Paintsil, Vivian Ally, Mwashungi Isa, Hezekiah Anie, Kofi A. Mgaya, Josephine Nkanyemka, Malula Nembaware, Victoria Oppong-Mensah, Yaa Gyamfua Ndobho, Flora Chirande, Lulu
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Frontiers in Genetics
Introduction: Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) causes significant morbidity and mortality particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where it contributes to early childhood deaths. There is need to standardize treatment guidelines to help improve overall SCD patient health outcomes. We set out to review existing guidelines on SCD and to set minimum standard...
Carries, Stanley Mkhwanazi, Zibuyisile Sigwadhi, Lovemore Moshabela, Mosa Nyirenda, Makandwe Goudge, Jane Govindasamy, Darshini
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Pilot and feasibility studies
The mental and financial strain linked to unpaid caregiving has been amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic. In sub-Saharan Africa, carers of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) are critical for maintenance of optimum HIV treatment outcomes. However, the ability of caregivers to provide quality care to ALHIV is undermined by their ability to mainta...
Beker, Bahar Adem Kansal, Mitthan Lal
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Environment, development and sustainability
Rapid urbanization in developing countries has imposed threats and challenges to basic urban infrastructures like drinking water, transportation, and energy systems. The existing urban drinking water systems (UDWS) are highly stressed and unsustainable, particularly under changing hydroclimatic conditions, population growth, changing socioeconomic ...
Takoudjou Dzomo, Guy Rodrigue Mbario, Edmond Djarma, Oumaima Soumbatingar, Ndilbé Madengar, Mouassede Djimera, Nadia Djindimadje, Allarangue Nguemadjita, Christian Nassaringar, Guirimadje Bernales, Margarita
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Frontiers in Public Health
Vaccination against the COVID-19 virus is currently the best option to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic worldwide. However, in addition to logistical and economic barriers, hesitancy to be vaccinated threatens to jeopardize efforts to contain the disease. An increasing number of people in Africa are delaying or rejecting recommended vaccines. Since t...
Deutschmann, Mats Klymenko, Olga
A prerequisite for learning is that instructions and other activities take place in a language you understand. This may seem self-evident, but the fact remains that a majority of learners in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are taught in a European second language (L2) that they are unfamiliar with. Frequently, the role of the home languages in supporting ...
Miller, Amanda P Shoptaw, Steven Mvududu, Rufaro Mashele, Nyiko Coates, Thomas J Bekker, Linda-Gail Essack, Zaynab Groenewald, Candice Petersen, Zaino Gorbach, Pamina M
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AIDS and behavior
This study examines baseline associations between alcohol use and HIV sexual risk among a cohort of HIV-uninfected pregnant women (n = 1201) residing in a high HIV burdened community in Cape Town, South Africa. Alcohol use was measured using a modified version of the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT). HIV sexual risk was measured thr...
Prasad, Pooja (author) Duker, Annelieke (author) de Fraiture, Charlotte (author) van der Zaag, P. (author)
There is an urgent need in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to enhance irrigation access to meet the challenges of growing population and climate risk. To achieve this, big investments are currently planned in large irrigation infrastructure. We believe there is danger in following this conventional approach, which requires big lumpsum investments, locking...
Adewuya, Abiodun O Oladipo, Olabisi E Imarah, Tomilola Asmal, Laila Emsley, Robin
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Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
The study assessed the 3-year progression of clinically significant psychotic-like experience (CS-PLE) symptoms in an adult general population in terms of stability or remission of symptoms and transition to psychosis. Participants (n = 1292) aged 18-65 years with CS-PLE were assessed at baseline for sociodemographic details, family history of ment...
Adu, Collins Frimpong, James Boadu Mohammed, Aliu Tetteh, Justice Kanor Budu, Eugene Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku Seidu, Abdul-Aziz
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Journal of biosocial science
Women's ability to negotiate for safer sex has effects on their sexual and reproductive health. This study investigated the association between safer sex negotiation and parity among women in sub-Saharan Africa. The data were sourced from the Demographic and Health Surveys of 28 sub-Saharan African countries conducted from 2010 to 2019. A total of ...
Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku Hagan, John Elvis Jr Seidu, Abdul-Aziz Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi Budu, Eugene Adu, Collins Okyere, Joshua Archer, Anita Gracious Schack, Thomas
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Journal of biosocial science
Two commonly linked harmful practices that negatively impact the health of girls and women in sub-Saharan Africa, and threaten their development and quality of life, are female genital mutilation and girl-child marriage. The central focus of the study was to investigate the association between female genital mutilation and girl-child marriage in su...
