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Time delays in the response to the Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C outbreak in Nigeria – 2017
BACKGROUND: Nigeria reports high rates of mortality linked with recurring meningococcal meningitis outbreaks within the African meningitis belt. Few studies …
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Pilot assessment of probiotics for pregnant women in Rwanda
BACKGROUND: While the global market for probiotics is soon to reach in excess of US$50 billion, the continent of Africa …
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Socio-economic vulnerabilities and HIV: Drivers of transactional sex among female bar workers in Yaoundé, Cameroon
INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics, risky sexual behaviour, alcohol use and …
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Early mortality among children and adults in antiretroviral therapy programs in Southwest Ethiopia, 2003–15
BACKGROUND: Several studies reported that the majority of deaths in HIV-infected people are documented in their early antiretroviral therapy (ART) …
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Pneumococcal carriage and serotype distribution among children with and without pneumonia in Mozambique, 2014-2016
BACKGROUND: Pneumococcal colonization is a precursor to pneumonia, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) can decrease vaccine-type (VT) colonization. Pneumococcal colonization …
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Preventability of maternal near miss and mortality in Rwanda: A case series from the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK)
OBJECTIVE: Assess the primary causes and preventability of maternal near misses (MNM) and mortalities (MM) at the largest tertiary referral …
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Survival and nutritional status of children with severe acute malnutrition, six months post-discharge from outpatient treatment in Jigawa state, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: The Outpatient Therapeutic Program (OTP) for treatment brings the management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) closer to the community. …
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Premorbid risk perception, lifestyle, adherence and coping strategies of people with diabetes mellitus: A phenomenological study in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana
BACKGROUND: One of the non-communicable diseases which is on the rise is type 2 diabetes (T2D). T2D is largely preventable …
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Assessing the perspectives of users and beneficiaries of a community health worker mHealth tracking system for mothers and children in Rwanda
INTRODUCTION: Mobile Health (mHealth) programs have increasingly been used to tackle maternal and child health problems in low and middle …
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Viral load testing and the use of test results for clinical decision making for HIV treatment in Cameroon: An insight into the clinic-laboratory interface
BACKGROUND: The viral load (VL) in patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the best predictor of treatment outcome. The anticipated …
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Prognostic value of quickSOFA as a predictor of 28-day mortality among febrile adult patients presenting to emergency departments in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) is a three-item clinical instrument for bedside identification of sepsis patients at risk …
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Investigation of laboratory confirmed Dengue outbreak in North-eastern Kenya, 2011
The first laboratory confirmed dengue outbreak in Kenya was reported in coastal towns of Malindi and Kilifi in 1982. Since …
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Screen-based sedentary behaviour and adiposity among school children: Results from International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE) - Kenya
BACKGROUND: High levels of sedentary behaviours have been independently associated with several negative health indicators, including obesity. Screen time (ST) …
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Knowledge and practices about zoonotic tuberculosis prevention and associated determinants amongst livestock workers in Nigeria; 2015
Zoonotic tuberculosis (TB) is a significant public health disease, but has long been neglected. Information on knowledge and practices of …
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Malaria vector abundance is associated with house structures in Baringo County, Kenya
Malaria, a major cause of morbidity and mortality, is the most prevalent vector borne disease in Baringo County; a region …
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Time to sputum culture conversion and its determinants among Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis patients at public hospitals of the Amhara Regional State: A multicenter retrospective follow up study
BACKGROUND: In Ethiopia, Multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is one of the major public health problems that need great attention. Time …
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Diversity analysis and genome-wide association studies of grain shape and eating quality traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) using DArT markers
Microarray-based markers such as Diversity Arrays Technology (DArT) have become the genetic markers of choice for construction of high-density maps, …
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Measuring wealth in rural communities: Lessons from the Sanitation, Hygiene, Infant Nutrition Efficacy (SHINE) trial
BACKGROUND: Poverty and human capital development are inextricably linked and therefore research on human capital typically incorporates measures of economic …
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Seasonal variations in Plasmodium falciparum parasite prevalence assessed by varying diagnostic tests in asymptomatic children in southern Ghana
Plasmodium falciparum infections presenting either as symptomatic or asymptomatic may contain sexual stage parasites (gametocytes) that are crucial to malaria …
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The association between domestic animal presence and ownership and household drinking water contamination among peri-urban communities of Kisumu, Kenya
INTRODUCTION: Household drinking water can be contaminated by diarrheagenic enteropathogens at numerous points between the source and actual consumption. Interventions …