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Multimedia, Tools and Downloads

Targeting Malaria
A special-issue TARGETS brochure looking at some of the RPC's findings in malaria research, released in November 2009 for the MIM Pan-African Conference on Malaria

Targeting TB
A special-issue TARGETS brochure featuring some of the RPC's partners and their research in TB, released in December 2010 for The Union World Conference on Lung Health.

Film on Reporting Research: Raising Media Debate around TB
Watch a film about bringing researchers and journalists together for a workshop co-facilitated by TARGETS, the Panos Relay Programme and ZAMBART in June 2009. Presented at WCSJ 2009.

Media Toolkit on Reporting TB
Download a media information resource pack produced by the Panos Relay Programme with TARGETS.

New screening technologies for TB
Read about TB diagnostics advocated by TARGETS researcher Dr Ruth McNerney.

IPTi Webtool
Find out more about the web-based decision making tool designed for malaria control programme policy makers at country and regional level.

TB Anti-Stigma Toolkit
Download an educational toolkit for use in communities and health services, developed by ZAMBART in collaboration with AIDS Alliance and Care International.

Guardian Katine Project Blog
"Why have we not won the TB Battle?" Read TARGETS' contribution to the development debate on the Guardian website, with an Explainer about TB/HIV in Uganda

Integrating TB and HIV Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: How it works in practice
Read a background paper from the TARGETS and COMDIS joint RPC address to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Global TB

Urgent Action Needed to Tackle TB
Read an open letter in the Times newspaper, supported by TARGETS for World TB Day 2009

Survival - The Deadly Combination
Watch a documentary by Rockhopper TV featuring the ZAMSTAR research team in South Africa

Reports, Posters and Policy

Policy Briefs

The converging impact of Tuberculosis, AIDS and food insecurity in Zambia and South Africa
HIV, Livelihoods, Food and Nutrition Security: Findings from Renewal Research, Brief 5
Bond V, Chileshe M, Magazi B and Sullivan C. 2008

Report of the Eleventh WHOPES Working Group Meeting, December 2007

Prospects for Eradication and Elimination of Malaria: a technical briefing for DFID
DFID HRC, J. Lines, C.J.M. Whitty and K. Hanson, Dec 2007

Access to HIV/AIDS Care, A Study Among People Living With HIV/AIDS
Rangan S, Kudale A, Joseph S, Salve S, Patil S. 2006

Protecting all pregnant women and children under five years living in endemic areas of Africa with insecticide treated mosquito nets
Webster J, Lines J, Smith L. for the Global Malaria Programme, World Health Organization 2006

Research Reports

Malaria Early Warning Systems in Iran
Report on the development of systems for early detection, early warning and control of malaria outbreaks in Iran
Jonathan Cox

Renewal Workshop Report, ZAMSTAR
Tuberculosis: An Additional Tipping Stress on Poor Households in Mbekweni

Makerere University Workshop Report
Childhood mortality rates in Uganda: can we meet the millennium development goals?
Fred Nuwaha

Research Posters

TARGETS Poster
Summary poster on the Team for Applied Research Generating Effective Tools and Strategies for communicable disease control

ZAMBART Microscopists Poster
TB Microscopists: An Answer to the Human Resources Crisis in TB Control in Zambia?

MAAS CHRD HIV/TB Co-Infection Poster
Is there a Role for the Private Sector in HIV/TB Co-infection Management? Evidence from India

Annual Reports

TARGETS Annual Report Jun 08 - May 09

TARGETS Annual Report Jun 07 - May 08

TARGETS Annual Report Jun 06 - May 07

TARGETS Annual Report Jun 05 - May 06

Publications

Click on the links below to view or download publications by TARGETS researchers, available through PubMed

2009 TB

Liquid culture for Mycobacterium tuberculosis: proceed, but with caution
Anthony RM, Cobelens FG, Gebhard A, Klatser PR, Lumb R, Rusch-Gerdes S, van Soolingen D.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis Sept 2009

