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  • Amazonian malaria: Asymptomatic human reservoirs, diagnostic challenges, environmentally driven changes in mosquito vector populations, and the mandate for sustainable control strategies 
    da Silva-Nunes, M.; Moreno, M.; Conn, J.E.; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Abeles, S.; Vinetz, Joseph Michael; Ferreira, M.U. (Elsevier, 2012)
    Across the Americas and the Caribbean, nearly 561,000 slide-confirmed malaria infections were reported officially in 2008. The nine Amazonian countries accounted for 89% of these infections; Brazil and Peru alone contributed ...
  • Behaviour change strategies for reducing blood pressure-related disease burden: findings from a global implementation research programme 
    Peiris, David; Thompson, Simon R.; Beratarrechea, Andrea; Cárdenas García-Santillán, María Kathia; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Goudge, Jane; Gyamfi, Joyce; Kamano, Jemima Hoine; Irazola, Vilma; Johnson, Claire; Kengne, Andre P.; Keat, Ng Kien; Miranda, J. Jaime; Mohan, Sailesh; Mukasa, Barbara; Ng, Eleanor; Nieuwlaat, Robby; Ogedegbe, Olugbenga; Ovbiagele, Bruce; Plange-Rhule, Jacob; Praveen, Devarsetty; Salam, Abdul; Thorogood, Margaret; Thrift, Amanda G.; Vedanthan, Rajesh; Waddy, Salina P.; Webster, Jacqui; Webster, Ruth; Yeates, Karen; Yusoff, Khalid (Springer, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases comprises the majority of the world's public research funding agencies. It is focussed on implementation research to tackle the burden of chronic diseases in low- and ...
  • Countdown to 2015 country case studies: systematic tools to address the "black box" of health systems and policy assessment 
    Singh, Neha-S.; Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Afnan-Holmes, Hoviyeh; John, Theopista; Moran, Allisyn-C.; Colbourn, Tim; Grundy, Chris; Matthews, Zoe; Maliqi, Blerta; Mathai, Matthews; Daelmans, Bernadette; Requejo, Jennifer; Lawn, Joy-E. (BioMed Central, 2016)
    BACKGROUND: Evaluating health systems and policy (HSP) change and implementation is critical in understanding reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) progress within and across countries. Whilst data for ...
  • A critical analysis of Peru's HIV grant proposals to the Global Fund 
    Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando; Amaya, Ana B.; Sandoval Figueroa, Clara Zoraida; Valverde, Rocío (Taylor and Francis, 2013)
    Peru has applied to six of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) rounds for funding, achieving success on four occasions. The process of proposal development has, however, been criticised, ...
  • The current state of play of research on the social, political and legal dimensions of HIV 
    Paiva, V.; Ferguson, L.; Aggleton, P.; Mane, P.; Kelly-Hanku, A.; Giang, L.M.; Barbosa, R.M.; Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando; Parker, R. (Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, 2015)
    This paper offers a critical overview of social science research presented at the 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. In an era of major biomedical advance, the political nature of HIV remains of ...
  • The economic effects of supporting tuberculosis-affected households in Peru 
    Wingfield, Tom; Tovar, Marco A.; Huff, Doug; Boccia, Delia; Montoya, Rosario; Ramos, Eric; Lewis, James J.; Gilman, Robert Hugh; Evans, Carlton Anthony William (European Respiratory Society, 2016)
    The End TB Strategy mandates that no tuberculosis (TB)-affected households face catastrophic costs due to TB. However, evidence is limited to evaluate socioeconomic support to achieve this change in policy and practice. ...
  • Equitable recovery from COVID-19: bring global commitments to community level 
    Loewenson, Rene; D'Ambruoso, Lucia; Duc, Duong Minh; Hjermann, Reidar; Lichuma, Winfred; Mason, Elizabeth; Nixon, Elizabeth; Rudolph, Norma; Villar, Eugenio (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
    One after the other, high-level speakers at the 2020 United Nations General Assembly (UNGASS) on COVID-19 pointed to growing inequalities and stresses to health, social, economic and democratic systems caused by the pandemic, ...
  • Factors behind the success story of under-five stunting in Peru: a district ecological multilevel analysis 
    Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Huayanay Espinoza, Carlos Andrés; Herrera-Perez, Eder; Segura, Eddy R.; Nino de Guzman, Jessica; Rivera Chira, Maria Concepcion; Barros, Aluisio J. D. (BioMed Central, 2017)
    BACKGROUND: Stunting prevalence in children less than 5 years has remained stagnated in Peru from 1992 to 2007, with a rapid reduction thereafter. We aimed to assess the role of different predictors on stunting reduction ...
  • Global prevention and control of NCDs: Limitations of the standard approach 
    Pearce, Neil; Ebrahim, Shah; McKee, Martin; Lamptey, Peter; Barreto, Mauricio L.; Matheson, Don; Walls, Helen; Foliaki, Sunia; Miranda, J. Jaime; Chimeddamba, Oyun; Garcia-Marcos, Luis; Haines, Andy; Vineis, Paolo (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
    The five-target '25 x 25' strategy for tackling the emerging global epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) focuses on four diseases (CVD, diabetes, cancer, and chronic respiratory disease), four risk factors (tobacco, ...
  • Health effects of 'Juntos', a conditional cash transfer programme in Peru 
    Perez-Lu, Jose E.; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Nandi, Arijit; Kaufman, Jay S. (Wiley, 2016)
    In some countries, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes show an impact on maternal and child health. Juntos, the CCT programme in Peru, has been evaluated several times operationally, but seldom for maternal and child ...
