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báo cáo hóa học:" Quality of data collection in a large HIV observational clinic database in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for clinical research and audit of care" docx

báo cáo hóa học:" Quality of data collection in a large HIV observational clinic database in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for clinical research and audit of care" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 08:20
... patients in the routine clinic, and we also directly compared the OI events recorded in the same 559 patients in the clinic and research cohort databases In the further validation exercise involving ... part of a research study For each analysis, we compared the overall incidence rates of the initial OI, and then the rate for the nine most common OIs individually These included tuberculosis, severe ... underreporting of OIs in the clinic database was calculated using two approaches: the absolute number of OI events (only for the same 559 patients in the clinic and research databases); and the incidence...
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báo cáo khoa học: " HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies and the State in sub-Saharan Africa – the missing link?" pdf

báo cáo khoa học: " HIV/AIDS mitigation strategies and the State in sub-Saharan Africa – the missing link?" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:20
... engineering" [21] The mismatch between the political settlement and institutions can explain State failure when institutions from one context are placed in another (as in the SDS approach using ... Senegal, for example, points to the benefits of centralisation as a way of delivering higher technology interventions in a capacity constrained environment Importantly the findings emphasise the primacy ... democratically based There is no clear evidence of the benefit of democracy and decentralisation in delivering mitigation (including ARV use) All this points to the inadequacy of the SDS suggesting that...
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The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa potx

The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa potx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 14:20
... despite the institutional innovations that these financial institutions incorporate in order to compensate for informational asymmetries Table lists the full set of control variables used in the ... contributing to higher net interest margins Therefore, policies aimed at controlling inflation should be given priority in fostering financial intermediation Since the output cycle matters for bank ... 2009 International Monetary Fund WP/09/15 IMF Working Paper African Department The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub- Saharan Africa Prepared by Valentina Flamini, Calvin McDonald,...
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Views on Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa docx

Views on Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 11:20
... stretch into the future This kind of information base will therefore be worth the investment involved Against these concerns about limiting migration, any answers to the question of the impact ... Trafficking in human beings Human trafficking is on the rise in SSA, and is already very harmful The chief dynamics of trafficking in the region include trafficking in children, mainly for farm ... 23 CHAPTER Leading issues in international migration in subSaharan Africa Aderanti Adepoju Introduction Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA) in the new millennium is concurrently experiencing challenges...
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Mental, Neurological, And Subtance Use Disorders In Sub-Saharan Africa docx

Mental, Neurological, And Subtance Use Disorders In Sub-Saharan Africa docx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 14:20
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... are becoming an increasing concern in the African region In addition, many African countries are used as transit points for illicit drug trade and these drugs are finding their way into local ... Substance Use Disorders in Sub- Saharan Africa: Reducing the Treatment Gap, Improving Quality of Care: Workshop Summary http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12828.html MNS IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA, IMPROVING...
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Determinants of male involvement in maternal and child health services in sub-Saharan Africa: a review potx

Determinants of male involvement in maternal and child health services in sub-Saharan Africa: a review potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 12:20
... The second screening round of the remaining papers was conducted using the abstracts In the final round, the remaining publications were assessed using the full texts The following criteria were ... to travel to the clinics for participating in the education, HIV tests and counseling, the costs of the transport to the clinics and the amount of time per appointment at the clinic were identified ... pre-selected for the final screening using the full-text At the end of final review and assessment, 34 eligible studies were included in this review Details related to the search flow are included in the...
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Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa pot

Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa pot

Ngày tải lên : 28/03/2014, 09:20
... than in other subregions, and even with increasing overall mortality in the 1990s, the infant mortality rate in Southern Africa was still less than half the average for Sub- Saharan Africa in 2000 ... century in Sub- Saharan Africa is the unprecedented decline in mortality and the corresponding increase in the expectation of life at birth At the dawn of the twentieth century, Sub- Saharan Africa ... 2005 Africa and other regions, followed by a comparison of these mortality indicators for subregions within Sub- Saharan Africa Sub- Saharan Africa Relative to Other, Less Developed Regions Sub- Saharan...
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Children’s heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenging the burden of disease docx

Children’s heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenging the burden of disease docx

Ngày tải lên : 28/03/2014, 11:20
... centre in Africa They are working toward training local expertise in tried to improve the situation, but the main question is: How can these centres in partnership with the UK-based Chain of we ... currently working in various centres in Africa, including at our unit in Cape Town, to support, train and develop local personnel in cost-effective ways These include training/teaching missions ... and the latter are, as some say, training too many surgeons Funding is commonly needs to be promoted for the sake of the millions who already an issue for Africans seeking training have crippling...
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A new pilot plant scale acetifier designed for vinegar production in sub saharan africa

A new pilot plant scale acetifier designed for vinegar production in sub saharan africa

