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A complex intervention to improve implementation of World Health Organization guidelines for diagnosis of severe illness in low-income settings: a quasi-experimental study from Uganda

Implementation Science, 2017
Background To improve management of severely ill hospitalized patients in low-income settings, the World Health Organization (WHO) established a triage tool called “Quick Check” to provide clinicians with a rapid, standardized approach to identify ...
Matthew J. Cummings, Elijah Goldberg, Savio Mwaka, Olive Kabajaasi, Eric Vittinghoff, Adithya Cattamanchi, Achilles Katamba, Nathan Kenya-Mugisha, Shevin T. Jacob, J. Lucian Davis   +9 more
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Psychosocial interventions and their effectiveness on quality of life among elderly persons living with HIV in Africa South of the Sahara: Systematic review and meta -analysis protocol. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Abdulai M, Owiredu D, Boadu I, Tabong PT, Sarfo B, Bonful HA, Addo-Lartey A, Akuffo KO, Danso-Appiah A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Impacts of Weather Variability and Shocks on Farmers and Indigenous Peoples' Consumption: Evidence From Panama

Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather variability and shocks pose significant challenges for tropical developing countries, making it crucial to understand their effects on consumption to address the existing deficiencies among the most vulnerable groups. This study examines the impact of weather variability and shocks on household consumption in Panama, utilizing repeated
Ambar Lineth Chavez Espinosa, Akira Hibiki   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le Sahara marocain : désenclavement et développement durable [PDF]

Cinq Continents, 2012
The Moroccan Sahara: opening-up and sustainable development. The enclosing of the Moroccan Sahara results from the inversion and old situation. Indeed, during a very long time, the area was a way of passage, a platform in the south of Morocco.
EL MAHJOUB CHMOURK
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Quality of antenatal care in Zambia: a national assessment

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2012
Background Antenatal care (ANC) is one of the recommended interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. Yet in most Sub-Saharan African countries, high rates of ANC coverage coexist with high maternal and neonatal mortality.
Kyei Nicholas N A, Chansa Collins, Gabrysch Sabine   +2 more
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Concern Regarding the HIV/AIDS epidemic and Individual Childbearing

Demographic Research, 2003
I examine if and how rural Malawians alter their childbearing as a consequence of concern regarding the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The paper is motivated by the debate which opposes two ideas regarding the childbearing effect of high HIV infection rates and ...
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Returned but Not Restored: Experiences of Health and Access to Care Among Return Migrants in Sub‐Saharan Africa—A Scoping Review

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Return migrants form a diverse group, ranging from highly skilled to low‐skilled workers, who travel by regular or irregular migration routes and experience differing levels of physical and mental harm during transit and at destination.
Sif Sofie Vange, Gershim Asiki, Ama de‐Graft Aikins, Charles Agyemang, Eshetu Girma, Ernestina Korleki Dankyi, Marie Norredam   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Through the Sands of Time: Evolutionary History and Systematics of the Awl‐Headed Snakes (Colubridae: Lytorhynchus) in the Saharo‐Sindian Region

Zoologica Scripta, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The psammophilous colubrid genus Lytorhynchus is widely distributed in the deserts of the Saharo‐Sindian region and adjacent areas. The taxonomy of the genus and the number of recognised species have remained unstable since the last taxonomic revision in 1970, with differing views on the taxonomic status of L. gaddi and L. kennedyi.
Lukáš Pola, Daniel Jablonski, Rafaqat Masroor, Bassam Abu Afifeh, Roberta Graboski, Mohammad Abu Baker, Zuhair S. Amr, Ahmed Mohajja AlShammari, Avrajjal Ghosh, Salvador Carranza, Jiří Šmíd   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Were rivers flowing across the Sahara during the last interglacial? Implications for human migration through Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Human migration north through Africa is contentious. This paper uses a novel palaeohydrological and hydraulic modelling approach to test the hypothesis that under wetter climates c.100,000 years ago major river systems ran north across the Sahara to the ...
Tom J Coulthard, Jorge A Ramirez, Nick Barton, Mike Rogerson, Tim Brücher   +4 more
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The Effect of Digitalisation and Corruption on Human Development in Sub‐Sahara Africa: Are There Regional Differences?

South African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The study explores the effect of digitalisation on corruption and on human development in Sub‐Sahara Africa (SSA) and its subregions. The fixed effects and Hausman–Taylor techniques and data for 33 SSA countries are used. We find that digitalisation has a nonlinear effect on corruption and on human development.
Abdul Ganiyu Iddrisu, Ibrahim Osman Adam
wiley   +1 more source