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African health policy, systems and evidence ·
From the abstract: “This study investigates the co-occurrence and spatial distribution of antibiotic residues and ARGs in livestock manure and agricultural soils from Machakos, Kiambu, and Kajiado counties in Kenya, regions characterized by intensive livestock farming.”
From the abstract: “This study explores levels of priority for 10 NCDs compared to four infectious diseases and their burdens in the news media arena in Malawi; shifts in the agenda during the COVID-19 emergency; and media framing of actors responsible for addressing Malawi’s NCD burden.”
From the abstract: “Continuous adaptation tracking and fidelity monitoring were conducted throughout the project implementation period from April 2022 to September 2024.”
From the abstract: “The 2022/23 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS) reported an NMR of 24 per 1,000 live births, equivalent to 48,000 neonatal deaths annually.”
From the abstract: “We assessed the quality of mortality data using demographic methods and further applied Death Distribution Methods (DDM) as well as the Empirical Completeness Method (ECM) to evaluate the completeness of death registration from the 2022 mortality register and two rounds of population and housing censuses.”
From the abstract: “In this study, we aimed to identify amino acid sequence fragments that are commonly enriched within ASFV strains from each country and evaluate their potential as epitopes.”
From the abstract: “This study argues that antibiotic misuse in Nigerian communities is not solely a function of ignorance but a rational response to systemic healthcare limitations, cultural logics, and informal care networks.”
From the abstract: “Hence, this study aimed to determine the magnitude of under-five mortality among children born from elder mothers, assess its trend over time, and identify associated factors.”
From the abstract: “Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide the pooled prevalence and associated factors of WMSDs among nurses in Ethiopia.”
From the abstract: “We analyzed retrospective time-to-event data from the nationally representative, cross-sectional 2023−24 Lesotho Demographic and Health Survey (LDHS), employing a log-logistic accelerated failure time (AFT) model within a multilevel framework to account for individual, household, and community-level factors.”