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African health policy, systems and evidence ·
From the abstract: “This paper presents an unsupervised machine learning method, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), applied to household surveys from 15 African countries to create a universal wealth index that allows multiple countries to be compared on a common scale.”
From the abstract: “This study estimated the prevalence, identified sociodemographic and donor-type predictors of TTIs and compared the diagnostic yield of RDTs versus ELISA in a teaching hospital in the Central Region of Ghana.”
From the abstract: “Nearly all previous studies of SCD have been conducted in cities.”
From the abstract: “This study determined the diagnostic value of red blood cell indices, which are cheaper and quicker to conduct, compared to serum ferritin to diagnose iron deficiency during pregnancy.”
From the abstract: “MTBC detection from serially collected TS was variable, but Ct values were consistent across swab order and storage conditions.”
From the abstract: “This study aimed to identify latent classes of lung cancer symptom awareness and their predictors, guiding class-specific interventions.”
From the abstract: “In this paper, we used fuzzy logic and voice-enabled technology to create WAHMIDS (West African HIV and HIV-comorbidity Multilingual Indigenous Diagnostic Software) and WAHMIMA (West African HIV Multilingual Informatics Mobile Application), which are health apps designed to help diagnose HIV and manage related health issues in both rural and urban areas for people who speak different indigenous languages in West Africa.”
From the abstract: “We analyzed nationally representative data from 10,511 children aged 6–18 in the 2022 Somalia Integrated Household Budget Survey (SIHBS).”
From the abstract: “This was a retrospective study involving a review of records of children and adolescents aged below 18 years with rhabdomyosarcoma treated at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) between January 2016 and December 2020.”
From the abstract: “This study assesses the cost implications of integrating these two interventions among under-5 children in Northeast Nigeria.”