Assessing the burden of Taenia solium cysticercosis in Burundi, 2020
Taenia solium cysticercosis is a zoonotic disease that is endemic in many low- and middle-income countries where risk factors for disease transmission are present. The economic impact of cysticercosis on public h... (Source: BMC Infectious Diseases)
Source: BMC Infectious Diseases - November 14, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Salvator Minani, Brecht Devleesschauwer, Anastasie Gasogo, Jean-Bosco Ntirandekura, Sarah Gabri ël, Pierre Dorny and Chiara Trevisan Tags: Research Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 14979: Preventing Alcohol-Related Harm in East Africa: Stakeholder Perceptions of Readiness across Five Countries
Conclusions: Our results demonstrate substantial variability in the readiness to address alcohol-related harm across East Africa. The highest capacity was noted for knowledge towards alcohol prevention, institutional links, and legislative mandates and policies. However, important gaps were noted in terms of attitudes towards alcohol prevention, the will to address the problem, as well as material, human, and informal resources, which need to be urgently addressed to strengthen capacity for addressing and mitigating the significant toll of alcohol-related harm in the region. (Source: International Journal of Environmental ...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - November 14, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Monica H. Swahn Zakaria Robow Adelaide Balenger Catherine A. Staton Rogers Kasirye Joel M. Francis Sophia Komba Patterson Siema Tags: Article Source Type: research
Report on the LXVIII meeting of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) (July 2022)
The British Association of Paediatric Surgeon's summer (BAPS) conference in Birmingham (Fig. 1) was its first post-COVID conference held where mask-less delegates could meet, hug, exchange stories without the need of a passenger locator form or a negative rapid antigen test. We greeted international delegates from the USA, Norway, Finland, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand and Austr alia like long-lost relatives released from sudden captivity. Reminders did exist of course – air travel is still not 100% infallible as the Greek delegate found out when his suitcase and formalwear turned up in Burundi rather than Bi...
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - October 21, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Prof Mark Davenport Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research
Report on the LXVIII Meeting of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (July 2022)
The British Association of Paediatric Surgeon's summer (BAPS) conference in Birmingham (Figure 1) was its first post-COVID conference held where mask-less delegates could meet, hug, exchange stories without the need of a passenger locator form or a negative rapid antigen test. We greeted international delegates from the USA, Norway, Finland, Brazil, Malaysia, Thailand, New Zealand and Australia like long-lost relatives released from sudden captivity. Reminders did exist of course – air travel is still not 100% infallible as the Greek delegate found out when his suitcase and formalwear turned up in Burundi rather than Bir...
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgery - October 21, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Prof Mark Davenport Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research
Exploring the nexus between natural resource depletion, renewable energy use, and environmental degradation in sub-Saharan Africa
This study explores the nexus between natural resource depletion, renewable energy use, and environmental degradation in 48 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from the period 2000 to 2020 using generalized panel quantile regression. The findings show that, at 90th quantiles the magnitude of natural resource depletion is positive and stronger associated with environmental degradation in SSA. This is probably attributed by countries with higher natural resource depletion such as Congo Republic (37.10%), Equatorial Guinea (27.60%), Angola (21.14%), Gabon (12.84%), Chad (12.19%), Burundi (8.92%), Uganda (6.16%), and Congo Dem...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - October 14, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mwoya Byaro Juvenal Nkonoki Gemma Mafwolo Source Type: research
Exploring the nexus between natural resource depletion, renewable energy use, and environmental degradation in sub-Saharan Africa
This study explores the nexus between natural resource depletion, renewable energy use, and environmental degradation in 48 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries from the period 2000 to 2020 using generalized panel quantile regression. The findings show that, at 90th quantiles the magnitude of natural resource depletion is positive and stronger associated with environmental degradation in SSA. This is probably attributed by countries with higher natural resource depletion such as Congo Republic (37.10%), Equatorial Guinea (27.60%), Angola (21.14%), Gabon (12.84%), Chad (12.19%), Burundi (8.92%), Uganda (6.16%), and Congo Dem...
Source: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International - October 14, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mwoya Byaro Juvenal Nkonoki Gemma Mafwolo Source Type: research
Global mental health experiences of single mothers: A mixed methods research synthesis
CONCLUSION: It is important for clinicians who care for single mothers, particularly if they recently immigrated, are multiparous, and an ethnic minority to encourage engagement in peer-initiated counselling and obtain mental health care as necessary.IMPACT: This study identified and addressed the mental health issues that single mothers face worldwide. This is also the first mixed methods research synthesis to report single mothers' ethnicity in nursing and midwifery literature. Thus, findings from this mixed methods research synthesis can help nurses worldwide build culturally-concordant programs in their respective comm...
