Giacomelli, Andrea Ridolfo, Anna Lisa Bonazzetti, Cecilia Oreni, Letizia Conti, Federico Pezzati, Laura Siano, Matteo Bassoli, Cinzia Casalini, Giacomo Schiuma, Marco
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundTo compare differences in the probability of COVID-19-related death between native Italians and immigrants hospitalised with COVID-19.MethodsThis retrospective study of prospectively collected data was conducted at the ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Hospital in Milan, Italy, between 21 February and 31 November 2020. Uni- and multivariable Co...
Buckle, Geoffrey C. Mrema, Alita Mwachiro, Michael Ringo, Yona Selekwa, Msiba Mulima, Gift Some, Fatma F. Mmbaga, Blandina T. Mody, Gita N. Zhang, Li
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BMC Cancer
BackgroundEsophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is a major cause of cancer morbidity and mortality in Eastern Africa. The majority of patients with ESCC in Eastern Africa present with advanced disease at the time of diagnosis. Several palliative interventions for ESCC are currently in use within the region, including chemotherapy, radiation the...
Sawe, Hendry R. Milusheva, Sveta Croke, Kevin Karpe, Saahil Mfinanga, Juma A.
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Injury Epidemiology
BackgroundTrauma is among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among pediatric and adolescent populations worldwide, with over ninety percent of childhood injuries occurring in low-income and middle-income countries. Lack of region-specific data on pediatric injuries is among the major challenges limiting the ability of health systems to i...
Storz, Maximilian Andreas Lederer, Ann-Kathrin Heymann, Eric Pieter
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Human Resources for Health
BackgroundInternational medical electives are one the highlights of medical training. Literature about international electives is scarce, and understanding what made a student choose one destination over another is unclear. Many medical students based in Europe travel to Africa each year for their elective, however, students’ expectations and motiv...
Luthuli, Silondile Haskins, Lyn Mapumulo, Sphindile Horwood, Christiane
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundThe child support grant (CSG) is the largest unconditional cash transfer program in Africa and aims to alleviate poverty and improve child health and nutrition in low-income families in South Africa. Among informal working women, the CSG is an important source of income after childbirth when informal workers are unable to work, but report...
Dinku, Tufa Faniriantsoa, Rija Cousin, Remi Khomyakov, Igor Vadillo, Audrey Hansen, James W. Grossi, Amanda
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Frontiers in Climate
Despite recent and mostly global efforts to promote climate services in developing countries, Africa still faces significant limitations in its institutional infrastructure and capacity to develop, access, and use decision-relevant climate data and information products at multiple levels of governance. The Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACT...
Perryman, Adrianna Gebretekle, Gebremedhin Beedemariam Ogunbameru, Adeteju Bielecki, Joanna M. Sander, Beate
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Frontiers in Public Health
Introduction: Evidence on authorship trends of health research conducted about or in Africa shows that there is a lack of local researchers in the first and last authorship positions, with high income country collaborations taking up these positions. The differences in authorship calls into question power imbalances in global health research and wh...
Lysholm, Sara Fischer, Klara Lindahl, Johanna F. Munyeme, Musso Johansson Wensman, Jonas
Informal livestock markets are an important source of animal-derived proteins for growing urban populations in countries such as Zambia. In parallel, they can also constitute pathways of zoonotic pathogen transmission to humans. This risk is aggravated by limited disease monitoring and poor control systems with regards to biosecurity and public hea...
Lagae, Johan
Degrendele, Céline Klánová, Jana Prokeš, Roman Příbylová, Petra Šenk, Petr Šudoma, Marek Röösli, Martin Dalvie, Mohamed Fuhrimann, Samuel
Concerns about the possible negative impacts of current use pesticides (CUPs) for both the environment and human health have increased worldwide. However, the knowledge on the occurrence of CUPs in soil and air and the related human exposure in Africa is limited. This study investigated the presence of 30 CUPs in soil and air at two distinct agricu...
