Roba, Kedir Teji Hassen, Tahir Ahmed Wilfong, Tara Legese Alemu, Nanati Darsene, Hiwot Zewdu, Gelila Negese, Tarekegn Yifru, Belaynesh Mohammed, Eptisam Raru, Temam Beshir
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Frontiers in Global Women's Health
Introduction Infertility is one of the public health problems affecting a significant number of women in the reproductive age group. Although female fertility is predominantly affected by gynecological and systemic diseases, lifestyle and nutritional factors also play an important role in secondary female infertility. Therefore, this study aimed to...
Fillion, Elizabeth N Harrison, Terry Kwekason, Amandus
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Journal of human evolution
The dietary guild structure of ungulate communities is a useful paleoecological tool for understanding the context of hominin paleobiology and evolution. Ungulates are well represented in the fossil record, and their dietary preferences reflect those of major habitat types. However, paleoecology relies on modern ecological patterns as analogs for r...
Ssentongo, Paddy Heilbrunn, Emily S Ssentongo, Anna E Ssenyonga, Lydia V N Lekoubou, Alain
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BMC neurology
Neural tube defects (NTDs) are associated with high rates of neonatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. The promotion of folic acid fortification and supplementation in pregnant women by the Food and Drug Administration significantly decreased the incidence of NTDs in the United States. This practice is not widely adopted in Eastern Africa countri...
Kibe, Peter M Mbuthia, Grace Wambura Shikuku, Duncan N Akoth, Catherine Oguta, James Odhiambo Ng'ang'a, Loise Gatimu, Samwel Maina
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BMC pregnancy and childbirth
Caesarean section (CS) is an important medical intervention for reducing the risk of poor perinatal outcomes. However, CS trends in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) continue to increase yet maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity remain high. Rwanda, like many other countries in SSA, has shown an increasing trend in the use of CS. This study assessed...
Macleod, Catriona Ida Reynolds, John Hunter Delate, Richard
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Public health reviews
Objectives: There is a need to hone reproductive health (RH) services for women who sell sex (WSS). The aim of this review was to collate findings on non-barrier contraception, pregnancies, and abortion amongst WSS in Eastern and Southern African (ESA). Methods: A scoping review methodology was employed. Inclusion criteria were: 1) empirical papers...
Gopalan, Shyamalika Berl, Richard E W Myrick, Justin W Garfield, Zachary H Reynolds, Austin W Bafens, Barnabas K Belbin, Gillian Mastoras, Mira Williams, Cole Daya, Michelle
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Current biology : CB
The fate of hunting and gathering populations following the rise of agriculture and pastoralism remains a topic of debate in the study of human prehistory. Studies of ancient and modern genomes have found that autochthonous groups were largely replaced by expanding farmer populations with varying levels of gene flow, a characterization that is infl...
Rowan, John Lazagabaster, Ignacio A Campisano, Christopher J Bibi, Faysal Bobe, René Boisserie, Jean-Renaud Frost, Stephen R Getachew, Tomas Gilbert, Christopher C Lewis, Margaret E
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PeerJ
The Early Pleistocene was a critical time period in the evolution of eastern African mammal faunas, but fossil assemblages sampling this interval are poorly known from Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Field work by the Hadar Research Project in the Busidima Formation exposures (~2.7-0.8 Ma) of Hadar in the lower Awash Valley, resulted in the recovery of...
Regassa, Lemma Demissie Tola, Assefa Weldesenbet, Adisu Birhanu Tusa, Biruk Shalmeno
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SAGE open medicine
The current study aimed to determine the magnitude of home delivery and its associated factors in East Africa using data from the Demographic and Health Survey. We pooled data from the Demographic and Health Survey of the 11 East African countries and included a total weighted sample of 126,107 women in the study. The generalized linear mixed model...
Onken, Annette Haanshuus, Christel Gill Miraji, Mohammed Khamis Marijani, Msafiri Kibwana, Kibwana Omar Abeid, Khamis Ali Mørch, Kristine Reimers, Marianne Langeland, Nina Müller, Fredrik
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Malaria Journal
Background Control efforts in Zanzibar reduced the burden of malaria substantially from 2000 to 2015, but re-emergence of falciparum malaria has been observed lately. This study evaluated the prevalence of malaria and performance of routine diagnostic tests among hospitalized fever patients in a 1.5 years period in 2015 and 2016. Methods From March...
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...
