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Fred Binka

Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Verified email at uhas.edu.gh
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[HTML][HTML] A research agenda to underpin malaria eradication

PL Alonso, G Brown, M Arevalo-Herrera, F Binka… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The interruption of malaria transmission worldwide is one of the greatest challenges for
international health and development communities. The current expert view suggests that …

Malaria: current status of control, diagnosis, treatment, and a proposed agenda for research and development

PJ Guerin, P Olliaro, F Nosten, P Druilhe… - The Lancet infectious …, 2002 - thelancet.com
Rolling back malaria is possible. Tools are available but they are not used. Several
countries deploy, as their national malaria control treatment policy, drugs that are no longer …

Malaria eradication within a generation: ambitious, achievable, and necessary

RGA Feachem, I Chen, O Akbari, A Bertozzi-Villa… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive summary 50 years after a noble but flawed attempt to eradicate malaria in the mid-
20th century, the global malaria community is once again seriously considering eradication …

Efficacy of pentavalent rotavirus vaccine against severe rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants in developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a randomised, double-blind …

GE Armah, SO Sow, RF Breiman, MJ Dallas, MD Tapia… - The Lancet, 2010 - thelancet.com
Background Rotavirus gastroenteritis causes many deaths in infants in sub-Saharan Africa.
Because rotavirus vaccines have proven effective in developed countries but had not been …

Impact of permethrin impregnated bednets on child mortality in Kassena‐Nankana district, Ghana: a randomized controlled trial

FN Binka, A Kubaje, M Adjuik… - Tropical Medicine & …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
A community‐based randomized, controlled trial of permethrin impregnated bednets was
carried out in a rural area of northern Ghana, between July 1993 and June 1995, to assess …

The impact of the Navrongo Project on contraceptive knowledge and use, reproductive preferences, and fertility

C Debpuur, JF Phillips, EF Jackson… - Studies in family …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The Navrongo Community Health and Family Planning Project is a quasi‐experimental
study designed to test the hypothesis that introducing health and family planning services in …

Ageing and adult health status in eight lower-income countries: the INDEPTH WHO-SAGE collaboration

P Kowal, K Kahn, N Ng, N Naidoo, S Abdullah… - Global health …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Globally, ageing impacts all countries, with a majority of older persons residing
in lower-and middle-income countries now and into the future. An understanding of the …

The Navrongo community health and family planning project

FN Binka, A Nazzar, JF Phillips - Studies in family planning, 1995 - JSTOR
In 1994, an experiment was launched by the Navrongo Health Research Centre that will test
the demographic impact of community health and family planning services in a rural …

Profile of the Navrongo health and demographic surveillance system

AR Oduro, G Wak, D Azongo, C Debpuur… - International journal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Located in the Kassena-Nankana districts of northern Ghana, the Navrongo health
and demographic surveillance system (NHDSS) was established in 1992 by the Navrongo …

[PDF][PDF] Cause-specific mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh

M Adjuik, T Smith, S Clark, J Todd… - Bulletin of the World …, 2006 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To provide internationally comparable data on the frequencies of different
causes of death. METHODS: We analysed verbal autopsies obtained during 1999-2002 …