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Research Articles (School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)): Recent submissions
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(Springer, 2024-12)INTRODUCTION : We implemented two cross-sectional reproductive age mortality surveys in 2007–2008 and 2018–2019 to assess changes in the MMR and causes of death in Zimbabwe. We collected data from health institutions, civil ...
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(African Field Epidemiology Network, 2024-11)INTRODUCTION: tuberculosis (TB) is one of the top ten causes of death and the leading cause from a single infectious agent called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This study aims to evaluate TB treatment outcomes among patients ...
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(African Field Epidemiology Network, 2024-07)INTRODUCTION: South Africa adopted for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in 2016, becoming the first African country to do so. Yet to date, uptake has been underwhelming, only about 165,000 South Africans were reported to ...
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(African Field Epidemiology Network, 2024-08)INTRODUCTION: despite the introduction of the Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) vaccine in South Africa in 1995, HBV remains endemic. South Africa's HBV vaccine coverage for the third dose was 71% in 2015. Information on the HBV ...
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(Elsevier, 2024-09)OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to analyze the clinicoradiologic features and Ki-67 proliferation indices between the histopathologic variants of ameloblastomas (ABs) for possible associations. STUDY DESIGN: The diagnosis ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2024-07)BACKGROUND We evaluated naturally occurring nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (NTV/r) resistance-associated mutations (RAMs) among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) strains from Botswana, a country with ...
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(BMC, 2024-10)BACKGROUND: Surveillance of the host–anopheline mosquitoes’ interaction is important for assessing malaria transmission risk and guiding vector control. We assume that changes in malaria vector species’ feeding habits, as ...
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(MDPI, 2024-01)Abattoir workers are liable to zoonotic infections from animals and animal products, primarily to diseases with asymptomatic and chronic clinical manifestations in animals, such as brucellosis. No published reports exist ...
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(Sage, 2024)BACKGROUND: This study assessed sexually transmitted infection (STI) results among non-health-seeking men who have sex with men (MSM) who had not previously screened for curable STIs. METHODS: Secondary data analysis of a ...
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(Elsevier, 2025-08)BACKGROUND : In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls often face compounded vulnerabilities, including early marriage, limited access to quality education, and economic exclusion, which impede their potential to contribute ...
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(Elsevier, 2025)BACKGROUND : Postnatal care (PNC) service utilization remains low in Namibia, including in the Oshana region, with only 20% of newborn babies accessing them within two days of delivery in 2021, which is much lower than the ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2024-11-04)Capacity building for health technology assessment (HTA) holds a pivotal position in shaping the landscape of healthcare decision-making. It is one of the key strategic goals of Health Technology Assessment International ...
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(Elsevier, 2025-03)Globally, poor health is associated with lower socioeconomic status (i.e., the gradient). While significant socio-demographic drivers of socioeconomic inequalities have been documented in South Africa, little is known about ...
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(MDPI, 2024-11-20)This study investigated the prevalence of childhood asthma and respiratory symptoms with their associated air pollution sources among adolescents aged 13–14 years residing in a Malaria-endemic region. METHODS : A cross-sectional ...
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(Elsevier, 2025-03)Human milk studies analyzing widely used contaminants mainly utilize a targeted approach to screen and quantify a limited number of compounds. While targeted analysis allows health officials to quantify the levels of these ...
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(BMJ Publishing Group, 2025-02)INTRODUCTION : The health consequences of secondhand smoke (SHS) are a long-standing concern. The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is an evidence-based treaty that aims to protect people from health and ...
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(MDPI, 2024-11)The burden of bacterial bloodstream infections (BSIs) is rapidly increasing in Africa including Rwanda. Methods: This is a retrospective study that investigates the diversity, distribution, and antimicrobial susceptibility ...
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Association between SARS-CoV-2 gene specific Ct values and COVID-19 associated in-hospital mortality (Frontiers Media, 2024-04-26)BACKGROUND : Since there are currently no specific SARS-CoV-2 prognostic viral biomarkers for predicting disease severity, there has been interest in using SARSCoV- 2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) cycle-threshold (Ct) ...
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(American Chemical Society, 2025-03)Mixed-ligand platinum(II) complexes incorporating bipyridine and acyl-thiourea ligands were synthesized and evaluated for their in vitro growth inhibitory activity against the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum ...
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(National Association of Clean Air, 2024-12)Please read abstract in article.
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