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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Matthew S Falcone, Carlo Salvinelli, Taylor Sharpe, Abrassac Kamara, Evan Thomas
Access to safe, reliable, and equitable water services in urban settings of low- and middle-income countries remains a critical challenge toward achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6.1, but progress has either slowed or stagnated in recent years. A pilot water kiosk network funded by the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation was implemented by the Sierra Leone Millennium Challenge Coordinating Unit into the intermittent piped water distribution network of Freetown, Sierra Leone, as a private-public partnership to improve water service provision for households without reliable piped water connections and to reduce non-revenue water...
April 30, 2024: Heliyon
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MULTICENTER STUDY
Gennaro Perrone, Mario Giuffrida, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Vitor F Kruger, Marco Livrini, Gabriele Luciano Petracca, Giorgio Rossi, Antonio Tarasconi, Brian W C A Tian, Elena Bonati, Ricardo Mentz, Federico N Mazzini, Juan P Campana, Elisabeth Gasser, Reinhold Kafka-Ritsch, Daniel M Felsenreich, Christopher Dawoud, Stefan Riss, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Felipe Couto Gomes, Ricardo Alessandro Teixeira Gonzaga, Cassio Alfred Brattig Canton, Bruno Monteiro Pereira, Gustavo P Fraga, Leticia Gonçalves Zem, Vinicius Cordeiro-Fonseca, Renato de Mesquita Tauil, Boyko Atanasov, Nikolay Belev, Nikola Kovachev, L Juan José Meléndez, Ana Dimova, Stefan Dimov, Zdravko Zelić, Goran Augustin, Branko Bogdanić, Trpimir Morić, Elie Chouillard, Melinda Bajul, Belinda De Simone, Yves Panis, Francesco Esposito, Margherita Notarnicola, Lelde Lauka, Anna Fabbri, Hassen Hentati, Iskander Fnaiech, Venara Aurélien, Marie Bougard, Maxime Roulet, Zaza Demetrashvili, Irakli Pipia, Giorgi Merabishvili, Konstantinos Bouliaris, Georgios Koukoulis, Christos Doudakmanis, Sofia Xenaki, Emmanuel Chrysos, Stamatios Kokkinakis, Panteleimon Vassiliu, Nikolaos Michalopoulos, Ioannis Margaris, Aristotelis Kechagias, Konstantinos Avgerinos, Jevgeni Katunin, Eftychios Lostoridis, Eleni-Aikaterini Nagorni, Antonio Pujante, Francesk Mulita, Ioannis Maroulis, Michail Vailas, Athanasios Marinis, Ioannis Siannis, Eirini Bourbouteli, Dimitrios K Manatakis, Nikolaos Tasis, Vasileios Acheimastos, Sotiropoulou Maria, Kapiris Stylianos, Harilaos Kuzeridis, Dimitrios Korkolis, Evangelos Fradelos, George Kavalieratos, Thalia Petropoulou, Andreas Polydorou, Ioannis Papacostantinou, Tania Triantafyllou, Despina Kimpizi, Dimitrios Theodorou, Konstantinos Toutouzas, Alexandros Chamzin, Maximos Frountzas, Dimitrios Schizas, Ioannis Karavokyros, Athanasios Syllaios, Alexandros Charalabopoulos, Maria Boura, Efstratia Baili, Orestis Ioannidis, Lydia Loutzidou, Elissavet Anestiadou, Ioannis Tsouknidas, Georgios Petrakis, Eleni Polenta, Lovenish Bains, Rahul Gupta, Sudhir K Singh, Archana Khanduri, Miklosh Bala, Asaf Kedar, Marcello Pisano, Mauro Podda, Adolfo Pisanu, Gennaro Martines, Giuseppe Trigiante, Giuliano Lantone, Antonino Agrusa, Giuseppe Di Buono, Salvatore