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Provider-initiated testing and counselling programmes in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of their operational implementation. [PDF]
, 2013 OBJECTIVE: The routine offer of an HIV test during patient-provider encounters is gaining momentum within HIV treatment and prevention programmes. This review examined the operational implementation of provider-initiated testing and counselling (PITC ...
Ferguson, Laura +4 more
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While existing research has examined travel bans as a result of the abuse of migrant workers, here they are analysed in relation to capital punishment. Focusing on female migrant workers travelling to the Middle East from Indonesia, it is argued that, far from indicating an abolitionist stance on the death penalty, these travel ban policies ...
Lucy Harry, Jocelyn Hutton
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International Journal of Culture and Mental Health, 2015 Common mental disorders are prevalent in Nigeria. Due to stigma and a limited number of trained specialists, only 10% of adults with mental illness in Nigeria receive any care.
T. Iheanacho +10 more
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A Report on Sickle Cell in Sierra Leone [PDF]
, 2019 Sierra Leone is thought to be one of the West African countries most affected by sickle cell disorders. Estimates state that one in four people carry the gene for sickle cell and between 1 to 2% of births are of children with the condition. Despite this,
Berghs, Maria +5 more
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Initiating a participatory action research process in the Agincourt health and socio–demographic surveillance site [PDF]
, 2017 Financial disclosure Funding: The research presented in this paper is funded by a Development Grant as part of the Health Systems Research Initiative from Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Wellcome Trust ...
Byass, Peter +9 more
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As a rapidly evolving sub‐field of computer‐assisted language learning, informal digital learning of English (IDLE) has become a significant catalyst for linguistic, affective, and pedagogical development among English as a second language (L2) learners.
Yue Zhang
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ЕмінакThe purpose of research paper is to analyze and bring into discussion the idea that the Mughan Neolithic period is the youngest in the South Caucasus (Tufan Akhundov’s thesis) based on the concept of the formation of favourable conditions for a ...
Vafa Mahmudova
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, 2018 Faith-based abuse relating to the practice of witchcraft and spirit possession is a controversial and not well-understood form of child abuse. From its ‘discovery’ in the UK as a cause of abuse, serious injury and death for children, in 2000 to the ...
S. Briggs, A. Whittaker
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“Queens of Ghost‐Land” 134 Years Later: Un‐Masking an Appalachian Witchcraft Accuser
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1891, newspapers across America printed a story about witches in the Appalachian Mountains and the alleged powers they possessed to control their small farming community. The article was scathing in accusation and ultimately contributed to continued othering of the women profiled, increasing their visible vulnerabilities of class, gender ...
Aíne Norris
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‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation
The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
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