Browsing School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH) by Title

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  • m-PIMA™ HIV1/2 VL : a suitable tool for HIV-1 and HIV-2 viral load quantification in West Africa 
    Diop-Ndiaye, Halimatou; Sène, Pauline Yacine; Coulibaly, Khadidiatou; Diallo, Marième; Diallo, Sada; Diop, Karim; Sow-Ndoye, Aissatou; Fall, Mengue; Ndiaye, Anna Julienne Selbe; Mathebula, Evans Mantiri; Ba, Adjratou Aissatou; Lejeune, Charlotte; Manga, Ndeye Marie Pascaline; Camara, Makhtar; Ndour, Cheikh Tidiane; Kane, Coumba Toure (Elsevier, 2024-02)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • The magnitude of postpartum depression among mothers in Africa 
    Atuhaire, Catherine; Brennaman, Laura; Cumber, Samuel Nambile; Rukundo, Godfrey Zari; Nambozi, Grace (African Field Epidemiology Network, 2020-09-25)
    INTRODUCTION : postpartum depression (PPD) continues to become one of the major maternal health challenges across the globe but there is a paucity of recent data on its magnitude in Africa. This study was motivated by the ...
  • Maintaining focus on administering effective malaria treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Raman, Jaishree; Barnes, K.I.; Baker, L.; Blaylock, M.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Frean, J.; Misiani, E.; Ukpe, I.S. (Indongesit Sunday) (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-01)
    As September marks the start of the malaria season in South Africa (SA), it is essential that healthcare professionals consider both COVID19 and malaria when a patient who lives in or has recently travelled to a malaria ...
  • Major climate change-induced risks to human health in South Africa 
    Wright, Caradee Yael; Kapwata, Thandi; Du Preez, David Jean; Wernecke, Bianca; Garland, Rebecca M.; Nkosi, Vusumuzi; Landman, Willem Adolf; Dyson, Liesl L.; Norval, Mary (Elsevier, 2021-05)
    There are many climatic changes facing South Africa which already have, or are projected to have, a detrimental impact on human health. Here the risks to health due to several alterations in the climate of South Africa are ...
  • Making every baby count - an urgent reproductive health priority as sub-Saharan Africa continues to witness a high incidence of stillbirths 
    Murewanhema, Grant; Moyo, Enos; Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa (African Journal of Reproductive Health Women's Health and Action Research Centre, 2023-12)
    The expected culmination of a positive pregnancy experience is a healthy mother and a bouncing live baby. Unfortunately, globally an estimated 2 million babies are still born every year, with the largest incidence of ...
  • Making existing technology safer in healthcare 
    Newton, Richard C.; Mytton, Oliver T.; Aggarwal, Rajesh; Runciman, William B.; Free, Michael; Fahlgren, Bjorn; Akiyama, Masanori; Farlow, Barbara; Yaron, Sara; Locke, Gerad; Whittaker, Stuart (BMJ, 2010-04)
    BACKGROUND: Technology, equipment and medical devices are vital for effective healthcare throughout the world but are associated with risks. These risks include device failure, inappropriate use, insufficient user-training ...
  • Malaria in children under-five : a comparison of risk factors in lakeshore and highland areas, Zomba district, Malawi 
    Hajison, Precious L.; Feresu, Shingairai A.; Mwakikunga, Bonex W. (Public Library of Science, 2018-11-12)
    BACKGROUND : In Malawi, children under the age of five living in different geographical areas may experience different malaria risk factors. We compare the risk factors of malaria experienced by children under the ...
  • Malaria in patients with sickle cell anaemia: burden, risk factors and outcome at the Laquintinie hospital, Cameroon 
    Eleonore, Ngo Linwa Esther; Cumber, Samuel Nambile; Charlotte, Eposse Ekoube; Lucas, Esuh Esong; Edgar, Mandeng Ma Linwa; Nkfusai, Claude Ngwayu; Geh, Meh Martin; Ngenge, Budzi Michael; Bede, Fala; Fomukong, Nzozone Henry; Kamga, Henri Lucien Fouammo; Mbanya, Dora (BioMed Central, 2020-01-14)
    BACKGROUND : It is believed that the current prevalence of malaria in endemic areas reflects selection for the carrier form of sickle cell trait through a survival advantage. Malaria has been incriminated as a great cause ...
