Vaccination, disease surveillance, prevention and population health across African settings.
From the abstract: “We examined infectious disease screening in unaccompanied minors because migration-related exposures may increase the risk of communicable diseases and because early detection enables timely treatment and prevention.”
From the abstract: “We conducted nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys between March and June 2024 using harmonized tools and multistage stratified cluster sampling in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria and Kenya.”
From the abstract: “This study was aimed at assessing effects of farm and soil fertility management activities on AMF population density, species diversity and richness in North West Ethiopia.”
From the abstract: “This study aimed to determine the seasonal prevalence of childhood diarrhea and its short-term associations with meteorological factors among children under five years in Tanzania between 1 May 2023 and 30 April 2024.”
From the abstract: “This study used data from the 2012–2022 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), which included 195,000 children between the ages of 12 and 23 months in 33 SSA countries.”
From the abstract: “This study aimed to map the reported occurrence, mosaic and modular genetic context of the involved ARG.”
From the abstract: “A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan (August–October 2024), using a proportionally allocated stratified convenience sample of 311 undergraduate medical students from the third to sixth academic years (response rate 91.5%).”
From the abstract: “This systematic review and meta-analysis therefore aimed to estimate the pooled prevalence of fecal colonization with ESBL-PE among food handlers in Africa.”
From the abstract: “This study assessed the trend in the level of under-five stunting across the different dimensions of the intersection of household wealth status (rich, average, or poor), type of place of residence (rural or urban), and gender of household heads (male or female) to identify households that were persistently most at risk of under-five stunting in Nigeria.”
From the abstract: “This review aimed to examine how technology facilitates gender-based violence and to explore its impact on women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa.”