Jeremiah Chakaya, Mishal Khan, Francine Ntoumi, Eleni Aklillu et al.
The October 2020 Global TB report reviews TB control strategies and United Nations (UN) targets set in the political declaration at the September 2018 UN General Assembly high-level meeting on TB held in New York. Progress in TB care and prevention has been very slow. In 2019, TB remained the most c...
Najmul Haider, Alexei Yavlinsky, Yu‐Mei Chang, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan et al.
Global Health Security Index (GHSI) and Joint External Evaluation (JEE) are two well-known health security and related capability indices. We hypothesised that countries with higher GHSI or JEE scores would have detected their first COVID-19 case earlier, and would experience lower mortality outcome...
Debashish Das, Ranitha Vongpromek, Thanawat Assawariyathipat, Ketsanee Srinamon et al.
BACKGROUND: Microscopic examination of Giemsa-stained blood films remains the reference standard for malaria parasite detection and quantification, but is undermined by difficulties in ensuring high-quality manual reading and inter-reader reliability. Automated parasite detection and quantification ...
Eskild Petersen, Seif Al-Abri, Jeremiah Chakaya, Delia Goletti et al.
The World Health Organization (WHO) and STOP TB Partnership theme for World TB Day 24th March, 2022 is “Invest to End TB. Save Lives” (WHO, 2022a). Global political and scientific attention continues to be focussed on the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. There have been over 416 million case...
Najmul Haider, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Javier Guitián, Rumi Ahmed Khan et al.
Objectives: The global reported cumulative case-fatality ratios (rCFRs) and excess mortality rates of the 20 countries with the highest coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rates, the rest of the world and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were compared before and after the commencement of vaccina...
Eskild Petersen, Seif Al-Abri, Amina Al-Jardani, Ziad A. Memish et al.
OBJECTIVES: To review the evidence that migrants from tuberculosis (TB) high-incidence countries migrating to TB low-incidence countries significantly contribute to active TB cases in the counties of destination, primarily through reactivation of latent TB. METHODS: This is a narrative review. The d...
Najmul Haider, Mohammad Nayeem Hasan, Rumi Ahmed Khan, David McCoy et al.
Abstract Globally 58.83% human population received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccines as of 5 January 2021. COVID-19 vaccination rollout is progressing at varied rates globally and data on the impact of mass vaccination on infection and case-fatality rates require definition. We compared the...
Eskild Petersen, David S.C. Hui, Jean B. Nachega, Francine Ntoumi et al.
When Johnson & Johnson (J&J) developed the new tuberculosis (TB) drug bedaquiline (Sirturo) [[1]TB Alliance-our pipeline. Bedaquiline. https://www.tballiance.org/portfolio/compound/bedaquiline - accessed 3 April, 2023Google Scholar], it was one the few new drugs to have been conditionally approved b...
Yenew Kebede, Nqobile Ndlovu, Susan Nabadda, Charles Sawadogo et al.
Persistent gaps in access to quality diagnostic tests undermine progress toward improved health outcomes and resilience to disease outbreaks in Africa. Furthermore, resources for strengthening laboratory systems have faced growing constraints owing to recent reductions in official direct financial a...
Cécile Chauvel, Philippe Vanhems, Marie-Charlotte Quemin, Marianne Abifadel et al.
INTRODUCTION: The Global Approach to Biology Research, Infectious diseases and Epidemics in Low-income countries (GABRIEL) network is an international scientific network of 21 centres coordinated by the Merieux Foundation (Lyon, France). Mapping and characterising the similarities and differences in...
Debashish Das, Ranitha Vongpromek, Thanawat Assawariyathipat, Ketsanee Srinamon et al.
Additional file 6. Site Specific Results.
Debashish Das, Ranitha Vongpromek, Thanawat Assawariyathipat, Ketsanee Srinamon et al.
Additional file 5. Study Enrolment.