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The Bandim TBscore – reliability, further development, and evaluation of potential uses [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: The tuberculosis (TB) case detection rate has stagnated at 60% due to disorganized case finding and insensitivity of sputum smear microscopy.
Frauke Rudolf
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FY 2021 Guinea-Bissau Country Opinion Survey Report

, 2021
The Country Opinion Survey in Guinea-Bissau assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Guinea-Bissau perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic
World Bank Group
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Nowcasting convective cores using deep learning

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
Key findings: •$$ \bullet $$ Network for Nowcasting Convective Cores (NetNCC) has considerable potential for convective storm nowcasting and the development of early warning systems for extreme rainfall. •$$ \bullet $$ Skilful nowcasts of convective cores are obtained at fine spatial resolutions (<30km$$ <30\kern0.15em \mathrm{km} $$) for up to 2 hr ...
Jawairia A. Ahmad, Cornelia Klein, Christopher Taylor, Seonaid R. Anderson, Steven C. Wells, David C. Hogg   +5 more
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Revaccination with Live Attenuated Vaccines Confer Additional Beneficial Nonspecific Effects on Overall Survival: A Review

EBioMedicine, 2016
Background: Live vaccines against measles (MV), tuberculosis (BCG), polio (OPV) and smallpox reduce mortality more than explained by target-disease prevention.
Christine S. Benn, Ane B. Fisker, Hilton C. Whittle, Peter Aaby   +3 more
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Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López, Samara López‐Ruiz, Gabriela Cuadrado‐Quesada   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An open-label cluster-randomised trial on TB preventive therapy for children

IJTLD Open
BACKGROUND: In a study on 9 months of isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) in children in Guinea-Bissau, 76% of children exposed to TB at home completed 6 months of IPT.
G. Lemvik, L. Larsson, F. Rudolf, J.E. Vejrum, M. Sodemann, V.F. Gomes, C. Wejse   +6 more
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Effects of Development Finance on Energy Transitions and Green Growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While global agendas promote energy transition and green growth, Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) struggles with low energy access, highlighting a development paradox between climate goals and energy poverty. By aligning aid and development finance with SDGs 7 and 13, we analyze whether development finance is at a crossroads in supporting ...
Clement Oteng, Pius Gamette, Edward Kweku Nunoo, Frederick Takyi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Intermittent) Poverty and Peace in Guinea-Bissau [PDF]

, 2012
The research on the correlations between poverty and conflicts in Guinea-Bissau has allowed to put in evidence not only the direct implications of the effective war of 1998/1999 over the living conditions of the country’s population, as well as the ...
Handem, Cristina
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The Dynamic Impact of the Energy Transition on Food Security in Developing Countries

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of persistent food insecurity and the global push for the transition toward clean energy in developing countries, understanding the association between clean energy access and food affordability is increasingly important to inform multisectoral policy interventions. Against this background, this study explores the dynamic impact
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Thierry M. Pondie, Aissatou Ndiaye, Götz Uckert, Katharina Löhr, Stefan Sieber   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

IPV introduction in the routine vaccination programme in 2016 and subsequent shortage: a natural experiment in Guinea-Bissau

Vaccine: X
Background: As part of the global polio eradication strategy, oral polio vaccine (OPV) will be replaced by the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). Despite protection against polio, studies suggest that IPV may negatively affect child health, particularly ...
Line Møller Nanque, Mario Careme, Queba Djana, Julie Odgaard Vedel, Peter Aaby, Ane Bærent Fisker   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source