Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) remains the region
with the highest burden of HIV/AIDS globally,
accounting for about two-thirds
of
people living with HIV/AIDS.1 Despite significant
progress in scaling up HIV testing ...
OBJECTIVE : To determine the most acceptable hypertension
intervention package to promote hypertension adherence
based on stakeholders’ perspectives.
DESIGN : We employed the nominal group technique
method and purposively ...
OBJECTIVES : To describe associations between men’s
poor mental health (depressive and post-traumatic
stress
symptomatology) and their perpetration of intimate partner
violence (IPV) and non-partner
sexual violence ...
OBJECTIVES : Identify factors (demographic and clinical)
associated with a non-suppressed
viral load (VL) of people
living with HIV (PLHIV) on antiretroviral therapy (ART) in
Nigeria.
DESIGN : Cross-sectional
study.
SETTING ...
Gigi, Ranjana M. S.; Mdingi, Mandisa M.; Jung, Hyunsul; Claassen-Weitz, Shantelle; Butikofer, Lukas; Klausner, Jeffrey D.; Muzny, Christina A.; Taylor, Christopher M.; Van de Wijgert, Janneke H.H.M.; Peters, Remco P.H.; Low, Nicola(BMJ Publishing Group, 2023-12)
INTRODUCTION : Preterm birth complications are the most
common cause of death in children under 5 years.
The presence of multiple microorganisms and genital
tract inflammation could be the common mechanism
driving early ...
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 ...
Assede, Emeline S.P.; Biaou, Samadori S.H.; Chirwa, Paxie W.; Tonouéwa, Jesugnon F.M.F.; Velarde, Eduardo Valdes(Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique Pour le Developpement, 2023-06)
Agroforestry encompasses a large set of techniques
and practices that have the potential to
improve farm productivity with minimum environmental
impacts in the context of climate
change mitigation and adaptation (CCMA). ...
‘Digitization’ is a logical operation that deconstructs information and transforms it into digits, rendering it a logical construct. Digital operations are fast, infinitely replicable, objective, and absolute. But digitization ...
This article develops on the plenary paper we presented for the second Modern Heritage in the Anthropocene Symposium (MoHoA), held at the Bartlett School of Architecture(UCL) October 26–28, 2022. At the first MOHoA Symposium ...
Grobbelaar, Simone; Mercier, Anne Elisabeth; Van den Bout, Iman; Durandt, Chrisna; Pepper, Michael Sean(Wiley, 2024-01)
The generation of tissue from stem cells is an alluring concept as it holds a number of potential applications in clinical therapeutics and regenerative medicine. Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) can be isolated from ...
Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) are obligate parasites of soil-dwelling insects and are used as biological control agents for many insect pests. These nematodes have a free-living third growth stage called infective ...
Filgrastim is approved for several indications, including reduction of the incidence and duration of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and for stem cell mobilization. The filgrastim biosimilar, EP2006, has been available ...
PURPOSE : International business as a field values perspectives from various contexts, but scholars from emerging markets face a number of often-unseen challenges preventing them from fully contributing to the field. This ...
Du Toit, Elda; Delport, Pieter Willem Jacobus(Wiley, 2024-03)
Considering debates surrounding the usefulness of integrated reporting for decision-making, this exploratory study uses objective measures to investigate the quality of disclosures other than financial in the basic materials ...
Bertola, Laura D.; Brueniche-Olsen, Anna; Kershaw, Francine; Russo, Isa-Rita M.; Macdonald, Anna J.; Sunnucks, Paul; Bruford, Michael W.; Cadena, Carlos Daniel; Ewart, Kyle M.; De Bruyn, Mark; Eldridge, Mark D.B.; Frankham, Richard; Guayasamin, Juan M.; Grueber, Catherine E.; Hoareau, Thierry B.; Hoban, Sean; Hohenlohe, Paul A.; Hunter, Margaret E.; Kotze, Antoinette; Kuja, Josiah; Lacy, Robert C.; Laikre, Linda; Lo, Nathan; Meek, Mariah H.; Mergeay, Joachim; Mittan-Moreau, Cinnamon; Neaves, Linda E.; O'Brien, David; Ochieng, Joel W.; Ogden, Rob; Orozco-terWengel, Pablo; Paez-Vacas, Monica; Pierson, Jennifer; Ralls, Katherine; Shaw, Robyn E.; Sogbohossou, Etotepe A.; Stow, Adam; Steeves, Tammy; Vernesi, Cristiano; Watsa, Mrinalini; Segelbacher, Gernot(Wiley, 2024-01)
Molecular tools are increasingly applied for assessing and monitoring biodiversity and informing conservation action. While recent developments in genetic and genomic methods provide greater sensitivity in analysis and the ...
BACKGROUND : The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought a profound impact on mental health in Sub- Saharan Africa, exacerbating existing disparities and rendering individuals undergoing treatment particularly susceptible. This ...
Di Napoli, Immacolata; Procentese, Fortuna; Visser, Maretha J.(University of Salento, 2024)
Gender-based violence is a major health, social, and human rights issue in the global context. It knows no social or economic boundaries and has devastating effects mostly on women and girls of all socio-economic backgrounds ...
Visser, Maretha J.; Ndhlovu, Sasekile(University of Salento, 2024)
Programmes designed to empower women in an attempt to eradicate violence against them address only one side of the coin. To promote respectful gender relationships, it is also necessary to change the destructive perceptions ...
In 2021, one in five people in Africa was affected by hunger, and the continent had the highest prevalence of undernourished people globally. We argue that food systems in Africa can be more resilient if their development ...
Oosthuizen, Tasha; Pillay, Neville; Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
Urbanization, and the accompanying artificial light at night (ALAN), can disrupt the activity of animals. Such disruptions at the base of a food web can ripple through the ecosystem. Most studies of ALAN are performed in ...