Center for Global Health and Development
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1360
The Center for Global Health & Development (CGHD) at Boston University is a multidisciplinary research center that engages faculty from across the University to help solve the critical global health and social development challenges of our time. The mission of the center is not only to conduct high-quality applied research, but also to advocate for the use of this research to improve the health of underserved populations around the world. Through our collaborative work with scientists worldwide, we also seek to strengthen individual and institutional capacity to conduct and utilize research.
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Treatment outcomes and costs of providing antiretroviral therapy at a primary health clinic versus a hospital-based HIV clinic in South Africa
(PLoS ONE, 2017-01)BACKGROUND:In 2010 South Africa revised its HIV treatment guidelines to allow the initiation and management of patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) by nurses, rather than solely doctors, under a program called NIMART ... -
Self-reported illness among Boston-area international travelers: A prospective study
(Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2016-10)BACKGROUND: The Boston Area Travel Medicine Network surveyed travelers on travel-related health problems. METHODS: Travelers were recruited 2009-2011 during pre-travel consultation at three clinics. The investigation ... -
Travelers’ diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms among Boston-area international travelers
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2017-06)INTRODUCTION: Travelers' diarrhea (TD) and non-TD gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common among international travelers. In a study of short-term travelers from Switzerland to developing countries, the most common symptom ... -
Travel-Associated Zika Virus Disease Acquired in the Americas Through February 2016
(Annals of Internal Medicine., 2016-11)BACKGROUND: Zika virus has spread rapidly in the Americas and has been imported into many nonendemic countries by travelers. OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical manifestations and epidemiology of Zika virus disease in travelers ... -
Comparison of medicines management strategies in insurance schemes in middle-income countries: four case studies
(BioMed Central, 2017-05)BACKGROUND: Many middle-income countries are scaling up health insurance schemes to provide financial protection and access to affordable medicines to poor and uninsured populations. Although there is a wealth of evidence ... -
Timing of pregnancy, postpartum risk of virologic failure and loss to follow-up among HIV-positive women.
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc, 2017-06)BACKGROUND: We assessed the association between the timing of pregnancy with the risk of postpartum virologic failure and loss from HIV care in South Africa. METHODS: The incidence of virologic failure (two consecutive ... -
Has the phasing out of stavudine in accordance with changes in WHO guidelines led to a decrease in single-drug substitutions in first-line antiretroviral therapy for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa?
(AIDS., 2017-01)OBJECTIVE: We assessed the relationship between phasing out stavudine in first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) in accordance with WHO 2010 policy and single-drug substitutions (SDS) (substituting the nucleoside reverse ... -
Health facility and skilled birth deliveries among poor women with Jamkesmas health insurance in Indonesia: a mixed-methods study
(BMC Health Services Research, 2017-02)BACKGROUND: The growing momentum for quality and affordable health care for all has given rise to the recent global universal health coverage (UHC) movement. As part of Indonesia’s strategy to achieve the goal of UHC, large ... -
Vitamin A and zinc supplementation among pregnant women to prevent placental malaria: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in Tanzania
(Am. J. Trop. Med, 2017-04)BACKGROUND: Malaria causes nearly 200 million clinical cases and approximately half a million deaths each year, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa.1 The risk of malaria increases during pregnancy,2 a period during which its ... -
Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of travelers’ diarrhea: a graded expert panel report
(Journal of Travel Medicine, 2017-04)BACKGROUND: Travelers' diarrhea causes significant morbidity including some sequelae, lost travel time and opportunity cost to both travelers and countries receiving travelers. Effective prevention and treatment are needed ...
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