Buscemi, Massimiliano Veroux, Rossella Gioco, Gastone Veroux, Luigi Oragano, Sandro Zonta, Federico Lovisetto, Carlo V Feo, Antonio Pesce, Nicolò Fabbri, Giulio Lantone, Fabio Marino, Fabrizio Perrone, Leonardo Vincenti, Vincenzo Papagni, Arcangelo Picciariello, Stefano Rossi, Biagio Picardi, Simone Rossi Del Monte, Diego Visconti, Giulia Osella, Luca Petruzzelli, Giusto Pignata, Jacopo Andreuccetti, Rossella D'Alessio, Massimo Buonfantino, Eleonora Guaitoli, Stefano Spinelli, Gianluca Matteo Sampietro, Carlo Corbellini, Leonardo Lorusso, Alice Frontali, Isabella Pezzoli, Alessandro Bonomi, Andrea Chierici, Christian Cotsoglou, Giuseppe Manca, Antonella Delvecchio, Nicola Musa, Massimiliano Casati, Laface Letizia, Emmanuele Abate, Giorgio Ercolani, Fabrizio D'Acapito, Leonardo Solaini, Gianluca Guercioni, Simone Cicconi, Diego Sasia, Felice Borghi, Giorgio Giraudo, Giuseppe Sena, Pasquale Castaldo, Eugenia Cardamone, Giuseppe Portale, Matteo Zuin, Ylenia Spolverato, Marialusia Esposito, Roberta Maria Isernia, Maria Di Salvo, Romina Manunza, Giuseppe Esposito, Marcello Agus, Emanuele Luigi Giuseppe Asti, Daniele Tiziano Bernardi, Tommaso Panici Tonucci, Davide Luppi, Massimiliano Casadei, Stefano Bonilauri, Angela Pezzolla, Annunziata Panebianco, Rita Laforgia, Maurizio De Luca, Monica Zese, Dario Parini, Elio Jovine, Giuseppina De Sario, Raffaele Lombardi, Giovanni Aprea, Giuseppe Palomba, Marianna Capuano, Giulio Argenio, Gianluca Orio, Mariano Fortunato Armellino, Marina Troian, Martina Guerra, Carlo Nagliati, Alan Biloslavo, Paola Germani, Giada Aizza, Igor Monsellato, Ali Chaouki Chahrour, Gabriele Anania, Cristina Bombardini, Francesco Bagolini, Gabriele Sganga, Pietro Fransvea, Valentina Bianchi, Paolo Boati, Francesco Ferrara, Francesco Palmieri, Pasquale Cianci, Domenico Gattulli, Enrico Restini, Nicola Cillara, Alessandro Cannavera, Gabriela Elisa Nita, Jlenia Sarnari, Francesco Roscio, Federico Clerici, Ildo Scandroglio, Stefano Berti, Alessandro Cadeo, Alice Filippelli, Luigi Conti, Carmine Grassi, Gaetano Maria Cattaneo, Marina Pighin, Davide Papis, Giovanni Gambino, Vanessa Bertino, Domenico Schifano, Daniela Prando, Luisella Fogato, Fabio Cavallo, Luca Ansaloni, Roberto Picheo, Nicholas Pontarolo, Norma Depalma, Marcello Spampinato, Stefano D'Ugo, Luca Lepre, Michela Giulii Capponi, Rossella Domenica Campa, Giuliano Sarro, Vincenza Paola Dinuzzi, Stefano Olmi, Matteo Uccelli, Davide Ferrari, Marco Inama, Gianluigi Moretto, Michele Fontana, Francesco Favi, Erika Picariello, Alessia Rampini, Andrea Barberis, Antonio Azzinnaro, Alba Oliva, Luigi Totaro, Ilaria Benzoni, Valerio Ranieri, Gabriella Teresa Capolupo, Filippo Carannante, Marco Caricato, Maurizio Ronconi, Silvia Casiraghi, Giovanni Casole, Desire Pantalone, Giovanni Alemanno, Maximilian Scheiterle, Marco Ceresoli, Marco Cereda, Chiara Fumagalli, Federico Zanzi, Stefano Bolzon, Enrico Guerra, Francesca Lecchi, Paola Cellerino, Antonella Ardito, Rosa Scaramuzzo, Andrea Balla, Pasquale Lepiane, Nicola Tartaglia, Antonio Ambrosi, Giovanna Pavone, Gian Marco Palini, Simone Veneroni, Gianluca Garulli, Claudio Ricci, Beatrice Torre, Iris Shari Russo, Matteo Rottoli, Marta Tanzanu, Angela Belvedere, Marco Milone, Michele Manigrasso, Giovanni Domenico