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  1. Can sugar taxes be used for financing surgical systems in Nigeria? A mixed-methods political economy analysis
  2. Understanding evidence ecosystems: What influences the production, translation, and use of modeled evidence in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, India, and Kenya?
  3. Examining multiple funding flows to public healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries — results from case studies in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Tunisia and Vietnam
  4. The nature, drivers and equity consequences of informal payments for maternal and child health care in primary health centres in Enugu, Nigeria
  5. Addressing security threats affecting primary healthcare service delivery and uptake in Nigeria
  6. An assessment of Nigeria’s health systems response to COVID-19
  7. The gendered drivers of absenteeism in the Nigerian health system
  8. Can Strategic Health Purchasing Reduce Inefficiency and Corruption in the Health Sector? The Case of Nigeria
  9. Strategic Health Purchasing in Nigeria: Investigating Governance and Institutional Capacities within Federal Tax-Funded Health Schemes and the Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme
  10. Gender differences in informal payments for healthcare: evidence from 34 African countries
  11. Oral health-seeking behavior among different population groups in Enugu Nigeria
  12. Did an Intervention Programme Aimed at Strengthening the Maternal and Child Health Services in Nigeria Improve the Completeness of Routine Health Data Within the Health Management Information System?
  13. Analysis of cost burden of obstetric care among human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) positive women in Enugu metropolis, South-East Nigeria
  14. Where Do We Start? Building Consensus on Drivers of Health Sector Corruption in Nigeria and Ways to Address It
  15. Crowdfunding: An Alternative to Funding Women Entrepreneurs
  16. Governance of tuberculosis control programme in Nigeria
  17. Improving patient flows: A case study of a tertiary hospital radiology department
  18. The economic burden of malaria in pregnancy: a cross-sectional study
  19. The community is just a small circle: citizen participation in the free maternal and child healthcare programme of Enugu State, Nigeria
  20. Implementation of free maternal and child healthcare policies: assessment of influence of context and institutional capacity of health facilities in South-east Nigeria
  21. Investigating socio-economic inequity in access to and expenditures on routine immunization services in Anambra state
  22. Acceptability and willingness to pay for telemedicine services in Enugu state, southeast Nigeria
  23. What Is the Economic Burden of Subsidized HIV/AIDS Treatment Services on Patients in Nigeria and Is This Burden Catastrophic to Households?
  24. The challenge of bridging the gap between researchers and policy makers: experiences of a Health Policy Research Group in engaging policy makers to support evidence informed policy making in Nigeria
  25. Political economy of decentralising HIV and AIDS treatment services to primary healthcare facilities in three Nigerian states
  26. Determining the disability adjusted life years lost to childhood and adolescence epilepsy in southeast Nigeria: An exploratory study
  27. The effect of increasing the supply of skilled health providers on pregnancy and birth outcomes: evidence from the midwives service scheme in Nigeria
  28. Persistent barriers to care; a qualitative study to understand women’s experiences in areas served by the midwives service scheme in Nigeria
  29. Exploring the threshold premium for viable community based health insurance schemes in Nigeria
  30. Integrated prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services, antiretroviral therapy initiation, and maternal and infant retention in care in rural north-central Nigeria: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  31. Analysing key influences over actors’ use of evidence in developing policies and strategies in Nigeria: a retrospective study of the Integrated Maternal Newborn and Child Health strategy
  32. Health policy and systems research and analysis in Nigeria: examining health policymakers’ and researchers’ capacity assets, needs and perspectives in south-east Nigeria
  33. Using Economic Evidence to Set Healthcare Priorities in Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Methodological Frameworks
  34. Socioeconomic inequities and payment coping mechanisms used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Nigeria
  35. Examining geographic and socio-economic differences in outpatient and inpatient consumer expenditures for treating HIV/AIDS in Nigeria
  36. Study protocol: realist evaluation of effectiveness and sustainability of a community health workers programme in improving maternal and child health in Nigeria
  37. Role and use of evidence in policymaking: an analysis of case studies from the health sector in Nigeria
  38. A qualitative study on health workers’ and community members’ perceived sources, role of information and communication on malaria treatment, prevention and control in southeast Nigeria
  39. Investigating client perception and attitude to decentralization of HIV/AIDS treatment services to primary health centres in three Nigerian states
  40. Effectiveness of Provider and Community Interventions to Improve Treatment of Uncomplicated Malaria in Nigeria: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
  41. Quality of Artemisinin-Based Combination Formulations for Malaria Treatment: Prevalence and Risk Factors for Poor Quality Medicines in Public Facilities and Private Sector Drug Outlets in Enugu, Nigeria
  42. Development of oral health policy in Nigeria: an analysis of the role of context, actors and policy process
  43. Investigating Male Tobacco Use and Expenditure Patterns across Socio-Economic Groups in Nigeria
  44. Investigating payment coping mechanisms used for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria to different socio-economic groups in Nigeria.
