Publications
| Date | Jul 9, 2014 |
| Author | Lammers, Judith, van Wijnbergen, Sweder JG, Willebrands, Daan |
| Title | Condom use, risk perception, and HIV knowledge: a comparison across sexes in Nigeria |
| Publication | |
| Summary | HIV/AIDS - Research and Palliative Care |
| Date | Mar 28, 2014 |
| Author | Marleen E. Hendriks, Piyali Kundu, Alexander C. Boers, Oladimeji A. Bolarinwa, Mark J. te Pas, Tanimola M. Akande, Kayode Agbede, Gabriella B. Gomez, William K. Redekop, Constance Schultsz and Siok Swan Tan |
| Title | Step-by-step guideline for disease-specific costing studies in low- and middle-income countries: a mixed methodology |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Global Health Action |
| Date | Mar 1, 2014 |
| Author | Nelissen HE, Hendriks ME, Wit FW, Bolarinwa OA, Osagbemi GK, Bindraban NR, Lange JM, Akande TM, Schultsz C, Brewster LM |
| Title | Target organ damage among hypertensive adults in rural Nigeria: a cross-sectional study |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Journal of Hypertension |
| Date | Feb 17, 2014 |
| Author | Marleen E. Hendriks; Ferdinand W. N. M. Wit; Tanimola M. Akande; Berber Kramer; Gordon K. Osagbemi; Zlata Tanović; Emily Gustafsson-Wright; Lizzy M. Brewster; Joep M. A. Lange; Constance Schultsz |
| Title | Effect of Health Insurance and Facility Quality Improvement on Blood Pressure in Adults With Hypertension in Nigeria: A Population-Based Study |
| Publication | |
| Summary | JAMA Internal Medicine |
| Date | Feb 1, 2014 |
| Author | John Simon, Onno Schellekens and Arie de Groot |
| Title | Public Private Partnership and Development from the Bottom Up - From Failing to Scaling |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Global Policy Journal, Vol 5, Issue 1 |
| Date | Jan 21, 2014 |
| Author | Wendy Janssens and Berber Kramer |
| Title | The social dilemma of microinsurance: A framed field experiment with microcredit groups in Tanzania |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper Series TI 2012-145 (2012) |
| Date | Dec 2, 2013 |
| Author | Berber Kramer |
| Title | Why don’t they take a card? Essays on the demand for micro health insurance |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Tinbergen Institute / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| Date | Nov 1, 2013 |
| Author | D. Brals, M. Boele van Hensbroek, J. Van der Gaag, E. Gustafsson-Wright, C. Schultsz |
| Title | A Description of Maternal and Child Health in Rural Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania & The Potential for a Health Insurance Program to Improve Maternal and Child Health |
| Publication | |
| Summary | A Study for USAID |
| Date | Aug 14, 2013 |
| Author | Robert Kaba Alhassan, Nicole Spieker, Paul van Ostenberg, Alice Ogink, Edward Nketiah-Amponsah and Tobias F. Rinke de Wit |
| Title | Association between health workers motivation and healthcare quality efforts in Ghana |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Human Resources For Health 2013, 11:37 |
| Date | Jun 15, 2013 |
| Author | Gustafsson-Wright, E. and Schellekens, O. |
| Title | Achieving universal health coverage in Nigeria one state at a time: A public-private partnership community-based health insurance model |
| Publication | |
| Summary | The Brookings Institution, Brookings Working Paper |
| Date | May 31, 2013 |
| Author | Alexander Preker, Marianne E. Lindner, Dov Chernichovsky and Onno P. Schellekens |
| Title | Scaling up Affordable Health Insurance: Staying the Course |
| Publication | |
| Summary | The World Bank Group Publications |
| Date | May 24, 2013 |
| Author | Barbara Magnoni, Laura Budzyna, Danielle Sobol and Emily Zimmerman |
| Title | MILK Brief #22: 'Doing the Math' - Outpatient Health Insurance in Tanzania |
| Publication | |
| Summary | The MILK Project is a three-year initiative of the MicroInsurance Centre designed to research whether there is a business case for microinsurance and whether it really benefits low-income families. |
| Date | Apr 17, 2013 |
| Author | Kim Catherina Eve Sigaloff, Joshua Kayiwa, Victor Musiime, Job C J Calis, Elizabeth Khauda, Andrew Mukuye, Christine Matama, Immaculate Nankya, Lillian Nakatudde, John T Dekker, Raph L Hamers, Peter Mugyenyi, Tobias F Rinke de Wit, Cissy Kityo |
| Title | High rates of thymidine analogue mutations and dual-class resistance among HIV-infected Ugandan children failing first-line antiretroviral therapy |
| Publication | |
