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Couverture de la chimio – prévention du paludisme saisonnier chez les enfants de 3 à 59 mois au Bénin en 2023
Coverage of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in children from 3 to 59 months of age in Benin in 2023

Bénin Médical; 69 (), 2024
Introduction : la Chimioprévention du Paludisme Saisonnier (CPS) est une intervention pouvant réduire la survenue des cas de paludisme chez les enfants de 3 à 59 mois. L’objectif de cette étude était de mesurer la couverture de la CPS chez les enfants de 3 à 59 mois pendant la campagne (juillet ...

Barriers to HIV prevention among adolescents in Njombe, Tanzania: Knowledge gaps and accessibility of sexual and reproductive health services

Background: HIV remains a significant global public health issue, claiming 36.3 million lives worldwide. In 2020, approximately 1.75 million adolescents aged 10-19 were living with HIV globally, with sub-Saharan Africa accounting for 88% of these cases. Tanzania has a national HIV prevalence of...

Trial of an mHealth intervention to improve HIV prophylaxis for female sex workers, United Republic of Tanzania

Bull. W.H.O. (Online); 102 (12), 2024
Objective To evaluate the effect of a mobile health (mHealth) intervention on early retention of female sex workers in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) pre-exposure prophylaxis services in the United Republic of Tanzania. Methods The study involved 783 female sex workers: 470 from Dar es Salaam who wer...

Profile of gynecological cancers in a tertiary hospital, Eastern Nigeria

Pan Afr. med. j; 44 (NA), 2023
Introduction: there is a great diversity in the profile of cancers in the world. This study set out to analyze the profile of gynecological cancer in Federal University Teaching Hospital, Owerri, [FUTHO] (former Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria). Methods: this was a retrospective cross...

A review of the recent advances on Lassa fever with special reference to molecular epidemiology and progress in vaccine development

Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever caused by the Lassa virus (LASV), is endemic in West Africa and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. At least three of the four proposed seven lineages of LASV are found in Nigeria, where the multimammate rat, Mastomys natalensis, serves as the primary r...

Ketamine pour la gestion de la douleur post hystérectomie au CHU Professeur Zafisaona Gabriel Mahajanga Madagascar

Une analgésie multimodale est incontournable pour la prise en charge de la douleur post opératoire. L’objectif de notre étude était de montrer l’intérêt de l’utilisation de la kétamine, avec son effet analgésique, parmi les différentes molécules disponibles. Méthodes : Il s’agit d’u...

Compliance and perception towards COVID-19 preventive protocols among hospital staff in a tertiary health facility, Southwest Nigeria

Ethiop. Med. j; 61 (2), 2023
Background: The COVID-19 outbreak response in Nigeria was challenged by the existing weak health sector and the frontline health workers for COVID-19 pandemic response are exposed to the pathogen. One militating factor undermining the control and prevention of COVID-19 in Nigeria was poor compliance to p...

Facteurs de demande de services de santé préventifs en contexte épidémique (Dengue et COVID 19), Côte d'Ivoire, 2020

Introduction : L’une des missions de l’Institut National d’Hygiène est de prévenir et contrôler les maladies transmissibles et autres urgences de santé publique à travers ses services compétents. En situation de crises sanitaires comme une épidémie, les besoins augmentent et alors les bén...

Determination of knowledge, attitude, and practice of Chinese and local people towards malaria prevention in Kano State, Nigeria

To date, malaria is still a major public health issue in the world. Africa remains the most affected continent with the highest malaria cases and deaths. Since more than one thousand Chinese citizens are living in Nigeria, examination of their knowledge, attitude, and practice compared with those of the ...

COVID-19 infection prevention preparedness, practices and case management in the primary health care units in Ethiopia

Ethiop. j. health sci. (Online); 33 (2 Special Issue), 2023
BACKGROUND: COVID-19 as pandemic declared by WHO on March 11, 2020 and first case detected in Ethiopia on March 13/2020. The COVID-19 caused a global crisis, including millions of lives lost, public health systems in shock and economic and social disruption. Strategies depend on how an existing health sy...