Africa: Using AI to Tailor Drugs for Africa
[UCT] Therapeutic drugs have long been ill suited to African patients' needs. Professor Kelly Chibale, the director of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Holistic Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), and his research colleagues posit that scientists can use artificial intelligence (AI) to change this. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Economy, Business and Finance Health and Medicine ICT and Telecom Source Type: news
South Africa: Reliving the Pandemic - Five New 'Vi-Fi' Novels Inspired By Covid-19
[Daily Maverick] These titles, with themes such as isolation and addiction, introduce readers to a new Covid generation of authors. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Coronavirus Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Africa: Can We Achieve the Global Target for Maternal Mortality?
[allAfrica] Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- "Did you know hundreds of thousands of women die in childbirth every year? Dr Anita Zaidi is determined to change that." (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - April 22, 2024 Category: OBGYN Tags: Africa Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Female Congregant's Death At Madzibaba Ishmael's Shrine Was Due to Pregnancy Complications - - Postmortem Report
[New Zimbabwe] A report of a postmortem conducted at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals has revealed that a female congregant at controversial Madzibaba Ishmael's shrine died as a result of a miscarriage, which needed specialist medical attention which she was denied due to religious beliefs. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - April 22, 2024 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Pregnancy and Childbirth Southern Africa Zimbabwe Source Type: news
Nigeria: Why You Should Ditch the Booze When You're Pregnant!
[Vanguard] Imagine when your pregnancy is scanned for the first time so you could see your precious baby growing in the womb, suddenly its whole body gives a shudder and the foetus appears to jump. Such a movement is known as the startle reflex; and the scan described above are from photographs from scans that were taken by Peter Hepper, a professor of psychology at Queens University, Belfast, an expert on the effects of alcohol on unborn babies. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - April 22, 2024 Category: OBGYN Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria Nutrition Pregnancy and Childbirth West Africa Source Type: news
Nigeria: Addressing the Challenge of Zero Dose Children in Nigeria
[Daily Trust] In Nigeria, the issue of zero dose children (those who have not received any vaccination) is a pressing concern that demands urgent attention. Despite efforts to improve immunisation coverage at the national and subnational levels, significant gaps persist, leaving too many children vulnerable to preventable diseases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Children and Youth Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news
Malawi: Eye Health Project Tackles Inequity By Bringing Health Services To The Community
[Sightsavers] A pioneering eye health project in Malawi has broken barriers to health equity by bringing health services to community level. The project, supported by international development organisation Sightsavers, reached over 122,000 people, including women and people with disabilities, across rural and high-poverty areas in the South West Health Zone. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Malawi Southern Africa Source Type: news
Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans
On a sunny day 7 years ago in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Uganda, researchers were startled to observe chimpanzees scoop dry bat feces from under a hollow tree and devour it. In 60 years of observations at Budongo, no one had ever seen such a thing, recalls veterinary epidemiologist Tony Goldberg of the University of Wisconsin—Madison. “Aside from the ick factor, we all had the exact same thought,” he says. “They must be exposed to horrible bat-borne viruses.”
That suspicion proved correct. Though the bat feces is rich in nutrients,
it contains dozens of previously unknown viruses
, Goldberg and...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
South Africa: Chronic Kidney Disease Rates Have Dropped in People With HIV, but Late Diagnosis Remains a Serious Problem
[spotlight] People living with HIV are at an increased risk of developing several opportunistic infections and co-morbidities, including chronic kidney disease. Elri Voigt unpacks the complex effect that HIV has on the kidneys, how HIV and chronic kidney disease has evolved after the roll out of anti-retroviral treatment, and what the situation is now in the country for people living with HIV and chronic kidney disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: HIV-Aids and STDs Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
Factors associated with rape case attrition in the South African criminal justice system: a national cross-sectional study - Machisa M, Jina R, Labuschagne G, Vetten L, Loots L, Jewkes R.
The attrition of rape cases within the criminal justice system is driven by different factors. We aimed to describe the patterns of rape case attrition and associated factors in South Africa. We analysed a national sample of 3,952 cases reported in 2012. W... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news
Social, forensic, and clinical correlates in female observandi referred for non-violent crimes - Nemavhola M, Melapi TAS, Hoffman D, Gerber-Schutte O.
BACKGROUND: Globally, crime is highly masculinised and research into female criminality is scarce. In South Africa, no research specifically investigating the characteristics of female observandi referred for non-violent crimes has been published. AIMS: Th... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Gait speed and its associated factors among older black adults in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from the WHO study on Global AGEing in older adults (SAGE) - Tawiah P, Mensah PB, Gyabaah S, Adebanji AO, Konadu E, Amoah I.
Gait speed is an essential predictor of functional and cognitive decline in older adults. The study aimed to investigate the gait speed of older adults in Ghana and South Africa and to determine its associated factors, as the Sub-Saharan representatives in... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Outcomes of substance use and sexual power among adolescent girls and young women in Cape Town: implications for structural and cultural differences - Wechsberg WM, Browne FA, Carney T, Kline TL, Howard BN, Russell SE, van der Drift I, Myers B, Minnis AM, Bonner CP, Ndirangu JW.
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in South Africa experience contextual barriers to HIV risk reduction including incomplete schooling, unintended pregnancy, substance use, and gender-based violence. A cluster randomised trial in Cape Town allocated 2... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Adverse childhood experiences, individual-level risk and protective factors, and recent drug use in a community sample of Nigerian women - Agwogie MO, Kliewer W, Ibrahim MB.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with a wide range of health problems and health-compromising behaviors, including drug use, but are understudied in sub-Saharan Africa. Further, some data suggest that some types of ACEs are more strongly... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
Invisible wounds: exploring the coping strategies of Black survivors of homicide victims in Canada - Sharpe T, Aqil N, Donkin V.
Canada has experienced a steady increase in homicide. Specifically, out of the 10 provinces and 3 territories, Ontario has consistently experienced the highest number of homicides, the majority concentrated within predominantly African, Caribbean, and Blac... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 22, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
