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kbth in accra ghana

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Báo cáo y học: "Unexpected elevated alanine aminotransferase, asparte aminotransferase levels and hepatitis E virus infection among persons who work with pigs in accra, ghana" docx

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... as cleaning barns or assisting sows at birth, butchering pigs, consumption of alcohol, and having piped water in homes and/or on the farms The finding of higher HEV antibody prevalence in persons ... been easily contaminated with faecal effluent in the locality Moreover, handwashing facilities are not easily available on the farms Another finding of interest reported herein in our study is ... Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, KBTH) , and the high infant and maternal mortality Our findings reemphasize the suggestion that targeting high-risk pig handlers or universal testing in high prevalence...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Open Access Hepatitis E virus infection is highly prevalent among pregnant women in Accra, Ghana" potx

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... suggesting the possibility of subclinical infections in the country The finding of higher HEV antibody prevalence among pregnant women attending the Obstetric Outpatient Clinic of the KBTH, Accra, Ghana ... Outpatient Clinic of the KBTH, Accra, Ghana, between January and May 2008 KBTH, situated in the nation's capital, Accra is the leading tertiary hospital and the major referral center in the country ... screening in Ghana Consent Fully informed consent was obtained from each study subject When study subjects were younger than 18 years, informed consent was obtained from their parents Competing interests...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Hepatitis E virus infection is highly prevalent among pregnant women in Accra, Ghana" pdf

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... suggesting the possibility of subclinical infections in the country The finding of higher HEV antibody prevalence among pregnant women attending the Obstetric Outpatient Clinic of the KBTH, Accra, Ghana ... Outpatient Clinic of the KBTH, Accra, Ghana, between January and May 2008 KBTH, situated in the nation's capital, Accra is the leading tertiary hospital and the major referral center in the country ... screening in Ghana Consent Fully informed consent was obtained from each study subject When study subjects were younger than 18 years, informed consent was obtained from their parents Competing interests...
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Chemical contamination at e-waste recycling and disposal sites in Accra and Korforidua, Ghana pptx

Chemical contamination at e-waste recycling and disposal sites in Accra and Korforidua, Ghana pptx

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... growth in the recycling and disposal of ewaste in regions beyond those in Asia, in which it has historically taken place, particularly in some African countries, including Ghana As part of this investigation, ... widely found in the indoor environment, including in air and dust (Otake et al 2001, Butte & Heinzow 2002, Fromme et al 2004) Phthalates are commonly found in human tissues, including in blood and, ... demonstrated in other countries, including within the homes of recycling workers (Brigden et al 2005, Leung et al 2008) The investigation in Ghana focused exclusively on chemical contamination in and...
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Respect and reciprocity: Care of elderly people in rural Ghana pot

Respect and reciprocity: Care of elderly people in rural Ghana pot

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... others include: getting food, taking a bath, washing clothes, and going to the toilet Helping them financially and providing company are tokens of care, which are also indispensable Finally and, in ... again to the elderly I slowly deepened and broadened my understanding of what growing old meant to them – and, in a sense, increasingly also to me Reflecting on this continuous movement between informants ... (1973: 23) again, “intrinsically incomplete” and “essentially contestable” Introspection (or reflection) was an indispensable tool in my interpretive research Subjectivity is unavoidable in anthropological...
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Land, Trees, And Women - Evolution Of Land Tenure Institutions In Western Ghana And Sumatra ppt

Land, Trees, And Women - Evolution Of Land Tenure Institutions In Western Ghana And Sumatra ppt

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... Specifically, moving to one’s natal home means parting from friends, finding new housing or living in overcrowded conditions, as well as feeling responsible for an increase in tensions among receiving family ... productivity increased in most of Zimbabwe’s pre-fast track resettlement schemes (Kinsey 1999; Kinsey 2002; Deininger et al 2000), this phase involved high investment in specialist inputs by government ... Declining trends in the ownership of cattle by widows 53 Changes in sourcing of fertilizer at the Buhera site 54 Changes in sourcing of fertilizer at the Chimanimani site 54 Changes in sourcing...
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MYCOBACTERIAL SPECIES CAUSING PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AT THE KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL, ACCRA, GHANA pptx

