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Browsing by Subject "Africa"
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A revised generic classification of vittarioid ferns (Pteridaceae) based on molecular, micromorphological, and geographic data
(Taxon, 2016-08-01)© International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) 2016. Vittarioid ferns compose a well-supported clade of 100-130 species of highly simplified epiphytes in the family Pteridaceae. Generic circumscriptions within the ... -
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.
(Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2013-01)We report above-ground biomass (AGB), basal area, stem density and wood mass density estimates from 260 sample plots (mean size: 1.2 ha) in intact closed-canopy tropical forests across 12 African countries. Mean AGB is 395.7 ... -
Adolescents' and caregivers' perceptions of caregiver-provided testing and HIV self-testing using oral mucosal transudate tests in Zimbabwe: a short report.
(AIDS care, 2020-04-16)Uptake of HIV testing remains lower among children and adolescents compared to adults. This study explored adolescents' perceptions of HIV self-testing (HIVST) and caregivers' perceptions of testing their children using ... -
Against the Grain: Reclaiming the Life I Left Behind
(2015-06-12)* Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15* Against the Grain revisits a period of my life long neglected: the 20 years between my graduation from London University with a BA in African history in 1964 and ... -
An Assessment of Health Outcomes Among Orphans in the Positive Outcomes for Orphans Study in Rural Settings of Kenya and Tanzania
(2011)<bold>Objectives</bold>: To compare measures of health and health quality between Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) in different living arrangements-- institutional and community care; and to correlate different measures ... -
Assessing Africa-Wide Pangolin Exploitation by Scaling Local Data
(Conservation Letters, 2018-03)Copyright and Photocopying: © 2017 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Overexploitation is one of the main pressures driving wildlife closer to extinction, yet broad-scale data to evaluate ... -
Challenges of Maintaining Good Clinical Laboratory Practices in Low-Resource Settings: A Health Program Evaluation Framework Case Study From East Africa.
(Am J Clin Pathol, 2016-08)OBJECTIVES: Using a clinical research laboratory as a case study, we sought to characterize barriers to maintaining Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) services in a developing world setting. METHODS: Using a US Centers ... -
Chinese medical teams in Africa: a flagship program facing formidable challenges.
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Climate change, disease range shifts, and the future of the Africa lion.
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Co-evolution of a broadly neutralizing HIV-1 antibody and founder virus.
(Nature, 2013-04-25)Current human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) vaccines elicit strain-specific neutralizing antibodies. However, cross-reactive neutralizing antibodies arise in approximately 20% of HIV-1-infected individuals, and details ... -
Comparing actual and perceived causes of fever among community members in a low malaria transmission setting in northern Tanzania.
(Trop Med Int Health, 2013-11)OBJECTIVE: To compare actual and perceived causes of fever in northern Tanzania. METHODS: In a standardised survey, heads of households in 30 wards in Moshi, Tanzania, were asked to identify the most common cause of fever ... -
Dynamic and Lasting Impacts: Socioeconomic Effects of Protracted Refugee Camps on Host Communities in Tanzania
(2009-12)Poor sub-Saharan African countries are more likely to host long-term refugee situations in the 21st century than in previous decades. Many hosting governments have restricted refugees to camps because they consider long-term ... -
Epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii infection in Africa: a OneHealth systematic review.
(PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2014-04)BACKGROUND: Q fever is a common cause of febrile illness and community-acquired pneumonia in resource-limited settings. Coxiella burnetii, the causative pathogen, is transmitted among varied host species, but the epidemiology ... -
Epidemiology of Leptospirosis in Africa: A Systematic Review of a Neglected Zoonosis and a Paradigm for 'One Health' in Africa.
(PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2015)BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is an important but neglected bacterial zoonosis that has been largely overlooked in Africa. In this systematic review, we aimed to summarise and compare current knowledge of: (1) the geographic ... -
Feasibility, Acceptability, and Effectiveness of a Peer Youth Leader Model to Deliver a HIV Curriculum in Routine HIV Adolescent Clinic and Impact on Youth Leader Resilience: a Mixed-Methods Study
(2019)Background: Youth living with HIV have worse health outcomes compared to adults or children. Few interventions have been developed engaging youth in their care to promote resilience. Peer-led education is one potential way ... -
Food Crises, Civil Unrest, and the Political Economy
(2014-09-18)Contemporary notions of food security are ever more connected to the commodification and globalization of modern agriculture. As nations continue to count on consistent and reliable commodity markets to provide food imports ... -
Fulfilling the Specialist Neurosurgery Workforce Needs in Africa: a SWOT Analysis of Training Programs and Projection Towards 2030
(2021)Background/ObjectivesAfrica has only 1% of the global neurosurgery workforce, despite having 14% of the global population and 15% of the global neurosurgical disease burden. Also, neurosurgical training is hampered by paucity ... -
Investigating Best Practices of Conservation Education for the African Wildlife Foundation
(2014-04-17)Effective conservation education has the ability to improve educational opportunities and expand environmental support in places where it is implemented. The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) was founded in 1961 to promote ... -
Learning from 20 Years of Small-Scale Fisheries Co-Management in Africa
(2021-04-30)In small-scale fisheries (SSFs), co-management is emerging as one of the most promising and common governance approaches available to managers. In developing contexts, co-management has been implemented as part of the broader ... -
Leave no one behind: response to new evidence and guidelines for the management of cryptococcal meningitis in low-income and middle-income countries.
(The Lancet. Infectious Diseases, 2019-04)In 2018, WHO issued guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and management of HIV-related cryptococcal disease. Two strategies are recommended to reduce the high mortality associated with HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis ...
