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"I feel like I am less than other people": Health-related vulnerabilities of male migrants travelling alone on their journey to Europe

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"Providing a Roof" and More to Communities Affected by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines: the Médecins Sans Frontières Experience

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

A country-wide evaluation of infection control for tuberculosis in health-care facilities in Armenia

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

A crisis of protection and safe passage: violence experienced by migrants/refugees travelling along the Western Balkan corridor to Northern Europe

scientific article

A first country-wide review of Diabetes Mellitus care in Bhutan: time to do better

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

A global framework for action to improve the primary care response to chronic non-communicable diseases: a solution to a neglected problem

scientific article published on 22 September 2009

Abolishing user fees for children and pregnant women trebled uptake of malaria-related interventions in Kangaba, Mali

scientific article published on November 2011

Acceptance of anti-retroviral therapy among patients infected with HIV and tuberculosis in rural Malawi is low and associated with cost of transport

scientific article published on 27 December 2006

Adapting the DOTS framework for tuberculosis control to the management of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

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Addressing diabetes mellitus as part of the strategy for ending TB.

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An Opportunity to END TB: Using the Sustainable Development Goals for Action on Socio-Economic Determinants of TB in High Burden Countries in WHO South-East Asia and the Western Pacific Regions

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

An ambulance referral network improves access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care in a district of rural Burundi with high maternal mortality ⬇️

scientific article published on May 18, 2013

Antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory infections among children in rural China: a cross-sectional study of outpatient prescriptions. ⬇️

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

scientific article published on August 11, 2011

Applying DOTS principles for operational research capacity building

scientific article published on December 2012

Applying the ICMJE authorship criteria to operational research in low‐income countries: the need to engage programme managers and policy makers ⬇️

scientific article published on May 30, 2013

Are tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care hospital in Hyderabad, India being managed according to national guidelines?

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Assessment of household ownership of bed nets in areas with and without artemisinin resistance containment measures in Myanmar

scientific article published on 23 March 2018

Bacterial Isolates and Antibiotic Resistance of <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolated from Fresh Poultry Excreta Used for Vegetable Farming in Freetown, Sierra Leone

scientific article published on 29 April 2022

Baseline characteristics, response to and outcome of antiretroviral therapy among patients with HIV-1, HIV-2 and dual infection in Burkina Faso

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Blended SORT-IT for operational research capacity building: the model, its successes and challenges.

scientific article published in January 2018

Brief Report: Decentralizing ART Supply for Stable HIV Patients to Community-Based Distribution Centers: Program Outcomes From an Urban Context in Kinshasa, DRC.

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Building Global Capacity for Conducting Operational Research Using the SORT IT Model: Where and Who?

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Building sustainable operational research capacity in Pakistan: starting with tuberculosis and expanding to other public health problems

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Calling on Europe to support operational research in low-income and middle-income countries

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Can India be successful at eradicating TB as was achieved for polio?

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Can timely vector control interventions triggered by atypical environmental conditions prevent malaria epidemics? A case-study from Wajir County, Kenya

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Capacity Building in Operational Research: More than One Way to Slice the Cake

scientific article published on 9 July 2015

China's 1-3-7 surveillance and response strategy for malaria elimination: Is case reporting, investigation and foci response happening according to plan?

scientific article

Cholera in Haiti: please do not forget zinc

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Cohort monitoring of persons with diabetes mellitus in a primary healthcare clinic for Palestine refugees in Jordan

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

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

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Crossing the divide: expanding the scope of operational research in Public Health Action

scientific article published on December 2012

Demographic characteristics and opportunistic diseases associated with attrition during preparation for antiretroviral therapy in primary health centres in Kibera, Kenya ⬇️

scientific article published on February 9, 2011

Diagnosis and management of antiretroviral-therapy failure in resource-limited settings in sub-Saharan Africa: challenges and perspectives

scientific article published on January 2010

Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in a pastoralist population in Ethiopia: are three sputum specimens needed? ⬇️

scientific article published on February 26, 2013

Discordant immunologic and virologic responses to antiretroviral therapy and associated mortality in a large treatment program in Rwanda

scientific article published on 01 April 2009

Do aid agencies have an ethical duty to comply with researchers? A response to Rennie

scientific article published on May 2006

Does a nutrition education programme change the knowledge and practice of healthy diets among high school adolescents in Chennai, India?

scholarly article by M Anitha Rani et al published 22 October 2012 in Health Education Journal

Does mass drug administration for community-based scabies control works? The experience in Ethiopia

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Does the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) continue to influence health policy and/or practice?

