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The malaria testing and treatment landscape in Kenya: results from a nationally representative survey among the public and private sector in 2016

BACKGROUND: Since 2004, Kenya's national malaria treatment guidelines have stipulated artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria, …

2017 Open Access

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Effectiveness of home-based nutritional counselling and support on exclusive breastfeeding in urban poor settings in Nairobi: a cluster randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) improves infant health and survival. We tested the effectiveness of a home-based intervention using Community Health …

2017 Open Access

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Exploring knowledge and attitudes toward non-communicable diseases among village health teams in Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Community health workers are essential personnel in resource-limited settings. In Uganda, they are organized into Village Health Teams (VHTs) …

2017 Open Access

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Prevalence of dental caries and associated factors among 12 years old students in Eritrea

BACKGROUND: Dental caries is one of the most prevalent diseases of childhood in developing countries. However, there is a paucity …

2017 Open Access

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Prevalence of anemia and associated factors among pregnant women in Southern Ethiopia: A community based cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Anemia is defined as a condition in which there is less than the normal hemoglobin (Hb) level in the …

2017 Open Access

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How wealthy are orphans and vulnerable children households in a metropolitan community, South-West Nigeria?

Context/Background: Responding to the needs of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) remains a public health challenge. In Nigeria, disparities in …

2017 Open Access

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Family medicine in a globally-connected world: a South African perspective and the RCGP International and Overseas Network

The recent launch of the International and Overseas Network (ION) by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), presented a …

2017 Open Access

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Applying tuberculosis management time to measure the tuberculosis infectious pool at a local level in Ethiopia

BACKGROUND: Measuring the size of the infectious pool of tuberculosis (TB) is essential to understand the burden and monitor trends …

2017 Open Access

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Map of biomedical research in Cameroon; a documentary review of approved protocols from 1997 to 2012

BACKGROUND: Over the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in biomedical research in Cameroon. However, the question of …

2017 Open Access

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Rural households at risk of malaria did not own sufficient insecticide treated nets at Dabat HDSS site: evidence from a cross sectional re-census

BACKGROUND: Malaria is the leading cause of disease burden across the world, especially in African countries. Ethiopia has designed a …

2017 Open Access

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Temporal variation in confirmed diagnosis of fever-related malarial cases among children under-5 years by community health workers and in health facilities between years 2013 and 2015 in Siaya County, Kenya

BACKGROUND: Malaria case management continues to experience dynamic changes. Building community capacity is instrumental in both prevention and treatment of …

2017 Open Access

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Poverty and health among CDC plantation labourers in Cameroon: Perceptions, challenges and coping strategies

Creating better access to good quality healthcare for the poor is a major challenge to development. In this study, we …

2017 Open Access

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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in Mali: a case report

BACKGROUND: Drug resistant tuberculosis presents a major public health challenge. CASE PRESENTATION: We present here the first two patients diagnosed …

2017 Open Access

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Cost-effectiveness of expanding childhood routine immunization against Neisseria meningitidis serogroups C, W and Y with a quadrivalent conjugate vaccine in the African meningitis belt

BACKGROUND: Neisseria meningitidis constitutes a major public health problem among countries in the African meningitis belt. Following regional vaccination campaigns …

2017 Open Access

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A qualitative exploration of malaria operational research situation in Nigeria

BACKGROUND: Malaria, remains one of the leading causes of high morbidity and mortality in Nigeria despite implementation of several public …

2017 Open Access

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Operational evaluation of rapid diagnostic testing for Ebola Virus Disease in Guinean laboratories

BACKGROUND: Rapid Diagnostic Tests (RDTs) for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) at the point of care have the potential to increase …

2017 Open Access

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Development of a framework to improve the utilisation of malaria research for policy development in Malawi

BACKGROUND: The existing gap between research evidence and public health practice has attributed to the unmet Millennium Development Goals in …

2017 Open Access

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Prevalence of household food insecurity in wetland adjacent areas of Uganda

Food insecurity is a critical problem affecting about 6.3% of the households in Uganda, with about 21% of the remaining …

2017 Open Access

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Community based intervention to prevent domestic violence against women in the reproductive age in Northwestern Ethiopia: a protocol for quasi-experimental study

BACKGROUND: Violence against women is a well understood devastating global pandemic, and human right violation. One in three women experienced …

2017 Open Access

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Retrospective data on causes of childhood vision impairment in Eritrea

BACKGROUND: Proper information on causes of childhood vision loss is essential in developing appropriate strategies and programs to address such …

2017 Open Access