  • Malaria research and its influence on antimalarial drug policy in Malawi : a case study 
    Mwendera, Chikondi; De Jager, Christiaan; Longwe, Herbert; Phiri, Kamija; Hongoro, Charles; Mutero, Clifford Maina (BioMed Central, 2016-06-01)
    BACKGROUND : In 1993, Malawi changed its first-line anti-malarial treatment for uncomplicated malaria from chloroquine to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP), and in 2007, it changed from SP to lumefantrine-artemether. The ...
  • Malaria research in Malawi from 1984 to 2016 : a literature review and bibliometric analysis 
    Mwendera, Chikondi; De Jager, Christiaan; Longwe, Herbert; Hongoro, Charles; Mutero, Clifford Maina; Phiri, Kamija S. (BioMed Central, 2017-06-12)
    BACKGROUND : Malaria research can play a vital role in addressing the malaria burden in Malawi. An organized approach in addressing malaria in Malawi started in 1984 by the establishment of the first National Malaria ...
  • Malaria vectors and vector surveillance in Limpopo Province (South Africa) : 1927 to 2018 
    Braack, L.E.O.; Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); Kruger, Taneshka; Dahan-Moss, Yael; Gilbert, Allison; Kaiser, Maria; Oliver, Shuné V.; Cornel, Anthony J.; Lee, Yoosook; Norris, Douglas E.; Brooke, Basil; Coetzee, Maureen; De Jager, Christiaan (MDPI Publishing, 2020-06-09)
    Despite the annual implementation of a robust and extensive indoor residual spraying programme against malaria vectors in Limpopo Province (South Africa), significant transmission continues and is a serious impediment ...
  • Management of dyslipidemia in HIV infected patients on combined antiretroviral therapy : effects of intervention 
    Ratau-Dintwe, Mmabatho N.P. (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    Background: Clinical management of dyslipidemia is challenging, particularly hypertriglyceridemia in patients with HIV-infection. Changing combined anti-retroviral therapy (CART) and the use of lipid-lowering drugs have ...
  • Management of face presentation, face and lip edema in a primary healthcare facility case report, Mbengwi, Cameroon 
    Fomukong, Nzozone Henry; Edwin, Ngouagna; Edgar, Mandeng Ma Linwa; Nkfusai, Ngwayu Claude; Ijang, Yunga Patience; Bede, Fala; Shirinde, Joyce; Cumber, Samuel Nambile (African Field Epidemiology Network, 2019-08)
    Face presentation is a rare unanticipated obstetric event characterized by a longitudinal lie and full extension of the foetal head on the neck with the occiput against the upper back . Face presentation occurs in ...
  • The management of infectious diseases in comorbidity with tuberculosis 
    Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa; Imran, Mohd; Muvunyi, Claude Mambo (MDPI, 2022-10-07)
    Tuberculosis (TB) infection is instigated by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). Before COVID-19, TB was the main cause of infectious disease deaths worldwide. MTB has infected about one-fourth of the global ...
  • Manufacturing doubt about endocrine disrupter science : a rebuttal of industry-sponsored critical comments on the UNEP/WHO report “State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012” 
    Bergman, Åke; Becher, Georg; Blumberg, Bruce; Bjerregaard, Poul; Bornman, Maria S. (Riana); Brandt, Ingvar; Casey, Stephanie C.; Frouin, Heloise; Giudice, Linda C.; Heindel, Jerrold J.; Iguchi, Taisen; Jobling, Susan; Kidd, Karen A.; Kortenkamp, Andreas; Lind, P. Monica; Muir, Derek; Ochieng, Roseline; Ropstad, Erik; Ross, Peter S.; Skakkebaek, Niels Erik; Toppari, Jorma; Vandenberg, Laura N.; Woodruff, Tracey J.; Zoeller, R. Thomas (Elsevier, 2015-12)
    We present a detailed response to the critique of “State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 2012” (UNEP/WHO, 2013) by financial stakeholders, authored by Lamb et al. (2014). Lamb et al.'s claim that UNEP/WHO ...
