Service Delivery versus Moonlighting: Using Data from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Senegal

Striking the proper balance between allocating resources into service delivery for low income which benefits society, and moonlighting elsewhere for additional income, is a challenge. A model is developed for …

Service delivery weaknesses within education and healthcare: Applying empirics from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Senegal

Civil servants such as teachers and doctors allocate their resources into service delivery that benefits society, and alternative efforts for income. With low salary or high cost of service delivery, …

HIV Testing and Treatment with the Use of a Community Health Approach in Rural Africa

Background Universal antiretroviral therapy (ART) with annual population testing and a multidisease, patient-centered strategy could reduce new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections and improve community health. Methods We randomly assigned …

Inhaled nitric oxide for the adjunctive therapy of severe malaria: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Background: Severe malaria remains a major cause of global morbidity and mortality. Despite the use of potentanti-parasitic agents, the mortality rate in severe malaria remains high. Adjunctive therapies that target …

Host-pathogen interactions in malaria and tuberculosis: Experimental models and translation to novel adjunctive therapies

Malaria and tuberculosis together account for more than 2 million deaths worldwide each year. The present body of work examines interactions between these leading pathogens and cross-cutting themes in innate …

Performance of point-of-care diagnostics for glucose, lactate, and hemoglobin in the management of severe malaria in a resource-constrained hospital in Uganda

MEDLINE Abstract: Severe malaria is frequently managed without access to laboratory testing. We report on the performance of point-of-care tests used to guide the management of a cohort of 179 …

Performance of point-of-care diagnostics for glucose, lactate, hemoglobin in the management of severe malaria in a resource-constrained hospital in Uganda

Severe malaria is frequently managed without access to laboratory testing. We report on the performanceof point-of-care tests used to guide the management of a cohort of 179 children with severe …

Short Report: Performance of Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Glucose, Lactate, and Hemoglobin in the Management of Severe Malaria in a Resource-Constrained Hospital in Uganda

Severe malaria is frequently managed without access to laboratory testing. We report on the performanceof point-of-care tests used to guide the management of a cohort of 179 children with severe …

Spread of artemisinin resistance in malaria

Inhaled nitric oxide as adjunctive therapy for severe malaria: a randomized controlled trial

MEDLINE Abstract: BACKGROUND:<BR>Severe malaria remains a major cause of childhood mortality globally. Decreased endothelial nitric oxide is associated with severe and fatal malaria. The hypothesis was that adjunctive inhaled nitric …