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Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards Covid-19 among people living with HIV/AIDS in Kigali, Rwanda
(Springer Nature, 2020)As with other countries globally, Rwanda has faced a recent outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) against a backdrop of an HIV epidemic. At present, there is no successful cure or vaccine for both COVID-19 ... -
Barriers to adolescents' access and utilisation of reproductive health services in a community in north-western nigeria: A qualitative exploratory study in primary care
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)There is a dearth of qualitative studies exploring in-depth barriers that adolescents face in accessing and utilising reproductive health services (RHS) in Nigerian primary healthcare centres. Aim: This study explored the ... -
The comparison of teen clubs vs. standard care on treatment outcomes for adolescents on antiretroviral therapy in Windhoek, Namibia
(Hindawi, 2020)Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) are challenged to adhere to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and achieve and maintain virologic suppression. Group-based adherence support interventions, such as adherence clubs, have been ... -
Challenges of developing a district child welfare plan in South Africa: Lessons from a community-engaged HIV/AIDS research project
(SAGE, 2020)The Amajuba Child Health and Wellbeing Research Project measured the impact of orphaning due to HIV/AIDS on South African households between 2004 and 2007. Community engagement was a central component of the project and ... -
Social and structural determinants of household support for ART adherence in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
(MPDI, 2020)Adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a crucial factor in health outcomes for people living with HIV (PLWH). Interventions to support ART adherence are increasingly focused on the household as a source of social ... -
COVID-19 and informal settlements: An urgent call to rethink urban governance
(Springer Nature, 2020)While some countries are nearing or reaching their peak of coronavirus infections, others are only at what seems to be the early stages of the infection curve. Some of these countries, particularly in the Global South, ... -
Mission hospital responses to challenges and implications for their future role in India's health system
(Health for All Nations, 2020)India's health system is currently experiencing rapid change. Achieving India's aspirations for improved population health and universal health coverage will require the contribution of all health providers; public, ... -
Households in HIV care: designing an intervention to stimulate HIV competency in households in South Africa
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020)Despite the Universal Test and Treat program and widespread antiretroviral treatment rollout, South Africa is still facing HIV prevention and treatment challenges, which are aggravated by human resource shortages in the ... -
Perceptions and experiences of frontline health managers and providers on accountability in a South African health district
(Springer Nature, 2020)Public primary health care and district health systems play important roles in expanding healthcare access and promoting equity. This study explored and described accountability for this mandate as perceived and experienced ... -
Factors influencing diagnosis and treatment initiation for multidrug-resistant/rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in six sub-Saharan African countries: A mixed-methods systematic review
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)Drug-resistant tuberculosis burdens fragile health systems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), complicated by high prevalence of HIV. Several African countries reported large gaps between estimated incidence and diagnosed or ... -
Global health activists' lessons on building social movements for Health for all
(Springer Nature, 2020)The People's Health Movement (PHM) was formed in 2000 and drew inspiration from the Alma Ata Declaration on Primary Health Care's 'Health for All' (1978). Since then PHM has been an active part of a global counter-hegemonic ... -
Variations between women and men in risk factors, treatments, cardiovascular disease incidence, and death in 27 high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries (PURE): A prospective cohort study
(Elsevier, 2020)Some studies, mainly from high-income countries (HICs), report that women receive less care (investigations and treatments) for cardiovascular disease than do men and might have a higher risk of death. However, very few ... -
Retention in care for adolescents who were newly initiated on antiretroviral therapy in the Cape Metropole in South Africa
(OpenJournals Publishing AOSIS (Pty) Ltd, 2020)Long-term retention of adolescents aged 10-19 years on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is crucial to achieve viral load suppression. However, it is reported globally that adolescents have lower retention in care (RiC) on ART, ... -
Facilitating factors and barriers to accessibility and utilization of kangaroo mother care service among parents of low birth weight infants in Mangochi District, Malawi: a qualitative study
(Springer Nature, 2020)Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is one of the interventions widely used in low-income countries to manage Low Birth Weight Infants (LBWIs), a global leading cause of neonatal and child mortality. LBWI largely contributes to ... -
Desperate times call for desperate measures: Adapting antiretroviral service delivery in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
(SAMA, 2020)On 23 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a nation-wide lockdown to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa (SA). While these containment measures are considered to have limited the ... -
Methodological challenges in researching activism in action: civil society engagement towards health for all
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Civil society engagement around health care and population health improvement is an important driver towards Health for All. Research can improve the effectiveness of health activism by examining the resources, structures ... -
Adolescent mental wellness: A systematic review protocol of instruments measuring general mental health and well-being
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020)Introduction The promotion of mental health well-being among global adolescent populations is of great public health and social significance. This is particularly true for adolescents living with chronic illnesses as studies ... -
COVID-19 risk factors among health workers: A rapid review
(Elsevier, 2020)Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) poses an important occupational health risk to health workers (HWs) that has attracted global scrutiny. To date, several thousand HWs globally have been reported as infected with the ... -
Towards achieving the 90–90–90 HIV targets: Results from the south African 2017 national HIV survey
(Springer Nature, 2020)Background: Measuring progress towards the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90–90–90 treatment targets is key to assessing progress towards turning the HIV epidemic tide. In 2017, the UNAIDS model estimated ... -
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal: a prospective observational study
(Elsevier, 2020)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic response is affecting maternal and neonatal health services all over the world. We aimed to assess the number of institutional births, their outcomes (institutional stillbirth and neonatal ...