Comparison of rapid tests for detection of rifampicin-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Kampala, Uganda
Ogwang S, Asiimwe BB, Traore H, Mumbowa F, Okwera A, Eisenach KD, Kayes S, Jones-Lopez EC, McNerney R, Worodria W, Ayakaka I, Mugerwa RD, Smith PG, Ellner J, Joloba ML.
BMC Infect Dis Aug 2009

Comparison of four culture systems for Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the Zambian National Reference Laboratory
Muyoyeta M, Schaap JA, De Haas P,. Mwanza W, Muvwimi MW, Godfrey-Faussett P, Ayles H,
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Apr 2009

Inclusion of information on risk factors, socio-economic status and health seeking in a tuberculosis prevalence survey
Cobelens F, Lonnroth K, Holtz TH, Chua J, van Leth F, Tupasi T, Williams B
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Feb 2009

2009 Malaria

Protective efficacy and safety of three antimalarial regimens for intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
Gosling RD, Gesase S, Mosha JF, Carneiro I, Hashim R, Lemnge M, Mosha FW, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D.
Lancet, Sept 2009

Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants: how does it work and where will it work?
Gosling RD, Carneiro I, Chandramohan D,
Trop Med Int Health, Sept 2009

Household ownership and use of insecticide treated nets among target groups after implementation of a national voucher programme in the United Republic of Tanzania: plausibility study using three annual cross sectional household surveys
Hanson K, Marchant T, Nathan R, Mponda H, Jones C, Bruce J, Mshinda H, Schellenberg JA.
British Medical Journal, Jul 2009

The epidemiology of malaria among pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in an area with intense and highly seasonal malaria transmission in northern Ghana
Clerk CA, Bruce J, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D,
Trop Med Int Health, Apr 2009

Composition and biting activity of Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae) in the Amazon region of Colombia
Rodriguez M, Perez L, Caicedo JC, Prieto G, Arroyo JA, Kaur H, Suarez-Mutis, M. de La Hoz, F. Lines, J. Alexander, N.
J Med Entomol Mar 2009

RTS,S/AS01E vaccine against malaria
Gosling RD, Chandramohan D,
TN Engl J Med, Mar 2009

Review: Provider practice and user behavior interventions to improve prompt and effective treatment of malaria: do we know what works?
Smith LA, Jones C, Meek S, Webster J.
Am J Trop Med Hyg, Mar 2009

Estimating the burden of malaria in pregnancy: a case study from rural Madhya Pradesh, India
Diamond-Smith N, Singh N, DasGupta R, Dash A, Thimasarn K, Campbell O, Chandramohan D. Malaria Journal, February 2009

'Suppressing the Vector' in Shrinking the Malaria Map: A Prospectus on Malaria Elimination
Enayati A, Lines J, Maharaj R, Hemingway J.
The Global Health Group, Global Health Sciences, University of California, 2009

2008 TB

ZAMSTAR, The Zambia South Africa TB and HIV Reduction study: Design of a 2 x 2 factorial community randomized trial
Ayles HM, Sismanidis C, Beyers N, Hayes RJ, Godfrey-Faussett P. Trials, Nov 2008

Integrating tuberculosis and HIV services for people living with HIV: costs of the Zambian ProTEST Initiative
Terris-Prestholt F, Kumaranayake L, Ginwalla R, Ayles H Kayawe I, Hillery M, Godfrey-Faussett P.
Cost Eff Resour Alloc, Jan 2008

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Zager EM, McNerney R.
BMC Infect Dis, Jan 2008

India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme: looking beyond detection and cure
Kelkar-Khambete A, Kielmann K, Pawar S, Porter J, Inamdar V, Datye A, Rangan S.
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis, Jan 2008

2008 Malaria

Review: Azithromycin-chloroquine and the intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy
Chico M, Pittrof R, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D.
Malaria Journal, December 2008>

