Browsing by Person "Duric, Predrag"
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Addressing challenges in tuberculosis adherence via performance-based payments for integrated case management: Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Georgia
Chikovani, Ivdity; Diaconu, Karin; Duric, Predrag; Sulaberidze, Lela; Uchaneishvili, Maia; Mohammed, Nuredin Ibrahim; Zoidze, Akaki; Witter, Sophie (BMC, 2019-08-28)Background: Tuberculosis is one of the greatest global health concerns and disease management is challenging particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Despite improvements in addressing this epidemic in Georgia, ... -
Addressing challenges in tuberculosis adherence via performance-based payments for integrated case management: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial in Georgia.
Chikovani, Ivdity; Diaconu, Karin; Duric, Predrag; Sulaberidze, Lela; orcid: 0000-0003-3388-8731; email: l.sulaberidze@curatio.com; Uchaneishvili, Maia; Mohammed, Nuredin Ibrahim; Zoidze, Akaki; Witter, Sophie (2019-08-28)BACKGROUND:Tuberculosis is one of the greatest global health concerns and disease management is challenging particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Despite improvements in addressing this epidemic in Georgia, ... -
Delivery of integrated infectious disease control services under the new antenatal care guidelines: a service availability and readiness assessment of health facilities in Tanzania.
Odjidja, Emmanuel Nene; orcid: 0000-0003-3502-5120; email: emmaodjidja@gmail.com; Gatasi, Ghislaine; Duric, Predrag (2019-03-11)Tanzania remains among the countries with the highest burden of infectious diseases (notably HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis) during pregnancy. In response, the country adopted World Health Organization's (WHO) latest antenatal ... -
Delivery of integrated infectious disease control services under the new antenatal care guidelines: a service availability and readiness assessment of health facilities in Tanzania.
Odjidja, Emmanuel Nene; orcid: 0000-0003-3502-5120; email: emmaodjidja@gmail.com; Gatasi, Ghislaine; Duric, Predrag (2019-03-11)BACKGROUND:Tanzania remains among the countries with the highest burden of infectious diseases (notably HIV, Malaria and Tuberculosis) during pregnancy. In response, the country adopted World Health Organization's (WHO) ... -
Validity of hepatitis B and hepatitis C case definitions
Dakic, Zoran; Duric, Predrag; Fabri, Milotka; O'May, Fiona (Elsevier, 2019-02-13)Background: Globally, an estimated 257 million people are living with chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection and an estimated 71 million people with the chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). The true public health dimensions and ... -
A prospective cohort study on injuries among intensively physically active high school students
Krtinic, Gordana; Duric, Predrag (Wiley, 2018-12-02)BACKGROUND - The leading cause of nonfatal injuries in age group 14‐19 is sports injuries. Purpose of the study was to determine the association between intense physical activity and injury and to identify the circumstances ... -
Seasonal influenza vaccination coverage: EHIS survey results versus OECD statistics
Blazinska, Lucia; Duric, Predrag; Rusnák, Martin; O'May, Fiona (The Publishing House of Poloniyna Academy, 2018-10-29)Seasonal influenza vaccination is one of the most important tools of prevention. Countries currently use many different methodologies to measure national influenza vaccine coverage in populations at higher risk. The study ... -
"Treatment is of primary importance, and social assistance is secondary": A qualitative study on the organisation of tuberculosis (TB) care and patients' experience of starting and staying on TB treatment in Riga, Latvia
Kielmann, Karina; Vidal, Nicole L.; Riekstina, Vija; Krutikov, Maria; van der Werf, Marieke J.; Biraua, Evita; Duric, Predrag; Moore, David A. J. (Public Library of Science, 2018-10-17)Background Vulnerable individuals with tuberculosis (TB) struggle to access and stay on treatment. While patient-related and social barriers to TB treatment adherence are well documented, less is known about how the ... -
General practitioners' views towards diagnosing and treating depression in five South-Eastern European countries
Duric, Predrag; Harhaji, Sanja; O'May, Fiona; Boderscova, Larisa; Chihai, Jana; Como, Ariel; Hranov, Georgi L.; Mihai, Adriana; Sotiri, Eugjen (Wiley, 2018-10-02)Aim: To assess and compare general practitioners’ views of diagnosing and treating depression in five South Eastern European countries. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Albania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania ... -
Informal work-related injuries: a one year prospective study in a rural community in Serbia