De Palma, Micaela Piccoli, Gianmaria Casoni Pattacini, Stefano Magnone, Paolo Bertoli, Michele Pisano, Paolo Massucco, Marco Palisi, Andrea-Pierre Luzzi, Francesco Fleres, Guglielmo Clarizia, Alessandro Spolini, Yoshiro Kobe, Takayuki Toma, Fumihiko Shimamura, Robert Parker, Sinkeet Ranketi, Mercy Mitei, Saulius Svagzdys, Henrikas Pauzas, Justas Zilinskas, Tomas Poskus, Marius Kryzauskas, Matas Jakubauskas, Andee Dzulkarnaen Zakaria, Zaidi Zakaria, Michael Pak-Kai Wong, Asri Che Jusoh, Muhammad Nazreen Zakaria, Daniel Rios Cruz, Aurea Barbara Rodriguez Elizalde, Alejandro Bañon Reynaud, Edgard Efren Lozada Hernandez, Jose Maria Victor Palomo Monroy, Diego Hinojosa-Ugarte, Martha Quiodettis, María Esther Du Bois, José Latorraca, Piotr Major, Michał Pędziwiatr, Magdalena Pisarska-Adamczyk, Maciej Walędziak, Andrzej Kwiatkowski, Łukasz Czyżykowski, Silvia Dantas da Costa, Bela Pereira, Ana Rita Oliveira Ferreira, Filipe Almeida, Ricardo Rocha, Carla Carneiro, Diego Pita Perez, João Carvas, Catarina Rocha, Cátia Ferreira, Rita Marques, Urânia Fernandes, Pedro Leao, André Goulart, Rita Gonçalves Pereira, Sara Daniela Direito Patrocínio, Nuno Gonçalo Gonçalves de Mendonça, Maria Isabel Cerqueira Manso, Henrique Manuel Cardoso Morais, Paulo Sebastião Cardoso, Valentin Calu, Adrian Miron, Elena Adelina Toma, Mahir Gachabayov, Abakar Abdullaev, Andrey Litvin, Taras Nechay, Alexander Tyagunov, Anvar Yuldashev, Alison Bradley, Michael Wilson, Arpád Panyko, Zuzana Látečková, Vladimír Lacko, Dusan Lesko, Marek Soltes, Jozef Radonak, Victor Turrado-Rodriguez, Roser Termes-Serra, Xavier Morales-Sevillano, Pierfrancesco Lapolla, Andrea Mingoli, Gioia Brachini, Maurizio Degiuli, Silvia Sofia, Rossella Reddavid, Andrea de Manzoni Garberini, Angelica Buffone, Eduardo Perea Del Pozo, Daniel Aparicio-Sánchez, Sandra Dos Barbeito, Mercedes Estaire-Gómez, Rebeca Vitón-Herrero, Mª de Los Ángeles Gil Olarte-Marquez, José Gil-Martínez, Felipe Alconchel, Tatiana Nicolás-López, Aida Cristina Rahy-Martin, María Pelloni, Raquel Bañolas-Suarez, Fernando Mendoza-Moreno, Francisca García-Moreno Nisa, Manuel Díez-Alonso, María Elisa Valle Rodas, María Carmona Agundez, María Inmaculada Pérez Andrés, Claudia Cristina Lopes Moreira, Aintzane Lizarazu Perez, Iñigo Augusto Ponce, Ana María González-Castillo, Estela Membrilla-Fernández, Silvia Salvans, Mario Serradilla-Martín, Pablo Sancho Pardo, Daniel Rivera-Alonso, Jana Dziakova, Jose Mugüerza Huguet, Naila Pagès Valle, Enrique Colás Ruiz, Cristina Rey Valcárcel, Cristina Ruiz Moreno, Yeniffer Tatiana Moreno Salazar, Juan Jesús Rubio García, Silvia Sevila Micó, Joaquín Ruiz López, Silvia Pérez Farré, Maite Santamaria Gomez, Nuria Mestres Petit, Alberto Titos-García, Jose Manuel Aranda-Narváez, Laura Romacho-López, Luis Sánchez-Guillén, Veronica Aranaz-Ostariz, Marina Bosch-Ramírez, Aleix Martínez-Pérez, Elías Martínez-López, Juan Carlos Sebastián-Tomás, Granada Jimenez-Riera, Javier Jimenez-Vega, Jose Aurelio Navas Cuellar, Andrea Campos-Serra, Anna Muñoz-Campaña, Raquel Gràcia-Roman, Javier Martínez Alegre, Francisca Lima Pinto, Sara Nuñez O'Sullivan, Francisco Blanco Antona, Beatriz Muñoz Jiménez, Jaime López-Sánchez, Zahira Gómez Carmona, Rocio Torres Fernández, Isabel Blesa Sierra, Laura