  45. Quality of care for the treatment for uncomplicated malaria in South-East Nigeria: how important is socioeconomic status?
  46. Health care financing in Nigeria: Implications for achieving universal health coverage
  47. What co-morbidities do people with malaria have and what are their patterns of health seeking in Nigeria?
  48. The Better Obstetrics in Rural Nigeria (BORN) Study: Evaluating the Nigerian Midwives Service Scheme
  49. Economic Evaluation of a Cluster Randomized Trial of Interventions to Improve Health Workers’ Practice in Diagnosing and Treating Uncomplicated Malaria in Cameroon
  50. Management of childhood pain and healthcare providers’ willingness to use topical anaesthetic cream for minor procedural pain in Nigeria
  51. Economic Burden of Heart Failure: Investigating Outpatient and Inpatient Costs in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria
  52. Mind the gap: knowledge and practice of providers treating uncomplicated malaria at public and mission health facilities, pharmacies and drug stores in Cameroon and Nigeria
  53. ECONOMIC COST OF TREATMENT OF CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY IN ENUGU, SOUTHEAST NIGERIA
  54. Key influences over actors’ preferences and use of evidence in policy development: insights from the Nigerian IMNCH strategy
  55. Towards making efficient use of household resources for appropriate prevention of malaria: investigating households’ ownership, use and expenditures on ITNs and other preventive tools in Southeast Nigeria
  56. The long walk to universal health coverage: patterns of inequities in the use of primary healthcare services in Enugu, Southeast Nigeria
  57. Patent Medicine Dealers and Irrational Use of Medicines in Children: The Economic Cost and Implications for Reducing Childhood Mortality in Southeast Nigeria
  58. What determines providers' stated preference for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria?
  59. Caregivers′ willingness-to-pay for a topical anesthetic cream for minor medical procedures in children
  60. Health services utilization and costs of the insured and uninsured under the formal sector social health insurance scheme in Enugu metropolis South East Nigeria
  61. Participation of policy actors in the development of health policies in India and Nigeria and the implications for the role of evidence in policy-making
  62. Sero-prevalence and factors associated with Hepatitis B and C co-infection in pregnant Nigerian women living with HIV Infection
  63. The Economic Burden of Malaria on Households and the Health System in Enugu State Southeast Nigeria
  64. Optimizing PMTCT service delivery in rural North-Central Nigeria: Protocol and design for a cluster randomized study
  65. Willingness to pay and benefit-cost analysis of modern contraceptives in Nigeria
  66. Promoting universal financial protection: constraints and enabling factors in scaling-up coverage with social health insurance in Nigeria
  67. Sputum Smear Concentration May Misidentify Acid-Fast Bacilli As Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in HIV-Infected Patients
  68. Viewing health expenditures, payment and coping mechanisms with an equity lens in Nigeria
  69. How do health workers perceive and practice monitoring and evaluation of malaria control interventions in South-east Nigeria?
