Tymejczyk, Olga Vo, Quynh Kulkarni, Sarah Gorrell Antelman, Gretchen Boshe, Judith Reidy, William Parcesepe, Angela Nash, Denis Elul, Batya
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AIDS care
In the era of "test and treat", it is important to understand HIV care outcomes and their determinants in patients presenting to care with early-stage disease. We surveyed 924 adults newly enrolling in HIV care at four clinics in Tanzania before the adoption of universal treatment eligibility, and collected longitudinal clinical data. Participants ...
Obebe, Oluwasola Olaiya Falohun, Olufarati Oludunsin
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Acta tropica
Malaria related HIV morbidity and death is a concern in sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding the epidemiology of malaria among people living with HIV is vital for adequate intervention. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the prevalence of malaria in HIV patients in sub-Saharan Africa. We searched PubMed, AJOL, Web of Scienc...
Bedwell, C Blaikie, K Actis Danna, V Sutton, C Laisser, R Tembo Kasengele, C Wakasiaka, S Victor, S Lavender, T
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BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
To understand the complexities surrounding unexplained stillbirth for the development and implementation of culturally acceptable interventions to underpin care in Tanzania and Zambia. Mixed-methods study. Tertiary, secondary and primary care facilities in Mansa, Zambia, and Mwanza, Tanzania. Quantitative: 1997 women giving birth at two tertiary ca...
Falchetta, Giacomo Hammad, Ahmed T Shayegh, Soheil
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Achieving universal health care coverage-a key target of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 3-requires accessibility to health care services for all. Currently, in sub-Saharan Africa, at least one-sixth of the population lives more than 2 h away from a public hospital, and one in eight people is no less than 1 h away from the ne...
Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku Seidu, Abdul-Aziz Armah-Ansah, Ebenezer Kwesi Budu, Eugene Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena Agbaglo, Ebenezer Yaya, Sanni
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundDespite the extensive research on fertility desires among women the world over, there is a relative dearth of literature on the desire for more children in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study, therefore, examined the desire for more children and its predictors among childbearing women in SSA.MethodsWe pooled data from 32 sub-Saharan Afri...
Gautier, Lara Karambé, Youssouf Dossou, Jean-Paul Samb, Oumar Mallé
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Global public health
There has been much talk about decolonizing global health lately. The movement, which has arisen in various communities around the world, suggests an interesting critique of the Western dominant model of representations. Building upon the 'decolonial thinking' movement from the perspective of Francophone African philosophers, we comment on its pote...
Enguita-Fernàndez, Cristina Alonso, Yara Lusengi, Wade Mayembe, Alain Manun'Ebo, Manu F Ranaivontiavina, Sylviane Rasoamananjaranahary, Aimée M Mucavele, Estêvão Macete, Eusebio Nwankwo, Ogonna
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Global public health
This qualitative study is part of a project aiming to evaluate a community-based approach to the delivery of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) through community health workers (CHWs) in four sub-Saharan African countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Madagascar, Mozambique ...
Mshamu, Salum Peerawaranun, Pimnara Kahabuka, Catherine Deen, Jacqueline Tusting, Lucy Lindsay, Steve W Knudsen, Jakob Mukaka, Mavuto von Seidlein, Lorenz
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Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH
Le logement joue un rôle essentiel dans l'accumulation de richesse et le statut socioéconomique d'un ménage dans les villages ruraux de Tanzanie. Les ménages dont le chef avait moins de 50 ans étaient plus susceptibles de vivre dans un logement amélioré et jouissaient d'un SSE plus élevé que les ménages dont le chef était plus âgé. Les familles plu...
Rowe, Kirsten Duta, Mihaela Demeyere, Nele Wagner, Ryan G Pettifor, Audrey Kahn, Kathleen Tollman, Stephen Scerif, Gaia Stein, Alan
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AIDS care
Executive function (EF) may predict sexual risk-taking and HIV risk in young women in rural South Africa. We tested associations between EF and seven risky behavioural outcomes: binge drinking, illicit substance use, unprotected vaginal sex, concurrent sexual relationships, transactional sex, herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection, and HIV i...
Filiatreau, Lindsey M Giovenco, Danielle Twine, Rhian Gómez-Olivé, F Xavier Kahn, Kathleen Haberland, Nicole Pettifor, Audrey
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Journal of the International AIDS Society
Experiences of violence during youth contravene young people's rights and increase the risk of depression and poor human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care outcomes among youth living with HIV (YLWH). Intervention targets for mitigating the negative psychosocial effects of violence are needed, particularly in areas like rural South Africa where viol...