MYCOBACTERIAL SPECIES CAUSING PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS AT THE KORLE BU TEACHING HOSPITAL, ACCRA, GHANA pptx

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... Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital Chest Clinic in Accra, Ghana This was after ethical clearance was granted by the Institutes’ ethical review board on research Inoculation, Incubation and Reading About ... sample was inoculated into tubes: tubes containing glycerol and the other containing pyruvate The inoculated slants were incubated at 37oC The culture tubes were observed one week after incubation ... Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), a study was initiated in 2003 with the main objective of characterizing mycobacterial species causing pulmonary tuberculosis in patients attending...
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báo cáo khoa học: "Local suffering and the global discourse of mental health and human rights: An ethnographic study of responses to mental illness in rural Ghana" pptx

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... She'll be sitting down, talking by heart, insulting people, don't you see? Then laughing doing all sorts of things FGD with young people, 30th April 2008 in English Figure Chains in use in a prayer ... who had formerly chained them, training as pastors themselves and doing other work such as farming, maintenance and running errands In turn they too assisted in the chaining of other patients ... restrained by seven men in order to bring him to the shrine for treatment This family paid the police who used their handcuffs to restrain the man and bring him to the shrine in a car Chaining...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "HIV-1 CRF 02 AG polymerase genes in Southern Ghana are mosaics of different 02 AG strains and the protease gene cannot infer subtypes" doc

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... resistance testing for patients failing therapy in countries with non-subtype B strains With the scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Ghana, there is an increased need to perform resistance testing for ... of the HIV-1 strains with respect to CRF 02_AG/AG-like strains involved in recombination were also looked at Methods Sequencing of polymerase gene Sequences from 25 patients infected with HIV-1 ... Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana, in 2003 were used for this study The drug resistance mutations have been published recently [21] Polymerase (pol) gene sequences were obtained using the...
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Farmer innovation in rural ghana determinants, impacts and identification

Farmer innovation in rural ghana determinants, impacts and identification

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... providing relevant data and assisting in recruiting the enumerators I am also grateful to Mr Aaron Aduna, the WASCAL basin coordinator in Ghana for his invaluable support during my stay in Bolgatanga ... and veterinary drugs due to the removal of input subsidies in Ghana resulted in increased farmer experiments and innovations in the areas of ethnoveterinary medicines and soil fertility Pineapple ... farmer innovation in building households resilience to climate shocks Finally, we investigate the potential of innovation contest and household survey in scouting farmers innovations We also examine...
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Biogas technology dissemination in Ghana: history, current status, future prospects, and policy significance

Biogas technology dissemination in Ghana: history, current status, future prospects, and policy significance

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... development, Ministry of agriculture Beijing, China, 2006 [4] Schwegler M Promoting investments for renewable technology and biogas through carbon financing in China, Biogas Markets Asia Singapore, ... have disseminated about 2000 digesters as at October 2007 [10] In Ghana, about 200 digesters have been disseminated [11] Biogas technology dissemination in Ghana 2.1 Before 1990 Interest in biogas ... the Ministry has shown no interest in developing a national biogas programme Furthermore, the Institute for Industrial Research, a parastatal organization involved in biogas digester dissemination,...
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Tài liệu Priority Setting for Reproductive Health at the District Level in the context of Health Sector Reforms in Ghana doc

Tài liệu Priority Setting for Reproductive Health at the District Level in the context of Health Sector Reforms in Ghana doc

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... training 3.0 Findings 3.1 The Content of RH in Ghana The RH program in Ghana was adapted from the International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo (ICPD, 1994) Accordingly, Ghana s ... (Procaine pen IM) (2,3) c) Ceftriaxone Inj (3) d) Ergometrine/oxytomin injection (2) e) Gentamycin injection f) Magnesium sulfate injection (2) g) Streptomycin (4) h) Syntocinon inj (2) i) Xylocain ... 3.2.3 Financing reforms Ghana has been implementing a number of financing reforms aimed at increasing overall resources to the health sector and ensuring equitable allocation These reforms include...
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Tài liệu Accelerating Reproductive and Child Health Program Development: The Navrongo Initiative in Ghana docx

