An anticipated decline in external funding in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) necessitates a re-evaluation of HIV response sustainability strategies. While institutional capacity building (ICB) has yielded positive outcomes, ...
Globally, there have been multiple public health emergencies in recent decades. High rates of morbidity, occasionally mortality, and economic instability are usually associated with pandemics. One of the epidemics that has ...
BACKGROUND Healthcare workers’ (HCWs) knowledge of multi-stranded cholera interventions (including case management,
water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), surveillance/laboratory methods, coordination, and vaccination)
is ...
Countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are expected to experience more public health emergencies (PHEs) in the near future. The fragile health systems emanating from poor health governance, inadequate health infrastructure, ...
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a significant health burden in Sub-Saharan Africa, with mortality rates loosely linked to African ancestry. Yet studies aimed at identifying contributing risk factors are lacking within the continent ...
Chakhame, Bertha Magreta; Darj, Elisabeth; Mwapasa, Mphatso; Kafulafula, Ursula Kalimembe; Maluwa, Alfred; Odland, Jon Oyvind; Odland, Maria Lisa(BioMed Central, 2023-02)
BACKGROUND: Abortion-related complications are among the common causes of maternal mortality in Malawi. Misoprostol is recommended for the treatment of first-trimester incomplete abortions but is seldom used for post-abortion ...
Ngobeni, Lindelwa Mitchele; Moropeng, Lucky; Thsehla, Evelyn(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2024-06)
BACKGROUND : No matter which benefit option members have chosen, medical schemes are required by the Medical Schemes Act no. 131 of 1998 to pay costs associated with the diagnosis, treatment, or care of a specified set of ...
Mahlare, Edna; Ramutshila, E.; Musekiwa, Alfred; Kuonza, Lazarus R.; Mabuto, T.(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2023-12)
BACKGROUND : Prevention of new HIV infections is crucial for controlling the HIV epidemic. Despite HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) being one of the highly effective approaches to preventing HIV, and being freely available ...
Ibrahim, Mohanad K.M.; Wolvaardt, Jacqueline Elizabeth (Liz); Elnimeiri, Mustafa K.M.; Ibrahim, Hadeel K.M.; Mohamed, Alaa S.A.(Wiley Open Access, 2023-05)
Early childhood is an important period for children's health and
development. In addition to physical wellbeing, healthy development
of a child is when social, emotional and educational needs
are met.
Jafar, Zain; Quick, Jonathan D.; Larson, Heidi J.; Venegas-Vera, Verner; Napoli, Philip; Musuka, Godfrey; Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa; Meena, Kolar Sridara; Kanmani, T. Raju; Rimanyi, Eszter(Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2023)
With more than 4.26 billion social media users worldwide, social media has become a primary
source of health information, exchange, and influence. As its use has rapidly expanded, social
media has proven to be a ...
Mapingure, Munyaradzi; Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa; Mukandavire, Zindoga; Chingombe, Innocent; Cuadros, Diego F.; Eghtessadi, Rouzeh; Mutenherwa, Farirai; Herrera, Helena; Madziva, Roda; Mukwenha, Solomon; Murewanhema, Grant; Musuka, Godfrey(Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, 2023)
BACKGROUND : Gender-based violence (GBV) has been shown to have significant and longlasting
impacts on women’s physical and mental health. It is, therefore, important to study its
occurrence in a population and its ...
BACKGROUND : Leadership and governance are critical for achieving universal health coverage (UHC). In South Africa,
aspirations for UHC are expressed through the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) system, which ...
BACKGROUNG AND OBJECTIVE : To provide good health and well-being as established by the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3, access to digital technologies can act as conduits to achieve such progress in a population. As ...
South Africa’s effort to eliminate malaria is significantly challenged by a large number of imported
malaria cases, especially from neighbouring Mozambique. The country has a funding gap to
achieve its malaria elimination ...
BACKGROUND : Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a public health issue of concern in South
Africa. Workers in the agricultural sector are generally at increased risk of TB due to multiple
interacting factors such as exposure ...
Akinjogunla, Olajide J.; Odeyemi, Adebowale T.; Udofia, Edinam-Abasi S.; Adefiranye, Oyetayo O.; Yah, Clarence S.; Ehinmore, Igbagbo; Etukudo, Idongesit U.(European Academy of HIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases, 2023-03)
INTRODUCTION : Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria, extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL), metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) and AmpC-β-lactamase (AmpC-βL)-producers are increasing globally. This study identified ...
Kanda, Artwell; Ncube, Esper Jacobeth; Voyi, Kuku(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
Selecting an appropriate sanitation option involves multiple stakeholders with often conflicting objectives. A multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) framework was developed to inform decision makers on selecting ...
Zimbabwe is one of the four African countries to have achieved the UNAIDS 95-95-
95 targets. However, significant programmatic gaps remain for selected key populations.
Zimbabwe has several legal and policy constraints ...