillance and health facility data

Point-of-contact interactive record linkage (PIRL) between demographic surveillance and health facility data in rural Tanzania

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Possible reasons for an increase in the proportion of genital ulcers due to herpes simplex virus from a cohort of female bar workers in Tanzania

scientific article published on 13 September 2006

Predictors of tuberculosis in first 6 months after initiation of antiretroviral therapy: a case-control study ⬇️

scientific article published on June 12, 2012

Prevalence,awareness and factors associated with hypertension in North West Tanzania

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Progress in the performance of HIV early infant diagnosis services in Zambia using routinely collected data from 2006 to 2016

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Prostitutes and their clients: A Gambian survey ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Rapid improvements to rural Ugandan housing and their association with malaria from intense to reduced transmission: a cohort study

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Reduced morbidity and mortality in the first year after initiating highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) among Ugandan adults

scientific article published on 19 March 2009

Risk factors for active trachoma and Chlamydia trachomatis infection in rural Ethiopia after mass treatment with azithromycin

scientific article published on 14 February 2008

Risk factors for service use and trends in coverage of different HIV testing and counselling models in northwest Tanzania between 2003 and 2010.

scientific article published on 29 July 2015

Risk factors for shigellosis in Thailand

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Sexual behaviour change in countries with generalised HIV epidemics? Evidence from population-based cohort studies in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on April 2009

Short-term and long-term cardiovascular risk, metabolic syndrome and HIV in Tanzania

scientific article published on 22 April 2016

Single-dose azithromycin versus penicillin G benzathine for the treatment of early syphilis

scientific article published on September 2005

Strengthening Routine Data Systems to Track the HIV Epidemic and Guide the Response in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Strengthening Routine Data Systems to Track the HIV Epidemic and Guide the Response in Sub-Saharan Africa (Preprint)

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Strengthening Routine Data Systems to Track the HIV Epidemic and Guide the Response in Sub-Saharan Africa.

scientific article published on 3 April 2018

Susceptibility to intestinal infection and diarrhoea in Zambian adults in relation to HIV status and CD4 count

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The Africa Center for Biostatistical Excellence: a proposal for enhancing biostatistics capacity for sub-Saharan Africa

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The Impact of a Community Awareness Strategy on Caregiver Treatment Seeking Behaviour and Use of Artemether-Lumefantrine for Febrile Children in Rural Kenya

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The MEMA kwa Vijana project: design of a community randomised trial of an innovative adolescent sexual health intervention in rural Tanzania

scientific article published on August 2005

The Paediatric Admission Quality of Care (PAQC) score: designing a tool to measure the quality of early inpatient paediatric care in a low-income setting

scientific article published on 08 July 2016

The association between social networks and self-rated risk of HIV infection among secondary school students in Moshi Municipality, Tanzania

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The development and validation of dried blood spots for external quality assurance of syphilis serology

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

The effect of antiretroviral therapy provision on all-cause, AIDS and non-AIDS mortality at the population level--a comparative analysis of data from four settings in Southern and East Africa

scientific article published in August 2012

The effects of alternative study designs on the power of community randomized trials: evidence from three studies of human immunodeficiency virus prevention in East Africa

scientific article published on October 2003

The feasibility and acceptability of screening for hypertension in private drug retail outlets: a pilot study in Mwanza region, Tanzania

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

The fine specificity, but not the invasion inhibitory activity, of 19-kilodalton merozoite surface protein 1-specific antibodies is associated with resistance to malarial parasitemia in a cross-sectional survey in The Gambia

scientific article published on October 2004

The impact of anthelmintic treatment intervention on malaria infection and anaemia in school and preschool children in Magu district, Tanzania: an open label randomised intervention trial

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The impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania

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The impact of community level treatment and preventative interventions on trachoma prevalence in rural Ethiopia

scientific article published on 20 March 2008

The impact of voluntary counselling and testing services on sexual behaviour change and HIV incidence: observations from a cohort study in rural Tanzania

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The implementation of an external quality assurance method for point- of- care tests for HIV and syphilis in Tanzania

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The potential of internet-based technologies for sharing data of public health importance

scientific article (publication date: February 2011)

The public sector nursing workforce in Kenya: a county-level analysis

scientific article (publication date: 27 January 2014)

The trade-off between accuracy and accessibility of syphilis screening assays

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Time from HIV seroconversion to death: a collaborative analysis of eight studies in six low and middle-income countries before highly active antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published on November 2007

Travel histories as risk factors in the analysis of urban malaria in Colombia

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Trends in the uptake of voluntary counselling and testing for HIV in rural Tanzania in the context of the scale up of antiretroviral therapy ⬇️

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Understanding why people participate in HIV surveillance

scientific article published on May 2015

Underutilisation of routinely collected data in the HIV programme in Zambia: a review of quantitatively analysed peer-reviewed articles

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Uptake of services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in a community cohort in rural Tanzania from 2005 to 2012.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania

scientific article published on 20 March 2014

Using age-specific mortality of HIV infected persons to predict anti-retroviral treatment need: a comparative analysis of data from five African population-based cohort studies

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Using health worker opinions to assess changes in structural components of quality in a Cluster Randomized Trial

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Variability of respiratory rate measurements in children suspected with non-severe pneumonia in north-east Tanzania

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When enough is enough: how the decision was made to stop the FEAST trial: data and safety monitoring in an African trial of Fluid Expansion As Supportive Therapy (FEAST) for critically ill children

scientific article published on 26 March 2013

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