Tài liệu Accelerating Reproductive and Child Health Program Development: The Navrongo Initiative in Ghana docx

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... African ministers of health, the Bamako Initiative sought to translate the social institutions that organize African daily life into resources for organizing, financing, and sustaining community ... to 108 in 1998, it rose again to 111 in 2003 In the Upper East Region, however, progress achieved in the 1980s and 1990s continued According to the 2003 GDHS, the infant mortality rate in this ... for overcoming ethnic complexity and building mechanisms for sustaining efforts within district scaling-up activities Contrasts with Navrongo findings Several elements of the Nkwanta initiative...
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Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: the Navrongo experiment in Ghana pptx

Accelerating reproductive and child health programme impact with community-based services: the Navrongo experiment in Ghana pptx

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... entering the programme had completed 18 months of training in basic curative health serv n vices, public health, immunization and family planning Reorientation involved weeks of intensive in- service ... Bamako Initiative’s model for recovering the cost of essential drugs by equipping volunt n teers with bicycles, providing them with n a start-up kit of essential drugs and cond ducting training in ... combining the presence of nurses with community mobilization and the involvement of men in family planning These findings attest to the demographic importance of developing social access to care in...
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Monetary Policy Transmission in Ghana: Does the Interest Rate Channel Work? pptx

Monetary Policy Transmission in Ghana: Does the Interest Rate Channel Work? pptx

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... it in several ways First, we use more recent data, which incorporates the period of inflation-targeting in Ghana Second, we broaden the set of interest rates included in the analysis by examining ... examine the pass-through from changes in wholesale interest rates (reflecting the cost of funding) to banks’ retail deposit and lending interest rates in Ghana, -6thereby providing valuable insight ... lending interest rates, which declined in nominal and real terms during this period, and faster credit growth For instance, the average retail lending interest rate declined from 29 percent in...
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Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Ghana: Results from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents doc

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Ghana: Results from the 2004 National Survey of Adolescents doc

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... sitting within hearing distance during the interview could influence responses Therefore, interviewers were requested to indicate if somebody was within hearing distance during any point of the interview ... survey design and coordinating the pretest, sample selection, training, fielding, and data editing and cleaning The key institution behind the survey fielding was the Institute of Statistical, ... 18–25 years Training was extensive and was based on standard DHS training protocols for conducting an interview, making callbacks and completing survey questionnaires The training manual used...
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Reproductive Health Risk and Protective Factors Among Unmarried Youth in Ghana pptx

Reproductive Health Risk and Protective Factors Among Unmarried Youth in Ghana pptx

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... behaviors, including actions to prevent HIV transmission,20 and is a key concept in Social Learning Theory.21 We constructed three indices measuring self-efficacy regarding sex and condom use, in International ... programs to use in designing effective interventions REFERENCES Ministry of Health, The AIDS Situation in Ghana, 1993, Accra, Ghana: National AIDS Control Program, 1993; and Ministry of Health, ... measured using a scale indicating whether respondents had ever talked with their last or current partner about avoiding or delaying sex, avoiding pregnancy, using condoms to avoid HIV/AIDS and using...
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Rural and Micro Finance Regulation in Ghana: Implications for Development and Performance of the Industry ppt

Rural and Micro Finance Regulation in Ghana: Implications for Development and Performance of the Industry ppt

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... conditions Innovative microfinance institutions have had substantial success in making financial services accessible to the poor in many parts of the world, and microfinance is increasingly provided ... will remain an NGO, concentrating on advocacy goals in promoting the rural banking system and maintaining the rural banking network of Directors and Managers Products and Practices Originally, ... financial performance has been constrained by earlier problems with its loan portfolio It represents both an interesting success in applying commercial principles to microfinance and innovating...
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