Infectious diseases
HIV and AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis as well as other less high profile, but equally important, infectious diseases.
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- Climate change and its impact on population health in southern China: implication for adaptation policy
- Adapting to Climate Change in China, 2012
- Climate change has become an increasingly important public health concern in China. This policy brief is part of the Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC) project's Guangdong Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (GDC...
- Effects of Infection in Severely Malnourished Children in Kilifi-Mombasa and Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania). A Comparative Study
- 2006
- The objective of this study was to determine the effects of infections on severely malnourished children. The study design used was a descriptive, cross sectional hospital-based study. Results show that there is little difference in t...
- Zoonoses - from panic to planning
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- Over two thirds of all human infectious diseases have their origins in animals. The rate at which these zoonotic diseases have appeared in people has increased over the past 40 years, with at least 43 newly identified outbreaks since ...
- Review of the potential health impacts of climate change in India
- P. K. Singh; R. Dhiman / National Institute of Malaria Research, 2012
- Climate change can have direct negative consequences on a number of health indices, due to climate affecting water, air quality, disease and physical comfort. As the risk of increasingly variable and severe climatic change is becoming...
- Using mobile phones to increase the dissemination of TB information
- mHealth Alliance, 2012
- New tools and simple, affordable innovations to better detect people suffering from tuberculosis (TB) are needed, and making health services available to the people most vulnerable to contracting it is deeply required. This paper argu...
- Why are tuberculosis patients not treated earlier? A study of informal health practitioners in Bangladesh
- M. Rifat / International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2011
- This study examines the role of informal health practitioners in delays in initiating tuberculosis (TB) treatment in new smear-positive TB patients. It aims to determine the time between the start of symptoms and the start of TB treat...
- Tuberculosis control has failed in South Africa – time to reappraise strategy
- R. Woods / South African Medical Journal, 2011
- This article looks at the reasons for the failure of South Africa’s current tuberculosis (TB) control programme by looking at the major drivers of the TB epidemic. The authors also identify new control strategies that they argue...
- Assessing access barriers to tuberculosis care with the Tool to Estimate Patients’ Costs: pilot results from two districts in Kenya
- V. Mauch / BMC Public Health, 2011
- The Tool to Estimate Patients’ Costs proved to be a valuable instrument to assess the costs incurred by TB patients, socioeconomic situations, health-seeking behavior patterns, concurrent illnesses such as HIV, and social and gen...
- Human Rights and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
- J. Csete / Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2011
- With respect to rights-based programming, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria faces an inherent dilemma: it explicitly espouses human rights-centered approaches to HIV, yet it also claims as a central principle of ...
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