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Does timing of antiretroviral treatment influence treatment outcomes of visceral leishmaniasis in Northwest Ethiopia?

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Does training of Health Extension Workers reduce scabies load in district health facilities in rural Ethiopia?

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

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

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Ebola: lessons learned and future challenges for Europe

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Effect of the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak on reproductive health services in a rural district of Guinea: an ecological study

scientific article published in January 2017

Ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in low- and middle-income countries by 2030: is it possible?

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Ending tuberculosis calls for leaving no one behind

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

Engaging people who inject drugs and their peers in HIV testing and harm reduction in Ukraine: do they make a difference?

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Enhanced hypertension care through private clinics in Pakistan: a cluster randomised trial

scholarly article published April 2019

Ethics approval: a challenge for public health researchers in India

scientific article published in April 2015

Ethics of conducting research in conflict settings

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Evaluation of four rapid tests for diagnosis and differentiation of HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections in Guinea-Conakry, West Africa

scientific article published on 17 June 2010

Excellent outcomes among HIV+ children on ART, but unacceptably high pre-ART mortality and losses to follow-up: a cohort study from Cambodia

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Facing up to programmatic challenges created by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 6 July 2011

Feasibility of a preventive mass vaccination campaign with two doses of oral cholera vaccine during a humanitarian emergency in South Sudan

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Free treatment, rapid malaria diagnostic tests and malaria village workers can hasten progress toward achieving the malaria related millennium development goals: the Médecins Sans Frontières experience from Chad, Sierra-Leone and Mali

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

Generic fixed-dose combination antiretroviral treatment in resource-poor settings: multicentric observational cohort

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

HIV and tuberculosis in prisons in sub-Saharan Africa.

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HIV and tuberculosis – science and implementation to turn the tide and reduce deaths ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2012

HIV testing in people with presumptive tuberculosis: time for implementation

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Health leadership in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published in October 2009

High initial default in patients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis at a regional hospital in Accra, Ghana ⬇️

scientific article published on May 30, 2012

High prevalence of lipoatrophy among patients on stavudine-containing first-line antiretroviral therapy regimens in Rwanda

scientific article published on 30 April 2007

High prevalence of tuberculosis and serious bloodstream infections in ambulatory individuals presenting for antiretroviral therapy in Malawi

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High survival and treatment success sustained after two and three years of first-line ART for children in Cambodia

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How Can Operational Research Help to Eliminate Tuberculosis in the Asia Pacific Region?

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Hunger and tuberculosis: two sides of the same coin

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

In resource-limited settings good early outcomes can be achieved in children using adult fixed-dose combination antiretroviral therapy

scientific article published in October 2006

Incorporating operational research in programmes funded by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four sub-Saharan African countries

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

Increased baseline body weight is a risk factor associated with virological failure while on antiretroviral treatment

scientific article published in August 2008

Investing in Operational Research Capacity Building for Front-Line Health Workers Strengthens Countries' Resilience to Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic

scientific article published on 16 July 2020

Is 6 months of bedaquiline enough?

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Is adjunctive naturopathy associated with improved glycaemic control and a reduction in need for medications among type 2 Diabetes patients? A prospective cohort study from India

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Is mid-upper arm circumference alone sufficient for deciding admission to a nutritional programme for childhood severe acute malnutrition in Bangladesh?

scientific article published on 6 March 2013

Is operational research delivering the goods? The journey to success in low-income countries

scientific article published on 09 February 2012

Is vitiligo associated with wearing plastic shoes in a podoconiosis endemic region of Ethiopia?

