Crump, John A Thomas, Kate M Benschop, Jackie Knox, Matthew A Wilkinson, David A Midwinter, Anne C Munyua, Peninah Ochieng, John B Bigogo, Godfrey M Verani, Jennifer R
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium are major causes of bloodstream infection and diarrheal disease in East Africa. Sources of human infection, including the role of the meat pathway, are poorly understood. We collected cattle, goat, and poultry meat pathway samples from December 2015 through August 2017 in Tanzania and isolated Salmo...
Weldesenbet, Adisu Birhanu Kebede, Sewnet Adem Ayele, Behailu Hawulte Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno
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ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research: CEOR
Background Despite improvement in access to modern healthcare services in East African countries, health-service delivery and health status of the population remained poor mainly due to the weak health-sector financing system. Therefore, the current study aimed to assess the health insurance coverage and its associated factors among reproductive-ag...
Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno Weldesenbet, Adisu Birhanu Bahiru, Nebiyu Enyew, Daniel Berhanie
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Frontiers in Nutrition
Background: The number of studies on the magnitude of anemia and its determinant factors among lactating mothers is limited in East African countries regardless of its multivariate consequences. Even though few studies were conducted on the magnitude of anemia and its determinants, most of them focused on the country level and different parts of co...
Worku, Misganaw Gebrie Tesema, Getayeneh Antehunegn Teshale, Achamyeleh Birhanu
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundDespite efforts made to reduce the spread of the human immune-deficiency virus (HIV), its testing coverage remains low in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). Besides, information on factors associated with HIV counseling and testing among reproductive-age women is not sufficiently available. Therefore, this study was aimed to determin...
Bizuneh, Asmamaw Demis Azeze, Getnet Gedefaw
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Systematic Reviews
BackgroundUtilization of post-abortion family planning is very critical to reduce high levels of unintended pregnancy, which is the root cause of induced abortion. In Eastern Africa, it is estimated that as many as 95% of unintended pregnancies occurred among women who do not practice contraception at all. Therefore, this meta-analysis aimed to ass...
Shukla, Shraddhanand Macharia, Denis Husak, Gregory J. Landsfeld, Martin Nakalembe, Catherine Lilian Blakeley, S. Lucille Adams, Emily Caitlin Way-Henthorne, Juliet
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Major strides have been made in the development of remote sensing, reanalysis, and model-based earth observations (EOs), which can be used for long-term climate variability mapping, as well as real-time environmental monitoring and forecasting. Such EOs are particularly valuable for environmental decision-making (e.g., for environmental resources m...
Birhan, Tilahun Yemanu Birhan, Nigussie Adam Alene, Muluneh
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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
Background Despite the benefits of breast milk and colostrum for the health and survival of children, early prelacteal feeding is commonly practiced worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the pooled prevalence and determinants of prelacteal feeding in Eastern Africa. Methods This study was...
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For over 100 years after the description of the first case of African swine fever (ASF) in Kenya, ASF virus (ASFV) cross-border spread in eastern and southern Africa has not been fully investigated. In this manuscript, we reviewed systematically the available literature on molecular epidemiology of ASF in Tanzania and its eight neighboring countrie...
Miller, Jennifer M. Keller, Hannah M. Heckel, Claire Kaliba, Potiphar M. Thompson, Jessica C.
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Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Shell disc beads are important archeological indicators of social communication and exchange networks. There has been substantial research on ostrich eggshell (OES) beads, but little is known about the manufacture or chronology of similar beads from land snail shells (LSS). LSS beads are associated with Holocene hunter-gatherers in Africa, though d...
Leweri, Cecilia M. Msuha, Maurus J. Treydte, Anna C.
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SN Applied Sciences
Rainfall variability is of great importance in East Africa, where small-scale farmers and pastoralists dominate. Their livestock production activities are heavily dependent on rainfall. We assessed pastoralist perceptions on climate change, particularly rainfall variability, its impact on livestock production, and the adaptive capacity of pastorali...
