Results: 5

Age, gender and household infrastructural inequality in COVID-19: Contextual analysis of Mamelodi

Background: Age, gender and household infrastructure are important social determinants affecting health inequalities. This study aims to assess the ways that age and gender of the household head and household infrastructure intersect to create relative advantage and disadvantage in COVID-19 vulnerability...

Factors associated with risky sexual behaviour among sexually experienced undergraduates in Osun state, Nigeria

African Health Sciences; 22 (1), 2022
Background: Risky sexual behavior (RSB) is common among youths which predispose them to sexually transmitted infections. This study sets out to identify the factors associated with RSB among undergraduates in Osun state. Methods: The study design was descriptive cross sectional and a total of 550 respond...

Factors associated with use of insecticide-treated net for malaria prevention in Manica District, Mozambique: a community-based cross-sectional survey

Malar. j. (Online); 20 (1), 2021
Background: Insecticide-treated net (ITN) use is crucial for preventing malaria infection. Despite significant improvements in ITN access and use over the past two decades, many malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not yet reached global targets for universal coverage of ITNs. To reduce t...

Job satisfaction and personal factors among medical librarians: empirical evidence from teaching hospitals in southern Nigeria

This study was to provide empirical evidence of areas of job satisfaction among medical librarians, as well as record difference in job satisfaction based on personal factors (sex, age, educational qualification and years of work experience) of medical librarians in Southern Nigeria. The study used the ...

Effect of point-of-care CD4 cell count tests on retention of patients and rates of antiretroviral therapy initiation in primary health clinics: an observational cohort study

Lancet; 378 (9802), 2011
Background: Loss to follow-up of HIV-positive patients before initiation of antiretroviral therapy can exceed 50% in low-income settings and is a challenge to the scale-up of treatment. We implemented point-of-care counting of CD4 cells in Mozambique and assessed the effect on loss to follow-up before im...