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

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

scientific article published on December 2010

Knowledge, access and utilization of bed-nets among stable and seasonal migrants in an artemisinin resistance containment area of Myanmar

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Linking intravenous drug users to treatment through non-governmental organizations in Ukraine: how well is it working?

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Liposomal amphotericin B for complicated visceral leishmaniasis (kala-azar) in eastern Sudan: how effective is treatment for this neglected disease?

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Localised transmission hotspots of a typhoid fever outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

Loss to follow up from isoniazid preventive therapy among adults attending HIV voluntary counseling and testing sites in Uganda ⬇️

scientific article published on December 10, 2011

Migrants caught between tides and politics in the Mediterranean: an imperative for search and rescue at sea?

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Mind the gap: Improving the performance of the reference laboratory to end-tuberculosis in Armenia

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Monitoring the response to antiretroviral therapy in resource-poor settings: the Malawi model

scientific article published in December 2004

Monitoring treatment outcomes in patients with chronic disease: lessons from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS care and treatment programmes

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Mortality reduction associated with HIV/AIDS care and antiretroviral treatment in rural Malawi: evidence from registers, coffin sales and funerals

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis bloodstream infection prevalence, diagnosis, and mortality risk in seriously ill adults with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Nationalizing Operational Research Capacity Building: Necessity or Luxury?

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Neglect of a Neglected Disease in Italy: The Challenge of Access-to-Care for Chagas Disease in Bergamo Area

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Neglected tropical diseases and the sustainable development goals: an urgent call for action from the front line

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

Nevirapine- and efavirenz-associated hepatotoxicity under programmatic conditions in Kenya and Mozambique ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2012

No cash, no care: how user fees endanger health--lessons learnt regarding financial barriers to healthcare services in Burundi, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo, Chad, Haiti and Mali

scientific article published in June 2011

Obstetric fistula in Burundi: a comprehensive approach to managing women with this neglected disease

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Offering general pediatric care during the hard times of the 2014 Ebola outbreak: looking back at how many came and how well they fared at a Médecins Sans Frontières referral hospital in rural Sierra Leone

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Offering mental health services in a conflict affected region of Pakistan: who comes, and why?

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Oh no! Power out, internet down! Two challenges in running training courses in low- and middle-income countries

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One size fits all? Standardised provision of care for survivors of sexual violence in conflict and post-conflict areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Open submission and open access: the right way ahead

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Operational research capacity building using 'The Union/MSF' model: adapting as we go along

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Operational research in Malawi: making a difference with cotrimoxazole preventive therapy in patients with tuberculosis and HIV.

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Operational research in low-income countries: what, why, and how?

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Operational research in non-governmental organisations: necessity or luxury?

scientific article published on June 2012

Operational research within a Global Fund supported tuberculosis project in India: why, how and its contribution towards change in policy and practice

scientific article published in January 2018

Optimal evidence in difficult settings: improving health interventions and decision making in disasters

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Origin of malaria cases: a 7-year audit of global trends in indigenous and imported cases in relation to malaria elimination

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Paediatric morbidity and mortality in Sierra Leone. Have things changed after the 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak?

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Peanut-based ready-to-use therapeutic food: how acceptable and tolerated is it among malnourished pregnant and lactating women in Bangladesh?

scientific article published on 6 May 2013

People with high HIV viral load within risk networks: who are these people and who refers them best?

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Picking up the bill - improving health-care utilisation in the Democratic Republic of Congo through user fee subsidisation: a before and after study.

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Practicing medicine without borders: tele-consultations and tele-mentoring for improving paediatric care in a conflict setting in Somalia? ⬇️

scientific article published on July 29, 2012

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.

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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 healthcare centers engagement in tuberculosis treatment in Ukraine

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Procurement and Supply Management System for MDR-TB in Nigeria: Are the Early Warning Targets for Drug Stock Outs and Over Stock of Drugs Being Achieved?

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Provider-initiated HIV testing and counselling for TB in low HIV prevalence settings: is it worthwhile?

