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African health policy, systems and evidence ·
From the abstract: “This study aimed to develop and validate a robust, cost-effective, and high-throughput genotyping assay for detecting the FecB mutation across diverse sheep populations globally.”
From the abstract: “Demographic data was collected, as well as questions related to the impact, attitudes, and ethics of digital health transformation.”
From the abstract: “Methods: Data from the 2021 Niger Malaria Indicator Survey (NMIS) is used, focusing on RDT-confirmed malaria cases in children aged 6-59 months.”
From the abstract: “The current study assessed the implications of substituting fish meal (FM) with black soldier fly larvae meal (BSFLM) on sustainable African catfish (Clarius gariepinus) production.”
From the abstract: “This study aimed to investigate barriers to adherence to guidelines in prescribing antimalarial drugs in public healthcare facilities in Arba Minch, South Ethiopia.”
From the abstract: “From 115 studies with 1,203,839 participants and 17,458 confirmed HbSS cases, the pooled prevalence was 1.43% (95% CI: 1.08%–1.88%), with substantial heterogeneity (I2 = 99.1%) and a prediction interval of 0.21%–8.91%.”
From the abstract: “We conducted a qualitative study of 38 convenience-sampled patients diagnosed with an elective hernia condition at a tertiary referral hospital in Kenya between November 2023 and March 2024.”
From the abstract: “This study aims to evaluate the burden of late-onset epilepsy (LOE) and investigate its temporal trends and inequalities among older adults at global, regional, and national scales between 1990 and 2021.”
From the abstract: “In a mediation model, we employed data collected during the pandemic to examine the mediating mechanisms that links fear of COVID-19 and COVID-19-induced changes in multiple life domains (subjective feelings of unsafety, positive affect and peer relationships) to different measurements of adolescents’ SWB (overall life satisfaction, overall happiness, subjective happiness, and composite SWB).”
From the abstract: “When controlled for whether participants knowingly bleed during haircuts, HIV seropositivity was significantly more likely in those who regularly bleed, OR = 2.51 [95% CI 1.16–5.42], p = 0.02.”