Facilitating implementation of the one health approach: A definition of a one health intervention

Autor: Serge Nzietchueng, Andrew Kitua, Thierry Nyatanyi, Innocent B. Rwego

Publikováno v: One Health, Vol 16, Iss , Pp 100491- (2023)

The last two decades has witnessed a disruption of socio-economic, security and political foundation worldwide due to surging of health events arising at the ecosystem, animal and human interface. The unprecedent magnitude of these events has led to

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Kampala manifesto: Building community-based One Health approaches to disease surveillance and response-The Ebola Legacy-Lessons from a peer-led capacity-building initiative.

Autor: Petra Dickmann, Andrew Kitua, Franklin Apfel, Nigel Lightfoot

Publikováno v: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 4, p e0006292 (2018)

International activities to respond to the Ebola crisis in West Africa were mainly developed and focussed around the biomedical paradigm of Western health systems. This approach was often insensitive to societal perception, attitude, and behavioural

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/029df24085a442f2990cdfc39629f681

Recognition, perceptions and treatment practices for severe malaria in rural Tanzania: implications for accessing rectal artesunate as a pre-referral.

Autor: Marian Warsame, Omari Kimbute, Zena Machinda, Patricia Ruddy, Majaha Melkisedick, Thomas Peto, Isabela Ribeiro, Andrew Kitua, Goran Tomson, Melba Gomes

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 2, Iss 1, p e149 (2007)

ObjectivesPreparatory to a community trial investigating how best to deliver rectal artesunate as pre-referral treatment for severe malaria; local understanding, perceptions of signs/symptoms of severe malaria and treatment-seeking patterns for and b

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Using Lessons Learned from Previous Ebola Outbreaks to Inform Current Risk Management

Autor: Yunus Karsan, Petra Dickmann, Andrew Kitua, Julius J. Lutwama, Esron D. Karimuribo, Paul Kaczmarek, Mark M. Rweyemamu, Justin Masumu, Nigel Lightfoot

Publikováno v: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 21, Iss 5, Pp-(2015)
Emerging Infectious Diseases

Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS), together with the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance, organized an emergency meeting (September 1–2, 2014, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) to gather and collat

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https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/5/14-2016_article

Addition of Flucytosine to Fluconazole for the Treatment of Cryptococcal Meningitis in Africa: A Multicountry Cost-effectiveness Analysis

Autor: Olivier Lortholary, Síle F. Molloy, Sokoine Kivuyo, Shabbar Jaffar, Lawrence Mwenge, Louis W. Niessen, Cecilia Kanyama, Angela Loyse, Elvis Temfack, Shabir Lakhi, Joseph N Jarvis, Tinevimbo Shiri, Peter Mwaba, Robert S. Heyderman, Mina C. Hosseinipour, Charles Kouanfack, Sayoki Mfinanga, Tao Chen, Duncan Chanda, Thomas S. Harrison, Adrienne K. Chan

Publikováno v: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019, 2019, pp.ciz163. ⟨10.1093/cid/ciz163⟩
Clinical Infectious Diseases: An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019, 2019, pp.ciz163. ⟨10.1093/cid/ciz163⟩

Background Mortality from cryptococcal meningitis remains very high in Africa. In the Advancing Cryptococcal Meningitis Treatment for Africa (ACTA) trial, 2 weeks of fluconazole (FLU) plus flucytosine (5FC) was as effective and less costly than 2 wee

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https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/110678/3/ciz163.pdf