IJERPH, Vol. 20, Pages 6718: Recommendations for Developing a Telemedicine Strategy for Botswana: A Meta-Synthesis
Scott
Botswana is developing its eHealth capacity using a National eHealth Strategy. However, that strategy overlooks telemedicine, a potential solution for many healthcare challenges. For telemedicine to benefit Botswana, a telemedicine-specific strategy is required. While establishing a national strategy is a sovereign responsibility, guidance and recommendations can be provided. Using published resources specific to Botswana, key health-related issues were identified. These issues were matched with suitable telemedicine activities and delivery approaches. Recommendations were then derived from these for use in an ef...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - September 6, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Benson Ncube Maurice Mars Richard E. Scott Tags: Article Source Type: research
Vulnerable young women and frontline service providers identify options to improve the HIV-sensitivity of social protection programmes in Botswana: A modified Policy Delphi approach
Volume 18, Issue 1, January 2023 . (Source: Global Public Health)
Source: Global Public Health - September 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ran van der Wal Miriam Kobo Anne Cockcroft Isabelle Vedel Mira Johri Neil Andersson Source Type: research
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Cervical cancer is the most common cancer treated with radiation in Botswana. There is a single linear accelerator and a single HDR brachytherapy unit in the country, treating a median of 200 cervical cancer cases year. About 80% of these are treated with curative intent, using concurrent chemoradiation with brachytherapy boost. Patients in Botswana often present with advanced disease and very bulky tumours. Traditionally, patients who can not have brachytherapy are sent for external beam boost. (Source: Brachytherapy)
Source: Brachytherapy - September 1, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Memory Fadziso Bvochora-Nsingo, Rohini Bhatia, Elliphine Gwangwava, Thabiso Itshabeng, Surbhi Grover Source Type: research
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We report a patient receiving hemostatic high dose rate brachytherapy using intrauterine tandem insertion only. (Source: Brachytherapy)
Source: Brachytherapy - September 1, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Memory Fadziso Bvochora-Nsingo, Rohini Bhatia, Elliphine Gwangwava, Masud Rana Khan, Thabiso Itshabeng, Surbhi Grover Source Type: research
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Cervical cancer is the most common cancer treated at Gaborone Private Hospital (GPH), the only facility offering radiotherapy services in Botswana. For curative intent, patients receive concurrent chemoradiation followed by brachytherapy boost. Brachytherapy services commenced in Botswana in 2012, and treatment began by using traditional A points for planning. A successful brachytherapy project was established with mentorship by clinicians from Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania. (Source: Brachytherapy)
Source: Brachytherapy - September 1, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Memory Fadziso Bvochora-Nsingo, Elliphine Gwangwavs, Rohini Bhatia, Thabiso Itshabeng, Masud Rana Khan Source Type: research
Extended balloon labour induction: A single arm proof of concept trial
CONCLUSION: This proof-of-concept study suggests that use of side-by-side balloons in participants with favourable cervix is effective in achieving vaginal birth in most participants without uterotonics or amniotomy. There were no adverse outcomes, though the study was too small to exclude the possibility of rare adverse outcomes. This offers a novel option for labour induction/augmentation, particularly where uterotonics or amniotomy are best avoided such as prior caesarean birth, vertical infection transmission risk and in settings with limited capacity for fetal surveillance. The results clearly justify larger randomize...
Source: Reproductive Biology - August 31, 2023 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Lorato Matshitsa Nassali Mercy-Nkuba G Justus Hofmeyr Source Type: research
Extended balloon labour induction: A single arm proof of concept trial
CONCLUSION: This proof-of-concept study suggests that use of side-by-side balloons in participants with favourable cervix is effective in achieving vaginal birth in most participants without uterotonics or amniotomy. There were no adverse outcomes, though the study was too small to exclude the possibility of rare adverse outcomes. This offers a novel option for labour induction/augmentation, particularly where uterotonics or amniotomy are best avoided such as prior caesarean birth, vertical infection transmission risk and in settings with limited capacity for fetal surveillance. The results clearly justify larger randomize...
Source: Reproductive Biology - August 31, 2023 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Lorato Matshitsa Nassali Mercy-Nkuba G Justus Hofmeyr Source Type: research
Perceptions of nurses working in mental health services regarding the recovery ‐oriented care approach: Findings from Africa
AbstractBackgroundThe recovery-oriented care approach in mental health is recognised as the vision for mental health. People with a diagnosis of mental illness value the support and the individualistic approach emphasised in the recovery-oriented mental health care approach as they believe it facilitates their recovery. However, as a developing country, Botswana has a long way to go in availing mental health care resources to people with mental illness, let alone adopting new mental health approaches such as recovery.AimThe study aimed to explore the perceptions of nurses working in mental health care facilities of recover...
Source: Nursing Open - August 30, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: K. M. Kealeboga,
E. M. Manyedi,
S. Moloko ‐Phiri Tags: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH QUALITATIVE Source Type: research
A solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry technique for urinary metabolomics of human samples infected with schistosomiasis-Case of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
We present a GC-MS metabolomics workflow for analyzing metabolites in urine samples infected with schistosomiasis. Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, affects 85% of the global population, with the majority residing in Sub-Saharan Africa. The workflow utilized in this study involved the utilization of the AMDIS freeware, Metab R for pre-processing, and multivariate statistical classification through partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). This classification aimed to categorize volatile metabolites found in urine samples from humans infected with schistosomiasis. All samples were collected from ind...
