Sustainable development of a GCP-compliant clinical trials platform in Africa: the malaria clinical trials alliance perspectiveBernhards R Ogutu
Malaria Clinical Trials Alliance, INDEPTH Network, 11 Mensah Wood Road, East Legon, PO Box KD 213, Kanda, Accra Ghana
Malar J 9:103. 2010
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- Assessing malaria control in the Kassena-Nankana district of northern Ghana through repeated surveys using the RBM tools
Seth Owusu-Agyei
Kintampo Health Research Centre, P, O, Box 200, Kintampo, Ghana
Malar J 6:103. 2007
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- Prevention of malaria using ITNs: potential for achieving the millennium development goals
F Binka
School of Public, University of Ghana Legon, INDEPTH Network, 9 Adenkum Loop, P O Box KD 213, Kanda, Accra, Ghana
Curr Mol Med 6:261-7. 2006
..It discusses the break through in the production of PermaNet to resolve the problem of low re-treatment of nets...
- Rapid achievement of the child survival millennium development goal: evidence from the Navrongo experiment in Northern Ghana
Fred N Binka
School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Trop Med Int Health 12:578-83. 2007
..To determine the impact of deploying nurses and volunteers to village locations on demographic and health outcomes...
- How many years of life could be saved if malaria were eliminated from a hyperendemic area of northern Ghana?
Ayaga A Bawah
INDEPTH Network Secretariat, 11 Mensah Wood Road, East Legon, Accra, Ghana
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:145-52. 2007
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- Antimalarial drug use among caregivers in Ghana
Benjamin K Abuaku
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
Afr Health Sci 4:171-7. 2004
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- The impact of immunization on the association between poverty and child survival: evidence from Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana
Ayaga A Bawah
The INDEPTH Network, PO Box KD 213, Accra, Ghana
Scand J Public Health 38:95-103. 2010
..Recent evidence that childhood mortality is increasing in many countries where vaccination programmes are active challenges this assumption...
- Changing patterns of rotavirus genotypes in ghana: emergence of human rotavirus G9 as a major cause of diarrhea in children
George E Armah
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon
J Clin Microbiol 41:2317-22. 2003
..S., Malawian, and Japanese strains forming a third...
- Characterisation of norovirus strains in rural Ghanaian children with acute diarrhoea
George E Armah
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana
J Med Virol 78:1480-5. 2006
..The GII genotypes formed four clusters with published GII sequences. The data shown enhances understanding of NoV diversity in Ghanaian children and demonstrate the global spread of distinct common genotypes to African countries...
- Characteristics of severe anemia and its association with malaria in young children of the Kassena-Nankana District of northern Ghana
Seth Owusu-Agyei
Navrongo Health Research Center, Ministry of Health, Navrongo, Upper East Region, Ghana
Am J Trop Med Hyg 67:371-7. 2002
..Evidence suggests that dramatic peaks and troughs of severe anemia are regular and possibly predictable events that may be used to gauge the health and survival of young children in this area...
- The impact of the Navrongo Project on contraceptive knowledge and use, reproductive preferences, and fertility
Cornelius Debpuur
Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ministry of Health, Navrongo Upper East Region, Ghana
Stud Fam Plann 33:141-64. 2002
..In this combined cell, the initial three years of project exposure reduced the total fertility rate by one birth, comprising a 15 percent fertility decline relative to fertility levels in comparison communities...
- Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: the Navrongo experiment in Ghana
James F Phillips
Policy Research Division, Population Council, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA
Bull World Health Organ 84:949-55. 2006
..To determine the demographic and health impact of deploying health service nurses and volunteers to village locations with a view to scaling up results...
- Patterns of age-specific mortality in children in endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa
Salim Abdullah
Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, Tanzania
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:99-105. 2007
..Improvement in the specificity of malaria verbal autopsies would make it easier to interpret the age and season patterns in such data...
- Demographic Surveillance Sites and emerging challenges in international health
Frank Baiden
Bull World Health Organ 84:163. 2006
- Incidence and risk factors of paediatric rotavirus diarrhoea in northern Ghana
Fred N Binka
Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Ghana
Trop Med Int Health 8:840-6. 2003
..There is a large burden of rotavirus diarrhoea, but the effectiveness of future vaccines could be diluted by the high polymorphism of the virus, and the difficulty of reaching remote populations...
- Gate-keeping and women's health seeking behaviour in Navrongo, northern Ghana
Pierre Ngom
African Population and Health Research Center, Population Council, P O Box 17643, Nairobi
Afr J Reprod Health 7:17-26. 2003
..But more important, this article presents health interventions that are on trial in Navrongo (northen Ghana) and how they undermine such gate-keeping systems...
- Seasonal malaria attack rates in infants and young children in northern Ghana
J Kevin Baird
Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 66:280-6. 2002
..These findings bear upon the design of malaria drug and vaccine trials in holoendemic areas...
- Prospective study of a serogroup X Neisseria meningitidis outbreak in northern Ghana
Sébastien P Gagneux
Swiss Tropical Institute, Socinstrasse 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
J Infect Dis 185:618-26. 2002
..The occurrence of serogroup X outbreaks argues for the inclusion of this serogroup into a multivalent conjugate vaccine against N. meningitidis...
