Liégeois, Florian Boyer, Sylvie Eymard-Duvernay, Sabrina Carrieri, Patrizia Kouanfack, Charles Domyeum, Jenny Maradan, Gwenaëlle Ducos, Jacques Mpoudi-Ngolé, Eitel Spire, Bruno
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BMC Infectious Diseases
BackgroundHepatitis B is a major concern in Africa, especially in HIV-infected patients. Unfortunately, access to hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing and adequate treatment remains a challenge in the continent. We investigated HBV testing, treatment, and virologic suppression in HIV-infected patients followed up as part of Cameroon’s national antiretro...
Anto-Ocrah, Martina Cushman, Jeremy Sanders, Mechelle De Ver Dye, Timothy
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BMC Emergency Medicine
BackgroundWithin each of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified key emergency care (EC) interventions that, if implemented effectively, could ensure that the SDG targets are met. The proposed EC intervention for reaching the maternal mortality benchmark calls for “timely access to emergency obst...
brönner, matthias salah, skander lienkamp, markus
Local production sites in least developed countries offer sustainability for both multinational corporations and local society. However, corporations often hesitate because of uncertain environmental influences on production sites in these countries. To minimize planning uncertainties, we aim to identify and categorize the challenges of local produ...
McKenzie, Briar L. Santos, Joseph Alvin Geldsetzer, Pascal Davies, Justine Manne-Goehler, Jennifer Gurung, Mongal Singh Sturua, Lela Gathecha, Gladwell Aryal, Krishna K. Tsabedze, Lindiwe
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Nutrition Journal
BackgroundCardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading causes of death for men and women in low-and-middle income countries (LMIC). The nutrition transition to diets high in salt, fat and sugar and low in fruit and vegetables, in parallel with increasing prevalence of diet-related CVD risk factors in LMICs, identifies the need for urgent action to...
yeboah, amy
s aims that reclaims and re-imagines Black sexual politics.
Makau-Barasa, Louise Kathini Greene, Sandra Othieno-Abinya, N. A. Wheeler, Stephanie B. Skinner, Asheley Bennett, Antonia V.
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Health Research Policy and Systems
BackgroundCancer is the third-leading cause of mortality in Kenya, resulting in unique challenges to the country’s health system. An increase in the number of cancer cases in Kenya over the past decade resulted in legislative actions and policies to guide delivery of cancer services. Kenya’s new national cancer control strategy and past policy effo...
wei, guoen sun, pingjun zhang, zhenke ouyang, xiao
living standard, industrial construction level, information support level, and business friendliness. Using geographically weighted regression coefficient distribution of indicators, the driving mechanisms of spatial distribution could be divided into five types: economic base driven, industry-driven, information application-driven, business conven...
schreiner, barbara van koppen, barbara
Water-permit systems are widely used across Africa as a blanket requirement for small and micro irrigation enterprises, as well as large enterprises. The present study aimed to, first, further understand the implications of permit systems for both the most vulnerable and the state, and, second, based on the findings, identify options for pro-poor w...
Soilemetzidou, Eirini-Sanatana De Bruin, Erwin Franz, Mathias Aschenborn, Ortwin H K Rimmelzwaan, Guus F van Beek, Ruud Koopmans, Marion Greenwood, Alex D Czirják, Gábor Á
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The Journal of infectious diseases
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) represent repeatedly emerging pathogens with near worldwide distribution and an unclear nonavian-host spectrum. While the natural hosts for IAV are among waterfowl species, certain mammals can be productively infected. Southern Africa is home to diverse avian and mammalian fauna for which almost no information exists on I...
Bougnom, B P Thiele-Bruhn, S Ricci, V Zongo, C Piddock, L J V
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The Science of the total environment
A study was conducted to investigate the impact of raw wastewater use for irrigation on dissemination of bacterial resistance in urban agriculture in African cities. The pollution of agricultural fields by selected antibiotic residues was assessed. The structure and functions of the soil microbial communities, presence of antibiotic resistance gene...
