Browsing Research Articles (School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)) by UP Author "Iwu, Chidozie Declan"

Browsing Research Articles (School of Health Systems and Public Health (SHSPH)) by UP Author "Iwu, Chidozie Declan"

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  • Cochrane corner : personal protective equipment for preventing highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19 in healthcare staff 
    Iwu, Chinwe Juliana; Jordan, Portia; Jaca, Anelisa; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Schutte, Lorraine; Wiysonge, Charles Shey (African Field Epidemiology Network, 2020-10-13)
    As coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases continue to increase in Africa, healthcare workers (HCWs) have a high risk of being infected and the risks may be higher among those who work closely with patients. The risks of ...
  • Health trends, inequalities and opportunities in South Africa’s provinces, 1990–2019 : findings from the global burden of disease 2019 study 
    Achoki, Tom Nyandega; Sartorius, Benn; Watkins, David; Glenn, Scott D.; Kengne, Andre Pascal; Oni, Tolu; Wiysonge, Charles Shey; Walker, Alexandra; Adetokunboh, Olatunji O.; Babalola, Tesleem Kayode; Bolarinwa, Obasanjo Afolabi; Claassens, Mareli M.; Cowden, Richard G.; Day, Candy T.; Ezekannagha, Oluchi; Ginindza, Themba G.; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Iwu, Chinwe Juliana; Karangwa, Innocent; Katoto, Patrick D.M.C.; Kugbey, Nuworza; Kuupiel, Desmond; Mahasha, Phetole Walter; Mashamba-Thompson, Tivani Phosa; Mensah, George A.; Ndwandwe, Duduzile Edith; Nnaji, Chukwudi A.; Ntsekhe, Mpiko; Nyirenda, Thomas Elliot; Odhiambo, Julius Nyerere; Asante, Kwaku Oppong; Parry, Charles D.H.; Pillay, Julian David; Schutte, Aletta Elisabeth; Seedat, Soraya; Sliwa, Karen; Stein, Dan J.; Tanser, Frank C.; Useh, Ushotanefe; Zar, H.; Zuhlke, Liesl J.; Mayosi, Bongani M.; Hay, Simon I.; Murray, Christopher J.L.; Naghavi, Mohsen (BMJ Publishing Group, 2022-05)
    BACKGROUND : Over the last 30 years, South Africa has experienced four ’colliding epidemics’ of HIV and tuberculosis, chronic illness and mental health, injury and violence, and maternal, neonatal, and child mortality, ...
  • An insight into the implementation of the global action plan on antimicrobial resistance in the WHO African region : a roadmap for action 
    Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Patrick, Sean Mark (Elsevier, 2021-10)
    INTRODUCTION : The Global Action Plan (GAP) on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) delivers a ‘One Health’ strategy for the development of the national action plan. It encourages the optimal use of antimicrobials and strengthens ...
  • 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 ...
  • New vaccine introductions in WHO African region between 2000 and 2022 
    Iwu-Jaja, Chinwe Juliana; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Jaca, Anelisa; Wiysonge, Charles Shey (MDPI, 2023-11-16)
    Significant progress has been made in vaccine development worldwide. This study examined the WHO African Region’s vaccine introduction trends from 2000 to 2022, excluding COVID-19 vaccines. We extracted data on vaccine ...
  • The occurrence of long COVID : a rapid review 
    Iwu, Chinwe Juliana; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Wiysonge, Charles Shey (African Field Epidemiology Network, 2021-01)
    The long-term effects of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are not well understood. This rapid review was aimed at synthesizing evidence on the long-term effects of the SARS-CoV-2 ...
  • Preventing and managing antimicrobial resistance in the African region : a scoping review protocol 
    Iwu-Jaja, Chinwe Juliana; Jaca, Anelisa; Jaja, Ishmael Festus; Jordan, Portia; Bhengu, Phelele; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Okeibunor, Joseph; Karamagi, Humphrey; Tumusiime, Prosper; Fuller, Walter; Yahaya, Ali Ahmed; Wiysonge, Charles; Gahimbare, Laetitia (Public Library of Science, 2021-07)
    INTRODUCTION: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes a significant threat to global health and food security, typically associated with high morbidity and mortality rate. The high burden of infectious diseases coupled ...
  • Systematic mapping of research on vaccine-preventable diseases in children in sub-Saharan Africa : a decennial scientometric analysis 
    Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Iwu-Jaja, Chinwe; Jaca, Anelisa; Wiysonge, Charles Shey (MDPI, 2023-09)
    Vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) remain a significant public health challenge, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The high burden of VPDs in this region necessitates the need for continued investigation and intervention. ...
  • Systematic review and meta-analysis of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis as environmental trigger of multiple sclerosis 
    Ekundayo, Temitope C.; Olasehinde, Tosin A.; Falade, Ayodeji O.; Adewoyin, Mary A.; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Igere, Bright; Ijabadeniyi, Oluwatosin (Elsevier, 2022-03)
    Please read abstract in the article.
  • Treatment of COVID-19 : implications for antimicrobial resistance in Africa 
    Iwu, Chinwe Juliana; Jordan, Portia; Jaja, Ishmael Festus; Iwu, Chidozie Declan; Wiysonge, Charles Shey (African Field Epidemiology Network, 2020-07-20)
    There is currently no approved pharmaceutical product for the treatment of COVID-19. However, antibiotics are currently being used for the management of COVID-19 patients in many settings either treat to coinfections or ...