Research & Evidence
Cardiovascular disease among Ethiopians with HIV: a review
From the abstract: “This scoping review aims to summarise the existing literature on cardiovascular diseases among PLWHA in Ethiopia.”
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Financing & Policy
Partner violence, reproductive coercion and family planning needs in DR Congo
From the abstract: “This research utilized secondary data from the third wave of the Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) surveys carried out in two provinces of the DRC during the period from 2021 to 2022.”
Research & Evidence
Kidney stone burden in North Africa and the Middle East
From the abstract: “This study aims to fill this gap by analyzing the burden of urolithiasis in the NAME region from 1990 to 2021.”
Hospital Systems
Increasing youth reproductive health service use in rural Kenyan facilities
From the abstract: “AHAP was tested using a randomized cluster design in thirteen government health facilities in Western Kenya.”
Hospital Systems
Medicine storage and disposal among women attending Banadir Hospital, Somalia
From the abstract: “A cross-sectional study was conducted in November 2025 among 427 consecutively selected women visiting the outpatient pharmacy of Banadir Hospital to assess storage and disposal practices of unused and expired medications.”
Technology & Industry
Providers’ awareness of a disease classification app in northwest Ethiopia
From the abstract: “A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 423 healthcare providers working at 19 public health facilities in northwest Ethiopia from October 1 to 25, 2023.”
Technology & Industry
Evaluating an HIV recency rapid test in Lusaka, Zambia
From the abstract: “We enrolled individuals newly diagnosed with HIV between 20 May 2021 and 10 March 2022 at two Ministry of Health facilities in Lusaka, Zambia.”
Public Health
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever serology in Burkina Faso’s farming households
From the abstract: “A cross-sectional animal-human linked study was conducted in 149 rural households across 16 randomly selected villages in two administrative regions of Burkina Faso.”
Hospital Systems
Persistent proteinuria among Nigerian children with sickle cell anaemia
From the abstract: “Participants were classified based on the presence or absence of persistent proteinuria, and baseline characteristics were compared using within-group distributions for categorical variables with appropriate statistical tests.”
Public Health
Rural and urban breastfeeding practices in Tahtay Maichew, Tigray, 2023–2024
From the abstract: “A total of 346 lactating mothers were enrolled for the study. 5 rural and 1 urban Kebeles were randomly selected.”