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Using New Technologies to Fight Old Diseases
May 14th, 2013
The global health community has been quick to recognize the potential of new technologies to improve health care around the world. One such technology that is widely used in such settings is the mobile telephone. Short message service (SMS) through mobile phones is considered a potentially suitable means of improving patient care because it is inexpensive
Better financial management on demand
December 6th, 2012
Counterpart-driven, performance-based capacity building tool empowers countries to identify and resolve financial management bottlenecks in national NTD programs. While money may make the world go round, strong financial management skills keep it spinning on track. In fact, the success or failure of a program often hinges largely on the strength of its financial management system.
Determining treatment needs at different spatial scales using geostatistical model-based risk estimates of schistosomiasis
December 6th, 2012
Schur, N., P. Vounatsou, et al. (2012).PLoS Negl Trop Dis 6(9): e1773. BACKGROUND: After many years of neglect, schistosomiasis control is going to scale. The strategy of choice is preventive chemotherapy, that is the repeated large-scale administration of praziquantel (a safe and highly efficacious drug) to at-risk populations. The frequency of praziquantel administration is based
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