Background Schistosomiasis, an ancient and neglected tropical disease, which poses a
huge threat to over 200 million people globally. It is necessary to have a general summary of …

Background For the last two decades, schistosomiasis control efforts have focussed on
preventive treatment. The disease, however, still affects over 200 million people worldwide …

Background The importance of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Nigeria is reflected
in their growing burden that is fast overtaking that of infectious diseases. As most NCD care …

Study objective As stunting is the most perilous health and nutrition problem for children
under five in rural poor households worldwide and CCT programs are normally used to …

Background One of the biggest challenges of the response to the AIDS epidemic is to reach
the poorest people. In 2004, Brazil implemented one of the world's largest conditional cash …

Nanotechnology is revolutionizing many sectors of science, from food preservation to
healthcare to energy applications. Since 1995, when the first nanomedicines started being …

Background Cost-effective demand-side interventions are needed to increase childhood
immunization. Multiple studies find tying income support programs (≥ USD 50 per year) to …

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty or advance social goals by
encouraging desirable behavior that recipients under-invest in. An unintended consequence …

This study addresses the challenges facing Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCT) by
investigating whether recipients are satisfied with health services and how contextual factors …

Neglected tropical diseases are a diverse group of communicable pathologies that mainly
prevail in tropical and subtropical regions. Thus, the objective of this work was to evaluate …