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Comprehensive knowledge of HIV prevention among fishing communities of Lake Kyoga, Uganda, 2013
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Compared to the general population in Uganda, fishing communities suffer greater burden of HIV/AIDS. We determined the level of comprehensive knowledge on HIV prevention and its associated factors among fishing communities of Lake Kyoga ...
Leocadia Kwagonza +5 more
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Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide [PDF]
, 2015 A distinct category of women has been identified in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, those who commit extreme forms of violence and murder against their children in order to fulfil their religious obligations or to protect themselves from perceived
Agazue, Chima Damian, Gavin, Helen
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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]
, 2016 Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
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African Journal of Disability, 2019 Background: Parents of children with disabilities have faced difficulties in looking after their children, be it socially, economically and financially. Parents in rural areas are mainly left with a huge burden, as there is a lack of services and support
Brian Tigere, Jabulani C. Makhubele
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‘Viral’ hunts? A cultural Darwinian analysis of witch persecutions [PDF]
, 2019 The theory of Darwinian cultural evolution is gaining currency in many parts of the socio-cultural sciences, but it remains contentious. Critics claim that the theory is either fundamentally mistaken or boils down to a fancy re-description of things we ...
Boudry, Maarten, Hofhuis, Steije
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Early identification and management of mental illness in childhood and adolescence helps to avert debilitating mental illness in adulthood but the attention given to Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) has until recently been low ...
Angela Akol +3 more
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Journal of Religion & Spirituality in Social Work: Social ThoughtAlhassan Abdullah +6 more
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An Evaluation of The Dove Project [PDF]
, 2014 The Dove Project is a partnership project run by Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA), Newham Children and Young People's Services (CYPS) and Newham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
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Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis, EarlyView.Abstract Regulatory genetic toxicology focuses on DNA damage and subsequent gene mutations. However, genotoxic agents can also affect epigenetic marks, and incorporation of epigenetic data into the regulatory framework may thus enhance the accuracy of risk assessment.
Roger Godschalk +4 more
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Changing Nigerian cultures: two films against witchcraft and an impossible dialogue [PDF]
, 2017 The prominent place of witchcraft in Nollywood films produced in the 1990s is widely acknowledged, and has prompted a number of comments from critics.
Ugochukwu, Françoise
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