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Transplacental transmission: A rare case of Ebola virus transmission

Infectious Disease Reports, 2018
During the mid-transmission period of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone, a 19-year-old pregnant woman, who was a petty trader in a health facility in Freetown, noticing no fetal movement for the past 3 days, reported to a health ...
Lawrence Okoror, Abdul Kamara, Brima Kargbo, James Bangura, Mat Lebby   +4 more
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How community participation in water and sanitation interventions impacts human health, WASH infrastructure and service longevity in low-income and middle-income countries: a realist review

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To understand how, and under what circumstances community participation in water and sanitation interventions impacts the availability of safe water and sanitation, a change in health status or behaviour and the longevity of water, sanitation ...
Sarah Nelson, Dorothy Drabarek, A. Jenkins, J. Negin, S. Abimbola   +4 more
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CLIMBra - Climate Change Dataset for Brazil

Scientific Data, 2023
General Circulation and Earth System Models are the most advanced tools for investigating climate responses to future scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions, playing the role of projecting the climate throughout the century.
André Simões Ballarin, Jullian Souza Sone, Gabriela Chiquito Gesualdo, Dimaghi Schwamback, Alan Reis, André Almagro, Edson Cezar Wendland   +6 more
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Health Risk Assessment and Levels of Heavy Metals in Farmed Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) from the Volta Basin of Ghana

Journal of Chemistry, 2021
Heavy metals (Pb, Cd, As, Mn, Fe, Zn, Cu, Ni, and Cr) are some of the most toxic elements that can bioaccumulate from sources linked to human activities, such as industry and agriculture.
Emmanuel Kaboja Magna, Samuel Senyo Koranteng, Augustine Donkor, Christopher Gordon   +3 more
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Accumulation of heavy metals and human health risk assessment of vegetable consumption from a farm within the Korle lagoon catchment

Heliyon, 2023
The Korle lagoon is known to have high concentration of heavy metals. The use of land for agriculture and water for irrigation within the Korle Lagoon's catchment constitutes a potential health risk.
Richard Osae, Daniel Nukpezah, Daniel Amoako Darko, Samuel Senyo Koranteng, Adelina Mensah   +4 more
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Impact of drinking water, sanitation and handwashing with soap on childhood diarrhoeal disease: updated meta‐analysis and meta‐regression

Tropical medicine & international health, 2018
Safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are protective against diarrhoeal disease; a leading cause of child mortality. The main objective was an updated assessment of the impact of unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) on childhood diarrhoeal ...
J. Wolf, P. Hunter, M. Freeman, O. Cumming, T. Clasen, J. Bartram, J. Higgins, R. Johnston, K. Medlicott, S. Boisson, A. Prüss-Ustün   +10 more
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The implications of three major new trials for the effect of water, sanitation and hygiene on childhood diarrhea and stunting: a consensus statement

BMC Medicine, 2019
BackgroundThree large new trials of unprecedented scale and cost, which included novel factorial designs, have found no effect of basic water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions on childhood stunting, and only mixed effects on childhood diarrhea.
O. Cumming, B. Arnold, Radu Ban, T. Clasen, Joanna Esteves Mills, M. Freeman, Bruce Gordon, Raymond Guiteras, G. Howard, P. Hunter, R. Johnston, A. Pickering, A. Prendergast, A. Prüss-Ustün, J. Rosenboom, Dean Spears, S. Sundberg, J. Wolf, C. Null, S. Luby, J. Humphrey, J. Colford   +21 more
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Schools in Low-Income Countries: A Review of Evidence of Impact

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019
Many schools in low-income countries have inadequate access to water facilities, sanitation and hygiene promotion. A systematic review of literature was carried out that aimed to identify and analyse the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene ...
C. McMichael
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Factors influencing sanitation and hygiene practices among students in a public university in Bangladesh

PLoS ONE, 2021
Introduction Improved hygiene and sanitation practices in educational settings are effective for the prevention of infections, controlling the transmission of pathogens, and promoting good health.
A. Kabir, Shuvo Roy, Korima Begum, A. Kabir, Md. Shahgahan Miah   +4 more
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Assessing institutional sanitation and its impact at a citywide level: an exploration of school sanitation in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Frontiers in Environmental Science
IntroductionExploring sanitation at a city scale is crucial due to approaches such as Citywide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS). Sanitation impacts individuals, households and the whole city, as recognised by CWIS.
William Nkonde, William Nkonde, Claire Furlong, Brian Reed, Damir Brdanovic   +4 more
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