| Summary | AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, Volume: 29, Issue 6 - May 10, 2013 |
| Date | Apr 17, 2013 |
| Author | Susan C Aitken, Aletta Kliphuis, Michelle Bronze, Carole L. Wallis, Cissy Kityo, Sheila Balinda, Wendy S. Stevens, Nicole Spieker, Tulio de Oliveira, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit and Rob Schuurman |
| Title | Development and evaluation of an affordable real-time qualitative assay for determining HIV-1 virological failure in plasma and dried blood spots |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Journal of Clinical Microbiology 51(6): p.1899-905 |
| Date | Mar 27, 2013 |
| Author | Aitken Susan C., Bronze Michelle, Wallis Carole L., Stuyver Lieven, Steegen Kim, Balinda Sheila, Kityo Cissy, Stevens Wendy, Rinke de Wit Tobias, Schuurman Rob |
| Title | A Pragmatic Approach to HIV-1 Drug Resistance Determination in Resource-Limited Settings using a Novel RT-only Genotyping Assay |
| Publication | |
| Summary | JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY 51(6), 2013, p.1757‑1761 |
| Date | Mar 1, 2013 |
| Author | Gustafsson-Wright, E., van der Gaag, J., Tanovic, Z., Duynhouwer, A., Hendriks, M., Brals, D., Wit, F. and Schultsz, C. |
| Title | A short-term impact evaluation of the Health Insurance Fund program in Central Kwara State, Nigeria |
| Publication | |
| Summary |
| Date | Jan 2, 2013 |
| Author | Amin S. Hassan, Shalton M. Mwaringa, Clare A. Obonyo, Helen M. Nabwera, Eduard J. Sanders, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit, Patricia A. Cane and James A. Berkley |
| Title | Low Prevalence of Transmitted HIV Type 1 Drug Resistance Among Antiretroviral-Naive Adults in a Rural HIV Clinic in Kenya |
| Publication | |
| Summary | AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, Volume: 29 Issue 1: January 2, 2013 |
| Date | Jan 1, 2013 |
| Author | Hamers, R.L., Sigaloff, K.C.E., Kityo, C., Mugyenyi, P. and Rinke de Wit, T.F. |
| Title | Emerging HIV-1 drug resistance after roll-out of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS January 2013 - Volume 8 - Issue 1 - p 19–26 |
| Date | Nov 19, 2012 |
| Author | Martijn A. Boermans and Daan Willebrands |
| Title | Financial Constraints, Risk Taking and Firm Performance: Recent Evidence from Microfinance Clients in Tanzania |
| Publication | |
| Summary | De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No 358 |
| Date | Nov 1, 2012 |
| Author | E. Gustafsson-Wright, A. Duynhouwer, J. van der Graag, C. Schultsz |
| Title | The Burden of Chronic Disease on Households in Tanzania and Kenya: Evidence from the Health Insurance Fund Operational Research |
| Publication | |
| Summary | A Study for USAID |
| Date | Aug 1, 2012 |
| Author | Ferdinand Wit, Constance Schultsz |
| Title | Report on the in-clinic research of the AIGHD within participating clinics in the Health Insurance Fund project in Nigeria from 2007 till 2011 |
| Publication | |
| Summary |
| Date | Jun 18, 2012 |
| Author | Raph L Hamers, Cissy Kityo, Joep M A Lange, Tobias F Rinke de Wit, Peter Mugyenyi |
| Title | Global threat from drug resistant HIV in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Publication | |
| Summary | BMJ 2012;344:e4159 |
| Date | Apr 9, 2012 |
| Author | Michelle Bronze, Kim Steegen, Carole L. Wallis, Hans De Wolf, Maria A. Papathanasopoulos, Margriet Van Houtte, Wendy S. Stevens, Tobias Rinke de Wit, Lieven J. Stuyver, on behalf of the ART-A Consortium |
| Title | HIV-1 Phenotypic Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor Drug Resistance Test Interpretation Is Not Dependent on the Subtype of the Virus Backbone |
| Publication | |
| Summary | PLOS ONE |
| Date | Apr 1, 2012 |
| Author | Daan Willebrands, Judith Lammers, Joop Hartog |
| Title | A successful businessman is not a gambler. Risk attitude and business performance among small enterprises in Nigeria |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Journal of Economic Psychology, Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 342–354 |
| Date | Mar 23, 2012 |
| Author | K. Sigaloff, R. Hamers, C. Wallis, C. Kityo, M. Siwale, P. Ive, M. Botes, K. Mandaliya, M. Wellington, A. Osibogun, W. Stevens, M. van Vugt, T. Rinke de Wit and the PharmAccess African Studies to Evaluate Resistance (PASER) |
| Title | Second-Line Antiretroviral Treatment Successfully Resuppresses Drug-Resistant HIV-1 After First-Line Failure: Prospective Cohort in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Oxford Journals - The Journal of Infectious Diseases - Volume 205, Issue 11, pp. 1739-1744 |
