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Boosting COVID-19 vaccine inoculation and booster shots: a systematic review and meta-analysis of factors that influence coronavirus vaccine uptake in practice

Introduction: Vaccines alone do not control pandemics, but vaccinations. The hope of COVID-19 pandemic control is hinged on vaccinations and other public health measures. This systematic review/meta-analysis (SR/MA) investigated the factors that inform coronavirus vaccine uptake globally in an attempt to...

Investigating the mechanism of antihypertensive actions of medicinal plants using some animal models

As the search for, and development of new drugs continues, drug companies engage in the large-scale pharmacological screening of medicinal plants. This creates the need to elucidate the mechanism of action of medicinal plants found to possess biological activity as a means of deriving their full therapeu...

Profil des diabétiques de 20 ans a 79 ans de l’enquête nationale sur la prévalence et caractéristiques du diabète en Côte d’Ivoire
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Le diabète constitue un problème de santé publique en Côte d’Ivoire. L'objectif général de la présente étude est de dresser le profil des diabétiques de l’enquête nationale sur la prévalence et les caractéristiques du diabète en Côte d’Ivoire chez les personnes de 20 ans...

Epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infection among pregnant women in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo: prevalence, risk factors, and genotype distribution

Background Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a significant public health problem. Most children under five years living with HBV in endemic areas like sub-Slivingan Africa. Vertical transmission is considered the main newborn's route of contamination, which leads in 90% of...

High prevalence of symptomatic acute HIV infection in an outpatient ward in southern Mozambique: identification and follow-up

AIDS (Lond.); 24 (4), 2010
To determine the prevalence of acute HIV infection (AHI) within the HIV-seronegative adult population presenting with reported fever in a district hospital in southern Mozambique and evaluate clinical, immunological and virological parameters of AHI. Design: This is a prospective observational study. ...