Technology & Industry
Evaluating drone- and AI-assisted mosquito larval control in Ghana
From the abstract: “A comparative field trial was conducted in eight administrative sub-districts within Ghana’s Eastern Region.”
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Financing & Policy
Physical activity barriers among Lagos healthcare professionals: a qualitative review
From the abstract: “This qualitative study explored the facilitators and barriers of physical inactivity, sedentariness, and exercise adoption among healthcare professionals in Lagos State, Nigeria, using the Social Ecological Model (SEM) to examine influences at individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy levels.”
Financing & Policy
Assessing combined newborn readmission and mortality outcomes in Uganda
From the abstract: “This was a secondary analysis of data collected among mothers and their newborn(s) admitted for delivery at two regional referral hospitals in Uganda.”
Financing & Policy
Community views on stroke prevention and care in Nigeria
From the abstract: “Six focus groups with community members and leaders (n = 57) and key informant interviews with health providers (n = 24) from alternative/complementary and orthodox/modern medicine providers were conducted to qualitatively explore beliefs, attitudes, practices, and recommendations related to stroke in urban (Ibadan) and rural (Ibarapa) communities in Nigeria.”
Financing & Policy
COVID-19 vaccine delivery costs in seven lower-income countries
From the abstract: “We retrospectively estimated the financial and economic cost of COVID-19 vaccine delivery from a payer perspective, using a bottom-up approach.”
Research & Evidence
Sustaining Ugandan HIV and maternal care programmes after donor transition
From the abstract: “In-depth interviews were held with Ministry of Health officials (n = 11), district health teams (n = 27), facility in-charges (n = 39) and representatives of donor-implementing organizations (n = 22).”
Financing & Policy
Expanded HIV treatment access and pregnancy care engagement in South Africa
From the abstract: “This study aimed to assess the impact of expanded access to ART on engagement in HIV care and viral suppression among pregnant women in South Africa.”
Financing & Policy
Young people’s explanations of depression in Ghana and Zimbabwe
From the abstract: “This study provides a culturally grounded understanding of how young people in Ghana and Zimbabwe conceptualise depression, shaped by both emic and etic influences.”
Financing & Policy
Mapping human–wildlife conflict in Botswana
From the abstract: “This study demonstrates the application of the open-source Land Use Conflict Identification Strategy (Open-LUCIS), a suitability-based framework that integrates open geospatial data, domain knowledge, and goal-driven land-use modeling.”
Financing & Policy
Treatment costs and productivity losses from benign prostate enlargement in Ghana
From the abstract: “Data was collected from 105 patients diagnosed with BPH using structured questionnaires from 11th June 2024–30th September 2024.”