Duric, Predrag; Diaconu, Karin; O'May, Fiona; Rybovic, Jan; Stevenson, Mark (Informa UK Limited, 2018-02-20)Work-related injuries occurring during informal work often go unreported, yet lead to significant mortality and contribute substantially to disease burden due to injury-related disability. In Serbia, injury is a leading ... -
Hepatitis B Outbreak Among Men Who Have Sex with Men in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia
Duric, Predrag; Rajcevic, Smiljana; Ilic, Svetlana; Milosevic, Vesna; Hintringer, Katharina; Fabri, Milotka; Ruzic, Maja; Petrovic, Vladimir; Petrovic, Mladen; Dragovac, Gorana; Radosavljevic, Biljana; Lazarevic, Ivana; Stanojevic, Maja; Rusnak, Martin (Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2018-01-01)The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reported that there were 2896 acute hepatitis B cases in 24 EU/EEA countries in 2013.1 The incidence ranged from 0.1 cases per 100,000 in France and Portugal to 4.3 ... -
Evaluation of demand and supply predictors of uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Malawi
Odjidja, Emmanuel Nene; Duric, Predrag (MalariaWorld, 2017-12-08)Background. The intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) policy of Malawi (2002) stipulates that IPTp is administered during antenatal care as a direct observation therapy (DOT). The policy further recommends that IPT ... -
Blood donors' awareness and attitudes towards blood transfusion safety in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, Serbia
Bogdanovi, S.; Duric, Predrag; Jovanovi, R.; Bogdanovi, J. (Wiley, 2017-08-01)Objectives To assess the awareness and attitudes related to blood transfusion safety among blood donors from the Autonomous Province (AP) Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia. Background Blood donors are at the initial ... -
Kazakhstan can achieve ambitious HIV targets despite expected donor withdrawal by combining improved ART procurement mechanisms with allocative and implementation efficiencies
Shattock, Andrew J.; Benedikt, Clemens; Bokazhanova, Aliya; Duric, Predrag; Petrenko, Irina; Ganina, Lolita; Kelly, Sherrie L.; Stuart, Robyn M.; Kerr, Cliff C.; Vinichenko, Tatiana; Zhang, Shufang; Hamelmann, Christoph; Manova, Manoela; Masaki, Emiko; Wilson, David P.; Gray, Richard T. (PLoS, 2017-02-16)Background Despite a non-decreasing HIV epidemic, international donors are soon expected to withdraw funding from Kazakhstan. Here we analyze how allocative, implementation, and technical efficiencies could strengthen the ... -
Towards domestic financing of national HIV responses lessons learnt from Serbia
Duric, Predrag; Simic, D.; Hamelmann, C. (UNDPUNDP, 2016-06)This report highlights the efforts of Serbia to continue funding and implementation of the national HIV response which had been significantly supported by the GF from 2003 to 2014 and resulted in an intensified communication ... -
NGO social contracting fact sheet Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abdullaev, T.; Duric, Predrag; Konstantinov, B.; Hamelmann, C. (UNDPUNDP, 2016)HIV epidemology in brief Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has a low level HIV epidemic, with 209 officially registered people living with HIV in 2014, 114 of them were receiving antiretroviral therapy (coverage 54%) -
NGO social contracting fact sheet fYR Macedonia
Abdullaev, T.; Duric, Predrag; Konstantinov, B.; Hamelmann, C. (UNDPUNDP, 2016)HIV epidemiology in brief The former Yugoslav Republic (fYR) of Macedonia has a low level HIV epidemic, with 161 people living with HIV officially registered and 96 of them receiving antiretroviral therapy (coverage 60%) in 2014. -
NGO social contracting fact sheet Tajikistan
Abdullaev, T.; Duric, Predrag; Konstantinov, B.; Hamelmann, C. (UNDPUNDP, 2016)HIV epidemiology in brief Tajikistan has a concentrated HIV epidemic, with 5,242 people living with HIV officially registered (33% of the estimated number), and 2,167 of them receiving antiretroviral therapy (coverage 14% ... -
Effects on quality of communicable diseases notification achieved by provision of access to the EU case definitions for primary care physicians in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jakubcova, D.; Rusnak, M.; Rusnakova, V.; Duric, Predrag (Fundacja na rzecz promocji nauki i rozwoju TYGIEL, 2016)Introduction: The Public Health Reform II project was implemented in Bosnia and Herzegovina from December 2011 till December 2013 and funded by European Union. Principal aim of the project was to strengthen public health ... -
NGO social contracting fact sheet Serbia
Abdullaev, T.; Duric, Predrag; Konstantinov, B.; Hamelmann, C. (UNDPUNDP, 2016)HIV epidemiology in brief Serbia has a concentrated HIV epidemic, with 1,956 people living with HIV officially registered (65% of the estimated number) and 1,300 of them receiving antiretroviral therapy (coverage 43% of ...