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Factors influencing performance of community-based health volunteers’ activities in the Kassena-Nankana Districts of Northern Ghana
BACKGROUND: An increasing demand for health care services and getting health care closer to doorsteps of communities has made health …
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Assessment of a storage system to deliver uninterrupted therapeutic oxygen during power outages in resource-limited settings
Access to therapeutic oxygen remains a challenge in the effort to reduce pneumonia mortality among children in low- and middle-income …
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Dietary habits, body image, and health service access related to cardiovascular diseases in rural Zambia: A qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular diseases are among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa, including Zambia, where cardiovascular diseases …
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TB-diabetes co-morbidity in Ghana: The importance of Mycobacterium africanum infection
BACKGROUND: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a known risk factor for tuberculosis (TB) but little is known on TB-Diabetes Mellitus (TBDM) …
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Financial risk protection at the bedside: How Ethiopian physicians try to minimize out-of-pocket health expenditures
BACKGROUND: Out-of-pocket health expenditures can pose major financial risks, create access-barriers and drive patients and families into poverty. Little is …
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Determination of lead levels in maternal and umbilical cord blood at birth at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos
BACKGROUND: Lead toxicity is a cause of intellectual disability in children and majority of affected children live in developing countries. …
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Vaccination timeliness among newborns and infants in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: We characterize the risk factors for delayed polio dose 1, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) dose 1, pentavalent dose 1, and measles …
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Prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and associated factors among HIV positive educators: Findings from the 2015/6 survey of Health of Educators in Public Schools in South Africa
INTRODUCTION: In many sub-Saharan African countries, confronting the dual epidemic of HIV and NCDs is a public health priority especially …
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Poor supply chain management and stock-outs of point-of-care diagnostic tests in Upper East Region’s primary healthcare clinics, Ghana
INTRODUCTION: Several supply chain components are important to sustain point-of-care (POC) testing services in rural settings. To evaluate the availability …
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Creative arts in psychotherapy for traumatized children in South Africa: An evaluation study
AIM: To evaluate the feasibility and effect of a 10-session creative arts in psychotherapy group programme on posttraumatic stress symptoms, …
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Development of a psycho-social intervention for reducing psychological distress among parents of children with intellectual disabilities in Malawi
BACKGROUND: The burden of intellectual disabilities in low and middle income countries (LMIC) is high and is associated with parental …
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HIV prevalence and determinants of loss-to-follow-up in adolescents and young adults with tuberculosis in Cape Town
TB remains a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa, due to the HIV epidemic. As TB treatment …
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Improving estimates of district HIV prevalence and burden in South Africa using small area estimation techniques
Many countries, including South Africa, have implemented population-based household surveys to estimate HIV prevalence and the burden of HIV infection. …
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Effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines against invasive pneumococcal disease among children under five years of age in Africa: A systematic review
BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread implementation of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, Streptococcus pneumoniae remains the leading cause of severe pneumonia associated …
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Violence against Afghan women by husbands, mothers-in-law and siblings-in-law/siblings: Risk markers and health consequences in an analysis of the baseline of a randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Violence by mothers-in-law, as well as husbands, is a recognised problem in many countries. It has been given little …
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Perinatal outcomes of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy at a referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia
INTRODUCTION: Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (HDP) complicate about 10% of pregnancies. It accounts to 50% of maternal death in sub-Saharan …
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Treatment cure rate and its predictors among children with severe acute malnutrition in northwest Ethiopia: A retrospective record review
BACKGROUND: More than 29 million that is an estimated 5%, under-five children suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM) globally, with …
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Effects of angiotensin converting enzyme gene polymorphism on hypertension in Africa: A meta-analysis and systematic review
BACKGROUND: Hypertension is dramatically increasing in Africa with evidence of increased severity and resistance to treatment. Although angiotensin converting enzyme …
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Tuberculosis in Brazil and cash transfer programs: A longitudinal database study of the effect of cash transfer on cure rates
INTRODUCTION: Tuberculosis incidence is disproportionately high among people in poverty. Cash transfer programs have become an important strategy in Brazil …
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Bridging antimicrobial resistance knowledge gaps: The East African perspective on a global problem
BACKGROUND: There is worldwide concern of rapidly increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, there is paucity of resistance surveillance data and …