Román García de León, Verónica Polaino Moreno, Eva Iglesias, Paola Lora Cumplido, Altea Arango Bravo, Ignacio Rey Simó, Carlota López Domínguez, Aloia Guerreiro Caamaño, Rafael Calleja Lozano, Manuel Durán Martínez, Álvaro Naranjo Torres, Javier Tomas Morales Bernaldo de Quiros, Gianluca Pellino, Miriam Moratal Cloquell, Elsa García Moller, Sami Jalal-Eldin, Ahmed K Abdoun, Hytham K S Hamid, Varut Lohsiriwat, Aitsariya Mongkhonsupphawan, Oussama Baraket, Karim Ayed, Imed Abbassi, Ali Ben Ali, Houssem Ammar, Ali Kchaou, Ahmed Tlili, Imen Zribi, Elif Colak, Suleyman Polat, Zehra Alan Koylu, Ali Guner, Mehmet Arif Usta, Murat Emre Reis, Baris Mantoglu, Emre Gonullu, Emrah Akin, Fatih Altintoprak, Zulfu Bayhan, Necattin Firat, Arda Isik, Ufuk Memis, Mehmet Bayrak, Yasemin Altıntaş, Yasin Kara, Mehmet Abdussamet Bozkurt, Ali Kocataş, Koray Das, Ahmet Seker, Nazmi Ozer, Semra Demirli Atici, Korhan Tuncer, Tayfun Kaya, Zeynep Ozkan, Onur Ilhan, Ibrahim Agackiran, Mustafa Yener Uzunoglu, Eren Demirbas, Yuksel Altinel, Serhat Meric, Nadir Adnan Hacım, Derya Salim Uymaz, Nail Omarov, Emre Balık, Giovanni D Tebala, Hany Khalil, Mridul Rana, Mansoor Khan, Charlotte Florence, Christie Swaminathan, Cosimo Alex Leo, Lampros Liasis, Josef Watfah, Ivan Trostchansky, Edward Delgado, Marcelo Pontillo, Rifat Latifi, Raul Coimbra, Sara Edwards, Ana Lopez, George Velmahos, Ander Dorken, Anthony Gebran, Amanda Palmer, Jeffrey Oury, James M Bardes, Sirivan Suon Seng, Lauren S Coffua, Asanthi Ratnasekera, Tanya Egodage, Karla Echeverria-Rosario, Isabella Armento, Lena M Napolitano, Naveen F Sangji, Mark Hemmila, Jacob A Quick, Tyler R Austin, Theodore S Hyman, William Curtiss, Amanda McClure, Nicholas Cairl, Walter L Biffl, Hung P Truong, Kathryn Schaffer, Summer Reames, Filippo Banchini, Patrizio Capelli, Federico Coccolini, Massimo Sartelli, Francesca Bravi, Carlo Vallicelli, Vanni Agnoletti, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Fausto Catena
BACKGROUND: Literature suggests colonic resection and primary anastomosis (RPA) instead of Hartmann's procedure (HP) for the treatment of left-sided colonic emergencies. We aim to evaluate the surgical options globally used to treat patients with acute left-sided colonic emergencies and the factors that leading to the choice of treatment, comparing HP and RPA. METHODS: This is a prospective, international, multicenter, observational study registered on ClinicalTrials...
April 16, 2024: World Journal of Emergency Surgery: WJES
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anthony Mansaray, Mahmood Bangura, Deborah Watson-Jones, Brian Greenwood, Rose Burns, Shelley Susan Lees, Farba Faye, Bailah Leigh, Luisa Enria
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified discussions on emergency vaccine deployment strategies, with current perspectives often neglecting extensive community involvement in ethical, logistical and political aspects. Existing social science literature predominantly delves into factors influencing trust, overlooking the untapped potential for community engagement.Our study examines community preparedness in Sierra Leone's Kambia District, exploring diverse viewpoints on vaccine deployment strategies, emphasising Ebola and COVID-19 vaccinations...
