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A mobile health technology platform for quality assurance and quality improvement of malaria diagnosis by community health workers
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) play an important role in improving access to services in areas with limited health infrastructure …
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The influence of a semi-arid sub-catchment on suspended sediments in the Mara River, Kenya
The Mara River Basin in East Africa is a trans-boundary basin of international significance experiencing excessive levels of sediment loads. …
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Children's peer violence perpetration and victimization: Prevalence and associated factors among school children in Afghanistan
BACKGROUND: Child peer violence is a global problem and seriously impacts children's physical and psychological health, and their education outcomes. …
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Evaluating diagnostic indicators of urogenital Schistosoma haematobium infection in young women: A cross sectional study in rural South Africa
BACKGROUND: Urine microscopy is the standard diagnostic method for urogenital S. haematobium infection. However, this may lead to under-diagnosis of …
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Association between HIV status and depressive symptoms among children and adolescents in the Southern Highlands Zone, Tanzania: A case-control study
BACKGROUND: Children and adolescents continue to have HIV/AIDS in southern Saharan Africa. Scaling up of HIV services has significantly improved …
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Evidence for chikungunya and dengue transmission in Quelimane, Mozambique: Results from an investigation of a potential outbreak of chikungunya virus
BACKGROUND: In January 2016, health authorities from Zambézia province, Mozambique reported the detection of some patients presenting with fever, arthralgia, …
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The effect of metal pollution on the life history and insecticide resistance phenotype of the major malaria vector Anopheles arabiensis (Diptera: Culicidae)
Metal exposure is one of the commonest anthropogenic pollutants mosquito larvae are exposed to, both in agricultural and urban settings. …
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Estimating the burden of rabies in Ethiopia by tracing dog bite victims
In developing countries where financial resources are limited and numerous interests compete, there is a need for quantitative data on …
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The role of family size, employment and education of parents in the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in school children in Accra
INTRODUCTION: Intestinal parasitic infections (IPIs) in school children are a public health problem in most developing countries. METHODS AND PRINCIPAL …
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Piloting very early infant diagnosis of HIV in Lesotho: Acceptability and feasibility among mothers, health workers and laboratory personnel
INTRODUCTION: Mortality associated with in-utero HIV infection rises rapidly within weeks after birth. Very early infant diagnosis of HIV (VEID)-testing …
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Thermal resilience may shape population abundance of two sympatric congeneric Cotesia species (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)
Basal and plasticity of thermal tolerance determine abundance, biogeographical patterns and activity of insects over spatial and temporal scales. For …
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Effectiveness of health education intervention in improving knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding Tuberculosis among HIV patients in General Hospital Minna, Nigeria – A randomized control trial
INTRODUCTION: The risk of development of active TB in HIV-infected individuals is 20-37 times higher than those that are HIV …
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Preparedness of lower-level health facilities and the associated factors for the outpatient primary care of hypertension: Evidence from Tanzanian national survey
INTRODUCTION: Sub-Saharan Africa is experiencing a rapid rise in the burden of non-communicable diseases in both urban and rural areas. …
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Disparities in availability of essential medicines to treat non-communicable diseases in Uganda: A Poisson analysis using the Service Availability and Readiness Assessment
OBJECTIVE: Although the WHO-developed Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) tool is a comprehensive and widely applied survey of health …
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Antenatal care service quality increases the odds of utilizing institutional delivery in Bahir Dar city administration, North Western Ethiopia: A prospective follow up study
BACKGROUND: In Ethiopia, more than 62% of pregnant women attend antenatal care at least once, yet only about one in …
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Burnout and self-reported suboptimal patient care amongst health care workers providing HIV care in Malawi
BACKGROUND: The well-documented shortages of health care workers (HCWs) in sub-Saharan Africa are further intensified by the increased human resource …
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Q fever in Egypt: Epidemiological survey of Coxiella burnetii specific antibodies in cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats and camels
Q fever is a zoonotic disease caused by the bacterium Coxiella burnetii. Clinical presentation in humans varies from asymptomatic to …
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Barriers to early presentation of breast cancer among women in Soweto, South Africa
PURPOSE: Reported breast cancer incidence is rising in South Africa, where some women are diagnosed late and have poor outcomes. …
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Drought response of Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC. inoculated with ACC deaminase and IAA producing rhizobacteria
Drought is one of the major constraints limiting agricultural production worldwide and is expected to increase in the future. Limited …
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Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) as a screening tool for depression in pregnant women: Afaan Oromo version
BACKGROUND: Semantic, technical, content, criterion and conceptual equivalence must be examined in order to validate a psychological rating scale in …