Results: 4

Tolérance et efficacité de la ligature des varices œsophagiennes au Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Andrainjato, Fianarantsoa, Madagascar

Introduction: La ligature des varices œsophagiennes constitue un des piliers de la prise en charge de l’hémorragie digestive par rupture des varices œsophagiennes. Cette étude a pour objectif d’analyser la tolérance et l’efficacité de la ligature des varices œsophagiennes dans un échantillo...

Factors associated with anaemia in under-five children in Zambia: Secondary analysis of the 2021 Malaria Indicator Survey Data

Med. j. Zambia; 50 (4), 2023
Introduction:Anaemia is one of the major public health concerns in many developing countries including Zambia. Unless it is acute, the consequences of anaemia are not immediate but have long-term debilitating effects such as growth and intellectual retardation and as such it does not receive the necessar...

Factors associated with community engagement in areas with high and low incidence of local malaria cases in Zanzibar

PAMJ - One Health; 9 (NA), 2022
Introduction: the prevalence of asymptomatic infection in the general population in Zanzibar has declined from above 25% in 2005 to less than 1% in 2010. Despite these achievements, in 2021, the number of malaria cases increased by two folds. This study aimed at understanding the levels of community enga...

Setting the scene and generating evidence for malaria elimination in Southern Mozambique

Malar. j. (Online); 18 (190), 2019
Mozambique has historically been one of the countries with the highest malaria burden in the world. Starting in the 1960s, malaria control efforts were intensified in the southern region of the country, especially in Maputo city and Maputo province, to aid regional initiatives aimed to eliminate malaria ...