Research & Evidence
Preconception care experiences and challenges in northern Ethiopia
From the abstract: “Hence, this study explores the awareness, experiences, challenges, and opportunities related to PCC services in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia.”
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Policies, financing, research and health-system developments.
Financing & Policy
Developing a PCR assay to detect the FecB mutation in sheep
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.”
Technology & Industry
Views on healthcare digitalisation’s clinical and ethical implications in MENA
From the abstract: “Demographic data was collected, as well as questions related to the impact, attitudes, and ethics of digital health transformation.”
Technology & Industry
Malaria prevalence among young children in Niger
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.”
Technology & Industry
Antimalarial prescribing barriers in Arba Minch’s public facilities
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.”
Financing & Policy
Insect-based feed for African catfish production
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.”
Technology & Industry
Sickle cell anaemia in Africa: a research review
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%.”
Financing & Policy
Patient decisions on elective hernia care in Kenya
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.”
Research & Evidence
Late-onset epilepsy burden among older adults worldwide, 1990–2021
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.”
Financing & Policy
COVID-19 fears and adolescent well-being in sub-Saharan Africa
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).”