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Impact of mode of delivery on pregnancy outcomes in women with premature rupture of membranes after 28 weeks of gestation in a low-resource setting: A prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND: Despite the high prevalence of premature rupture of membranes (PROM) in low-resource settings, the preferred mode of delivery remains …
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Improving mapping for Ebola response through mobilising a local community with self-owned smartphones: Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone, January 2015
BACKGROUND: During the 2014-16 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak, the Magburaka Ebola Management Centre (EMC) operated by Médecins Sans Frontières …
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Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about the health hazards of biomass smoke exposure amongst commercial food vendors in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Exposure to biomass smoke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa. Commercial food vendors in Nigeria …
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Hepatitis B infection among HIV infected individuals in Gabon: Occult hepatitis B enhances HBV DNA prevalence
In Gabon, a central African country, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) are endemic. In a recent …
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“Every day they keep adding new tools but they don’t take any away”: Producing indicators for intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) from routine data in Kenya
BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) is part of a multi-pronged strategy aimed at preventing malaria in …
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Sero-prevalence and risk factors for hepatitis E virus infection among pregnant women in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis E virus is an emerging infection in Africa with poor maternal and foetal outcomes. There is scanty data …
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Mind the gap! Risk factors for poor continuity of care of TB patients discharged from a hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa
BACKGROUND: TB patients discharged from hospitals in South Africa experience poor continuity of care, failing to continue TB treatment at …
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What influences where they seek care? Caregivers’ preferences for under-five child healthcare services in urban slums of Malawi: A discrete choice experiment
Access to and utilisation of quality healthcare promotes positive child health outcomes. However, to be optimally utilised, the healthcare system …
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The associations between adult body composition and abdominal adiposity outcomes, and relative weight gain and linear growth from birth to age 22 in the Birth to Twenty Plus cohort, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The growing prevalence of overweight and obesity in low- or middle-income countries precipitates the need to examine early life …
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Population structure of giraffes is affected by management in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya
Giraffe populations in East Africa have declined in the past thirty years yet there has been limited research on this …
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Long lasting insecticidal bed nets ownership, access and use in a high malaria transmission setting before and after a mass distribution campaign in Uganda
INTRODUCTION: Uganda is conducting a second mass LLIN distribution campaign and Katakwi district recently received LLINs as part of this …
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Integrating community pharmacy into community based anti-retroviral therapy program: A pilot implementation in Abuja, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: The landscape of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic control is shifting with the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) …
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Quality of life of deaf and hard of hearing students in Ibadan metropolis, Nigeria
Quality of Life encompasses an individual's well-being and health, social participation and satisfaction with functional daily living. Disabilities such as …
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Virologic outcome among patients receiving antiretroviral therapy at five hospitals in Haiti
INTRODUCTION: Viral load (VL) assessment is the preferred method for diagnosing and confirming virologic failure for patients on antiretroviral therapy …
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Rising up: Fertility trends in Egypt before and after the revolution
In 2014, Egypt's Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) documented an increase in the total fertility rate (TFR) to 3.5, up …
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Ensemble learning method for the prediction of new bioactive molecules
Pharmacologically active molecules can provide remedies for a range of different illnesses and infections. Therefore, the search for such bioactive …
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IgA and IgG against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv2031 discriminate between pulmonary tuberculosis patients, Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected and non-infected individuals
As part of a major project to investigate protective and diagnostic immune markers against tuberculosis (TB), we measured antibody isotype …
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Care-seeking patterns among families that experienced under-five child mortality in rural Rwanda
BACKGROUND: Over half of under-five deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and appropriate, timely, quality care is critical for saving children's …
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Space use by 4 strains of laying hens to perch, wing flap, dust bathe, stand and lie down
The laying hen industry is implementing aviary systems intended to improve welfare by providing hens with more space and resources …
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Shea (Vitellaria paradoxa Gaertn C. F.) fruit yield assessment and management by farm households in the Atacora district of Benin
Vitellaria paradoxa (Gaertn C. F.), or shea tree, remains one of the most valuable trees for farmers in the Atacora …