  • Mapping age‑ and sex‑specific HIV prevalence in adults in sub‑Saharan Africa, 2000–2018 
    Serfes, Audrey L.; Cork, Michael A.; Yang, Mingyou; Abbastabar, Hedayat; Abhilash, E.S.; Adabi, Maryam; Adebayo, Oladimeji M.; Adekanmbi, Victor; Adeyinka, Daniel Adedayo; Afzal, Saira; Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku; Ahmadi, Keivan; Ahmed, Muktar Beshir; Akalu, Yonas; Akinyemi, Rufus Olusola; Akunna, Chisom Joyqueenet; Alahdab, Fares; Alanezi, Fahad Mashhour; Alanzi, Turki M.; Alene, Kefyalew Addis; Alhassan, Robert Kaba; Alipour, Vahid; Almasi‑Hashiani, Amir; Alvis‑Guzman, Nelson; Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena; Amini, Saeed; Amugsi, Dickson A.; Ancuceanu, Robert; Anvari, Davood; Yaw Appiah, Seth Christopher; Arabloo, Jalal; Aremu, Olatunde; Asemahagn, Mulusew A.; Jafarabadi, Mohammad Asghari; Awedew, Atalel Fentahun; Quintanilla, Beatriz Paulina Ayala; Ayanore, Martin Amogre; Aynalem, Yared Asmare; Azari, Samad; Azene, Zelalem Nigussie; Darshan, B.B.; Babalola, Tesleem Kayode; Baig, Atif Amin; Banach, Maciej; Barnighausen, Till Winfried; Bell, Arielle Wilder; Bhagavathula, Akshaya Srikanth; Bhardwaj, Nikha; Bhardwaj, Pankaj; Bhattacharyya, Krittika; Bijani, Ali; Bitew, Zebenay Workneh; Bohlouli, Somayeh; Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi; Boloor, Archith; Bozicevic, Ivana; Butt, Zahid A.; Cardenas, Rosario; Carvalho, Felix; Charan, Jaykaran; Chattu, Vijay Kumar; Chowdhury, Mohiuddin Ahsanul Kabir; Chu, Dinh‑Toi; Cowden, Richard G.; Dahlawi, Saad M.A.; Damiani, Giovanni; Darteh, Eugene Kofuor Maafo; Darwesh, Aso Mohammad; Das Neves, Jose; Weaver, Nicole Davis; De Leo, Diego; De Neve, Jan‑Walter; Deribe, Kebede; Deuba, Keshab; Dharmaratne, Samath; Dianatinasab, Mostafa; Diaz, Daniel; Didarloo, Alireza; Djalalinia, Shirin; Dorostkar, Fariba; Dubljanin, Eleonora; Duko, Bereket; El Tantawi, Maha; El‑Jaafary, Shaimaa I.; Eshrati, Babak; Eskandarieh, Sharareh; Eyawo, Oghenowede; Ezeonwumelu, Ifeanyi Jude; Ezzikouri, Sayeh; Farzadfar, Farshad; Fattahi, Nazir; Fauk, Nelsensius Klau; Fernandes, Eduarda; Filip, Irina; Fischer, Florian; Foigt, Nataliya A.; Foroutan, Masoud; Fukumoto, Takeshi; Gad, Mohamed M.; Gaidhane, Abhay Motiramji; Gebregiorgis, Birhan Gebresillassie; Gebremedhin, Ketema Bizuwork; Getacher, Lemma; Ghadiri, Keyghobad; Ghashghaee, Ahmad; Golechha, Mahaveer; Mohialdeen Gubari, Mohammed Ibrahim; Gugnani, Harish Chander; Guimaraes, Rafael Alves; Haider, Mohammad Rifat; Haj‑Mirzaian, Arvin; Hamidi, Samer; Hashi, Abdiwahab; Hassanipour, Soheil; Hassankhani, Hadi; Hayat, Khezar; Herteliu, Claudiu; Ho, Hung Chak; Holla, Ramesh; Hosseini, Mostafa; Hosseinzadeh, Mehdi; Hwang, Bing‑Fang; Ibitoye, Segun Emmanuel; Ilesanmi, Olayinka Stephen; Ilic, Irena M.; Ilic, Milena D.; Islam, Rakibul M.; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Jakovljevic, Mihajlo; Jha, Ravi Prakash; Ji, John S.; Johnson, Kimberly B.; Joseph, Nitin; Joshua, Vasna; Joukar, Farahnaz; Jozwiak, Jacek