January 2024: Global Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Daniel Woytowich, Fred Yao Gbagbo, Padmore Adusei Amoah
BACKGROUND: Sierra Leone has poor indicators of reproductive health and a high prevalence of unintended pregnancies. To date, no study has explored determinants of ovulatory cycle knowledge in Sierra Leone. We investigated geographic region to determine where the needs for improved ovulatory cycle knowledge are greatest in Sierra Leone. METHODS: This is a cross-sectional study of women of reproductive age (n = 15,574) based on the 2019 Sierra Leone Demographic and Health Survey...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aliu Mohammed, Irene Esi Donkoh, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu
BACKGROUND: Improving women's access to and use of modern contraceptives is a key global strategy for improving the sexual and reproductive health of women. However, the use of modern contraceptives among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains relatively low, despite the numerous interventions to increase patronage. This study examined adolescent girls and young women's receipt of quality contraceptive counselling and its associated factors in SSA. METHODS: Data for the study were extracted from the recent Demographic and Health Surveys of 20 countries in SSA, spanning from 2015 to 2021...
April 15, 2024: Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Erik Svensson, Hannah Ketelsen, Sönke Andres, Dorte Bek Folkvardsen, Doris Hillemann, Ousman Conteh, Anders Norman, Stefan Niemann, Troels Lillebaek, Martin Kuhns
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the ability of FluoroType MTBDR version 2 (FTv2; Hain Lifescience), a second-step real-time PCR assay, to simultaneously detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) DNA and mutations conferring resistance to rifampicin (RIF) and isoniazid (INH), in pulmonary and extrapulmonary samples from patients and compared them with corresponding cultures. METHODS: FTv2 MTBC was evaluated on 1815 and 432 samples from Denmark (DK) and Germany (DE)...
April 13, 2024: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Susan Nicolai, Katy Jordan, Taskeen Adam, Tom Kaye, Christina Myers
During school closures prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, educational technology (EdTech) was often used to continue educational provision. In this article, we consider EdTech effectiveness using a holistic framework, and synthesise findings from 10 primary research studies of EdTech interventions conducted in low- and middle-income countries during the pandemic. The framework includes five main lenses: learning outcomes, enhancing equity, implementation context, cost and affordability, and alignment and scale...
June 27, 2023: International Journal of Educational Development
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ornella Spagnolello, Richmond Dixon Cole, Jalloh Unisa, Hawa Vandi, Marian Macarthy, Sofia Gatti, Manuela Cormio, Gina Portella, Martina Baiardo Redaelli
OBJECTIVES: Despite the large burden of critically ill patients in developing countries, mechanical ventilation (MV) is scarce in these low-resource settings. In the absence of data, issues like costs and lack of training are often felt to outweigh the benefits of potential MV implementation in such places. We aimed to investigate the impact and feasibility of MV in a surgical ICU in West Africa. DESIGN: This is a 7-month retrospective observational study (from October 25, 2022, to May 25, 2023), covering all patients consecutively admitted to ICU...
April 15, 2024: Critical Care Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah K Nørgaard, Jens Nielsen, Anne Christine Nordholm, Lukas Richter, Alena Chalupka, Natalia Bustos Sierra, Toon Braeye, Maria Athanasiadou, Theodore Lytras, Gleb Denissov, Oskari Luomala, Anne Fouillet, Isabelle Pontais, Matthias An der Heiden, Benedikt Zacher, Alina Weigel, Ivo Foppa, Kassiani Gkolfinopoulou, Ioannis Panagoulias, Anna Paldy, Tibor Malnasi, Lisa Domegan, Eva Kelly, Naama Rotem, Oksana Rakhlin, Francesca K de'Donato, Chiara Di Blasi, Patrick Hoffmann, Telma Velez, Kathleen England, Neville Calleja, Liselotte van Asten, Femke Jongenotter, Ana Paula Rodrigues, Susana Silva, Petra Klepac, Diana Gomez-Barroso, Inmaculada Leon Gomez, Ilias Galanis, Ahmed Farah, Rolf Weitkunat, Katarina Fehst, Nick Andrews, Tom Clare, Declan T Bradley, Mark G O'Doherty, Naoma William, Mark Hamilton, Bolette Søborg, Tyra G Krause, Nick Bundle, Lasse S Vestergaard
Since the end of November 2023, the European Mortality Monitoring Network (EuroMOMO) has observed excess mortality in Europe. During weeks 48 2023-6 2024, preliminary results show a substantially increased rate of 95.3 (95% CI: 91.7-98.9) excess all-cause deaths per 100,000 person-years for all ages. This excess mortality is seen in adults aged 45 years and older, and coincides with widespread presence of COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) observed in many European countries during the 2023/24 winter season...