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

Providing emergency care and assessing a patient triage system in a referral hospital in Somaliland: a cross-sectional study

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Providing universal access to antiretroviral therapy in Thyolo, Malawi through task shifting and decentralization of HIV/AIDS care

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Provision of emergency obstetric care at secondary level in a conflict setting in a rural area of Afghanistan - is the hospital fulfilling its role?

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Public Health Action for public health action

scientific article published on September 2014

Quality, Equity and Partnerships in Mixed Methods and Qualitative Research during Seven Years of Implementing the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative in 18 Countries

scientific article published in 2022

Quality, Equity and Utility of Observational Studies during 10 Years of Implementing the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative in 72 Countries

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Reaching out to the forgotten: providing access to medical care for the homeless in Italy

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Reduced tuberculosis case notification associated with scaling up antiretroviral treatment in rural Malawi ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Reliability and accuracy of the South African Triage Scale when used by nurses in the emergency department of Timergara Hospital, Pakistan

scientific article published on 26 March 2014

Research to policy and practice change: is capacity building in operational research delivering the goods?

scientific article published on 9 June 2014

Retention and attrition during the preparation phase and after start of antiretroviral treatment in Thyolo, Malawi, and Kibera, Kenya: implications for programmes? ⬇️

scientific article published on July 2, 2011

Risk factors for high early mortality in patients on antiretroviral treatment in a rural district of Malawi

scientific article published in November 2006

Risk factors for mortality in AIDS-associated Kaposi sarcoma in a primary care antiretroviral treatment program in Malawi

scientific article published in June 2010

Safety, effectiveness, and outcomes of concomitant use of highly active antiretroviral therapy with drugs for tuberculosis in resource-poor settings

scientific article published in March 2006

Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in Malawi-implications for managing other chronic diseases in resource-limited countries

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Scaling-up co-trimoxazole prophylaxis in HIV-exposed and HIV-infected children in high HIV-prevalence countries.

scientific article published on October 2007

Screening of patients with tuberculosis for diabetes mellitus in China

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

Screening patients with diabetes mellitus for tuberculosis in China

scientific article published on 25 July 2012

Self-administered treatment for tuberculosis among pastoralists in rural Ethiopia: how well does it work?

scientific article published on 16 March 2014

Sexual violence in post‐conflict Liberia: survivors and their care ⬇️

scientific article published on August 12, 2012

Sexually transmitted infections among prison inmates in a rural district of Malawi

scientific article published in November 2002

Shifting from an inpatient to outpatient centered model through transforming the TB financing in ex-Soviet countries

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

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

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Should sputum smear examination be carried out at the end of the intensive phase and end of treatment in sputum smear negative pulmonary TB patients?

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Six-month mortality among HIV-infected adults presenting for antiretroviral therapy with unexplained weight loss, chronic fever or chronic diarrhea in Malawi.

scientific article published on 19 November 2012

Sodium stibogluconate and paromomycin for treating visceral leishmaniasis under routine conditions in eastern Sudan

scientific article published on October 2015

Staffing in public health facilities after the Ebola outbreak in rural Sierra Leone: How much has changed?

scientific article published on 06 June 2019

Stavudine- and nevirapine-related drug toxicity while on generic fixed-dose antiretroviral treatment: incidence, timing and risk factors in a three-year cohort in Kigali, Rwanda

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

Strategies for active detection of tuberculosis in Ukraine: Comparative effectiveness amongst key populations (2014-2018)

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

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

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Strengthening the core health research capacity of national health systems helps build country resilience to epidemics: a cross-sectional survey

scientific article published on 09 June 2020

Supporting 'medicine at a distance' for delivery of hospital services in war-torn Somalia: how well are we doing?

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Taking on the diabetes-tuberculosis epidemic in India: paving the way through operational research

scientific article published on November 2013

Task shifting for antiretroviral treatment delivery in sub-Saharan Africa: not a panacea

scientific article published on February 2008

The 2012 world health report 'no health without research': the endpoint needs to go beyond publication outputs

scientific article published on 16 August 2012

The Ebola-effect in Guinea 2014-15: Tangled trends of malaria care in children under-five

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

The Growing Importance of Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy and How Research and Innovation Can Enhance Its Implementation on the Ground

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

The HIV-associated tuberculosis epidemic--when will we act?

scientific article published on 18 May 2010

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

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The Union and Médecins Sans Frontières approach to operational research

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

The WHO clinical case definition for suspected cases of Ebola virus disease arriving at Ebola holding units: reason to worry?

