AN ANALYTICAL REVIEW OF VECTOR- AND PATHOGEN-BASED TRANSMISSION-BLOCKING VACCINE FOR MALARIA CONTROL



How does Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) affect latrine ownership? A quantitative case study from Mozambique

Abstract Background Community-led total sanitation (CLTS) is a widely used, community-based approach to tackle open defecation and its health-related problems.Although CLTS has been shown to be successful in previous studies, little is known about how CLTS works.We used a cross-sectional case study to identify personal, physical, and social context

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Zika is not a reason for missing the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro: response to the open letter of Dr Attaran and colleagues to Dr Margaret Chan, Director - General, WHO, on the Zika threat to the Olympic and Paralympic Games

Attaran and colleagues in an open letter to WHO expressed their concern about the moen rothbury faucet upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the threat posed by the Zika epidemic (Attaran 2016).We agree that Zika virus is of great public health concern and much remains to be known about this disease.Care should be taken to red

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