Sub-Saharan African
Temporal trends in the nutritional status of women and children under five years of age in sub-Saharan African countries: ecological study
... in sub-Saharan Africa will be accompanied by progressive increases in childhood overweight and obesity in coming ...among sub-Saharan African adolescents and adults within a few decades ...
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Sub-Saharan African Students’ Experiences, Perceptions, and Expectations with American Health Services: An Intercultural Challenge
... of sub-Saharan individuals that is rarely ...other sub-Saharan African students, by further understanding this group we provide information on one of the most understudied segment of ...
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Drivers of long-term growth? Assessing the impacts of emerging countries on Sub-Saharan african economies
... of African countries - economic structures, geopolitical importance, political economy -, and the strategic policies of emerging ...characterise Sub-Saharan African export structures, ...to ...
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Effective coverage and systems effectiveness for malaria case management in sub-Saharan African countries.
... Scale-up of malaria preventive and control interventions over the last decade resulted in substantial declines in mortality and morbidity from the disease in sub-Saharan Africa and many other parts of the ...
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Inequalities in maternal health care utilization in sub-Saharan African countries: a multiyear and multi-country analysis.
... To assess social inequalities in the use of antenatal care (ANC), facility based delivery (FBD), and modern contraception (MC) in two contrasting groups of countries in sub- Saharan Africa divided based on ...
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Cholera Incidence and Mortality in Sub-Saharan African Sites during Multi-country Surveillance.
... Our study had several limitations other than those mentioned above. We report data from only eleven geographical sites located in six countries and this may not be generalizable to other African settings. Our ...
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A success story: Togo is moving toward becoming the first sub-Saharan African nation to eliminate lymphatic filariasis through mass drug administration and countrywide morbidity alleviation.
... and STH MDAs. The results of the operational research projects and the lessons learned by the NPELF are widely discussed at international meetings and shared with peers. The NPELF is also assisting other countries in ...
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Major Article Hepatitis B and asymptomatic malaria coinfection in Sub-Saharan African immigrants: epidemiological and clinical features of HBV infection
... Introduction: Here, we conducted an epidemiological study of hepatitis B virus (HBV) mono-infected and asymptomatic malaria/HBV coinfected immigrants and further discussed the possibility of malaria disease modifying the ...
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CCR5D32 mutation in three Brazilian populations of predominantly Sub-Saharan African ancestry
... ing the CCR5D32 allele (95% for the IRI3.1*0 allele and 88% for the IRI3.2*0 allele) which suggests that the 32 bp deletion arose in northeastern Europe from a single recent mutational event (Libert et al., 1998), ...
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Arq. Gastroenterol. vol.44 número1
... in sub-Saharan African people, and the potentiality of migratory fl ow in the introduction of genotype non-D hepatitis B virus, potentially characterized by a different natural history and, possibly, ...
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OBSTETRICS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL OUTCOME OF TEENAGE PREGNANCY
... Teenage pregnancy is defined as pregnancies which occur in a female below the age of 20 i.e. when the pregnancy ends. A female can become pregnant as early as two weeks before menarche, although rare, but usually occurs ...
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DETERMINANTS OF EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION AND SOPHISTICATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
... the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries and also the way in which successful ED and sophistication strategies contribute to explain the improving in some of the millennium development goals ...the ...
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Use of medical services and medicines attributable to diabetes in Sub-Saharan Africa.
... In 2008–2009, Study teams from four Sub-Saharan African countries–Cameroon, Mali, Tanzania, and South Africa–partici- pated in the study. We agreed upon a target sample size of 500 cases and 500 ...
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Performance of HIV Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Longitudinal Assessment of 64 Nevirapine-Based Programs Implemented in 25 Countries, 2000-2011.
... Aggregate monitoring data collected from each program within the framework of the VDP were used. In the VDP, sd-NVP was provided free of charge to low-income countries for use in the PMTCT, and all ...
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Effect of media use on HIV-related stigma in Sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study.
... 11 sub-Saharan African countries (N = 204,343), we investigated the moderating effects of exposure to mass media on HIV-related ...in sub-Saharan Africa is twofold: 1) mass media may ...
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Securing Communal Land Rights to Achieve Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Critical Analysis and Policy Implications
... most Sub-Saharan African contexts, state ownership and control of rural areas has been a foundational land tenure principle since ...across Sub-Saharan Africa has by and large ...
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Regulation of retinal proteome by topical antiglaucomatous eye drops in an inherited glaucoma rat model.
... Although glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide, affecting about 2% of individuals of European descent and up to 10% of individuals of sub-Saharan African descent over 50 years of age, ...
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ISSN 0100-879X BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
... A 3-bp insertion/deletion polymorphism in intron 6 of GSTM3 (rs1799735, GSTM3*A/*B) affects the activity of the phase 2 xeno- biotic metabolizing enzyme GSTM3 and has been associated with increased cancer risk. The ...
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Rubella in Sub-Saharan Africa and sensorineural hearing loss: a case control study
... Primary rubella infection during pregnancy, particularly during the first trimester, can affect several organs and cause birth defects that are responsible for congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) [1]. The most common ...
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ISSN 0100-879X BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
... and African origin, respectively ...while African ancestrality was preponderant in the Northeast (44%) and European haplogroups were prevalent in the South ...
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