Publications by authors named "I M Baird"
Article Synopsis
- * ROR dams can displace communities, disrupt livelihoods, harm aquatic ecosystems, contribute greenhouse gas emissions, and alter downstream water flow, with impacts varying by location and project size.
- * The problematic labeling of impactful dams as low-impact ROR projects can mislead the public, as the vague definition of ROR allows proponents to downplay adverse effects, undermining efforts to address climate change within frameworks like the Clean Development Mechanism.
Background: Congenital toxoplasmosis is a treatable, preventable disease, but untreated causes death, prematurity, loss of sight, cognition and motor function, and substantial costs worldwide.
Objectives: We asked whether high performance of an Immunochromatographic-test (ICT) could enable accurate, rapid diagnosis/treatment, establishing new, improved care-paradigms at point-of-care and clinical laboratory.
Methods: Data were obtained in 12 studies/analyses addressing: 1-feasibility/efficacy; 2-false-positives; 3-acceptability; 4-pink/black-line/all studies; 5-time/cost; 6-Quick-Information/Limit-of-detection; 7, 8-acute;-chronic; 9-epidemiology; 10-ADBio; 11,12-Commentary/Cases/Chronology.
Background: Congenital toxoplasmosis is a treatable, preventable disease, but untreated causes death, prematurity, loss of sight, cognition and motor function, and substantial costs worldwide.
Methods/findings: In our ongoing USA feasibility/efficacy clinical trial, data collated with other ongoing and earlier published results proved high performance of an Immunochromatographic-test(ICT) that enables accurate, rapid diagnosis/treatment, establishing new paradigms for care. Overall results from patient blood and/or serum samples tested with ICT compared with gold-standard-predicate-test results found ICT performance for 4606 sera/1876 blood, 99.
Background: A new point of care test (POC) was developed that is promising as a tool to enhance impact of prenatal care programs for toxoplasmosis, however, no reports exist about its use or acceptability for healthcare personnel and mothers in Colombia.
Methods: This was a translational research - phase III study of the acceptability of a new POC test (Toxoplasma ICT IgG-IgM, LDBio) for qualitative diagnosis of toxoplasmosis in 783 pregnant women and 30 health personnel in primary health care sites in the city of Armenia, Quindío (Colombia). Along with collection of the results of diagnostic POC and confirmatory test and demographic information, we evaluated acceptability through measure of the willingness, credibility, and satisfaction by using questionnaires with a Likert scale during routine prenatal care visits.