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Stopping circulatory vaccine-derived poliovirus in Kaduna state by scaling up special interventions in local government areas along rivers of interest- kamacha basin experience, 2013–2015

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The Kamacha river is one of the five polio environmental surveillance sites in Kaduna State where 13 circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPDs) were isolated between 2014 and 2015. Kamacha river accounted for 5 of all reported cVDPVs in
Audu I. Musa, Faisal Shuaib, Fiona Braka, Pascal Mkanda, Richard Banda, Charles Korir, Sisay G. Tegegne, Suleiman Abdullahi, Gregory C. Umeh, Terna I. Nomhwange, Hadiza Aliyu Iyal, Sambo Ishaku, Usman Adamu, Eunice Damisa, Murtala Bagana, Victor Gugong, Hadiza Balarabe, Peter Nsubuga, Rui G. Vaz   +18 more
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Why has the health promoting prison concept failed to translate to the US? [PDF]

, 2018
Two decades since the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe published a report on health promotion in prison that stimulated further debate on the concept of the “health-promoting prison,” this article discusses the extent to which the ...
Henrichson C, Walmsley R, Woodall J, Woodall J, World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +5 more
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Effects of Cancer Treatment on Somatosensory and Nociceptive Processing in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chemotherapy‐induced peripheral neuropathy remains a major complication in pediatric cancer, with disrupted somatosensory and nociceptive processing being a key aspect. This review synthesizes empirical studies on alterations in somatosensory and nociceptive processing in children and adolescents with cancer.
Julia Schweiger, Laura Walz, Michael C. Frühwald, Stefan Lautenbacher, Miriam Kunz   +4 more
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Outpatient treatment of children with severe acute malnutrition within the health care system in a humanitarian crisis: a cross-sectional study in Uganda during the Horn of Africa drought response

BMC Nutrition
Background Uganda, situated within the Greater Horn of Africa, is currently facing a severe food insecurity crisis with the Karamoja sub-region and its neighboring districts being the most severely impacted.
Florence Mary Turyashemererwa, Charles Njuguna, Tola Habteyes Hailu, George Opong, Ssekitoleko Richard, Kwikiriza Nicholas Magambo, Nabunya Phoebe, Kisibuka Richard, Gidongo Derrick, Andrew Bakainaga Niwagaba, Edson Katushabe, Bodo Bongomin, Ouedraogo NikiemaLaetitia, Wekesa Julius, Namukose Samalie, Timothy Mateeba, Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam   +16 more
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‘What gets measured gets managed’: revisiting the indicators for maternal and newborn health programmes

Reproductive Health, 2018
Background The health of women and children are critical for global development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescent’s Health 2016–2030 aim to reduce maternal and newborn deaths ...
A. C. Moran, A. B. Moller, D. Chou, A. Morgan, S. El Arifeen, C. Hanson, L. Say, T. Diaz, I. Askew, A. Costello   +9 more
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Analysing the implementation of infection prevention and control measures in health care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic in the African Region

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Background The declaration of SARS-CoV-2 as a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020 prompted the need to strengthen infection prevention and control (IPC) capacities within health care facilities (HCF).
Landry Kabego, Thierno Balde, Deborah Barasa, Babacar Ndoye, Okou-Bisso Hilde, Tendai Makamure, Guy Ohirweoluhya Mulumeoderwa, Trevor Kanyowa, Rashidatu Fouad Kamara, Boiro Hamadou, Opeayo Ogundiran, Joseph Okeibunor, George Williams, Jayne Byakika Tusiime, Phionah Lynn Atuhebwe, Boniface Oyugi, Elande-Taty Mawanda, Andry Razakamanantsoa, Fiona Braka, Dick Chamla, Abdou Salam Gueye   +20 more
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World Report on Disability, Chapter 8: Work and Employment [PDF]

, 2011
Across the world, people with disabilities are entrepreneurs and selfemployed workers, farmers and factory workers, doctors and teachers, shop assistants and bus drivers, artists, and computer technicians (1).
Cornell University, World Health Organization, World Bank
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Disclosure of HIV status to children in resource-limited settings: a systematic review [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction Informing children of their own HIV status is an important aspect of long-term disease management, yet there is little evidence of how and when this type of disclosure takes place in resource-limited settings and its impact. Methods
American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric AIDS, Boon‐Yasidhi V, Chazal E, Close K, Feinstein L, Moodley K, Punpanich W, South to South, UNAIDS, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization, World Health Organization   +13 more
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
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World Health Organization [PDF]

International Organization, 1954
At its thirteenth session, which was held in Geneva from January 12 to February 2, 1954, the Executive Board of the World Health Organization had some 80 items on its agenda. It examined a) reports on the work of expert and special committees concerned with such subjects as malaria, poliomyelitis, rabies, drugs liable to produce addiction, bioligical ...
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