Jerzy; Kalankesh, Leila R.; Kalhor, Rohollah; Kamyari, Naser; Kanchan, Tanuj; Matin, Behzad Karami; Karimi, Salah Eddin; Kayode, Gbenga A.; Karyani, Ali Kazemi; Keramati, Maryam; Khan, Ejaz Ahmad; Khan, Gulfaraz; Khan, Md Nuruzzaman; Khatab, Khaled; Khubchandani, Jagdish; Kim, Yun Jin; Kisa, Adnan; Kisa, Sezer; Kopec, Jacek A.; Kosen, Soewarta; Laxminarayana, Sindhura Lakshmi Koulmane; Koyanagi, Ai; rishan, Kewal K; Defo, Barthelemy Kuate; Kugbey, Nuworza; Kulkarni, Vaman; Kumar, Manasi; Kumar, Nithin; Kusuma, Dian; La Vecchia, Carlo; Lal, Dharmesh Kumar; Landires, Ivan; Larson, Heidi Jane; Lasrado, Savita; Paul H. Lee; Li, Shanshan; Liu, Xuefeng; Maleki, Afshin; Malik, Preeti; Mansournia, Mohammad Ali; Martins‑Melo, Francisco Rogerlândio; Mendoza, Walter; Menezes, Ritesh G.; Mengesha, Endalkachew Worku; Meretoja, Tuomo J.; Mestrovic, Tomislav; Mirica, Andreea; Moazen, Babak; Mohamad, Osama; Mohammad, Yousef; Mohammadian‑ Hafshejani, Abdollah; Mohammadpourhodki, Reza; Mohammed, Salahuddin; Mohammed, Shafiu; Mokdad, Ali H.; Moradi, Masoud; Moraga, Paula; Mubarik, Sumaira; Mulu, Getaneh Baye B.; Mwanri, Lillian; Nagarajan, Ahamarshan Jayaraman; Naimzada, Mukhammad David; Naveed, Muhammad; Nazari, Javad; Ndejjo, Rawlance; Negoi, Ionut; Ngalesoni, Frida N.; Nguefack‑Tsague, Georges; Ngunjiri, Josephine W.; Nguyen, Cuong Tat; Nguyen, Huong Lan Thi; Nnaji, Chukwudi A.; Noubiap, Jean Jacques; Nunez‑Samudio, Virginia; Nwatah, Vincent Ebuka; Oancea, Bogdan; Odukoya, Oluwakemi Ololade; Olagunju, Andrew T.; Olakunde, Babayemi Oluwaseun; Olusanya, Bolajoko Olubukunola; Olusanya, Jacob Olusegun; Bali, Ahmed Omar; Onwujekwe, Obinna E.; Orisakwe, Orish Ebere; Otstavnov, Nikita; Otstavnov, Stanislav S.; Owolabi, Mayowa O.; Mahesh, P.A.; Padubidri, Jagadish Rao; Pana, Adrian; Pandey, Ashok; Pandi‑Perumal, Seithikurippu R.; Kan, Fatemeh Pashazadeh; Patton, George C.; Pawar, Shrikant; Peprah, Emmanuel K.; Postma, Maarten J.; Preotescu, Liliana; Syed, Zahiruddin Quazi; Rabiee, Navid; Radfar, Amir; Rafiei, Alireza; Rahim, Fakher; Rahimi‑Movaghar, Vafa; Rahmani, Amir Masoud; Ramezanzadeh, Kiana; Rana, Juwel; Ranabhat, Chhabi Lal; Rao, Sowmya J.; Rawaf, David Laith; Rawaf, Salman; Rawassizadeh, Reza; Regassa, Lemma Demissie; Rezaei, Nima; Rezapour, Aziz; Riaz, Mavra A.; Ribeiro, Ana Isabel; Ross, Jennifer M.; Rubagotti, Enrico; Rumisha, Susan Fred; Rwegerera, Godfrey M.; Moghaddam, Sahar Saeedi; Sagar, Rajesh; Sahiledengle, Biniyam; Sahu, Maitreyi; Salem, Marwa Rashad; Kafil, Hossein Samadi; Samy, Abdallah M.; Sartorius, Benn; Sathian, Brijesh; Seidu, Abdul‑Aziz; Shaheen, Amira A.; Shaikh, Masood Ali; Shamsizadeh, Morteza; Shiferaw, Wondimeneh Shibabaw; Shin, Jae Il; Shrestha, Roman; Singh, Jasvinder A.; Skryabin, Valentin Yurievich; Skryabina, Anna Aleksandrovna; Soltani, Shahin; Sufiyan, Mu’awiyyah Babale; Tabuchi, Takahiro; Tadesse, Eyayou Girma; Taveira, Nuno; Tesfay, Fisaha Haile; Thapar, Rekha; Tovani‑Palone, Marcos Roberto; Tsegaye, Gebiyaw Wudie; Umeokonkwo, Chukwuma