Introduction: Les accidents vasculaires cérébraux (AVC) sont des pathologies graves survenant le plus souvent chez le sujet âgé. Le but de ce travail était d’étudier les facteurs de risque et les étiologies de l’AVC de l’adulte jeune. Patients et méthodes : Il s’est agi d’une étude tra...
Recent literature has shown how the HIV architecture, including community systems, has been critical for fighting COVID-19 in many countries, while sustaining the HIV response. Innovative initiatives suggest that fostering the integration of health services would help address the colliding pandemics. How...
Objectives: To identify the prevalence and associated factors of anxiety in people living with HIV/AIDS in a tertiary centre in Ghana. Design: The study employed a cross-sectional design. Setting: The study was conducted in the outpatient HIV clinic of a tertiary hospital.
Participants: Participants were...
Introduction: The African Federation of Emergency Medicine (AFEM) recommends the use of emergency point-of-care ultrasound (ePOCUS) as a core skill for health care practitioners in Africa. The study explored the use of
ePOCUS by health care practitioners among AFEM members who work across Africa.
Methods...
Our understanding of child disability has undergone major changes over the last three decades transforming our approach to assessment and management. Globally there are significant gaps in the application of these 21st century models of care. There is recognition that economic, cultural, and social fact...
As the world battles the latest strain of the coronavirus known as COVID-19 characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), “infodemics” – an excessive amount of (mostly untrue) information about the pandemic that makes it difficult to discern essential information – has been ...
Background: As a novel and deadly acute respiratory syndrome, which later became known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), spread beyond China in late January 2020, there were no laboratories in Africa that could test for the disease. However, in early March, just over a month later, 42 African count...
RÉSUMÉ
Contexte. L’incidence croissante de l’adénocarcinome prostatique en Afrique
noire pose la problématique de sa caractérisation tant au niveau épidémiologique,
clinique que thérapeutique. But : Identifi er le profi l clinico-biologique et les options
thérapeutiques actuelles dans le ser...
A partir de uma revisão bibliográfica sobre os efeitos da pandemia da COVID-19, o artigo apresenta e analisa os dilemas bioéticos que surgem da necessidade de dedicar mais recursos sanitários ao controlo da mesma. Os esforços por controlar a propagação do SARS-CoV-2 significaram diminuição da at...
COVID-19,
COVID-19/complications,
Health Systems/trends,
Delivery of Health Care,
Anti-Retroviral Agents,
Population,
Pandemics,
Sexually Transmitted Diseases/complications,
Public Health,
Mozambique,
Africa/epidemiology
The African Digital Health Library, (ADHL) is a collaborative project involving five African institutions namely Bamako University of Science and Technology, Kenya Methodist University, Universities of Ibadan, Nairobi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The University of Ibadan Nigeri...