  • Health systems research for policy change: lessons from the implementation of rapid assessment protocols for diabetes in low- and middle-income settings 
    Beran, David; Miranda, J. Jaime; Cárdenas García-Santillán, María Kathia; Bigdeli, Maryam (BioMed Central, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: As many challenges exist for access to diabetes care in developing countries, the International Insulin Foundation developed a Rapid Assessment tool and implemented this approach to identify barriers to care ...
  • The history of 20th century malaria control in Peru 
    Griffing, Sean M.; Gamboa Vilela, Dionicia Baziliza; Udhayakumar, Venkatachalam (BioMed Central, 2013)
    Malaria has been part of Peruvian life since at least the 1500s. While Peru gave the world quinine, one of the first treatments for malaria, its history is pockmarked with endemic malaria and occasional epidemics. In this ...
  • Implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis for human immunodeficiency virus infection: progress and emerging issues in research and policy 
    Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando; Borquez, Annick; Klausner, Jeffrey-D.; Baggaley, Rachel; Beyrer, Chris (Wiley, 2016)
    BACKGROUND: In this article, we present recent evidence from studies focused on the implementation, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV infection; discuss PrEP scale-up to date, ...
  • Influence of health rights discourses and community organizing on equitable access to health: the case of HIV, tuberculosis and cancer in Peru 
    Sandoval Figueroa, Clara Zoraida; Caceres Palacios, Carlos Fernando (BioMed Central, 2013)
    Background: The right to health is recognized as a fundamental human right. Social participation is implied in the fulfillment of health rights since Alma Ata posited its relevance for successful health programs, although ...
  • Motivating provision of high quality care: it is not all about the money. 
    Lagarde, Mylene; Huicho Oriundo, Luis; Papanicolas, Irene (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)
    Mylène Lagarde, Luis Huicho, and Irene Papanicolas discuss different strategies policy makers can use to motivate health providers in order to improve quality of care. The inclusion of universal health coverage as a target ...
  • Peruvian Mental Health Reform: A Framework for Scaling-up Mental Health Services 
    Toyama, Mauricio; Castillo Martell, Walter Humberto; Galea, Jerome T.; Brandt, Lena R.; Mendoza, María; Herrera, Vanessa; Mitrani, Martha; Cutipé, Yuri; Cavero, Victoria; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Miranda, J. Jaime (Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2017)
    BACKGROUND: Mental, neurological, and substance (MNS) use disorders are a leading cause of disability worldwide; specifically in Peru, MNS affect 1 in 5 persons. However, the great majority of people suffering from these ...
  • A picture is worth a thousand words: maps of HIV indicators to inform research, programs, and policy from NA-ACCORD and CCASAnet clinical cohorts 
    Althoff, Keri-N.; Rebeiro, Peter-F.; Hanna, David-B.; Padgett, Denis; Horberg, Michael-A.; Grinsztejn, Beatriz; Abraham, Alison-G.; Hogg, Robert; Gill, M. John; Wolff, Marcelo-J.; Mayor, Angel; Rachlis, Anita; Williams, Carolyn; Sterling, Timothy-R.; Kitahata, Mari-M.; Buchacz, Kate; Thorne, Jennifer-E.; Cesar, Carina; Cordero, Fernando-M.; Rourke, Sean-B.; Sierra-Madero, Juan; Pape, Jean-W.; Cahn, Pedro; McGowan, Catherine (Wiley, 2016)
    INTRODUCTION: Maps are powerful tools for visualization of differences in health indicators by geographical region, but multi-country maps of HIV indicators do not exist, perhaps due to lack of consistent data across ...
  • Point-of-care tests to strengthen health systems and save newborn lives: The case of syphilis 
    Mabey, D.C.; Sollis, K.A.; Kelly, H.A.; Benzaken, A.S.; Bitarakwate, E.; Changalucha, J.; Chen, X.-S.; Yin, Y.-P.; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Strasser, S.; Chintu, N.; Pang, T.; Terris-Prestholt, F.; Sweeney, S.; Peeling, R.W. (Public Library of Science, 2012)
    Poor rural populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to diagnostic laboratories. Until recently, this has meant that they could not be screened for asymptomatic infections such as HIV or ...
  • Rethinking research processes to strengthen co-production in low and middle income countries 
    Beran, David; Pesantes Villa, María Amalia; Berghusen, Maria Claudia; Hennig, Branwen J.; Jacobi, Johanna; Lazo Porras, María de los Ángeles; Llanque, Aymara; Placella, Enrichetta; Robledo-Abad, Carmenza; Bayona, Marta Tufet; Miranda, J. Jaime (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
    Co-production needs to become an integral part of the training and funding of researchers to ensure research meets everyone’s needs, argue David Beran and colleagues...
  • Stated Preferences of Doctors for Choosing a Job in Rural Areas of Peru: A Discrete Choice Experiment 
    Miranda, J. Jaime; Diez-Canseco Montero, Francisco; Lema, C.; Lescano Guevara, Andres Guillermo; Lagarde, M.; Blaauw, D.; Huicho Oriundo, Luis (Public Library of Science, 2012)
    Background: Doctors' scarcity in rural areas remains a serious problem in Latin America and Peru. Few studies have explored job preferences of doctors working in underserved areas. We aimed to investigate doctors' stated ...

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