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Care package for treatment and control of visceral leishmaniasis in East Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Manica Balasegaram, Houssynatou Sy, Lut Lynen, Elke Baeten
Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative, MSF The Netherlands, Gondar University, Departement Klinische Wetenschappen, Beheer, Departement Klinische Wetenschappen, Onderwijscoördinatie, Hiv en Tuberculose

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is fatal if left untreated; East Africa is one of the key endemic areas in the world. Untreated patients are part of the retransmission cycle and VL-HIV coinfection is an additional emerging problem.


Existing VL monotherapies are difficult to administer, toxic, costly and long with emerging resistance. A new short course combination (shorter than the 17 days of the combination treatment sodium ...

Essays in Development Economics: Evidence from East Africa KU Leuven

Jo Swinnen
Facultair Onderzoekscentrum LICOS, Onderzoeksgroep Ontwikkelingseconomie, Leuven

Dit proefschrift is onderverdeeld in vier hoofdstukken, elk gebouwd rond een andere research paper dat in het kader van het brede gebied van `de ontwikkelingseconomie valt. De analyse in alle hoofdstukken is grotendeels empirisch en steunt op primaire gegevens die de afgelopen jaren uit Oost-Afrika zijn verzameld. Natuurlijk, de theorie speelt een belangrijke rol in de leiding van de analyse. Hoofdstukken 1 en 2 bestuderen verschillende ...

Characterisation of novel microbicide safety biomarkers in East and South Africa. Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Renilde Everaert, Anne Buvé
Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Vaginal microbicides are being developed to expand HIV prevention options for women and couples. A healthy vaginal environment protects women from infections and should therefore remain intact during and after product administration.Up to recently, microbicide safety trials included naked-eye pelvic exams and colposcopy to visualize genital epithelial disruption and inflammation and vaginal fluid microscopy to evaluate the vaginal flora. ...

Modelling governance to support the use of innovative geospatial technologies for land tenure recording: case studies in East Africa KU Leuven

Joep Crompvoets
Instituut voor de Overheid (OE)

Dit promotieonderzoek maakt deel uit van een Horizon 2020-project genaamd ITS4LAND (nummer 687828), een innovatief project gericht op het ontwikkelen van landregistratie-instrumenten geïnspireerd op geo-informationstechnologieën. Deze landregistratie-instrumenten moeten beantwoorden aan de behoeften van de eindgebruikers en marktmogelijkheden in Oost-Afrika, waarbij men beoogt om de bestaande strategische samenwerking tussen EU en Oost-Afrika ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Center - East and Central Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Annelies Janssens, Veerle Vanlerberghe, Epco Hasker
Opkomende Infectieziekten, Virologie, Departement Klinische Wetenschappen, Mycobacteriële Ziekten en Verwaarloosde Tropische Ziekten
The east and central Africa (ECA) region is a global hotspot for emerging infectious diseases (EID), associated with recurrent outbreaks of viral hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Marburg, Rift valley fever (RVF)) and detection of viruses emerging elsewhere that are capable of causing high morbidities and mortalities such as highly pathogenic influenza, Zika, and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). While significant knowledge gaps ...

Impact of the clinical trials on the health behaviours of the communities and the quality of the health services in West and East Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Sabine Desager, D'Alessandro
Sociaalecologisch Gezondheidsonderzoek, Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

The aim is to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of the impact of public health-oriented clinical trials on local communities and the corresponding health system. To achieve this we will address the following research questions. Does the implementation of clinical trials have an impact on access to care and health facility utilisation, i.e.frequency of attendance, early attendance or delay, increased/decreased turst, etc? In case of ...

Re-investigation and lectotypification of O. Müller’s diatoms from East Africa: taxa from the genera Rhopalodia, Nitzschia, Sellaphora, Placoneis Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise

SYNTHESYS, Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
Müller (1903, 1904, 1910) described many new diatom taxa from East Africa based on material collected at the beginning of the 20th century. Original slides were lost during World War II but historic material was rediscovered at the Botanic Garden of Berlin, Dahlem. This makes it possible to designate lectotypes. During a previous SYNTHESYS project (2005) the investigation including lectotypification was undertaken for 32 taxa belonging to the ...

Two glacial-interglacial cycles (ca. 250,000 years) of climate and ecosystem dynamics on the East African equator Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise

Dirk Verschuren
Plantentuin Meise / Agentschap Plantentuin Meise
Long climate records from (sub-)tropical continental regions provide an important counterpoint to the polar ice-core records from Antarctica and Greenland, and are crucial to resolve long-standing questions about the relative importance of tropical and high-latitude climate processes in generating spatial climate variation. Available late-Quaternary climate records show that, on orbital time scales, tropical monsoon rainfall mostly responded to ...

Action Leveraging Evidence to Reduce perinatal morTality andmorbidity in sub-Saharan Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Annelies Janssens, Lenka Benova
Reproductieve en Maternale Gezondheid
Insufficient reductions in maternal and neonatal deaths and stillbirths in the past decade are a threat to achieving the
Sustainable Development Goal 3. Overcoming the knowledge-do gap to ensure implementation of known evidence-based
intervention during the intrapartum period – the period from onset of labour to immediately after childbirth – has the potential
to avert at least 2.5 million deaths in mothers and their offspring ...

Access to Care to Leishmaniasis Treatment in Africa Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde

Julien Potet, Albert Picado De Puig, M Boelaert
Verwaarloosde Tropische Ziekten
Leishmaniases -a neglected, stigmatizing group of diseases caused by an obligate protozoan Leishmania and transmitted by sand flies- may have cutaneous, mucocutaneous or visceral manifestations. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is its fatal form and affects the poorest of the poor with little or no access to care. Eastern Africa region bears most of the world’s VL burden second only after Indian subcontinent, with 30-57,000 cases reported annually ...