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Newest firstBackgroundGlobal guidelines recommend strengthening and integrating health services for skin diseases, yet evidence for strategies remains scarce. We evaluated a decentralised approach to the care of skin disease through integration within routine primary care, by assessing uptake, equity, alignment with skin disease burden and associated treatment costs. Methods and findingsA before-and-after intervention study w…
Open article record in new tab ↗Group A Streptococcus (StrepA) bacteria causes a broad spectrum of diseases. The most common manifestations of StrepA infection are sore throat and pus-producing skin infections such as impetigo. Complications of StrepA infection lead to inflammation in the bones, muscles, joints, and internal organs causing acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). In The Gambia, the RHD burden is thought to be ver…
Open article record in new tab ↗O_LIPHOSP-COVID is a national UK multi-centre cohort study of patients who were hospitalised for COVID-19 and subsequently discharged. C_LIO_LIPHOSP-COVID was established to investigate the medium- and long-term sequelae of severe COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation, understand the underlying mechanisms of these sequelae, evaluate the medium- and long-term effects of COVID-19 treatments, and to serve as a platform…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThere are currently no effective pharmacological or non-pharmacological interventions for Long-COVID. To identify potential therapeutic targets, we focussed on previously described four recovery clusters five months after hospital discharge, their underlying inflammatory profiles and relationship with clinical outcomes at one year. MethodsPHOSP-COVID is a prospective longitudinal cohort study, recruiting…
Open article record in new tab ↗IntroductionScabies is highly endemic among impoverished populations and has been recently included in the WHOs list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Community support and behavioural changes are essential for the success of control interventions. This study aimed to explore beliefs, prevention attitudes and health care-seeking behaviours towards scabies in the Bijagos Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau. MethodsDa…
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