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Colostrum Avoidance Practices and Its Associated Factors Among Mothers of Children Aged Less Than 12 Months in Jinka Town, South Ethiopia, 2019

Abstract Introduction: Colostrum avoidance is the common nutritional malpractices in developing countries including Ethiopia. Discarding colostrum is the main causes …

2020 Open Access

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Determinants of Low birthweight and Preterm Delivery in the Volta Region of Ghana: Evidence from birth records

Abstract Background:Low birthweight and preterm delivery are birth outcomes that can predict the survival, development and long-term health outcomes of …

2020 Open Access

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Is the Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty? A Content Analysis of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Global Financing Facility Country Plans

Abstract Background: The Global Financing Facility (GFF) offers an opportunity to close the financing gap that holds back gains in …

2020 Open Access

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Use of technology for public health surveillance reporting: opportunities, challenges and lessons learnt from Kenya

2020 Open Access

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Sexual Violence and Associated Factors Against Housemaid’s Living in Debre-Tabor Town, Northwest Ethiopia.

Abstract Objectives: Sexual violence is a serious public health and human rights problem with both short and long term consequence …

2020 Open Access

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How should community health workers in fragile contexts be supported: Qualitative evidence from Sierra Leone, Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo

2020 Open Access

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Challenges and prospects for implementation of community health volunteers’ digital health solutions in Kenya: a qualitative study

Abstract Background: The value of digital health technologies in delivering vital health care interventions, especially in low resource settings is …

2020 Open Access

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Timely Access to Maternal, Neonatal and Child Healthcare for rural communities in Rwanda: Job satisfaction of Community Health Workers delivering Community Based Maternal, Newborn and Child Healthcare

2020 Open Access

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Antiretroviral therapy optimisation in the time of COVID-19: Is it really different in North and South Africa?

The Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine is focused on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention and related topics relevant to clinical and …

2020 Open Access

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Thetha Nami: Participatory development of a peer-navigator intervention to deliver biosocial HIV prevention for adolescents and young men and women in rural South Africa

Abstract BackgroundDespite effective biomedical tools, adolescents and young men and women carry the dual burden of high HIV incidence and …

2020 Open Access

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A study and identification of COVID-19 viruses using N-grams with Naïve Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbors, Artificial Neural Networks, Decision tree and Support Vector Machine

Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 is a global health crisis caused by a virus officially named as severe acute …

2020 Open Access

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Evolution and Genetic Diversity of SARSCoV-2 in Africa Using Whole Genome Sequences

ABSTRACT The ongoing SARSCoV-2 pandemic was introduced into Africa on 14 th February 2020 and has rapidly spread across the …

2020 Open Access

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Primary care providers and hypertension in pregnancy: Reflections on a patient encounter

In South Africa, large numbers of individuals with medical emergencies initially visit a general practitioner or family physician. In the …

2020 Open Access

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Peer supervision experiences of drug sellers in a rural district in East-Central Uganda: a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: Support supervision improves performance outcomes among health workers. However, the national professional guidelines for new licenses and renewal for …

2020 Open Access

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Malaria vaccines targeting the pre-erythrocytic stage: a scoping review

Malaria is a deadly infectious parasitic disease that causes devastating morbidity and mortality globally. Despite being a public health concern, …

2020 Open Access

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Publics, technologies and interventions in reproduction and early life in South Africa

Abstract Despite successful clinical interventions and maternal and child health monitoring for over a century, low and middle-income countries, including …

2020 Open Access

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Should cancer treatment be continued during the COVID-19 pandemic? A single Egyptian institution experience

The first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Egypt was reported on 14 February, 2020. Menoufia Clinical Oncology …

2020 Open Access

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“Universal test and treat” program reduced TB incidence by 75% among a cohort of adults taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) in Gurage zone, South Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in peoples living with HIV and at least 25% …

2020 Open Access

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Is the malaria short course for program managers, a priority for malaria control effort in Nigeria? Evidence from a qualitative study

BACKGROUND: A Malaria Short Course (MSC) was conceptualized to build the capacity of program managers for malaria control due to …

2020 Open Access

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Influence of patients’ living conditions on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in a South African health sub-district

BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious public health concern because it continues devastating communities. This survey was conducted in the …

2020 Open Access