| Date | Mar 12, 2012 |
| Author | Hendriks, Wit, Roos, Brewster, Akande, de Beer, Mfinanga, Kahwa, Gatongi, Van Rooy, Janssens, Lammers, Kramer, Bonfrer, Gaeb, van der Gaag, Rinke de Wit, Lange, Schultsz |
| Title | Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cross-Sectional Surveys in Four Rural and Urban Communities |
| Publication | |
| Summary | PLOS ONE |
| Date | Feb 1, 2012 |
| Author | Ingrid H de Beer, Huub C Gelderblom, Onno Schellekens, Esegiel Gaeb, Gert van Rooy, Alta McNally, Ferdinand W Wit, Rinke de Wit F Tobias |
| Title | University students and HIV in Namibia: an HIV prevalence survey and a knowledge and attitude survey |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Journal of the International AIDS Society, February 2012, 15:9 |
| Date | Jan 1, 2012 |
| Author | Van der Gaag, J. and Stimac, Vid |
| Title | How can we increase resources for health care in the developing world? Is (subsidized) voluntary health insurance the answer? |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Health Economics, 21: 55-61 (2012) |
| Date | Nov 1, 2011 |
| Author | E. Gustafsson-Wright, A. Boers, M. Vigh, J. van der Gaag |
| Title | The potential market for private low-cost health insurance in 4 African contexts |
| Publication | |
| Summary | A Study for USAID |
| Date | Oct 4, 2011 |
| Author | Marielle Aulagnier, Wendy Janssens, Ingrid De Beer, Gert van Rooy, Esegiel Gaeb, Cees Hesp, Jacques van der Gaag, Tobias F. Rinke de Wit |
| Title | Incidence of HIV in Windhoek, Namibia: Demographic and Socio-Economic Associations |
| Publication | |
| Summary | PLoS ONE, 6(10) |
| Date | Oct 1, 2011 |
| Author | Dr Raph L Hamers MD, Carole L Wallis PhD, Cissy Kityo MD, Margaret Siwale MRCP, Kishor Mandaliya MBChB, Francesca Conradie MD, Mariette E Botes MD, Maureen Wellington MBChB, Prof Akin Osibogun MD, Kim C E Sigaloff MD, Immaculate Nankya PhD, Rob Schuurman |
| Title | HIV-1 drug resistance in antiretroviral-naive individuals in sub-Saharan Africa after rollout of antiretroviral therapy: a multicentre observational study |
| Publication | |
| Summary | The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages 750 - 759 |
| Date | May 1, 2011 |
| Author | Ferdinand Wit, Constance Schultz |
| Title | Report on the in-clinic research of the CPCD within participating clinics in Nigeria in the Health Insurance Fund project in Nigeria |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Center for Poverty-related Communicable Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam |
| Date | Mar 25, 2011 |
| Author | Hendriks, Brewster, Wit, Bolarinwa, Odusola, Redekop, Bindraban, Vollaard, Alli, Adenusi, Agbede, Akande, Lange and Schultsz |
| Title | Cardiovascular disease prevention in rural Nigeria in the context of a community based health insurance scheme: QUality Improvement Cardiovascular care Kwara-I (QUICK-I) |
| Publication | |
| Summary | BMC Public Health, 11 (1): 186 |
| Date | Mar 21, 2011 |
| Author | Aina Olufemi Odusola, Marleen Hendriks, Constance Schultsz, Karien Stronks, Joep Lange, Akin Osibogun, Tanimola Akande, Shade Alli, Peju Adenusi, Kayode Agbede and Joke Haafkens |
| Title | Development and evaluation of a patient centered cardiovascular health education program for insured patients in rural Nigeria (QUICK-II) |
| Publication | |
| Summary | BMC Public Health, 11 (1): 171 |
| Date | Mar 1, 2011 |
| Author | Judith Lammers, Sweder van Wijnbergen, Daan Willebrands |
| Title | Gender Differences, HIV Risk Perception and Condom Use |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, TI 2011-051/2 |
| Date | Mar 1, 2011 |
| Author | Emily Gustafsson-Wright, Wendy Janssens and Jacques van der Gaag |
| Title | The inequitable impact of health shocks on the uninsured in Namibia |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Oxford Journals - Health Policy and Planning - Volume 26, Issue 2, Pp. 142-156 |
| Date | Nov 16, 2010 |
| Author | Wendy Janssens, Ingrid de Beer, Hannah M Coutinho, Gert van Rooy, Jacques van der Gaag, Tobias F Rinke de Wit |
| Title | Estimating HIV prevalence: A cautious note on household surveys in poor settings (Letter to the Editor of BMJ) |
| Publication | |
| Summary | BMJ 2010;341:c6323 (British Medical Journal, 341, 1063-1063) |
| Date | Sep 17, 2010 |
| Author | Judith Lammers and Susan Warmerdam |
| Title | Adverse selection in voluntary micro health insurance in Nigeria |
| Publication | |
