Hsu, Yi-Hsin ElsaHuang, NicoleChien, Li-YinBioMed CentralBmc Public HealthOwili PO, Adoyo Muga M, Chou Y-J, Elsa Hsu Y-H, Huang N, Chien L-Y. Associations in the continuum of care for maternal, newborn and child health: a population-based study of 12 sub-Saharan Africa countries....
This predominantly rural setting of 1,430 km2 in size has a population of approximately 220,000 Zulu-speaking people. In this sub-district, the Africa Centre for Health and Population studies, a research institute at the University of KwaZulu-Natal [http://www.africacentre.com] carries out ...
Finally, mental health concerns were heightened due to public health restrictions that further prevented youth from working, as exemplified by Amahle: During the COVID-19 pandemic I lost my job due to the pandemic. […] This led me to depression because I couldn’t help my family with groce...
we apportioned the healthcare costs in each income quintile by the level of government financing and co-payment for each quintile. South Africa subsidizes healthcare on a sliding scale. The subsidy ranges from partial to full subsidization depending on the patient’s income ...
The effect of each SNP on a trait is estimated using Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS) in the very large biobanks and meta-analyses needed for statistical power. Because of the requirement for large sample sizes, almost everything that we know comes from studies in Eurasia in which ...
Methods. This study is a retrospective review of 60 HIV-seropositive and 776 HIV-seronegative new cases of invasive cervical carcinoma seen at the combined gynecologic oncology unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Results. The HIV seroprevalence was 7.2%. ...
19,25 The current study obtained ethical approval from the Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology and the School of Biomedical Sciences Higher Degrees research ethics committee at Makerere University. The study also received a waiver of consent because consent was provided in the parent study ...
Most of the world’s sickle cell disease (SCD) burden is in Africa, where it is a major contributor to child morbidity and mortality. Despite the low cost of many preventive SCD interventions, insufficient resources have been allocated, and progress in a
and the high risk of infectious diseases are of great public health concern in ASGM across the African continent. They affect both ASGM workers and residents living in exposed areas (Basu et al.2015; Dooyema et al.2012a; Ismawati2016; Mambrey et al.2020; Mtetwa and Shava2003; Rajaee et...
The use of antimicrobials in food animal (FA) production is a common practice all over the world, with even greater usage and dependence in the developing