Seasonal intermittent preventive treatment for the prevention of anaemia and malaria in Ghanaian children: a randomized, placebo controlled trial
Kweku M, Liu D, Binka F, Seidu M, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D.
PLOSone, December 2008

Modelling of malaria temporal variations in Iran
Haghdoost AA, Alexander N, Cox J.
Trop Med Int Health, Nov 2008

A randomized, controlled trial of intermittent preventive treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, amodiaquine, or the combination in pregnant women in Ghana
Clerk CA, Bruce J, Affipunguh PK, Mensah N, Hodgson A, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D.
J Infect Dis, October 2008

Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria and anaemia control in Tanzanian infants; the development and implementation of a public health strategy
Manzi F, Schellenberg J, Hamis Y, Mushi AK, Shirima K, Mwita A, Simba A, Rusibamayila N, Kitambi M, Tanner M, Alonso P Mshinda H, Schellenberg D,
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, Sept 2008

Beware resurgence of malaria where incidence has fallen
Gosling RD, Chandramohan D,
British Medical Journal, Sept 2008

Evaluation of the effects of repeated hand washing, sunlight, smoke and dirt on the persistence of deltamethrin on insecticide-treated nets
Kayedi MH, Lines JD, Haghdoost AA, Vatandoost MH, Rassi Y, Khamisabady K.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, Aug 2008

Tackling Malaria Today
Lines J, Schapira A, Smith T.
British Medical Journal, Aug 2008

The relationship between the haemoglobin concentration and the haematocrit in Plasmodium falciparum malaria
Lee SJ, Stepniewska K, Anstey N, Ashley E, Barnes K, Binh TQ, D'Alessandro U, Day NPJ, de Vries PJ, Dorsey G, Guthmann J-P, Mayxay M, Newton P, Nosten F, Olliaro P, Osario L, Pinoges L, Price R, Rowland M, Smithuis F, Taylor R and White NJ.
Malaria Journal, August 2008

Presumptive treatment of fever cases as malaria. Help or hindrance for malaria control?
Gosling R, Drakeley C, Mwita A, Chandramohan D. Malaria Journal July 2008

Emergence of a dhfr mutation conferring high-level drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum populations from southwest Uganda
Lynch C, Pearce R, Pota H, Cox J, Abeku TA, Rwakimari J, Naidoo I, Tibenderana J, Roper C.
J Infect Dis Jun 2008

Loss of protection of insecticide-treated nets against pyrethroid-resistant Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes once nets become holed: an experimental hut study
Irish SR, N'Guessan R, Boko PM, Metonnou C, Odjo A, Akogbeto M, Rowland M
Parasites & Vectors, June 2008

Duration of protection against malaria and anaemia provided by intermittent preventive treatment in infants in Navrongo, Ghana
.Cairns M, Carneiro I, Milligan P, Owusu-Agyei S, Awine T, Gosling R, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D.
PLOSone May 2008

Equity and child-survival strategies
Mulholland E, Smith L, Carneiro I, Becher H, Lehmann D.
Bull World Health Organ, May 2008

Experimental hut evaluation of the pyrrole insecticide chlorfenapyr on bed nets for the control of Anopheles arabiensis and Culex quinquefasciatus
Mosha FW, Lyimo IN, Oxborough RM, Malima R, Tenu F, Matowo J, Feston E, Mndeme R, Magesa SM, Rowland M.
Trop Med Int Health, May 2008

Child survival gains in Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys
Masanja H, de Savigny D, Smithson P, Schellenberg J, John T, Mbuya C, Upunda G, Boerma T, Victora C, Smith T, Mshinda H.
Lancet, Apr 2008

Can changes in malaria transmission intensity explain prolonged protection and contribute to high protective efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants?
Gosling RD, Ghani AC, Deen JL, von Seidlein L, Greenwood BM, Chandramohan D.
Malaria Journal, April 2008