| Summary | AIID Research Series 10-06, Discussion Paper |
| Date | Jan 1, 2010 |
| Author | Gustafsson-Wright, E.J.E., Janssens, W. & Van der Gaag, J. |
| Title | Book chapter: The potential for low-cost health insurance schemes to protect the poor in Namibia |
| Publication | |
| Summary | In C. Griffin, M. Escobar & R. Shaw (Eds.), Impact of health insurance in low- and middle-income countries. Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press |
| Date | Nov 18, 2009 |
| Author | Alexander S. Preker, Peter Zweifel, Onno P. Schellekens |
| Title | Global Marketplace for Private Health Insurance: Strength in Numbers |
| Publication | |
| Summary | The World Bank Group Publications |
| Date | Nov 1, 2009 |
| Author | Schellekens O.P., Beer I. de, Lindner M.E., Vugt M.van, Schellekens P., Rinke de Wit T.F. |
| Title | Innovation In Namibia: Preserving Private Health Insurance And HIV/AIDS Treatment |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Health Affairs, Volume 28, Number 6, November/December 2009, p.1799-1806 |
| Date | Nov 1, 2008 |
| Author | Janssens W., Gustafsson-Wright E., Beer I. de, Gaag J. van der |
| Title | A unique low-cost private health insurance program in Namibia: protection from health shocks including HIV/AIDS |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Development ISSues, Volume 10, Number 2, November 2008 |
| Date | Jul 1, 2008 |
| Author | Lange J.M.A., Schellekens O.P., Lindner M. and Gaag J. van der |
| Title | Public-private partnerships and new models of healthcare access |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Volume 3, July 2008, p.509-513 |
| Date | May 1, 2008 |
| Author | hifund |
| Title | Report on the first year of biomedical operational research of the AMC-CPCD within participating clinics in Nigeria in the Health Insurance Fund Nigeria project (2007) |
| Publication | |
| Summary | Center for Poverty-related Communicable Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam |
| Date | Dec 1, 2007 |
| Author | Schellekens, O.P., Lindner, M.E., van Esch, J.P.L., van Vugt, M. and Rinke de Wit, T.F. |
| Title | Een ziektekostenverzekering voor Afrika |
| Publication | |
| Summary | In Ned Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde 2007;151:2680-4 by Schellekens, O.P., Lindner, M.E., van Esch, J.P.L., van Vugt, M. and Rinke de Wit, T.F. |
| Date | Dec 1, 2007 |
| Author | Jasper Bos, Onno Schellekens and Arie de Groot |
| Title | Country-level public-private partnerships for successful HIV treatment programmes |
| Publication | |
| Summary | In: The HIV Pandemic: local and global implications, by Beck E.J., Mays N., Whiteside A.W., Zuniga J.M. (eds.) |
| Date | Oct 15, 2007 |
| Author | Schellekens O., Lindner M., Lange J.M.A., van der Gaag J. |
| Title | A new paradigm for increased access to health care in Africa |
| Publication | |
| Summary | IFC-Financial Times Essay Competition, silver prize (2007) |
| Date | Sep 1, 2007 |
| Author | Vugt M. van, Hamers R., Schellekens O., Rinke de Wit T., Reiss P. |
| Title | Diabetes and HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: the need for sustainable healthcare systems |
| Publication | |
| Summary | In DiabetesVoice, Volume 52, Issue 3 by Vugt M. van, Hamers R., Schellekens O., Rinke de Wit T., Reiss P. |
| Date | Jan 1, 2007 |
| Author | Collier A.C., Borght S.F.M. van der, Rinke de Wit T.F., Richards S.C., Feeley F.G. (2007) |
| Title | A successful workplace program for voluntary counseling and testing and treatment of HIV/AIDS at Heineken, Rwanda |
| Publication | |
| Summary | International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, Volume 13, Number 1, January-March 2007 |
| Date | Oct 29, 2006 |
| Author | Schellekens, O. and van Wijnbergen, S. |
| Title | Over hulp en aids in Afrika: Armoedebestrijding door een grotere toegang tot gezondheidszorg en hiv/aids-behandeling in Afrika ten zuiden van de Sahara' |
| Publication | |
| Summary | In Pre-adviezen 2006: Nieuwe vormen van ontwikkelingshulp, Koninklijke Vereniging voor de Staathuishoudkunde |
| Date | Oct 29, 2006 |
| Author | Schellekens, O. and van Wijnbergen, S. |
| Title | On aid and AIDS in Africa: Alleviating poverty through increasing access to health care and HIV/AIDS treatment in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Publication | |
| Summary | In Preadvices 2006: New forms of development cooperation, Royal Association of Macroeconomics by Schellekens, O. and van Wijnbergen, S. |









