Policies, financing, research and health-system developments.
From the abstract: “Using the 2021 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) and a sample of 10,820 women of reproductive age, we employ a bivariate probit framework supplemented by propensity score matching (PSM) to examine the robustness of the findings.”
From the abstract: “A comparative field trial was conducted in eight administrative sub-districts within Ghana’s Eastern Region.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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).”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”