Podcasts

The accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for detecting typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever
Wijedoru L, Mallett S, Parry CM

Podcast published 23 October 2017

 

Integrated management of childhood illness (IMCI) strategy for children younger than five years of age
Gera T, Shah D, Garner P, Richardson M, Sachdev HS

Podcast published 20 April 2017

 

School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents
Mason-Jones AJ, Sinclair D, Mathews C, Kagee A, Hillman A, Lombard C

Podcast published March 2017

 

Public stewardship of private for-profit healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries
Wiysonge CS, Abdullahi LH, Ndze VN, Hussey GD

Podcast published August 2016

 

 

BMJ talk medicine: Stopping the overtreatment of malaria

Rapid diagnostic tests have the potential to reduce the overtreatment of malaria by 95%, but time and extensive logistical, behavioural, and technical interventions may be required to achieve this. Eleanor Ochodo from the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care at Stellenbosch University discusses.

Read the full BMJ article: Ochodo E, Garner P, Sinclair D (2016) Achieving universal testing for malaria BMJ 352:i107

Published 04 February 2016

 

Directly observed therapy for treating tuberculosis
Jamlick K, Garner P

Published 23 July 2015

 

Intermittent preventive antimalarial treatment for children with anaemia

Anke Rohwer, based at the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, describes the rationale and findings in this Evidence Podcast.

Published 13 January 2015

 


LSTM Podcast March 2014

Professor Paul Garner discusses his work as CIDG Coordinating Editor.

 

Drugs for treating urinary schistosomiasis
Kramer CV, Zhang F, Sinclair D, Olliaro P

Published 6 August 2014

 

Xpert® MTB/RIF test for diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults
Steingart KR, Schiller I, Horne DJ, Pai M, Boehme CC, Dendukuri N

Published 21 January 2014

 

Deworming drugs for treating soil-transmitted intestinal worms in children: effects on nutrition and school performance
Taylor-Robinson DC, Maayan N, Soares-Weiser K, Donegan S, Garner P

Published 14 November 2012

 

Vaccines for preventing rotavirus diarrhoea: vaccines in use
Soares-Weiser K, MacLehose H, Bergman H, Ben-Aharon I, Nagpal S, Goldberg E, Pitan F, Cunliffe N

Published 14 November 2012

 

Strategies to encourage hand washing can reduce the incidence of diarrhoea by about one third
Ejemot-Nwadiaro RI, Ehiri JE, Meremikwu MM, Critchley JA

Published 15 February 2012

 

Rapid diagnostic tests for diagnosing malaria
Abba K, Deeks JJ, Olliaro PL, Naing C-M, Jackson SM, Takwoingi Y, Donegan S, Garner P

Published 18 January 2012

 

Probiotics for treating acute infectious diarrhoea
Allen SJ, Martinez EG, Gregorio GV, Dans LF

Published 8 December 2010

 

Drugs for preventing malaria in travellers
Jacquerioz FA, Croft AM

Published 7 July 2010