  70. Financing incidence analysis of household out-of-pocket spending for healthcare: getting more health for money in Nigeria?
  71. Are modern contraceptives acceptable to people and where do they source them from across Nigeria?
  72. Exploring health providers’ and community perceptions and experiences with malaria tests in South-East Nigeria: a critical step towards appropriate treatment
  73. PMD58 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Leprosy Case Detection Methods in Northern Nigeria
  74. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Three Leprosy Case Detection Methods in Northern Nigeria
  75. Incidence of and socio-biologic risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth in HIV positive Nigerian women
  76. Sub-optimal delivery of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Nigeria: influence of provider factors
  77. Authors' Response to: Alternatives to principal components analysis to derive asset-based indices to measure socio-economic position in low- and middle-income countries: the case for multiple correspondence analysis
  78. Financing and delivery mechanisms for mosquito control tools in Sudan: A Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis.
  79. Examining Inequities in Incidence of Catastrophic Health Expenditures on Different Healthcare Services and Health Facilities in Nigeria
  80. Patterns of case management and chemoprevention for malaria-in-pregnancy by public and private sector health providers in Enugu state, Nigeria
  81. Genetic Determinants of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis among HIV-Infected Patients in Nigeria
  82. A cost-effectiveness analysis of provider and community interventions to improve the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Nigeria: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  83. Examining equity in access to long-lasting insecticide nets and artemisinin-based combination therapy in Anambra state, Nigeria
  84. Low coverage of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy in Nigeria: demand-side influences
  85. Measuring socio-economic position for epidemiological studies in low- and middle-income countries: a methods of measurement in epidemiology paper
  86. Retention and loss to follow-up in antiretroviral treatment programmes in southeast Nigeria
  87. Health Insurance: principles, models and the Nigerian National Health Insurance Scheme
  88. Challenges in actual implementation of health policies: a review of payment exemption in Nigeria.
  89. Socio-economic inequalities in cost of seeking treatment for malaria in south-east Nigeria
  90. Towards Universal Coverage: Examining Costs of Illness, Payment, and Coping Strategies to Different Population Groups in Southeast Nigeria
  91. Increasing access to modern contraceptives: the potential role of community solidarity through altruistic contributions
  92. Are the poor differentially benefiting from provision of priority public health services? A benefit incidence analysis in Nigeria
  93. Pattern and Determinants of Antiretroviral Drug Adherence among Nigerian Pregnant Women
  94. WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR PRIVATE VOLUNTARY HEALTH INSURANCE IN SOUTHEAST NIGERIA
  95. Immunologic Criteria Are Poor Predictors of Virologic Outcome: Implications for HIV Treatment Monitoring in Resource-Limited Settings
  96. Socio-economic and geographic differences in acceptability of community-based health insurance
  97. Examining catastrophic health expenditures at variable thresholds using household consumption expenditure diaries
  98. Do poor people use poor quality providers? Evidence from the treatment of presumptive malaria in Nigeria
  99. Treatment of uncomplicated malaria at public health facilities and medicine retailers in south-eastern Nigeria
  100. Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) for HIV/AIDS: A study of the knowledge, awareness and willingness to pay for VCT among students in tertiary institutions in Enugu State Nigeria
  101. Improving Rational Treatment of Malaria: Perceptions and Influence of RDTs on Prescribing Behaviour of Health Workers in Southeast Nigeria
  102. Constraints to universal coverage: inequities in health service use and expenditures for different health conditions and providers
  103. Impact of HIV Type 1 Subtype on Drug Resistance Mutations in Nigerian Patients Failing First-Line Therapy
  104. Asking people directly about preferred health-seeking behaviour yields invalid response: an experiment in south-east Nigeria
  105. Examining appropriate diagnosis and treatment of malaria
  106. Preferences for benefit packages for community-based health insurance: an exploratory study in Nigeria
  107. Informal payments for healthcare: Differences in expenditures from consumers and providers perspectives for treatment of malaria in Nigeria
  108. Investigating determinants of out-of-pocket spending and strategies for coping with payments for healthcare in southeast Nigeria
  109. Geographic inequities in provision and utilization of malaria treatment services in southeast Nigeria: Diagnosis, providers and drugs
  110. Do consumers' preferences for improved provision of malaria treatment services differ by their socio-economic status and geographic location? A study in southeast Nigeria
  111. Improving quality of malaria treatment services: assessing inequities in consumers' perceptions and providers' behaviour in Nigeria
  112. Willingness to pay for rapid diagnostic tests for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria: ex post and ex ante
  113. Cost-effectiveness analysis of rapid diagnostic test, microscopy and syndromic approach in the diagnosis of malaria in Nigeria: implications for scaling-up deployment of ACT
  114. Are malaria treatment expenditures catastrophic to different socio-economic and geographic groups and how do they cope with payment? A study in southeast Nigeria
  115. Willingness to pay for community-based health insurance in Nigeria: do economic status and place of residence matter?