Estimates of the burden of malaria morbidity in Africa in children under the age of 5 years
Roca-Feltrer A, Carneiro I, Armstrong Schellenberg JR.
Trop Med Int Health, Mar 2008

Effective malaria control: better burden estimates needed
Gosling RD, Drakeley CJ, Chandramohan D.
Lancet, Mar 2008

Should data from demographic surveillance systems be made more widely available to researchers?
Chandramohan D, Shibuya K, Setel P, Cairncross S, Lopez AD, Murray CJ, Zaba B, Snow RW, Binka F.
PLoS Med, Feb 2008

Malaria risk and access to prevention and treatment in the paddies of the Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
Hetzel MW, Alba S, Fankhauser M, Mayumana I, Lengeler C, Obrist B, Nathan R, Makemba AM, Mshana C, Schulze A, Mshinda H.
Malaria Journal, Jan 2008

2008 Other

A review of the natural progression of Gambiense Sleeping Sickness Infection
Checchi F, Filipe J, Barrett M, Chappuis F, Chandramohan D.
PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease, Dec 2008

Can changes in malaria transmission intensity explain prolonged protection and contribute to their high protective efficacy of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in infants?
Gosling R, Ghani A, Deen J, von Seidlein L, Greenwood B, Chandramohan D.
Malaria Journal, April 2008

Socio-cultural, psychosexual and biomedical factors associated with genital symptoms experienced by men in rural India
Gautham M, Singh R, Weiss H, Brugha R, Patel V, Desai NG. Nandan D, Kielmann K, Grosskurth H.
Trop Med Int Health, Mar 2008

The association between school attendance, HIV infection and sexual behaviour among young people in rural South Africa
Hargreaves JR, Morison LA, Kim JC, Bonell CP, Porter JD, Watts C, Busza J, Phetla G, Pronyk PM.
J Epidemiol Community Health, Feb 2008

"That is why I stopped the ART": Patients' and providers' perspectives on barriers to and enablers of HIV treatment adherence in a South African workplace programme
Dahab M, Charalambous S, Hamilton R, Fielding K, Kielmann K, Churchyard GJ, Grant AD.
BMC Public Health, Feb 2008

Estimates of the duration of the early and late stage of gambiense sleeping sickness
Checchi F, Filipe JA, Haydon DT, Chandramohan D, Chappuis F.
BMC Infect Dis, Feb 2008

2007

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Newsletters

Newsletter ISSUE 10: October 2009
"Acceptable Interventions for Malaria in Pregnancy: innovative ways of working with health care users and providers" with Lucy Smith (LSHTM)

Newsletter ISSUE 9: October 2008
"Communicating Research Findings: A Bottom-up Approach" by Shilpa Karvande (MAAS-CHRD)

Newsletter ISSUE 8: December 2007
Zambart Project vists MAAS-CHRD

Newsletter ISSUE 7: Special Issue: October 2007
TARGETS tuberculosis research leaflet

Newsletter ISSUE 6: June 2007
"Zamstar Project - A multilevel approach in the investigation of poverty as determinant of tuberculosis in Zambia" - a report by Dr. Delia Boccia

Newsletter ISSUE 5: February 2007
"Childhood mortality rates in Uganda: Can we meet the Millennium Development Goals?" - a workshop report by Dr.Fred Nuwaha

Newsletter ISSUE 4: November 2006
Extending Networks: Collboration between MAAS-CHRD and LEPRA Society in India, DCVRN Meeting Report

Newsletter ISSUE 3: August 2006
Training of Microbiologists by Zambart Project, Access to HIV Care in India, TB and Poor Households in Zambia, Melinda Gates visits ZAMSTAR

Newsletter ISSUE 2: May 2006
First findings from HIMAL, PSSMC and TB/HIV core group meeting

Newsletter ISSUE 1: February 2006
ZAMSTAR launch, MIM 2005 and directorship of TARGETS