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

The experience of implementing a 'TB village' for a pastoralist population in Cherrati, Ethiopia ⬇️

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

The journey to antiretroviral therapy in Karnataka, India: who was lost on the road?

scientific article published on 27 August 2013

The power of data: using routinely collected data to improve public health programmes and patient outcomes in low- and middle-income countries

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2010

The rise and fall of tuberculosis in Malawi: associations with HIV infection and antiretroviral therapy.

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The timing of death in patients with tuberculosis who die during anti-tuberculosis treatment in Andhra Pradesh, South India

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The vital signs of chronic disease management

scientific article published on 19 January 2009

Tracing patients on antiretroviral treatment lost-to-follow-up in an urban slum in India

scientific article published on 25 January 2012

Treatment outcomes in a cohort of Palestine refugees with diabetes mellitus followed through use of E-Health over 3 years in Jordan

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Treatment outcomes in a cohort of patients with chronic hepatitis B and human immunodeficiency virus co-infection in Mumbai, India

scientific article published on December 2012

Treatment outcomes stratified by baseline immunological status among young children receiving nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings

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Trends in tuberculosis notification and treatment outcomes in prisons: a country-wide assessment in El Salvador from 2009-2014.

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Trends of and factors associated with cesarean section related surgical site infections in Guinea

scientific article published on 03 May 2019

Tuberculosis among indigenous municipalities in Mexico: analysis of case notification and treatment outcomes between 2009 and 2013.

scientific article published on January 2016

Typhoid fever outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Case control and ecological study

scientific article published on 3 October 2018

Unacceptable attrition among WHO stages 1 and 2 patients in a hospital-based setting in rural Malawi: can we retain such patients within the general health system?

scientific article published on 6 February 2010

Unregulated usage of labour-inducing medication in a region of Pakistan with poor drug regulatory control: characteristics and risk patterns.

scientific article published on 13 August 2015

Upholding Tuberculosis Services during the 2014 Ebola Storm: An Encouraging Experience from Conakry, Guinea

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Using mobile phones to ensure that referred tuberculosis patients reach their treatment facilities: a call that makes a difference

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Using touchscreen electronic medical record systems to support and monitor national scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Malawi

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Very early mortality in patients starting antiretroviral treatment at primary health centres in rural Malawi

scientific article published on 26 May 2009

Viewpoint: Why do we need a point‐of‐care CD4 test for low‐income countries? ⬇️

scientific article published on November 2, 2010

Vital registration in rural Africa: is there a way forward to report on health targets of the Millennium Development Goals? ⬇️

scientific article published on April 21, 2011

Voluntary counselling, HIV testing and adjunctive cotrimoxazole reduces mortality in tuberculosis patients in Thyolo, Malawi ⬇️

scientific article published on May 2, 2003

Weight evolution in HIV-1 infected women in Rwanda after stavudine substitution due to lipoatrophy: comparison of zidovudine with tenofovir/abacavir

scientific article published on 2 October 2008

Weight loss after the first year of stavudine-containing antiretroviral therapy and its association with lipoatrophy, virological failure, adherence and CD4 counts at primary health care level in Kigali, Rwanda

scientific article published on December 2010

What Is in the Salad? Escherichia coli and Antibiotic Resistance in Lettuce Irrigated with Various Water Sources in Ghana

scientific article published in 2022

What can National TB Control Programmes in low- and middle-income countries do to end tuberculosis by 2030?

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

What happens to Palestine refugees with diabetes mellitus in a primary healthcare centre in Jordan who fail to attend a quarterly clinic appointment?

scientific article published on 6 January 2014

When will the coughing stop? Characteristics of children with pertussis (whooping cough) in Armenia (2014-2018)

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Why a special issue of JIDC on the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative in Armenia

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

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