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Child health promotion during the COVID-19 pandemic: A health and welfare sector collaboration

Background: Fragmented service provision and a lack of efficient cooperation between health and welfare sectors serving children and families remain ongoing challenges in South Africa. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic escalated this fragmentation. A community of practice (CoP) was establi...

Collaborative research to respond to the HIV epidemic: a case of Uganda (Makerere University)-Case Western Reserve University Research Collaboration 1988-2021

Afr. health sci. (Online); 22 (2 Special Issue: Makerere@100), 2022
Background: Collaborative research between institutions may not yield results to transform communities. Many research collaborations come to the end of their life time without achieving their originally set goals and with a dearth of community transformation to show for it. Objective: To delineate and hi...

Application of Interprofessional Education Model to University Pre-Licensure Health Students in the Management of Chronic Care Conditions in Zambia

Med. j. Zambia; 49 (2), 2022
Background:Thereisevidencethatmultidisciplinary healthcare teams can provide better quality of care and treatment outcomes compared to that delivered by individuals from a single health discipline. The project on which this article isbased applied the interprofessional education model to university pre-l...

Strengthening access to long-acting reversible contraception within postabortion care in Tanzania: A pre-post evaluation

Postabortion care services provide lifesaving treatment for abortion-related complications and addresses women’s needs by offering family planning (FP) counseling and voluntary access to contraception. Between 2016 and 2020, the Government of Tanzania sought to strengthen its PAC program by enhancing F...

Discussão Integrada de Casos Clínicos Usando Plataformas Digitais Durante a Pandemia da COVID-19
Integrated Discussion of Clinical Cases Using Digital Platforms During the COVID-19 pandemic

A pandemia da COVID-19, causada pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2 ou Novo Coronavírus, vem produzindo repercussões não apenas de ordem biomédica e epidemiológica em escala global, como também impactos sociais, económicos, políticos, culturais e históricos sem precedentes na história recente das epidemias,...