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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1352
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African Studies Center [183]
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Cancer Center [3]
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Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground [114]
Push your boundaries. Deepen your understanding. Try on a new perspective. Come alive with us. At the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, our goal is to create community through conversation and shared experiences. -
Photonics Center [12]
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Pulmonary Center [21]
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Baseline assessment of WHO’s target for both availability and affordability of essential medicines to treat non-communicable diseases.
(PLoS One, 2017-02)BACKGROUND: WHO has set a voluntary target of 80% availability of affordable essential medicines, including generics, to treat major non-communicable diseases (NCDs), in the public and private sectors of countries by 2025. ... -
Imputing HIV treatment start dates from routine laboratory data in South Africa: a validation study.
(BMC Health Serv Res., 2017-02)BACKGROUND: Poor clinical record keeping hinders health systems monitoring and patient care in many low resource settings. We develop and validate a novel method to impute dates of antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation ... -
Systematic differences between Cochrane and non-Cochrane meta-analyses on the same topic: a matched pair analysis
(PLoS One., 2017-01)BACKGROUND: Meta-analyses conducted via the Cochrane Collaboration adhere to strict methodological and reporting standards aiming to minimize bias, maximize transparency/reproducibility, and improve the accuracy of summarized ... -
Timing of pregnancy, postpartum risk of virologic failure and loss to follow-up among HIV-positive women.
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc, 2017-06)BACKGROUND: We assessed the association between the timing of pregnancy with the risk of postpartum virologic failure and loss from HIV care in South Africa. METHODS: The incidence of virologic failure (two consecutive ... -
Burden, timing and causes of maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: Protocol for a prospective cohort study
(Journal of Global Health, 2016-9)OBJECTIVES: The AMANHI mortality study aims to use harmonized methods, across eleven sites in eight countries in South Asia and sub–Saharan Africa, to estimate the burden, timing and causes of maternal, fetal and neonatal ... -
Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of travelers’ diarrhea: a graded expert panel report
(Journal of Travel Medicine, 2017-04)BACKGROUND: Travelers' diarrhea causes significant morbidity including some sequelae, lost travel time and opportunity cost to both travelers and countries receiving travelers. Effective prevention and treatment are needed ... -
The disease of corruption: views on how to fight corruption to advance 21st century global health goals
(BMC Medicine, 2016-9)Corruption has been described as a disease. When corruption infiltrates global health, it can be particularly devastating, threatening hard gained improvements in human and economic development, international security, and ... -
Benefits and limitations of text messages to stimulate higher learning among community providers: participants’ views of an mHealth intervention to support continuing medical education in Vietnam
(Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs, 2017-06)BACKGROUND: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 2015 to evaluate a mobile continuing medical education (mCME) intervention that provided daily text messages to community-based physicians’ assistants (CBPAs) in ... -
Inequitable access to health care by the poor in community-based health insurance programs: a review of studies from low- and middle-income countries
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04)INTRODUCTION: Health financing reforms in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) over the past decades have focused on achieving equity in financing of health care delivery through universal health coverage. Benefit and ... -
Comparison of medicines management strategies in insurance schemes in middle-income countries: four case studies
(BioMed Central, 2017-05)BACKGROUND: Many middle-income countries are scaling up health insurance schemes to provide financial protection and access to affordable medicines to poor and uninsured populations. Although there is a wealth of evidence ...
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