Introduction: There are several risk factors being used to identify undiagnosed HIV-infected adults. As the number
of undiagnosed people gets less and less, it is important to know if existing risk factors and risk assessment tools
are valid for use.
Methods: Data from the Tanzania and Zambia Population-...
Background: The South African occupational health and safety regulations, prescribing risk assessments be conducted by employers, are non-prescriptive with regard to the tools and techniques to be used. Consequently, companies freely adopt the numerous available tools and techniques from which risk manag...
Background. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is regarded as the most preventable cause of inpatient death in hospital settings globally. VTE can be prevented through the provision of non-pharmacological and/or pharmacological thromboprophylaxis following individualised risk screening. The Caprini risk assess...
Objective. Toassess national vaccination coverage, adverse events following immunization (AEFI) and evaluate the vaccination status in COVID infected patients. Methods. Sociodemographic data on vaccination and clinical characteristics of Covid-19 cases were extracted from the na...
Background: Occupational health risk assessments are building blocks for occupational health programmes, allowing for the rating of identified risks and the continuous re-evaluation of the effectiveness of abatement measures. In South African industry, occupational health risk assessments are formally do...
Background Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a WHO-recommended HIV prevention method for people at high risk for acquiring HIV, is being increasingly implemented in many countries. Setting programmatic targets, particularly in generalised epidemics, could incorporate estimates of the size of the populatio...
The study assessed the Clinicopathological changes of Wistar rats exposed to municipal landfill gaseous particulate emissions.
Four groups of Wistar rats were exposed to the different sites of landfill emission with use of filters for filtering landfill gaseous
emission while the control group was...
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the leading cancer in both incidences and mortality among men in Africa including Nigeria. Evidence
suggest that African men present with more advanced disease, signifying that they are highly unscreened group for PCa. This
study examined the risk perception and uptake of PCa scr...
