Background: Cervical cancer is the most frequent female genital tract malignancy in Nigeria, with the majority of patients suffering from advanced stages of the disease. A low level of awareness and knowledge of cervical cancer and screening has been identified as oneof the causes of cervical screening u...
Background – University, a subset of the general population, will expectedly have common ocular problems as prevalent in the population. Knowing these problems as done through screening and health education during WSD activities in 2017 thus raise awareness for their prevention. This study was aimed ...
Introduction: over the last decade, insecurity in the Lake Chad Basin has triggered an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the Niger´s Diffa Region with a significant population movement. In this humanitarian setting, we reviewed the implementation process and the contribution of temperature screening ...
ntroduction: Indirect serum biomarkers present an acceptable noninvasive and cheap alternative for screening of significant liver fibrosis (SLF). Evaluation of their use in resource limited settings is important to determine their utility.
Methods: We conducted a cross sectional study among 520 HIV infec...
The treatment of cervical cancer has a good prognosis if diagnosed early. Hence, screening is very vital. The aim of this study was to evaluate the perception of women on cervical cancer and strategies to enhance its screening uptake in the city of Bamenda, Cameroon. Qualitative study was carried out fro...
Introduction. En décembre 2019, la population de Wuhan, une grande ville chinoise de 11 millions d’habitants, est atteinte par une pneumonie virale extrêmement contagieuse due au coronavirus SARSCoV-2. En Algérie, le premier cas a été identifié le 25 février 2020, un plan de riposte national él...
COVID-19,
Pandemics,
Epidemiology,
Mass Screening,
Fever,
Pneumonia, Viral,
Vision, Ocular,
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction,
Consultants
Kazibwe, Andrew;
Twinomugisha, Fred;
Musaaz, Joseph;
Nakaggwa, Florence;
Lukanga, Disan;
Aleu, Phillip;
Kiyemba, Timothy;
Nkolo, Abel;
Sebuliba Kirirabwa, Nicholas;
Freitas Lopez, Debora B;
Birabwa, Estella;
Dejene, Seyoum;
Zawedde-Muyanja, Stella.
Introduction: Systematic screening for TB among patients presenting to care and among high risk populations is recom-
mended to improve TB case finding. We aimed to describe the comparative yield of three TB screening approaches imple-
mented by a large urban TB project in central Uganda.
Methods: We a...
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is prevalent in Nigeria with 150,000 new cases yearly, owing to poor knowledge, poverty and lack of screening. This study investigated knowledge and willingness to undergo genotype screening among young people who might be contemplating marriage or reproduction during or soon af...
Contexte et objectifs. Les patients souffrant de syndrome
fibromyalgique sont fréquemment rencontrés en pratique
clinique et déconcertent bien souvent les médecins. Notre
étude a pour but de déterminer la prévalence de la
fibromyalgie chez les patients gonarthrosiques, son impact
sur la présentat...
Contexte. Pathologie obstétricale fréquente en Guinée, souvent de découverte fortuite, car il
n’y a pas de dépistage systématique. L’objectif : était de déterminer la prévalence du diabète
gestationnel (DG) en consultation prénatale dans un centre de santé urbain de la ville de
Conakry.
M...
