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The impact of method choice on the risk of contraceptive discontinuation: Egypt 2014 [PDF]
Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences, 2020 Purpose – In Egypt, the IUD is the most common contraceptive method since 1988 and has remained so despite a recent drop in its share from 59.9% in 2008 to 51.5% in 2014 in favour of hormonal methods, which increased from 19.7% for pills and 12.3% for ...
Mona Khalifa +2 more
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The indirect health effects of malaria estimated from health advantages of the sickle cell trait
Nature Communications, 2019 Estimates of the burden of malaria often don't take wider, indirect effects on overall health into consideration. Here, Uyoga et al. estimate the indirect impact of malaria on children’s health in a case-control study, using the sickle cell trait as a ...
Sophie Uyoga +11 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2018 Background: Kenya introduced the monovalent Rotarix® rotavirus group A (RVA) vaccine nationally in mid-2014. Long-term surveillance data is important prior to wide-scale vaccine use to assess the impact on disease and to investigate the occurrence of ...
Betty E. Owor +7 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021 Background Self-reported maternal complications are associated with maternal morbidity, deliveries by C-section, postpartum depression, and maternal death.
Pradeep Kumar +3 more
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Veterinary Medicine International, 2023 Biosecurity practice limits the occurrence of diseases and economic losses in fish farms. The objective of this study was to characterize fish farming in the Administrative Division of Wouri, Cameroon (3°97′04″–3°58′13″N; 9°76′78″–9°46′4.3″E) and assess ...
Fonkwa Georges +7 more
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Human Biology, 2009 Archaeological demography investigates the structure and dynamics of past human populations using evidence from traces of human activities and remnants of material culture in the archaeological record. Research in this field is interdisciplinary, incorporating findings from anthropology, paleogenetics, and human ecology but with a remit that extends ...
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Maternal grand multiparity and intention to use modern contraceptives in Nigeria
BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Grand multiparity and low contraceptive prevalence are dominant among Nigerian women. These elevate the risk of unintended pregnancies, high-risk fertility and adverse maternal and child health outcomes among women in the country, particularly
Bola Lukman Solanke +3 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2020 Background: Respiratory viruses are primary agents of respiratory tract diseases. Knowledge on the types and frequency of respiratory viruses affecting school-children is important in determining the role of schools in transmission in the community and ...
Irene Wangwa Adema +6 more
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Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2019 Background Unmet need for modern contraceptive remains a critical reproductive health challenge in Nigeria. Numerous studies in Nigeria and other countries have investigated the patterns, prevalence and associated factors of unmet contraceptive need.
Bola Lukman Solanke +3 more
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks
Population Ecology, EarlyView.Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu +3 more
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