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Knowledge, attitude, perception, and preventative practices towards COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Knowledge, attitudes, perception, and preventative practices regarding coronavirus- 2019 (COVID-19) are crucial in its prevention and control. Several studies …
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Assessment of preventive behavior and associated factors towards COVID-19 in Qellam Wallaga Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia: A community-based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: The world is being challenged by the COVID-19 outbreak that resulted in a universal concern and economic hardship. It …
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Prevalence and determinants of severity levels of anemia among children aged 6–59 months in sub-Saharan Africa: A multilevel ordinal logistic regression analysis
BACKGROUND: Anemia is a major public health problem affecting more than half of children under the age of five globally. …
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Healthcare providers’ acceptance of telemedicine and preference of modalities during COVID-19 pandemics in a low-resource setting: An extended UTAUT model
BACKGROUND: In almost all lower and lower middle-income countries, the healthcare system is structured in the customary model of in-person …
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Effects of the Pratt pouch model of dispensing nevirapine prophylaxis on HIV exposed infant completion of 6 weeks of prophylaxis in Uganda
INTRODUCTION: The innovative Pratt pouch could optimize dispensing nevirapine prophylaxis to HIV-exposed infants in pre-measured single dose pouches to increase …
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Fast-track treatment initiation counselling in South Africa: A cost-outcomes analysis
INTRODUCTION: In 2016, under its new National Adherence Guidelines (AGL), South Africa formalized an existing model of fast-track HIV treatment …
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Assessing the uncertainty around age-mixing patterns in HIV transmission inferred from phylogenetic trees
Understanding age-mixing patterns in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) transmission networks can enhance the design and implementation of HIV prevention strategies …
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The role of short-term changes in cognitive capacity on economic expenditure among Kenyan agro-pastoralists
The increased exposure of pastoralist communities in East Africa to climatic shocks has focused attention on the resilience of these …
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Canary in the coliform mine: Exploring the industrial application limits of a microbial respiration alarm system
Fundamental ecological principles of ecosystem-level respiration are extensively applied in greenhouse gas and elemental cycle studies. A laboratory system termed …
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Clinical, immunologic and virologic outcomes of children and adolescents receiving second line anti-retroviral therapy in two referral hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia launched free access for antiretroviral therapy in 2005. The number of patients on second line antiretroviral treatment has …
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Referral pattern of oral and maxillofacial surgery cases in Sudan: A retrospective age-and sex-specific analysis of 3,478 patients over four years
Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) is a specialty widening in its scope. An objective analysis of the referral pattern can …
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Tuberculosis treatment intervention trials in Africa: A cross-sectional bibliographic study and spatial analysis
BACKGROUND: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (TB) poses a substantial burden in sub-Saharan Africa and is the leading cause of death amongst infectious …
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Assessing the impact of demand response programs on the reliability of the Ghanian distribution network
The balancing of supplied energy to energy demand is often very challenging due to unstable power supply and demand load. …
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Identification of two novel hepatitis C virus subtype 2 from Tunisia (2v and 2w)
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has a high genetic diversity. Eight genotypes and 90 subtypes are currently described. Genotypes are …
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Willingness to pay for cataract surgery and associated factors among cataract patients in Outreach Site, North West Ethiopia
INTRODUCTION: In Ethiopia, cataract surgery is mainly provided by donors free of charge through outreach programs. Assessing willingness to pay …
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Patient feedback surveys among pregnant women in Eswatini to improve antenatal care retention
BACKGROUND: Uptake and retention in antenatal care (ANC) is critical for preventing adverse pregnancy outcomes for both mothers and infants. …
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Multilevel analysis of unhealthy bodyweight among women in Malawi: Does urbanisation matter?
BACKGROUND: Underweight and overweight constitute unhealthy bodyweight and their coexistence is symptomatic of the dual burden of malnutrition (DBM) of …
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STI prevalence among men living with HIV engaged in safer conception care in rural, southwestern Uganda
HIV care provides an opportunity to integrate comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare, including sexually transmitted infection (STI) management. We describe …
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Clinical laboratory hematology reference values among infants aged 1month to 17 months in Kombewa Sub-County, Kisumu: A cross sectional study of rural population in Western Kenya
There is an urgent need for reliable region-specific hematological reference values for clinical monitoring. Laboratory reference ranges are important for …
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Reference intervals of common clinical biochemistry analytes in young Nigerian adults
BACKGROUND: Reference intervals are assessment tools for interpretation of clinical test results. These intervals describe the dispersion of test parameter …