To eliminate hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, it is essential to scale up antiviral treatment through decentralized services. However, access to the conventional tools to assess treatment eligibility (liver biopsy/Fibroscan®/HBV DNA) is limited and not affordable in resource-limited countries. We developed and validated a simple score to easily i...
OBJECTIVE:We describe and compare the sociodemographic and clinical features, treatments, and prognoses and survival times of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in Africa.METHODOLOGY:We conducted a multicentre, hospital-based cohort study in Africa. Patients with ALS diagnosed in the neurology departments of participating hospitals f...
Africa is the world's biggest battleground in the fight against hunger. African governments and the international development community have increasingly focused on finding ways and means to end hunger and ensure the right to food to the continent's burgeoning population. Public spending on agriculture is one such measure. This study examines the r...
Africa is the world's biggest battleground in the fight against hunger. African governments and the international development community have increasingly focused on finding ways and means to end hunger and ensure the right to food to the continent's burgeoning population. Public spending on agriculture is one such measure. This study examines the r...
Africa is the world's biggest battleground in the fight against hunger. African governments and the international development community have increasingly focused on finding ways and means to end hunger and ensure the right to food to the continent's burgeoning population. Public spending on agriculture is one such measure. This study examines the r...
The child figure is a recurring topic in North African and Sub-Saharan fiction films, and can even become a dominant theme for some directors. Narratives centred on childhood are often linked to questions of individual and collective identities, to the sharing of values, and to the relationship between tradition and modernity. A deeper analysis of ...
The child figure is a recurring topic in North African and Sub-Saharan fiction films, and can even become a dominant theme for some directors. Narratives centred on childhood are often linked to questions of individual and collective identities, to the sharing of values, and to the relationship between tradition and modernity. A deeper analysis of ...
The child figure is a recurring topic in North African and Sub-Saharan fiction films, and can even become a dominant theme for some directors. Narratives centred on childhood are often linked to questions of individual and collective identities, to the sharing of values, and to the relationship between tradition and modernity. A deeper analysis of ...
African ecosystems are at great risk. Despite their ecological and economic importance, long‐standing ideas about African forest ecology and biogeography, such as the timing of changes in forest extent and the importance of disturbance, have been unable to be tested due to a lack of sufficiently long records. Here, we present the longest continuous...
Over the past 15 years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in reforms founded on performance-based financing (PBF) in low- and middle-income countries. While evidence on its effectiveness and efficiency is still controversial, there appears to be an emerging consensus that equity has not been adequately considered. In this article, ...
