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2024-12-03 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
2024-12-03 • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
In refugee and internally displaced person settlements, hygienic water handling and free residual chlorine (FRC) are crucial for protecting water against recontamination after distrib...
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2024-03-11 • eClinicalMedicine
2024-03-11 • eClinicalMedicine
BACKGROUND
The increasing resistance of Enterobacterales to third-generation cephalosporins and carbapenems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a major public health concern. We did a sys...
The increasing resistance of Enterobacterales to third-generation cephalosporins and carbapenems in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is a major public health concern. We did a sys...
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2024-03-08 • eClinicalMedicine
2024-03-08 • eClinicalMedicine
BACKGROUND
The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been estimated to be the highest in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The current study estimated the proportion of drug-resistant...
The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been estimated to be the highest in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The current study estimated the proportion of drug-resistant...
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2023-02-01 • Médecine tropicale et santé internationale
2023-02-01 • Médecine tropicale et santé internationale
CONTEXTE
Les essais cliniques sur les morsures de serpent ont souvent utilisé des critères de décision hétérogènes qui demandent à être standardisés.
MÉTHODE
Un groupe d...
Les essais cliniques sur les morsures de serpent ont souvent utilisé des critères de décision hétérogènes qui demandent à être standardisés.
MÉTHODE
Un groupe d...
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2007-08-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2007-08-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
This study was conducted among individuals placed on WHO-recommended first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) at two urban health centres in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to determine (a) the ...
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2017-02-01 • BMJ Open
2017-02-01 • BMJ Open
Integrating mental healthcare into primary care can reduce the global burden of mental disorders. Yet data on the effective implementation of real-world task-shared mental health program...
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2022-06-06 • Advances in Medical Education and Practice
2022-06-06 • Advances in Medical Education and Practice
BACKGROUND
This article presents a qualitative study of African anatomists and anatomy teachers on the Anatomage Table-a modern medical education technology and innovation, as an ind...
This article presents a qualitative study of African anatomists and anatomy teachers on the Anatomage Table-a modern medical education technology and innovation, as an ind...
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2010-12-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2010-12-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
This study was conducted among 609 adults on stavudine-based antiretroviral treatment (ART) for at least one year at health center level in Kigali, Rwanda to (a) determine the proportion...
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2015-08-06 • Public Health Nutrition
2015-08-06 • Public Health Nutrition
OBJECTIVE
Determining interventions to address food insecurity and poverty, as well as setting targets to be achieved in a specific time period have been a persistent challenge for d...
Determining interventions to address food insecurity and poverty, as well as setting targets to be achieved in a specific time period have been a persistent challenge for d...
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2020-11-16 • Water Research
2020-11-16 • Water Research
The current Sphere guideline for water chlorination in humanitarian emergencies fails to reliably ensure household water safety in refugee camps. We investigated post-distribution chlori...
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2009-08-23 • Malaria Journal
2009-08-23 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND: Artesunate and amodiaquine (AS&AQ) is at present the world's second most widely used artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT). It was necessary to evaluate the efficacy of...
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2010-11-08 • Lancet
2010-11-08 • Lancet
Severe malaria is a major cause of childhood death and often the main reason for paediatric hospital admission in sub-Saharan Africa. Quinine is still the established treatment of choice...
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2012-04-30 • Malaria Journal
2012-04-30 • Malaria Journal
BACKGROUND
Malaria is a leading cause of mortality, particularly in sub-Saharan African children. Prompt and efficacious treatment is important as patients may progress within a few ...
Malaria is a leading cause of mortality, particularly in sub-Saharan African children. Prompt and efficacious treatment is important as patients may progress within a few ...
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2010-02-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
2010-02-01 • Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
This cohort study was conducted to report on the incidence, timing and risk factors for stavudine (d4T)- and nevirapine (NVP)-related severe drug toxicity (requiring substitution) with a...
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2011-01-01 • PLOS Medicine
2011-01-01 • PLOS Medicine
The World Health Organization estimates that in sub-Saharan Africa about 4 million HIV-infected patients had started antiretroviral therapy (ART) by the end of 2008. Loss of patients to ...
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2018-10-29 • BMC Medicine
2018-10-29 • BMC Medicine
Despite substantial improvement in the control of malaria and decreased prevalence of malnutrition over the past two decades, both conditions remain heavy burdens that cause hundreds of ...
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2014-05-01 • PLOS One
2014-05-01 • PLOS One
Pharmacovigilance programmes monitor and help ensuring the safe use of medicines which is critical to the success of public health programmes. The commonest method used for discovering p...
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2009-02-13 • PLOS One
2009-02-13 • PLOS One
BACKGROUND: Shigella dysenteriae type 1 (Sd1) is a cause of major dysentery outbreaks, particularly among children and displaced populations in tropical countries. Although outbreaks con...
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2000-09-01 • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
2000-09-01 • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
OBJECTIVE
We examined the prevalence of mental health problems in refugees living in camps that emerged in Tanzania during the Rwanda crisis that started in 1994.
METHOD
We examined the prevalence of mental health problems in refugees living in camps that emerged in Tanzania during the Rwanda crisis that started in 1994.
METHOD
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2014-06-21 • Public Health Action
2014-06-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING
Butaro Cancer Centre of Excellence (BCCOE), Burera District, Rwanda.
OBJECTIVES
To describe characteristics, management and 6-month outcome of adult patients pre...
Butaro Cancer Centre of Excellence (BCCOE), Burera District, Rwanda.
OBJECTIVES
To describe characteristics, management and 6-month outcome of adult patients pre...