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Assessment of clinical profiles, and treatment outcomes for children with diabetic ketoacidosis, in two hospitals selected from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2020

Type 1 diabetes mellitus(T1DM)is a common autoimmune disorder that often presents in children. In these patients, diabetic ketoacidosis(DKA)is one of the most common and serious acute complications, which isassociated with significant morbidity and mortality. The study aimed to assess the clinical profil...

Impact of communication on the awareness of birth defects among adult women in Nigeria

OBJECTIVES: Birth defects are universal problems associated with poor management outcomes in children, especially in developing countries where its burden is enormous. Media advocacy is believed to help in reducing these poor outcomes. This study assessed the level of awareness of birth defects in women ...

Impact de la pandémie à COVID-19 sur la morbi-mortalité hospitalière au CHU Hussein Dey – Alger: étude comparative sur deux périodes (Avril-Septembre 2019 et Avril-Septembre 2020)
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on hospital morbidity and mortality at the University Hospital of Hussein Dey - Algiers: a comparative study over two perdiods (april - september 2019 and april - september 2020)

Introduction : Depuis le début de la pandémie du COVID-19, les pays ont été confrontés au défi de prendre en charge les malades de la pandémie et en même temps de préserver la continuité des soins pour les autres patients, l’objectif de notre étude est d’évaluer l’impact de la pandémie...

Mobilidade humana e expansão eeográfica do coronavírus em moçambique
Human mobility and the geographical expansion of the coronavirus in mozambique

O presente artigo procura analisar a influência da mobilidade humana na expansão geográfica do novo Coronavírus em Moçambique. Constata que a mobilidade humana é a principal responsável pela disseminação do vírus. A circulação de pessoas e mercadorias de um lugar para outro está na origem da...

Efeitos Paradoxais da Pandemia da COVID-19 em Moçambique
Paradoxical Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mozambique

A disseminação global do SARS-CoV-2 decorre a um ritmo veloz. Menos de um ano após a sua detecção pela primeira vez na China, já foram notificadas mais de 32 milhões de pessoas infectadas em cerca de 200 países e territórios. O impacto da COVID-19, a doença causada pelo SARS-CoV-2 em humanos, j...

Postdischarge Mortality Prediction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Pediatrics; 143 (1), 2019
Background: Although the burden of postdischarge mortality (PDM) in low-income settings appears to be significant, no clear recommendations have been proposed in relation to follow-up care after hospitalization. We aimed to determine the burden of pediatric PDM and develop predictive models to identify c...

Malaria in pregnancy in rural Mozambique: the role of parity, submicroscopic and multiple Plasmodium falciparum infections

Trop. med. int. health; 7 (1), 2002
Falciparum malaria affects pregnant women, especially primigravidae, but before malaria control programmes targeted to them can be designed, a description of the frequency and parity pattern of the infection is needed. There is little information on the frequency and effect of submicroscopic malaria infe...