Source: Adv Data - October 13, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Timothea Vo Lucinda Canty Source Type: research
Global mental health experiences of single mothers: A mixed methods research synthesis
CONCLUSION: It is important for clinicians who care for single mothers, particularly if they recently immigrated, are multiparous, and an ethnic minority to encourage engagement in peer-initiated counselling and obtain mental health care as necessary.IMPACT: This study identified and addressed the mental health issues that single mothers face worldwide. This is also the first mixed methods research synthesis to report single mothers' ethnicity in nursing and midwifery literature. Thus, findings from this mixed methods research synthesis can help nurses worldwide build culturally-concordant programs in their respective comm...
Source: Adv Data - October 13, 2022 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Timothea Vo Lucinda Canty Source Type: research
HIV testing uptake and determinants among adolescents and young people in Burundi: a cross-sectional analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey 2016-2017
Conclusion
Despite the interventions implemented to reach the 90-90-90 UNAIDS goals, HIV testing among youth in Burundi was low. Youth-friendly health centres should be part of strategies to stimulate young people to increase uptake of HIV preventive services in Burundi. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - October 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nshimirimana, C., Vuylsteke, B., Smekens, T., Benova, L. Tags: Open access HIV/AIDS Source Type: research
Reasons for referral and referral compliance among Congolese and Burundian refugees living in Tanzania: a community-based, cross-sectional survey
Conclusion
To our knowledge, this is the first community-based study on patterns of referral healthcare among refugees in Tanzania and sub-Saharan Africa. Our findings suggest patients were referred for surgical problems and for imaging, however not all referrals were completed in a timely fashion. Future research should attempt to build prospective referral registries that allow for better tracking of patients and examination of waiting times. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - October 3, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Enumah, Z. O., Rafiq, M. Y., Manyama, F., Ngude, H., Juma, O., Sakran, J. V., Stevens, K. Tags: Open access, Global health Source Type: research
Measuring socioeconomic inequalities in prenatal HIV test service uptake for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in East Africa: A decomposition analysis
by Feleke Hailemichael Astawesegn, Elizabeth Conroy, Haider Mannan, Virginia Stulz
BackgroundDespite efforts made towards the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission, socioeconomic inequality in prenatal HIV test uptake in East Africa is not well understood. Therefore, this study aimed at measuring socioeconomic inequalities in prenatal HIV test uptake and explaining its main determinants in East Africa MethodWe analysed a total weighted sample of 45,476 women aged 15 –49 years who birthed in the two years preceding the survey. The study used the most recent DHS data from ten East African countries (Burundi, Como...
Source: PLoS One - August 23, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Feleke Hailemichael Astawesegn Source Type: research
Women ’s contraceptive profiles in Burundi: Knowledge, attitudes, and interactions with media and health services
This study pairs these clusters with data on factors typically targeted in social behavior change interventions: knowledge, attitudes, and women’s interactions with media and health services, t o create composite profiles of women in these clusters. Of six clusters, three are characterized by contraceptive use and three are characterized by its absence. Media exposure and attitudes regarding sex preference, wife beating, and self-efficacy largely do not explain cluster membership. Contrace ptive knowledge is positively associated with two clusters (Family Builder 1 and Traditional Mother) and negatively associated with a...
Source: PLoS One - July 27, 2022 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Kerry L. D. MacQuarrie Source Type: research
School violence, depression symptoms, and school climate: a cross-sectional study of Congolese and Burundian refugee children
Forcibly displaced children are at increased risk of violence and mental health disorders. In refugee contexts, schools are generally perceived as protective environments where children can build a sense of be... (Source: Conflict and Health)
Source: Conflict and Health - July 23, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Camilla Fabbri, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Baptiste Leurent, Katherine Rodrigues, Elizabeth Shayo, Vivien Barongo and Karen M. Devries Tags: Research Source Type: research
Burden of and risk factors for sexual violence among women with and without disabilities in two sub-Saharan African countries
CONCLUSION: This study provides evidence of the high burden of sexual violence among women with disabilities who live in urban African contexts. The social environment and access to education may be key contributors to this vulnerability.PMID:35775278 | PMC:PMC9255210 | DOI:10.1080/16549716.2022.2077904 (Source: Global Health Action)
Source: Global Health Action - July 1, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pierre De Beaudrap Charles Mout é Estelle Pasquier Alice Tchoumkeu Carole Dongmo Temgoua Aida Zerbo Muriel Mac-Seing Gervais Beninguisse Source Type: research
