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Scoping review protocol to understand the conceptualisation, implementation and practices of health promotion within the context of primary healthcare in Africa

BMJ Open, 2021
Introduction The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of health promotion in empowering and sustaining communities, as well as the need to build resilient health systems and work collectively with other sectors to protect and promote ...
Pamela Obegu, Constantine Asahngwa, Veronica Shiroya, Ronald Gobina, Fleur Pembe Agbaw-Ebai, Mark Keboa, Denis Foretia   +6 more
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Capacity Building

, 2022
A modernização, da forma como se concretiza a guerra nos últimos anos, tem provo cado a mudança de paradigma e a forma de atuar de muitos atores. Entre esses atores destaca se a ação dos Estados, que recorrem cada vez mais a uma estratégia indireta ao invés da atuação direta. É na ação indireta que surge o conceito de capacity building, podendo o mesmo
Larry Keener, Tatiana Koutchma
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Experiences of stigma and HIV care engagement in the context of Treat All in Rwanda: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background ‘Treat All’ policies recommending immediate antiretroviral therapy (ART) soon after HIV diagnosis for all people living with HIV (PLHIV) are now ubiquitous in sub-Saharan Africa.
Charles Ingabire, Dana Watnick, Josephine Gasana, Francine Umwiza, Athanase Munyaneza, Gallican Kubwimana, Gad Murenzi, Kathryn Anastos, Adebola Adedimeji, Jonathan Ross   +9 more
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Mainstreaming the Full ENSO: Linking Present Weather and Future Climate

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2022
In this article we propose that all countries that are striving to become a Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) would benefit greatly from including El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-related research findings into their decision-making processes, not only when ...
Michael H. Glantz, Lino Naranjo-Diaz, Qian Ye, Gregory E. Pierce   +3 more
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For the Record: Second Thoughts on Early Warning, Early Action (EWEA), EW4All, or EWEA4All?

Atmosphere, 2023
Over the past four decades, people around the globe have experienced unprecedented escalations in the frequency, intensity, magnitude, and location of anomalous hydrometeorological (hydromet) hazards attributed in large measure to the direct and indirect
Michael H. Glantz, Gregory Pierce
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Participation, for Whom? The Potential of Gamified Participatory Artefacts in Uncovering Power Relations within Urban Renewal Projects

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
When defining participation in urban renewal projects in a political sense, this concept implies the challenging of power relations in each of its dimensions while addressing the need for knowledge, action and consciousness.
Teodora Iulia Constantinescu, Oswald Devisch, Liesbeth Huybrechts   +2 more
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Interval follow up of a 4-day pilot program to implement the WHO surgical safety checklist at a Congolese hospital

Globalization and Health, 2017
Background The World Health Organisation Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) improves surgical outcomes and the research question is no longer ‘does the SSC work?’ but, ‘how to make the SSC work?’ Evidence for implementation strategies in low-income ...
Michelle C. White, Jennifer Peterschmidt, James Callahan, J. Edward Fitzgerald, Kristin L. Close   +4 more
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Reviewing the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) to Enhance Societal Readiness for El Niño’s Impacts

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2020
NOAA’s Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) is used to record for historical purposes the occurrence and duration of El Niño episodes, based on the monitoring of sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the central Pacific Ocean.
Michael H. Glantz, Ivan J. Ramirez
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Innovating for skills enhancement in agricultural sciences in Africa: The centrality of field attachment programs

Gateways, 2016
Africa remains an intensely agrarian continent, with two-thirds of its people directly or indirectly deriving their livelihood from agriculture. Higher agricultural education has thus emphasised production of graduates with the requisite skills to drive ...
Anthony Egeru, Paul Nampala, Henry Massa-Makuma, Moses Osiru, Adipala Ekwamu   +4 more
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Dolutegravir use over 48 weeks is not associated with worsening insulin resistance and pancreatic beta cell function in a cohort of HIV-infected Ugandan adults

AIDS Research and Therapy, 2023
Background The Uganda Ministry of Health issued restrictive guidelines on the use of dolutegravir (DTG) in persons stratified to have a heightened risk of diabetes mellitus.
Frank Mulindwa, Barbara Castelnuovo, Nele Brusselaers, Martin Nabwana, Robert Bollinger, Allan Buzibye, Eva Laker Agnes Odongpiny, Ronald Kiguba, Jean-Marc Schwarz   +8 more
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