Background Although malaria is a leading cause of child deaths, few well-documented
estimates of its direct and indirect burden exist. Our objective was to estimate the number of …

Reduction of deaths associated with malaria in children is a primary goal of malaria control
programmes in Africa, but there has been little discussion about how changes in mortality …

Summary Background The WHO Global Health Sector Strategy aims to reduce worldwide
syphilis incidence by 90% between 2018 and 2030. If this goal is to be achieved …

Background In 2007 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the global initiative to
eliminate mother-to-child transmission of syphilis (congenital syphilis, or CS). To assess …

Objective To review the impact of malaria control on haemoglobin (Hb) distributions and
anaemia prevalences in children under 5 in malaria‐endemic Africa. Methods Literature …

Objectives To investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the indicators 'proportion of
households possessing mosquito net (s)'and 'proportion of children under 5 years of age …

The effectiveness of syndromic treatment as an STD control strategy depends on the
proportion of episodes which become symptomatic; few studies have measured this directly …

Background Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) significantly reduces HIV transmission. We
conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of the impact of expanded ART in South Africa …

We reviewed 47 prospective studies of recurrence of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) after cure
to assess the influence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and rifampin …

We assessed the impact of HIV-1 on malaria in the sub-Saharan African population. Relative
risks for malaria in HIV-infected persons, derived from literature review, were applied to the …