David; Unnikrishnan, Bhaskaran; Villafane, Jorge Hugo; Violante, Francesco S.; Vo, Bay; Vu, Giang Thu; Wado, Yohannes Dibaba; Waheed, Yasir; Wamai, Richard G.; Wang, Yanzhong; Ward, Paul; Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana; Wilson, Katherine; Yaya, Sanni; Yip, Paul; Yonemoto, Naohiro; Yu, Chuanhua; Zastrozhin, Mikhail Sergeevich; Zhang, Yunquan; Zhang, Zhi‑Jiang; Hay, Simon I.; Dwyer‑Lindgren, Laura; Local Burden of Disease sub-Saharan Africa HIV Prevalence (BMC, 2022)
    BACKGROUND : Human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is still among the leading causes of disease burden and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and the world is not on track to ...
  • Mapping evidence of mobile health technologies for disease diagnosis and treatment support by health workers in sub-Saharan Africa : a scoping review 
    Osei, Ernest; Kuupiel, Desmond; Vezi, Portia Nelisiwe; Mashamba‑Thompson, Tivani Phosa (BMC, 2021-01)
    BACKGROUND: The rapid growth of mobile technology has given rise to the development of mobile health (mHealth) applications aimed at treating and preventing a wide range of health conditions. However, evidence on the ...
  • Mapping evidence of self-sampling to diagnose sexually transmitted infections in women : a scoping review 
    Jaya, Ziningi Nobuhle; Mapanga, Witness; Van Niekerk, Brian; Dlangalala, Thobeka Nomzamo; Kgarosi, Kabelo; Dzobo, Mathias; Mulqueeny, Delarise; Mashamba‑Thompson, Tivani Phosa (MDPI, 2022-07-26)
    BACKGROUND : Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are a major global healthcare burden, disproportionately affecting women. Self-sampling interventions for diagnostic purposes have the potential to improve STI healthcare ...
  • Mapping evidence on the acceptability of human papillomavirus self-sampling for cervical cancer screening among women in sub-Saharan Africa : a scoping review 
    Dzobo, Mathias; Dzinamarira, Tafadzwa; Maluleke, Kuhlula; Jaya, Ziningi Nobuhle; Kgarosi, Kabelo; Mashamba‑Thompson, Tivani Phosa (BMJ Publishing Group, 2023-04)
    OBJECTIVES : The objective of this scoping review was to map evidence on the acceptability of self-sampling for human papillomavirus testing (HPVSS) for cervical cancer screening among women in the sub-Saharan Africa ...
  • Mapping evidence on the burden of breast, cervical, and prostate cancers in Sub-Saharan Africa : a scoping review 
    Musekiwa, Alfred; Moyo, Maureen; Mohammed, Mohanad; Matsena-Zingoni, Zvifadzo; Twabi, Halima Sumayya; Batidzira, Jesca Mercy; Singini, Geoffrey Chiyuzga; Kgarosi, Kabelo; Mchunu, Nobuhle; Nevhungoni, Portia; Silinda, Patricia; Ekwomadu, Theodora; Maposa, Innocent (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-16)
    BACKGROUND : Cancer remains a major public health problem, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the provision of health care is poor. This scoping review mapped evidence in the literature regarding the burden of ...