The private for-profit sector's prominence in health-care delivery, and concern about its
failures to deliver social benefit, has driven a search for interventions to improve the sector's …

Background Interventions to reduce the burden of disease and mortality in sub-Saharan
Africa increasingly recognize the important role that drug retailers play in delivering basic …

Background Implementation science in resource-poor countries and communities is
arguably more important than implementation science in resource-rich settings, because …

Introduction Retail drug sellers are a major source of health care and medicines in many
countries. In Tanzania, drug shops are widely used, particularly in rural and underserved …

Introduction People in many low-income countries access medicines from retail drug shops.
In Tanzania, a public-private partnership launched in 2003 used an accreditation approach …

We studied associations between delayed care seeking, demographic, socioeconomic, and
geographic factors and likelihood of severe malaria in Ugandan children. The study was …

Abstract The Ifakara Rural HDSS (125 000 people) was set up in 1996 for a trial of the
effectiveness of social marketing of bed nets on morbidity and mortality of children aged …

Background In malaria elimination settings, all malaria cases must be identified,
documented and investigated. To facilitate complete and timely reporting of all malaria …

Universal access to healthcare, including quality medicines, is a fundamental human right
but is still out of reach for many in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). An existing …

Whilst some populations have recently experienced dramatic declines in malaria, the
majority of those most at risk of Plasmodium falciparum malaria still lack access to effective …