Source: Biomedical Chromatography : BMC - August 26, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Sedireng M Tawana-Ndolo Matshediso Zachariah Nthabiseng A Phaladze Kwenga F Sichilongo Source Type: research
A solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry technique for urinary metabolomics of human samples infected with schistosomiasis-Case of the Okavango Delta, Botswana
We present a GC-MS metabolomics workflow for analyzing metabolites in urine samples infected with schistosomiasis. Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, affects 85% of the global population, with the majority residing in Sub-Saharan Africa. The workflow utilized in this study involved the utilization of the AMDIS freeware, Metab R for pre-processing, and multivariate statistical classification through partial least squares-discriminant analysis (PLS-DA). This classification aimed to categorize volatile metabolites found in urine samples from humans infected with schistosomiasis. All samples were collected from ind...
Source: Biomedical Chromatography : BMC - August 26, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Sedireng M Tawana-Ndolo Matshediso Zachariah Nthabiseng A Phaladze Kwenga F Sichilongo Source Type: research
Mapping the regulatory landscape of AI in healthcare in Africa
Introduction: Artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced technology has seen unprecedented expansion in the recent past. This growth brings with it huge opportunities for the positive transformation of the economy, business, healthcare, and society. However, a critical question is whether, and to what extent, regulatory measures and mechanisms have been implemented to safeguard its design, development, and deployment. This paper offers a scoping exercise that maps the regulatory landscape of AI in healthcare (including health research) in certain African countries.Methods: This research is conducted across 12 African countries:...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - August 24, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Global pediatric radiology education: responding to training-level specific needs
AbstractPediatric radiology education for pediatric and radiology trainees and practicing professionals must be adapted to the target audience. In efforts to narrow the gaps in global pediatric radiology education, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's radiology department ’s Global Outreach and Education Program has designed specific interventions and curricula according to different levels of training and desired expertise. Our initiatives include an online “Introduction to Pediatric Imaging” lecture series for pediatrics residents in Botswana, Ethiopia and Vi etnam; access to a learning management system (Outr...
Source: Pediatric Radiology - August 23, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: research
Folate deficiency increases the incidence of dolutegravir-associated foetal defects in a mouse pregnancy model
EBioMedicine. 2023 Aug 14;95:104762. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104762. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Dolutegravir (DTG) is a recommended first-line regimen for all people with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Initial findings from Botswana, a country with no folate fortification program, showed an elevated prevalence of neural tube defects (NTDs) with peri-conceptional exposure to DTG. Here we explore whether a low folate diet influences the risk of DTG-associated foetal anomalies in a mouse model.METHODS: C57BL/6 mice fed a folate-deficient diet for 2 weeks, were mated and then randomly allocated ...
Source: Cancer Control - August 16, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Haneesha Mohan Jessica Nguyen Ben MacKenzie Audrey Yee Evelyn Yukino Laurette Tanvi Sanghvi Oscar Tejada Valeriya Dontsova Kit-Yi Leung Cameron Goddard Taylor De Young John G Sled Nicholas D E Greene Andrew J Copp Lena Serghides Source Type: research
Critical evaluation of the agro-ecological system of the Republic of South Africa (30 °S) in response to unclassified claims of cocoa farming beyond 20°S of the equator
by Peter Mudiaga Etaware
Cocoa is a climate sensitive species that has never been reported to grow or survive outside its natural climate belt (20°N-20°S of the equator). Recent reports claimed that cocoa is currently cultivated in Eswatini (26°S), Botswana (22°S), Namibia (22°S), Lesotho (29°S), and the Republic of South Africa “RSA” (30°S). How true are these reports? Climatological and epidemiological investigations were setup to debunk or support these claims. The clime of RSA was investigated since it was the farthest from the cocoa production clime. A review of the climate data of RSA showed 12.4 an d 6.1...
Source: PLoS One - August 15, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Peter Mudiaga Etaware Source Type: research
Do microbes evade domestication? - Evaluating potential ferality among diastatic Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Food Microbiol. 2023 Oct;115:104320. doi: 10.1016/j.fm.2023.104320. Epub 2023 Jun 7.ABSTRACTCertain lineages of the wine, beer and bread yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae have diastatic activity. They contain the chimeric gene STA1 that codes for an extracellular glucoamylase which enables the strains to degrade starch and dextrins. Beer contaminations by diastatic yeasts can be dangerous because they can cause super-attenuation due to the consumption of otherwise non-fermentable oligosaccharides, gushing and off-flavours. Given that diastatic yeasts can be used for beer fermentation it is important to understand the relation...
Source: Food Microbiology - August 11, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Francisca Para íso Ana Pontes Joana Neves Kebaneilwe Lebani Mathias Hutzler Nerve Zhou Jos é Paulo Sampaio Source Type: research