April 2024: Euro Surveillance
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Houreratou Barry, Edouard Lhomme, Mathieu Surénaud, Moumini Nouctara, Cynthia Robinson, Viki Bockstal, Innocent Valea, Serge Somda, Halidou Tinto, Nicolas Meda, Brian Greenwood, Rodolphe Thiébaut, Christine Lacabaratz
BACKGROUND: The exposure to parasites may influence the immune response to vaccines in endemic African countries. In this study, we aimed to assess the association between helminth exposure to the most prevalent parasitic infections, schistosomiasis, soil transmitted helminths infection and filariasis, and the Ebola virus glycoprotein (EBOV GP) antibody concentration in response to vaccination with the Ad26.ZEBOV, MVA-BN-Filo vaccine regimen in African and European participants using samples obtained from three international clinical trials...
April 11, 2024: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yanchao Li, Ziyu Ran, Lily Tsai, Sarah Williams
Human mobility patterns created from mobile phone call detail records (CDRs) can provide an essential resource in data-poor environments to monitor the effects of health outbreaks. Analysis of this data can be instrumental for understanding the movement pattern of populations allowing governments to set and refine policies to respond to community health risks. Building on CDR mobility analysis techniques, this research set out to test whether combining CDR mobility indicators with socio-economic information can illustrate differences between different socio-economic groups' exposure risks to COVID-19...
June 2023: Environment and Planning. B, Urban Analytics and City Science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lucy November, Mangenda Kamara, Philemon Kamara, Suzanne Thomas, Appiah M Kingsford, Andrew H Shennan, Jane Sandall, Cristina Fernandez Turienzo, Prince T Williams
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April 12, 2024: Journal of Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Augustus Osborne, Peter Bai James, Comfort Z Olorunsaiye, Camilla Bangura, Aiah Lebbie
BACKGROUND: In Sierra Leone, adolescents are increasingly engaging in risky activities, including cannabis use, which can lead to substance abuse, poor academic performance, and psychotic symptoms. This study aims to investigate the prevalence and associated factors of cannabis use among school-going adolescents in the country. METHOD: Data for the study was sourced from the 2017 Sierra Leone Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS), a nationally representative survey conducted among adolescents aged 10-19 years using a multistage sampling methodology...
April 8, 2024: BMC Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rosalia Dacosta-Aguayo, Josep Puig, Noemi Lamonja-Vicente, Meritxell Carmona-Cervelló, Brenda Biaani León-Gómez, Gemma Monté-Rubio, Victor M López-Linfante, Valeria Zamora-Putin, Pilar Montero-Alia, Carla Chacon, Jofre Bielsa, Eduard Moreno-Gabriel, Rosa Garcia-Sierra, Alba Pachón, Anna Costa, Maria Mataró, Julia G Prado, Eva Martinez-Cáceres, Lourdes Mateu, Marta Massanella, Concepción Violán, Pere Torán-Monserrat
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: There is a paucity of data on long-term neuroimaging findings from individuals who have developed the post-coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) condition. Only 2 studies have investigated the correlations between cognitive assessment results and structural MR imaging in this population. This study aimed to elucidate the long-term cognitive outcomes of participants with the post-COVID-19 condition and to correlate these cognitive findings with structural MR imaging data in the post-COVID-19 condition...
