BACKGROUND There is a lack of empirical data on design effects (DEFF) for mortality rate for highly clustered data such as with Ebola virus disease (EVD), along with a lack of docume...
Reinholdz H, Agardh A, Verputten M, Byenda J, Frielingsdorf H
2024-04-25 • Global Health Action
2024-04-25 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND Sexual violence is widespread in war-torn North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Timely access to care is crucial for the healing and wellbeing...
Sagili KD, Satyanarayana S, Chadha SS, Wilson NC, Kumar AMV, et al.
2018-02-01 • Global Health Action
2018-02-01 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND:
The Global Fund encourages operational research (OR) in all its grants; however very few reports describe this aspect. In India, Project Axshya was supported by a Global...
Low retention of humanitarian workers poses constraints on humanitarian organisations' capacity to respond effectively to disasters. Research has focused on reasons for humanitarian work...
Das M, Andries A, Deshpande A, Mansoor H, Saranchuk P, et al.
2014-07-30 • Global Health Action
2014-07-30 • Global Health Action
There are limited data on the failure of second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the use of third-line ART in people living with HIV in resource-limited settings. Since 2011, the Mé...
Molfino L, Kumar AMV, Isaakidis P, Van der Bergh R, Khogali MA, et al.
2014-04-08 • Global Health Action
2014-04-08 • Global Health Action
Background : In Mozambique, antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up has been successfully implemented. However, attrition in care remains a major programmatic challenge. In 2009, an interm...
While quality of care is a major concern in the western world, not many studies investigate this topic in low-income countries. Even less is known about the quality of care in humanitari...
Leprosy remains an important cause of preventable disabilities. After the advent of multidrug therapy, new leprosy cases have come down dramatically. Despite this achievement, India, whi...
Cossa L, Harrison RE, Mpunga J, Lobo S, Kisaka Kimupelenge P, et al.
2019-10-15 • Global Health Action
2019-10-15 • Global Health Action
Background: Determine TB-LAM is a urine-based point-of-care assay for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB).
Objective: To assess the feasibility of using LAM to diagnose TB in adult HIV-...
In the medical humanitarian context, the challenging task of collecting health information from people on the move constitutes a key element to identifying critical health care needs and...
Das M, Doleckova K, Shenoy R, Mahanta J, Narain K, et al.
2016-09-23 • Global Health Action
2016-09-23 • Global Health Action
One of the infections that mimic tuberculosis (TB) is paragonimiasis (PRG), a foodborne parasitic disease caused by lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus. In the northeastern states of In...
Decroo T, Van der Bergh R, Kumar AMV, Zachariah R, Schillberg EBL, et al.
2018-01-01 • Global Health Action
2018-01-01 • Global Health Action
The Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT-IT) has been shown to be very effective in strengthening capacity for conducting operational research, publishing in scienti...
Chihana ML, Huerga H, van Cutsem G, Ellman T, Goemaere E, et al.
2019-01-01 • Global Health Action
2019-01-01 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND Despite substantial progress in antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale up, some people living with HIV (PLHIV) continue to present with advanced HIV disease, contributing to o...
Tripathy JP, Kumar AMV, Guillerm N, Berger SD, Bissell K, et al.
2018-08-01 • Global Health Action
2018-08-01 • Global Health Action
BACKGROUND The Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) is a successful model of integrated operational research and capacity building with about 90% of part...
