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Background In September 2016, South Africa (SA) began implementing the universal-test-and-treat (UTT) policy in hopes of attaining the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets by 2020.
Dorina Onoya+8 more
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Looking back at paediatric HIV treatment in South Africa. My, how we have grown!
Antiretroviral treatment has undergone major changes in the last 20 years, from monotherapy, to dual therapy and finally to triple therapy. Lately, more focus has been placed on better, more well-tolerated combinations and formulations.
Leon J. Levin+2 more
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Background There is evidence that food industry actors try to shape science on nutrition and physical activity. But they are also involved in influencing the principles of scientific integrity.
Mélissa Mialon+4 more
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The right to health in practice [PDF]
In the current era of globalization, the world is diversifying as never before. Inequalities in economic, social, spiritual, political and civil matters characterise daily life. Estimates consider 80% of global disease burden lies in "developing" or low-income countries, based on crude calculations by disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) [1].
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Sexual health and human rights: protecting rights to promote health [PDF]
Where sexual health refers to “a state of physical, mental, and social well-being in relation to sexuality,” human rights provide a path to realise the highest attainable standard of sexual health for all. Jonathan Mann first described the fundamental relationship between sexual health and human rights in the early years of the global AIDS response. He
Stefan Baral+6 more
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Hospitals, health and death in Gaza
Human rights violations harm dignity and inflict suffering by causing loss of health and/or life. Thus, illness and death are the most tangible and irrefutable evidence of the commission of these crimes.
Marcos Arana-Cedeño
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Introduction: Early reading interventions hold promise for increasing language and literacy development in young children and improving caregiver-child interactions.
Jeanette L. Kaiser+7 more
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Maternal vaccine knowledge in low- and middle-income countries—and why it matters
Maternal vaccines have the potential to reduce the global burden of neonatal morbidity and mortality by accessing the infant immune system before a vaccine administered in childhood would be effective.
Anna Larson Williams+3 more
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This study examines the demographic dynamics of two seabird populations on Tromelin Island, 15 years after the eradication of brown rats. The results indicate that these populations are in good health and are expected to continue growing until breeding sites are saturated in about a century.
Merlène Saunier+6 more
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A survey of knowledge and attitudes relating to cervical and breast cancer among women in Ethiopia
Background Breast cancer and cervical cancer are the two leading cancers among women in Ethiopia. This study investigated knowledge and attitudes related to these two types of cancer among women in 4 zones of Ethiopia. This is the first study employing a
Bekele Chaka+3 more
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