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MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE OUTBREAK IN A LIBERIAN COUNTY

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020
Meningococcal infection caused by Neisseria meningitidis causes epidemics especially in the ‘’Meningitis Belt’’ of Sub-Saharan Africa with a case fatality of 5.9% and attack rate 1%.
Muhammad Fahd Bin Haider, Meezan Jalil, Nisar Ul Haq   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Active Case Finding for Improved Ebola Virus Disease Case Detection in Nimba County, Liberia, 2014/2015: Lessons Learned

Advances in Public Health, 2018
Objectives. Early case detection and isolation of patients infected with highly infectious diseases are crucial in the management and control of epidemics such as Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).
E. Namukose, C. Bowah, I. Cole, G. Dahn, P. Nyanzee, R. Saye, M. Duworko, P. Nsubuga, M. Mawanda, N. Mahmoud, P. Clement, T. D. Ngabirano, T. Nyenswah, A. Gasasira   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

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

A formative appraisal of female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) score card results against point-of-care gynaecological and molecular parasitological information within four counties of Liberia

Parasitology
Liberia (West Africa) has an extensive (co)burden of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis; each largely restricted to more inland areas. Where urogenital schistosomiasis is endemic, as both disease surveillance and case management are nascent, many ...
Ayesha E.R. Bell-Gam Woto, Lucas J. Cunningham, Anthony K. Bettee, Harley Seward, Andrew Samorlu, Manfred Yarkpawolo, C. Simeon S. Borbor, T. Henry Kohar, Abedenego S. Wright, Joseph Y. Flomo, Rebecca Vesselee, Tenneh Freeman, Massa Dukuly, Hawa Kormassa Johnson, Farmah Shellie, Chester Peters, Johnathan S. Beglar, Robert Y. Nyumah, Alexander Korpu, Peter Edesiri Ohwoka, Marion Risse, Alexandra Juhasz, E. James La Course, Bernice Dahn, J. Russell Stothard   +24 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Interactions Among Climate, Land, Energy, and Water Systems: Insights From a Panel Vector Autoregression Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the dynamic interactions among climate conditions, land use, energy consumption, water resources, population dynamics, and economic growth within the Climate–Land–Energy–Water (CLEW) nexus across 137 countries from 2000 to 2023.
Kingsley Imandojemu, Romanus Osabohien, Damilola Felix Eluyela, Onur Yağiş, Felix Orole   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Community Resilience: A Multi‐Level Synthesis of Empirical and Conceptual Evidence

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Community resilience research remains fragmented across disciplines, with limited integration of empirical evidence and conceptual scholarship. This study addresses this gap through a directed content analysis of 48 empirical case studies and 39 conceptual and review publications from diverse geographical and hazard contexts.
Anamol Neupane, Seweryn Zielinski, Iroda Mukhammadieva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Inclusion, Energy Transition, and Sustainable Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A Distributional Panel Analysis

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) faces pressing financing and structural transitions to achieve the 2030 Agenda, yet the distributional relationships linking financial inclusion and renewable energy adoption to sustainable development goal (SDG) achievement remain underexplored. This study investigates the roles of multidimensional financial inclusion
Mehdi Seraj, Abdulmajeed Tsowa Muhammad, Turgut Tursoy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of a short-term oxygen therapy training program in Liberia during and after COVID-19

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundAccess to high-quality medical oxygen has been a long-standing challenge in Liberia due to barriers that span across the health system, which were amplified during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mark B. Luke, Moses Ziah, Moses Ziah, Lily Zhi Ning Lu, Michael D. Davis, Michael D. Davis, Samson Arzoaquoi, Eva Drucker, Foday Kanneh, Gorbee G. Logan, Moses Massaquoi   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Career Sustainability Profiles of Self‐Initiated Expatriates and Associated Person‐Related Factors

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increasingly volatile global working environment poses particular challenges for self‐initiated expatriates (SIEs), who often lack formal organizational support and must manage their careers independently. However, research on SIEs has largely focused on single international experiences or specific stages of the expatriation cycle, thereby
Shaofang Zong, Sandaruu Jayawardhana, Vesa Suutari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source