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Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
Over the past three decades, the increase
in funding for priority public health issues
largely affecting low/middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to the growth in international research involving researchers
or ...
Assessment of the association between plant‑based dietary exposures and cardiovascular disease risk profile in Sub‑Saharan Africa: A systematic review
(BMC, 2022)
Studies have investigated dietary attributes associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Africa.
However, there has been no effort to critically assess the existing evidence. This systematic review examined ...
Global core indicators for measuring WHO’s paediatric quality‑of‑care standards in health facilities: Development and expert consensus
(BMC, 2022)
There are currently no global recommendations on a parsimonious and robust set of indicators that
can be measured routinely or periodically to monitor quality of hospital care for children and young adolescents. We
describe ...
Priority indicators for adolescent health measurement – recommendations from the Global action for Measurement of Adolescent health (GAMA) advisory group
(Elsevier, 2022)
This article describes the selection of priority indicators for adolescent (10e19 years)
health measurement proposed by the Global Action for Measurement of Adolescent health advi-
sory group and partners, building on ...
Service delivery models for enhancing linkage to and retention in HIV care services for adolescent girls and young women and adolescent boys and young men: A protocol for an overview of systematic reviews
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2022)
n Recent advances in the HIV care continuum
have shown that an individual diagnosed with HIV should
be initiated on antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible
regardless of the CD4 count levels and retained in HIV ...
Estimating the budget impact of adopting tenofovir/emtricitabine for pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV in the public health sector in Namibia (2021 – 2023)
(Elsevier, 2022)
Namibia started implementing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in 2016, no study to determine its budget impact has been conducted. This
study, therefore, aimed to estimate the budget ...
The beneficial effects of professional identity: The mediating role of teaching identification in the relationship between role stress and psychological distress during the Covid-19 pandemic
(MDPI, 2022)
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers and students rapidly transitioned to
remote teaching and learning. In South Africa, this initial transition was followed by periods of
reopening and closing of schools ...
The co-occurrence of the SAVA syndemic, depression and anxiety as barriers to antiretroviral therapy adherence among Sub-Saharan Africa population groups: A scoping review protocol
(Public Library of Science, 2022)
The scale-up of access to antiretroviral therapy has transformed HIV from an acute, terminal
disease to a manageable chronic illness. Yet, sustaining high levels of antiretroviral therapy
adherence remain a challenge, ...
Multimorbidity patterns in a national HIV survey of South African youth and adults
(Frontiers Media, 2022)
Information pertaining to multimorbidity is frequently informed by studies
from high income countries and it is unclear how these findings relate to low and middle
income countries, where the burden of infectious disease ...
Household access to non-communicable disease medicines during universal health care roll-out in Kenya: A time series analysis
(Public Library of Science, 2022)
This study aims to describe trends and estimate impact of county-level universal health coverage
expansion in Kenya on household availability of non-communicable disease medicines,
medicine obtainment at public hospitals ...