  116. Inequities in incidence, morbidity and expenditures on prevention and treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria
  117. Is community-based health insurance an equitable strategy for paying for healthcare? Experiences from southeast Nigeria
  118. Examining catastrophic costs and benefit incidence of subsidized antiretroviral treatment (ART) programme in south-east Nigeria
  119. Determinants of non-adherence to subsidized anti-retroviral treatment in southeast Nigeria
  120. Issues in equitable health financing in South Eastern Nigeria: Socio-economic and geographic differences in households' illness expenditures and policy makers' views on the financial protection of the poor
  121. Intimate partner violence and correlates in pregnant HIV positive Nigerians
  122. Quality of anti-malarial drugs provided by public and private healthcare providers in south-east Nigeria
  123. Are there geographic and socio-economic differences in incidence, burden and prevention of malaria? A study in southeast Nigeria
  124. Malaria treatment perceptions, practices and influences on provider behaviour: comparing hospitals and non-hospitals in south-east Nigeria
  125. Integrated management of childhood illness in Nigeria: Does short-term training of health workers improve their performance?
  126. Rural-Urban Differences in Maternal Responses to Childhood Fever in South East Nigeria
  127. Improving equity in malaria treatment: Relationship of socio-economic status with health seeking as well as with perceptions of ease of using the services of different providers for the treatment of malaria in Nigeria
  128. Households' Perceptions and Prioritization of Tropical Endemic Diseases in Nigeria: Implications for Priority Setting for Resource Allocation
  129. Construct Validity of the Bidding Game, Binary with Follow-up, and a Novel Structured Haggling Question Format in Determining Willingness to Pay for Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets
  130. Feasibility of a community health worker strategy for providing near and appropriate treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria: An analysis of activities, costs and outcomes
  131. Consumers stated and revealed preferences for community health workers and other strategies for the provision of timely and appropriate treatment of malaria in southeast Nigeria
  132. Exemption policies and community preferences for tropical endemic diseases in the Bamako initiative programme in Nigeria
  133. Influence of education and knowledge on perceptions and practices to control malaria in Southeast Nigeria
  134. Some indicators of socio-economic status may not be reliable and use of indices with these data could worsen equity
  135. Healthcare reform involving the introduction of user fees and drug revolving funds: influence on health workers’ behavior in southeast Nigeria
  136. The rapid monitoring of ivermectin treatment: will school-based surveys provide the answer?
  137. Socio-economic inequity in demand for insecticide-treated nets, in-door residual house spraying, larviciding and fogging in Sudan
  138. Do malaria preventive interventions reach the poor? Socioeconomic inequities in expenditure on and use of mosquito control tools in Sudan
  139. Issues of measuring and improving the treatment of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
  140. Increasing coverage of insecticide-treated nets in rural Nigeria: implications of consumer knowledge, preferences and expenditures for malaria prevention
  141. Inequities in healthcare seeking in the treatment of communicable endemic diseases in Southeast Nigeria
  142. Where do people from different socio–economic groups receive diagnosis and treatment for presumptive malaria, in south–eastern Nigeria?