April 4, 2024: AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Augustus Osborne, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Comfort Z Olorunsaiye, Peter Bai James, Camilla Bangura, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Jia B Kangbai, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah
OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of alcohol use and its associated factors among in-school adolescents in Sierra Leone. DESIGN: Data for the study was sourced from the 2017 Sierra Leone Global School-Based Student Health Survey, a nationally representative survey conducted among in-school adolescents aged 10-19 years using a multistage sampling methodology. Percentages were used to present the prevalence of alcohol use among in-school adolescents. Multivariable binary logistic regression analysis was performed to examine the factors associated with alcohol use among in-school adolescents...
April 2, 2024: BMJ Open
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Onome T Abiri, Alex Ninka, Joshua Coker, Fawzi Thomas, Isaac O Smalle, Sulaiman Lakoh, Foday Umaro Turay, James Komeh, Mohamed Sesay, Joseph Sam Kanu, Ayeshatu M Mustapha, Nellie V T Bell, Thomas Ansumus Conteh, Sarah Kadijatu Conteh, Alhaji Alusine Jalloh, James B W Russell, Noah Sesay, Mohamed Bawoh, Mohamed Samai, Michael Lahai
BACKGROUND: Pediatric patients are prone to medicine-related problems like medication errors (MEs), which can potentially cause harm. Yet, this has not been studied in this population in Sierra Leone. Therefore, this study investigated the prevalence and nature of MEs, including potential drug-drug interactions (pDDIs), in pediatric patients. METHODS: The study was conducted in three hospitals among pediatric patients in Freetown and consisted of two phases. Phase one was a cross-sectional retrospective review of prescriptions for completeness and accuracy based on the global accuracy score against standard prescription writing guidelines...
2024: Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel Youkee, Sahr Pessima, Catherine Sackley, Marina Soley-Bori, Gibrilla F Deen, Iain J Marshall
OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility, repeatability, validity and responsiveness of the EQ-5D-3L in Krio for patients with stroke in Sierra Leone, the first psychometric assessment of the EQ-5D-3L to be conducted in patients with stroke in Sub Saharan Africa. METHODS: A prospective stroke register at two tertiary government hospitals recruited all patients with the WHO definition of stroke and followed patients up at seven days, 90 days and one year post stroke...
March 28, 2024: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jack Jenkins, Wahab Lawundeh, Tommy Hanson, Hannah Brown
'Bushmeat' markets are often portrayed as chaotic spaces where exotic wild animals are sold. They are hypothesized to be important sites for zoonotic disease transmission, given the prolonged and intense nature of the cross-species encounters that occur within them. Whilst such markets have received some attention from researchers, rich qualitative descriptions of everyday practices in these markets are rare. Depictions of wild animal markets as sites for potential viral amplification often rely on exoticizing assumptions and narratives rather than actual evidence, and in some cases are based more on ideology than on science...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cristina Fernandez Turienzo, Mangenda Kamara, Lucy November, Philemon Kamara, Appiah M Kingsford, Alexandra Ridout, Suzanne Thomas, Paul T Seed, Andrew H Shennan, Jane Sandall, Prince T Williams
BACKGROUND: Sierra Leone has a very high maternal mortality rate, and this burden falls heavily on adolescents, a particularly vulnerable group; this is usually driven by poverty, lack of education and employment opportunities. In 2017, a local grassroots organisation, Lifeline Nehemiah Projects, developed a community-based mentoring intervention '2YoungLives' (2YLs) for adolescent girls in Eastern Freetown. We aim to formally assess the feasibility and implementation of the 2YL mentorship scheme in new communities in Sierra Leone...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Solène Grayo, Alimou Camara, Bakary Doukouré, Isabelle Ellis, Cécile Troupin, Kerstin Fischer, Jessica Vanhomwegen, Michael White, Martin H Groschup, Sandra Diederich, Noël Tordo
Although pigs are naturally susceptible to Reston virus and experimentally to Ebola virus (EBOV), their role in Orthoebolavirus ecology remains unknown. We tested 888 serum samples collected from pigs in Guinea during 2017-2019 (between the 2013-16 epidemic and its resurgence in 2021) by indirect ELISA against the EBOV nucleoprotein. We identified 2 hotspots of possible pig exposure by IgG titer levels: the northern coast had 48.7% of positive serum samples (37/76), and Forest Guinea, bordering Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the virus emerged and reemerged, had 50% of positive serum samples (98/196)...
April 2024: Emerging Infectious Diseases
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