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The Pan African Medical Journal, 2020 INTRODUCTION: In hospitals across Africa, the case fatality rates of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) have remained consistently high (over 20%), despite the existence of the WHO treatment guideline.
Janet Adede Carboo +4 more
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The Rise of China in Sub-Saharan Africa: its Ambiguous Economic Impacts [PDF]
The paper analyses the economic relationships between China and Sub-Saharan African countries, including original contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Nicole Alice Sindzingre
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Systematic review of birth cohort studies in Africa [PDF]
, 2011 In sub-Saharan Africa, unacceptably high rates of mortality amongst women and children continue to persist. The emergence of research employing new genomic technologies is advancing knowledge on cause of disease. This review aims to identify birth cohort
Campbell, Alasdair, Rudan, Igor
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Strategic Survey, 2015 The paper seeks to provide a basis for identifying common issues, and operational synergies between monitoring, and evaluation capacity development (MECD), and governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. It summarizes experiences, and lessons from governance support in the region, and their implications for MECD work, and common issues, and, modalities between ...
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Phylogeography and reassortment patterns of human influenza A viruses in sub-Saharan Africa
Scientific ReportsThe role of sub-Saharan Africa in the global spread of influenza viruses remains unclear due to insufficient spatiotemporal sequence data. Here, we analyzed 222 codon-complete sequences of influenza A viruses (IAVs) sampled between 2011 and 2013 from ...
D. Collins Owuor +8 more
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Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: Will the green shoots blossom? [PDF]
This paper provides an overview of the recent extension of social protection in sub-Saharan Africa. It identifies two main ‘models’ of social protection in the region: the Southern Africa and Middle Africa models.
Barrientos, Armando +3 more
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Delineating gender/sex‐related studies through bibliometric analysis
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The multidisciplinary and socially grounded nature of Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies poses unique challenges for bibliometric analysis, as it extends beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries. This paper makes three key contributions: (1) We propose a novel retrieval method for constructing a corpus of scholarly documents in research areas ...
Natsumi S. Shokida +2 more
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The Mortality and Morbidity Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Adult Heights [PDF]
In most developing countries, rising levels of nutrition and improvements in public health have led to declines in infant mortality and rising adult heights. In Sub-Saharan Africa we see a different pattern.
David Canning, Yoko Akachi
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Chlorella vulgaris biorefineries: sustainable biofuels and high‐value carbon capture
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract Global reliance on fossil fuels has created urgent economic and environmental challenges, yet large‐scale use of algal biomass remains limited by production costs. Industrial scaling is constrained by inefficient harvesting and the technical challenges of processing recalcitrant cell walls.
Sandyelle Ferreira Alcântara Araújo +13 more
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Risk management in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
This paper investigates the vulnerability of countries in sub - Saharan Africa to uncertainty about commodity prices, exchange rates, and interest rates.
Claessens, Stijn, Qian, Ying
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