Fortified balanced energy–protein supplementation during pregnancy and lactation and infant growth in rural Burkina Faso: A 2 × 2 factorial individually randomized controlled trial
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Alemayehu Argaw, Brenda de Kok, Laéticia Céline Toe
BACKGROUND: Optimal nutrition is crucial during the critical period of the first 1,000 days from conception to 2 years after birth. Prenatal and postnatal supplementation …
Automatic multi-documents text summarization by a large-scale sparse multi-objective optimization algorithm
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Hitham M. Abo Bakr, S.A. Mohamed
Abstract Due to the exponential overflow of textual information in various fields of knowledge and on the internet, it is very challenging to extract important …
Preparedness, resilience and unmet needs of informal caregivers of advanced cancer patients in a Regional Mission Hospital in Kenya: Qualitative Study
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Wesley Too, Faith Lelei, Mary B. Adam
BACKGROUND: Cancer is the third highest cause of death in Kenya. Eighty percent of cancer cases arrive at advanced stages, when there is nothing that …
Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV among antenatal care attendees in Ethiopia, 2020
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Alex Yeshaneh, Haimanot Abebe, Fikremariam Endeshaw Tafese
BACKGROUND: In 2020, globally approximately 37.6 million people living with HIV and 700,000 children are born infected from their parents. Every day there are nearly …
Incidence and patterns of adverse drug reactions among adult patients hospitalized in the University of Gondar comprehensive specialized hospital: A prospective observational follow-up study
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Ashenafi Kibret Sendekie, Adeladlew Kassie Netere, Samuel Tesfaye
BACKGROUND: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have continued to be a public health challenge with significant clinical and healthcare costs. However, little is known regarding the …
Increased uptake of tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT) among people living with HIV following the 100-days accelerated campaign: A retrospective review of routinely collected data at six urban public health facilities in Uganda
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Joseph Musaazi, Christine Sekaggya‐Wiltshire, Stephen Okoboi
Tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT) effectively decreases rates of developing active tuberculosis disease in people living with HIV (PLHIV) who are at increased risk. The Uganda …
Community-orientated primary health care: Exploring the interface between community health worker programmes, the health system and communities in South Africa
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Hlologelo Malatji, Frances Griffiths, Jane Goudge
Due to insufficient number of health workers and the evidence of the benefits of community health workers (CHWs), CHWs are being deployed to provide health …
Adverse drug events and contributing factors among pediatric cancer patients at Jimma University medical center, Southwest Ethiopia
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Wayessa Olika Tola, Tsegaye Melaku, Diriba Fufa
BACKGROUND: The characteristics and incidence of adverse drug events (ADEs) among pediatric cancer patients in developing countries have not been well characterized. ADEs & medication …
Prevalence, antimicrobial resistance pattern, and associated factors of Salmonella and Shigella among under five diarrheic children attending public health facilities in Debre Markos town, Northwest Ethiopia
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Mesfin Dessale, Getachew Mengistu, Hylemariam Mihiretie Mengist
Background Under five children are at risk of diarrhea-associated morbidity and mortality. Salmonella and Shigella are major causes of diarrhea in under-five children, especially in …
Women empowerment indices and utilization of health facilities during childbirth: evidence from the 2019 Sierra Leone demographic health survey
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Quraish Sserwanja, David Mukunya, Milton W. Musaba
BACKGROUND: Women empowerment is recognized as a potential enabling factor to the utilization of health facilities during childbirth. However, the association between women empowerment and …
Change in glycaemic control with structured diabetes self-management education in urban low-resource settings: multicentre randomised trial of effectiveness
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Roberta Lamptey, Mary Amoakoh‐Coleman, Mary Moffett Barker
BACKGROUND: In high-resource settings, structured diabetes self-management education is associated with improved outcomes but the evidence from low-resource settings is limited and inconclusive. AIM: To …
Usutu virus: An emerging flavivirus with potential threat to public health in Africa: Nigeria as a case study
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Olalekan Chris Akinsulie, Ridwan Olamilekan Adesola, Adetolase Azizat Bakre
) which belong to the Japanese encephalitis virus complex. Culex mosquitoes have been implicated in the transmission of this pathogen. The major susceptible hosts of …
Genotype heterogeneity of high-risk human papillomavirus infection in Ethiopia
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Ayichew Seyoum, Berhanu Seyoum, Tadesse Gure
Cervical cancer is a vaccine-preventable sexually transmitted disease. In the year 2020, there were an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths worldwide. Although its …
Unmet need for family planning and associated factors among adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey
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Desale Bihonegn Asmamaw, Wubshet Debebe Negash
BACKGROUND: Unmet need for family planning among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) is a common cause of the low contraceptive utilization in developing countries, …
Driving the clean energy transition in Cameroon: A sustainable pathway to meet the Paris climate accord and the power supply/demand gap
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Chu Donatus Iweh, Yvan Ayuketah, Samuel Gyamfi
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2021 report has noted the perceived rise in severe weather phenomena such as heat radiations, hurricanes, flooding, and …
Study of exopolysaccharide produced by Streptomyces rochie strain OF1 and its effect as ameliorative on osteoarthritis in rats via inhibiting TNF-α/COX2 pathway
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Sahar S. Mohamed, Mohamed E. El Awady, Sayeda A. Abdelhamid
BACKGROUND: Carbohydrates are known as the main natural products of life activities. RESULTS: /s. while total hexose amine content was 24.72%. The high performance liquid …
A Plea for More Robust Accountability Structures in the Global Strategy on Human Resources for Health: Workforce 2030
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Oloruntoba Ogunfolaji, Hazem S. Ghaith, Olga Mbougo Djoutsop
COMMENTARY Int J Public Health, 03 February 2023 https://doi.org/10.3389/ijph.2023.1605603
From vaccine to visa apartheid, how anti-Blackness persists in global health
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Catherine Kyobutungi, Githinji Gitahi, Marie-Claire Wangari
Global health evolved from colonial medicine and hence deeply rooted in the white supremacy mindset [1].Anti-Blackness is an inescapable consequence.Definitions of anti-Blackness revolve around the …
Current status of research and gaps in knowledge of geophagic practices in Africa
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Theophilus Clavell Davies
as practised in Africa. Despite the voluminous research literature that exists on the subject, geophagy in Africa is still a largely misunderstood phenomenon. Although the …
Integrated comparative metabolite profiling via NMR and GC–MS analyses for tongkat ali (Eurycoma longifolia) fingerprinting and quality control analysis
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Ahmed Serag, Ahmed Zayed, Ahmed Mediani
Tongkat ali commonly known as Malaysian Ginseng (Eurycoma longifolia) is a herbal root worldwide available in nutraceuticals, either as a crude powder or capsules blended …