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The pandemic of online research in times of COVID-19
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an explosion of online research using rating scales. While this approach can be useful, two of the major challenges affecting the quality of this type of research include selection bias and ...
Family functioning and stroke: Family members’ perspectives
(AOSIS, 2021)
Stroke survivors often experience permanent or temporal physical and
psychological stroke impairments. As a result, stroke survivors are often discharged to recover
in their home environments and are cared for mostly by ...
Treatment of oral fungal infections using photodynamic therapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis
(Wiley Open Access, 2021)
This systematic review evaluated the evidence for the effectiveness of
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) in treating oral fungal infections, as an alternative to
conventional antifungal medications.Five randomized control trials ...
Careful governance of African biobanks
(Elsevier, 2020)
The Sydney Statement is one of
the first framing documents on the
principles for guiding global health
security. Framing matters because
the funding pool for development
assistance for health is finite and has
plateaued ...
Assessing the capacity of symptom scores to predict COVID-19 positivity in Nigeria: A national derivation and validation cohort study
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
s This study aimed to develop and validate a
symptom prediction tool for COVID-19 test positivity in
Nigeria.A cohort of 43 221 individuals within the
national COVID-19 surveillance dataset from 27 February
to 27 August ...
Africa, prisons and COVID-19
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
Africa’s prisons are a long-standing concern for rights defenders given the prevalence
of rights abuses, overcrowding, poor conditions of detention and the extent to which
the criminal justice system is used to target ...
Interventions for improving treatment outcomes in adolescents on antiretroviral therapy with unsuppressed viral loads: A systematic review protocol
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
Adolescents represent one of the most
underserved population groups among people living with
HIV. With successes in the elimination of mother to child
transmission initiatives and advances in paediatric HIV
treatment ...
Unpacking vulnerability: towards language that advances understanding and resolution of social inequities in public health
(Springer Nature, 2020)
Our attention was drawn to an important recent paper published in the journal Critical Public Health, which discusses
the use (and misuse) of the word “vulnerable” in public health
research and practice (Katz, Hardy, ...
A pooled prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in South Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol
(BMC, 2021)
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) remains a global public health problem. South Africa is
estimated to have the highest recorded prevalence of FASD. However, no study has systematically evaluated the
available ...
Current perspectives in the discovery of newer medications against the outbreak of Covid-19
(Frontiers Media, 2021)
A rapid and increasing spread of COVID-19 pandemic disease has been perceived
worldwide in 2020. The current COVID-19 disease outbreak is due to the spread of
SARS-CoV-2. SARS-CoV-2 is a new strain of coronavirus that ...