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Household costs of dengue illness: secondary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of dengue prevention in Guerrero state, Mexico
BACKGROUND: Dengue is a serious public health problem with an important economic impact. This study used data from a cluster …
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Household costs for personal protection against mosquitoes: secondary outcomes from a randomised controlled trial of dengue prevention in Guerrero state, Mexico
BACKGROUND: Dengue is a serious public health issue that affects households in endemic areas in terms of health and also …
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Going to scale: design and implementation challenges of a program to increase access to skilled birth attendants in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: The lack of availability of skilled providers in low- and middle- income countries is considered to be an important …
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‘Leaving no one behind’: reflections on the design of community-based HIV prevention for migrants in Johannesburg’s inner-city hostels and informal settlements
BACKGROUND: Unmanaged urban growth in southern and eastern Africa has led to a growth of informal housing in cities, which …
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The potential of task-shifting in scaling up services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: a time and motion study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: In many African countries, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services are predominantly delivered by nurses. Although task-shifting …
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Missed diagnostic opportunities within South Africa’s early infant diagnosis program, 2010–2015
BACKGROUND: Samples submitted for HIV PCR testing that fail to yield a positive or negative result represent missed diagnostic opportunities. …
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Yaws resurgence in Bankim, Cameroon: The relative effectiveness of different means of detection in rural communities
BACKGROUND: Yaws is an infectious, debilitating and disfiguring disease of poverty that mainly affects children in rural communities in tropical …
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Beneficiaries’ perceptions and reported use of unconditional cash transfers intended to prevent acute malnutrition in children in poor rural communities in Burkina Faso: qualitative results from the MAM’Out randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Acute malnutrition is a public health issue worldwide, and particularly in the Eastern region of Burkina Faso. Following a …
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Indoor secondhand tobacco smoke and risk of under-five mortality in 23 sub-Saharan Africa countries: A population based study and meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Inhalation of secondhand smoke from tobacco results in serious health outcomes among under-five children, and yet, few studies have …
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Malaria mortality characterization and the relationship between malaria mortality and climate in Chimoio, Mozambique
The United Nation’s sustainable development goal for 2030 is to eradicate the global malaria epidemic, primarily as the disease continues …
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Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the stool of HIV sero-positive individuals suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis
BACKGROUND: The impact of tuberculosis (TB) is exacerbated in Africa because of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pandemic. Pulmonary tuberculosis …
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Prevention of postpartum haemorrhage by community-based auxiliary midwives in hard-to-reach areas of Myanmar: a qualitative inquiry into acceptability and feasibility of task shifting
BACKGROUND: In Myanmar, postpartum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality and contributes to around 30% of all maternal …
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Polypharmacy in multimorbid older adults: protocol for a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy, the concurrent use of multiple medications, consistently evokes a negative connotation, notably because it is associated with a …
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Ending preventable maternal and child deaths in western Nigeria: Do women utilize the life lines?
INTRODUCTION: Nigeria which constitutes just one percent of the world population, accounts for 13% of the world maternal and under-five …
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Individual and community level factors with a significant role in determining child height-for-age Z score in East Gojjam Zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis
In Ethiopia, child undernutrition remains to be a major public health challenge and a contributing factor for child mortality and …
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Sero-prevalence of specific Leptospira serovars in fattening pigs from 5 provinces in Vietnam
BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is a zoonotic bacterial disease with a worldwide distribution. In Vietnam, leptospirosis is considered endemic. In pigs, leptospirosis …
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An integrated intervention to reduce intimate partner violence and psychological distress with refugees in low-resource settings: study protocol for the Nguvu cluster randomized trial
BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a critical public health and human rights concern globally, including for refugee women in …
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High prevalence of helminths infection and associated risk factors among adults living in a rural setting, central Kenya: a cross-sectional study
Schistosome infection and soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) are major public health problems in many developing countries where they contribute to the …
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The effect of food insecurity on health status of adolescents in Ethiopia: longitudinal study
BACKGROUND: The effect of food insecurity on health and wellbeing of a population has been the subject of much research. …
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Rapid deployment of a mobile biosafety level-3 laboratory in Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic
BACKGROUND: Ebola virus emerged in West Africa in December 2013. The high population mobility and poor public health infrastructure in …