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Commonalities and differences in injured patient experiences of accessing and receiving quality injury care: a qualitative study in three sub-Saharan African countries
OBJECTIVES: To understand commonalities and differences in injured patient experiences of accessing and receiving quality injury care across three lower-income …
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Scalable Transdiagnostic Early Assessment of Mental Health (STREAM): a study protocol
INTRODUCTION: Early childhood development forms the foundations for functioning later in life. Thus, accurate monitoring of developmental trajectories is critical. …
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Child acute illness presentation and referrals at primary health clinics in Malawi: a secondary analysis of ASPIRE
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to assess the prevalence, presentation and referral patterns of children with acute illness attending primary health centres …
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Mental health inequalities, challenges and support needs during COVID-19: a qualitative study of 14-to-25-year-olds in London
OBJECTIVES: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent's mental health and relationships has received growing attention, yet the challenges …
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Decentralising chronic disease management in sub-Saharan Africa: a protocol for the qualitative process evaluation of community-based integrated management of HIV, diabetes and hypertension in Tanzania and Uganda
INTRODUCTION: Sub-Saharan Africa continues to experience a syndemic of HIV and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Vertical (stand-alone) HIV programming has provided …
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Availability of essential, generic medicines before and during COVID-19 at selected public pharmaceutical supply agencies in Ethiopia: a comparative cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVES: Lockdowns and border closures impacted medicine availability during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to assess the availability of …
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Scoping review of assessment tools for, magnitudes of and factors associated with problem drinking in population-based studies
BACKGROUND: The term "problem drinking" includes a spectrum of alcohol problems ranging from excessive or heavy drinking to alcohol use …
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Good School Toolkit-Secondary Schools to prevent violence against students: protocol for a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: No whole-school interventions which seek to reduce physical, sexual and emotional violence from peers, intimate partners and teachers have …
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Enhanced active case finding of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Namibia: a protocol for the hotspots, hospitals, and households (H3TB) study
INTRODUCTION: Namibia is a high tuberculosis (TB)-burden country with an estimated incidence of 460/100 000 (around 12 000 cases) per …
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Association between tuberculosis and pregnancy outcomes: a retrospective cohort study of women in Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of mortality among women of childbearing age and a significant contributor to maternal …
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Artificial intelligence-supported diabetic retinopathy screening in Tanzania: rationale and design of a randomised controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: Globally, diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of blindness. Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to see the largest proportionate …
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Preventing chronic malnutrition in children under 2 years in rural Angola (MuCCUA trial): protocol for the economic evaluation of a three-arm community cluster randomised controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: Chronic malnutrition is a serious problem in southern Angola with a prevalence of 49.9% and 37.2% in the provinces …
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Genital tract infections, the vaginal microbiome and gestational age at birth among pregnant women in South Africa: a cohort study protocol
Introduction Preterm birth complications are the most common cause of death in children under 5 years. The presence of multiple …
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Prevalence and risk factors of metabolic syndrome in Ethiopia: describing an emerging outbreak in HIV clinics of the sub-Saharan Africa – a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVES: HIV-induced chronic inflammation, immune activation and combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) are linked with adverse metabolic changes known to cause …
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Qualitative exploration of the constraints on mothers’ and pregnant women’s ability to turn available services into nutrition benefits in a low-resource urban setting, South Africa
OBJECTIVES: Despite free primary healthcare services and social protection system for mothers and children, significant nutrition inequalities occur across the …
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Organisation of care for people receiving drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in South Africa: a mixed methods study
OBJECTIVES: Treatment for multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (MDR/RR-TB) is increasingly transitioning from hospital-centred to community-based care. A national policy for decentralised programmatic …
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Retinopathy among women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy attending hospitals in Mbarara city, south-western Uganda: a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE: Retinopathy is one of the complications occurring among women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. We sought to determine the …
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Identification and characterisation of diabetes in Uganda: protocol for the nested, population-based ‘Diabetes in low-resource Populations’ (DOP) Study
INTRODUCTION: Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing an increasing burden of diabetes, but there are little reliable data, particularly at the community …
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Barriers to equitable access to quality trauma care in Rwanda: a qualitative study
OBJECTIVES: Using the 'Four Delay' framework, our study aimed to identify and explore barriers to accessing quality injury care from …
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Burden of lower respiratory infections and associated risk factors across regions in Ethiopia: a subnational analysis of the Global Burden of Diseases 2019 study
OBJECTIVE: This analysis is to present the burden and trends of morbidity and mortality due to lower respiratory infections (LRIs), …