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The gender-based violence and recovery centre at Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya: An integrated care model for survivors of sexual violence
Sexual violence (SV) is highly prevalent and a major public health problem globally. In Kenya, an estimated 32% of females …
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Government policy interventions to reduce human antimicrobial use: A systematic review and evidence map
BACKGROUND: Growing political attention to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) offers a rare opportunity for achieving meaningful action. Many governments have developed …
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Retention and viral suppression in a cohort of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy in Zambia: Regionally representative estimates using a multistage-sampling-based approach
BACKGROUND: Although the success of HIV treatment programs depends on retention and viral suppression, routine program monitoring of these outcomes …
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Addressing critical needs in the fight to end tuberculosis with innovative tools and strategies
More than 130 years after Koch first described the tubercle bacillus and its etiologic role in tuberculosis (TB) to the …
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Controlling latent TB tuberculosis infection in high-burden countries: A neglected strategy to end TB
Latent TB infection: Global burden and risk factors for progressing to TB diseaseThe World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 10 …
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Contact tracing versus facility-based screening for active TB case finding in rural South Africa: A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial (Kharitode TB)
BACKGROUND: There is a dearth of comparative effectiveness research examining the implementation of different strategies for active tuberculosis (TB) case …
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The incidence of pregnancy hypertension in India, Pakistan, Mozambique, and Nigeria: A prospective population-level analysis
BACKGROUND: Most pregnancy hypertension estimates in less-developed countries are from cross-sectional hospital surveys and are considered overestimates. We estimated population-based …
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Incidence of eclampsia and related complications across 10 low- and middle-resource geographical regions: Secondary analysis of a cluster randomised controlled trial
BACKGROUND: In 2015, approximately 42,000 women died as a result of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy worldwide; over 99% of these …
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A reduced-carbohydrate and lactose-free formulation for stabilization among hospitalized children with severe acute malnutrition: A double-blind, randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Children with medically complicated severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have high risk of inpatient mortality. Diarrhea, carbohydrate malabsorption, and refeeding …
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The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Over half a million children die each year of diarrheal illness, although nearly all deaths could be prevented with …
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Rapid antiretroviral therapy initiation in low- and middle-income countries: A resource-based approach
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has substantially decreased HIV morbidity and mortality in high-income as well as low-and middle-income countries (LMICs). Several …
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Association between severe drought and HIV prevention and care behaviors in Lesotho: A population-based survey 2016–2017
BACKGROUND: A previous analysis of the impact of drought in Africa on HIV demonstrated an 11% greater prevalence in HIV-endemic …
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Prior dengue virus infection and risk of Zika: A pediatric cohort in Nicaragua
BACKGROUND: Zika virus (ZIKV) emerged in northeast Brazil in 2015 and spread rapidly across the Americas, in populations that have …
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HIV self-testing alone or with additional interventions, including financial incentives, and linkage to care or prevention among male partners of antenatal care clinic attendees in Malawi: An adaptive multi-arm, multi-stage cluster randomised trial
BACKGROUND: Conventional HIV testing services have been less comprehensive in reaching men than in reaching women globally, but HIV self-testing …
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Climate change and African trypanosomiasis vector populations in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley: A mathematical modelling study
BACKGROUND: Quantifying the effects of climate change on the entomological and epidemiological components of vector-borne diseases is an essential part …
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Epidemiological metrics and benchmarks for a transition in the HIV epidemic
Peter Godfrey-Faussett and colleagues present six epidemiological metrics for tracking progress in reducing the public health threat of HIV.
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Involuntary mental health treatment in the era of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The introduction of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and General Comment 1 …
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Breastfeeding in low-resource settings: Not a “small matter”
Despite its clear biological benefits, many infants globally do not receive exclusive breastfeeding. In a Guest Editorial, Lars Åke Persson …
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Using routinely collected laboratory data to identify high rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis burden communities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa: A retrospective spatiotemporal analysis
BACKGROUND: South Africa has the highest tuberculosis incidence globally (781/100,000), with an estimated 4.3% of cases being rifampicin resistant (RR). …
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Mass azithromycin distribution for hyperendemic trachoma following a cluster-randomized trial: A continuation study of randomly reassigned subclusters (TANA II)
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends annual mass azithromycin administration in communities with at least 10% prevalence of trachomatous inflammation-follicular …