  143. Socio-economic and geographic differentials in costs and payment strategies for primary healthcare services in Southeast Nigeria
  144. Do divergences between stated and actual willingness to pay signify the existence of bias in contingent valuation surveys?
  145. Inter-rater and test-retest reliability of three contingent valuation question formats in south-east Nigeria
  146. Community satisfaction with the quality of maternal and child health services in Southeast Nigeria
  147. Is combination therapy for malaria based on user-fees worthwhile and equitable to consumers?
  148. How do health workers and community members perceive and practice community participation in the Bamako Initiative programme in Nigeria? A case study of Oji River local government area
  149. Socio-economic differences and health seeking behaviour for the diagnosis and treatment of malaria: a case study of four local government areas operating the Bamako initiative programme in south-east Nigeria
  150. Stated and actual altruistic willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets in Nigeria: validity of open-ended and binary with follow-up questions
  151. Valuing the benefits of a health intervention using three different approaches to contingent valuation: re-treatment of mosquito bed-nets in Nigeria
  152. Criterion and content validity of a novel structured haggling contingent valuation question format versus the bidding game and binary with follow-up format
  153. Inequity in the Bamako Initiative programme?implications for the treatment of malaria in south-east Nigeria
  154. Who buys insecticide-treated nets? Implications for increasing coverage in Nigeria
  155. Investigating starting-point bias: a survey of willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets
  156. Community-directed treatment with ivermectin in two Nigerian communities: an analysis of first year start-up processes, costs and consequences
  157. Altruistic willingness to pay in community-based sales of insecticide-treated nets exists in Nigeria
  158. Onchocerciasis control in Nigeria: will households be able to afford community-directed treatment with ivermectin?
  159. Hypothetical and actual willingness to pay for insecticide-treated nets in five Nigerian communities
  160. Health insurance and health services utilization in Ireland
  161. Letters to the Editors
  162. Searching for a better willingness to pay elicitation method in rural Nigeria: the binary question with follow-up method versus the bidding game technique
  163. Economic burden of malaria illness on households versus that of all other illness episodes: a study in five malaria holo-endemic Nigerian communities
  164. How do rural households perceive and prioritise malaria and mosquito nets? A study in five communities of Nigeria
  165. How do rural households perceive and prioritise malaria and mosquito nets? A study in five communities of Nigeria
  166. Do alcoholic beverages enhance availability of ivermectin?
  167. Willingness to pay for the retreatment of mosquito nets with insecticide in four communities of south-eastern Nigeria
  168. Community Financing of Local Ivermectin Distribution in Nigeria: Potential Payment and Cost-Recovery Outlook
  169. A health club for a community school in south-eastern Nigeria: influence on adult perception of onchocerciasis and compliance with community-based ivermectin therapy
  170. Treatment with ivermectin: what works in one community may not work in another
  171. Are insecticide-treated nets affordable? Relating costs of two sizes of nets and net re-treatment with basic household expenditures
  172. Health education to school children in Okpatu, Nigeria
  173. Health education to school children in Okpatu, Nigeria impact on onchocerciasis—related knowledge
  174. Willingness to pay for the maintenance of equity in a local ivermectin distribution scheme in Toro, Northern Nigeria
  175. Willingness to pay for the maintenance of equity in a local ivermectin distribution scheme in Toro, Northern Nigeria
  176. Willingness to pay for community‐based ivermectin distribution: A study of three onchocerciasis‐endemic communities in Nigeria
  177. Willingness to Pay
  178. Treatment-Seeking Practices and the Willingness to Pay for Antiretroviral treatment of HIV-Positive Patients in Southeast Nigeria