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Polymorphisms in Immune Genes and Their Association with Tuberculosis Susceptibility: An Analysis of the African Population
29 Mar 2024 14:19 GMT
… such as HIV co-infection, drug resistance, and healthcare access. … susceptibility in HIV-infected patients in Tanzania.37,41 … autoimmune versus infectious disease susceptibility in tuberculosis … in Caucasians, African-Americans, and West Africans. Hum Genet. …
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Trends in household out-of-pocket health expenditures and their underlying determinants: explaining variations within African regional economic communities from countries panel data
28 Mar 2024 21:25 GMT
Correlation matrix and principal component analysis results
We use the PCA approach to construct the quality of governance and ICT indices. The approach is appropriate when creating indices using datasets that contain multicollinearity and missing values. …
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Impact of DREAMS Interventions on Attitudes towards Gender Norms among Adolescent Girls and Young Women: Findings from a Prospective Cohort in Kenya
28 Mar 2024 18:30 GMT
Author:
Kate Andrews Nelson
Faith Magut
Sarah Mulwa
Jane Osindo
Vivienne Kamire
Sammy Khagayi
Julie Pulerwitz
Sarah Cook
Annabelle Gourlay
Abdhalah Ziraba
Daniel Kwaro
Sian Floyd
Isolde Birdthistle
Publication Date
Affiliation:
London School of Hygiene …
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Exploring Barriers to Accessing Adolescents Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in South Ethiopia Regional State: A Phenomenological Study Using Levesque’s Framework
28 Mar 2024 06:29 GMT
Introduction
Adolescents globally are a significant demographic group, estimated at 1.3 billion.1 In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), adolescents make up about 25% of the population.2 In Ethiopia, adolescents make up 21.6% of the total population.3 Sexual and …
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Sex workers, marginalization and health in Africa
27 Mar 2024 19:26 GMT
March 27, 2024 —
When UM researchers first arrived in Kenya in the 1980s in partnership with the University of Nairobi, their focus was on addressing the spread of infectious diseases among sex worker communities. As cures and treatments were developed, …
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Sudanese Children with Nephrotic Syndrome: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study
27 Mar 2024 15:54 GMT
… membranous nephropathy, whereas, in Africans, it is due to … on a sample of Sudanese children with diagnosed nephrotic … sheet from the participants’ medical files, and some data … matched between the NS, healthy, and chronic disease groups. Meanwhile, twenty …
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UNAIDS urges Indian Ocean Island countries to strengthen HIV prevention to end AIDS
27 Mar 2024 11:01 GMT
ANTANANARIVO/GENEVA, 27 March 2024—Despite progress across most of sub-Saharan Africa, UNAIDS warns that gaps in HIV prevention are driving new HIV infections in the Indian Ocean Countries (IOC) and several other countries in Africa. The critical gaps …
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Why the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is worrying disease docs
27 Mar 2024 09:04 GMT
"It's just a matter of time, if nothing is done, that the transmission crosses the border in the African region and, again, globally," says Dr. Jean Nachega, an epidemiologist at the University of Pittsburgh.
Nachega is one of a number of …
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HIV-Free Hopes Raised by Reservoir-Targeting VLPs
26 Mar 2024 21:10 GMT
A chronic, survivable condition is better than a death sentence, but it isn’t a cure. This limbo is what HIV patients endure while they are on combined antiretroviral therapy (cART). Unfortunately, cART has no effect on latent HIV reservoirs, which can …
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Health stakeholders urged to combat antimicrobial resistance
26 Mar 2024 18:15 GMT
Nairobi summit calls for urgent action on antimicrobial resistance in Africa. [Courtesy]
Antimicrobial resistance is emerging as one of the top killers in Africa, yet it is less spoken of and known amongst the populations.
This is one of the sentiments …