• Identifying opportunities to engage communities with social mobilisation activities to tackle NCDs in El Salvador in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic 

  Caperon, Lizzie; Arakelyan, Stella; Innocenti, Cinzia; Ager, Alastair (BMC, 2021-10-09)

  Background: Social mobilisation is potentially a key tool in the prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in fragile settings. This formative study addressed existing and potential social mobilisation mechanisms ...

• Localisation in the context of UK government engagement with the humanitarian reform agenda 

  Goodwin, Ellen; Ager, Alastair (Frontiers, 2021-09-17)

  Localisation is a key element of the humanitarian reform agenda. However, there are continuing debates regarding its form and emphasis, linked to understandings of the local, the role of the state and the implications for ...

• The role of trust in health-seeking for non-communicable disease services in fragile contexts: A cross-country comparative study 

  Arakelyan, Stella; Jailobaeva, Kanykey; Dakessian, Arek; Diaconu, Karin; Caperon, Lizzie; Strang, Alison; Bou-Orm, Ibrahim R.; Witter, Sophie; Ager, Alastair (Elsevier, 2021)

  Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) disproportionately affect people living in fragile contexts marked by poor governance and health systems struggling to deliver quality services for the benefit of all. This combination can ...

• Modelling the effect of infection prevention and control measures on rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission to clinic attendees in primary health clinics in South Africa 

  McCreesh, Nicky; Karat, Aaron S.; Baisley, Kathy; Diaconu, Karin; Bozzani, Fiammetta; Govender, Indira; Beckwith, Peter; Yates, Tom A.; Deol, Arminder K.; Houben, Rein M. G. J.; Kielmann, Karina; White, Richard G.; Grant, Alison D. (BMJ, 2021)

  Background Elevated rates of tuberculosis in health care workers demonstrate the high rate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission in health facilities in high burden settings. In the context of a project taking ...

• Developing stakeholder participation to address lack of safe water as a community health concern in a rural province in South Africa 

  Hove, Jennifer; D’Ambruoso, Lucia; Twine, Rhian; Mabetha, Denny; van der Merwe, Maria; Mtungwa, Ishmael; Khoza, Sonto; Kahn, Kathleen; Witter, Sophie (Taylor & Francis, 2021-09-20)

  Background Despite legislative and policy commitments to participatory water governance in South Africa, and some remarkable achievements, there has been limited progress to improve the water infrastructure servicing in ...

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