Ngày tải lên : 05/05/2014, 08:44
... roles: (i) the cooling fresh wine; (ii) the air–liquid exchange step in which the oxygenation is carried out at the time of the circulating fresh wine and (iii) the recycling fresh wine and its ... These latter were an initial mixed culture submerged in the medium in which the best-adapted strains were going to be selected The novel strain cultivated at 35 8C increases its ability for the ... decrease in both the rate and yield [6] If the vinegar cultivation can be conducted at about 35 8C by using a thermophilic strain, more than 50% of the cost for cooling water will be reduced in Sub- Saharan...
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báo cáo sinh học:" The contribution of international health volunteers to the health workforce in sub-Saharan Africa" pptx

báo cáo sinh học:" The contribution of international health volunteers to the health workforce in sub-Saharan Africa" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 17:20
... doing on -the- job training and bedside teaching; ▪ Strong management (including infrastructure) capacity of certain expatriates; ▪ Improved quality of teaching in educational institutions Most informants ... of the brain drain of African doctors and nurses to the North with programmes to recruit young volunteers in the North to work in sub- Saharan Africa was seen as a paradox Moreover, the brain ... volunteers working in sub- Saharan Africa is thus relatively limited, as compared to the estimated HRH gap in the continent, which is estimated in the hundreds of thousands [8] These numbers are insignificant...
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báo cáo sinh học:" Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience – capitalizing on new opportunities" potx

báo cáo sinh học:" Community health workers for ART in sub-Saharan Africa: learning from experience – capitalizing on new opportunities" potx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 17:20
... treatment (ART) in low- and middle-income countries in recent years, the gap between the need for ART and the numbers currently receiving it is still wide in most of subSaharan Africa [1,2] The health ... needs at each site The initial training for HSAs lasts 10 weeks and focuses on their core tasks Training for HIV-related activities is shorter and occurs after the initial training HSAs are selected ... According to their job description they spend 25% of their time in the health posts and the other 75% in the community HIV/AIDS is part of the curriculum, and we have identified the following activities...
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báo cáo sinh học:" Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa" docx

báo cáo sinh học:" Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa" docx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 17:20
... CHWs for weeks [27] The duration of training was not reported for the Pahou and Gomoa programmes Little information was provided about the nature of this training or on the availability of further ... colleagues [25], in reporting the findings of their CBA study in the Gambia, noted that better roads were built near the villages in the intervention group (PHC villages) This co-intervention, which ... that the 33% reduction in child mortality all occurred during the initial period of greatest investment in CHWs After this period there was a decline in political and financial support for the...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Understanding the Scourge of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa" ppt

báo cáo hóa học:" Understanding the Scourge of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 08:20
... join forces to fight the HIV conundrum To assist them in the effort to curb the spread of HIV in Africa, we are proposing a new slogan, known as ESCAPER, which is the acronym for the following ... they infected their wives, who, in turn, transmitted the virus to their children during delivery or breastfeeding The high prevalence of HIV infection in African countries with extensive mining ... ravaged the continent The main purpose of dry sex is to increase friction during intercourse, enhancing the male's experience These practices are destructive and costly in terms of women's health The...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Nutrition outcomes of HIV-infected malnourished adults treated with ready-to-use therapeutic food in sub-Saharan Africa: a longitudinal study" ppt

báo cáo hóa học:" Nutrition outcomes of HIV-infected malnourished adults treated with ready-to-use therapeutic food in sub-Saharan Africa: a longitudinal study" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 08:20
... experience in treating severely malnourished HIV-infected adults with RUTF in three routine, home-based therapeutic feeding programmes in sub- Saharan Africa In these programmes, 15% of the HIV patients ... still in the NP for six months or more) by the total number of patients admitted into the NP, excluding those who were receiving nutrition therapy for more than months and were still followed in the ... enrolled in Homa Bay Eligibility criteria for starting combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) were those recommended in the 2006 WHO guidelines for scaling up ART in resourcepoor settings: all...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Male circumcision for HIV prevention: current evidence and implementation in sub-Saharan Africa" pdf

báo cáo hóa học:" Male circumcision for HIV prevention: current evidence and implementation in sub-Saharan Africa" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 08:20
... male circumcision in mediating HIV infection Several suggestions have been made to explain the vulnerability of the foreskin to HIV infection The inner epithelium of the foreskin is mucosal, has ... sub- Saharan Africa We then assess the strength of current evidence for MC in protecting against HIV infection, before analyzing current MC implementation programmes in the region Finally, we highlight ... foreskin When the foreskin was exposed to mononuclear cells highly infected with HIV, but not free HIV, virions were found in the epidermis of the inner foreskin within one hour, demonstrating...
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Development planning and hivaids in sub saharan africa phần 1 ppt

Development planning and hivaids in sub saharan africa phần 1 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 19:21
... on the subcontinent Although the notion of development predates the post-colonial era in sub- Saharan Africa, it gained particular resonance for African people and African leaders in the post-independence ... affected by HIV/AIDS DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND HIV/AIDS IN SUB- SAHARAN AFRICA Development planning in sub- Saharan Africa: A brief overview 2.1 Introduction Sub- Saharan Africa is characteristically represented ... dominant ideological framework, with farreaching implications for the development project and development planning in sub- Saharan Africa With the declining and discredited role of the state in...
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