Sero‐discordant couples in five African countries: implications for prevention strategies

D De Walque - Population and development review, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… 1) differs substantially across the five African countries. It is … For each of the five countries,
I use the couple recode in the … by a well-recognized laboratory in each country. The selected …

Prevention of Congenital Transmission of Malaria in Sub‐Saharan African Countries: Challenges and Implications for Health System Strengthening

KO Osungbade, OO Oladunjoye - Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… delivery rates in African countries will also affect detection and prevention of congenital …
developing countries is about 65%; this is low compared to that of the developed countries, …

Prediction of the COVID-19 spread in African countries and implications for prevention and control: A case study in South Africa, Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Senegal and …

Z Zhao, X Li, F Liu, G Zhu, C Ma, L Wang - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
countries. This study aims to simulate and predict the epidemic spread in African countries
… , and to propose a series of epidemic prevention and control measures, which will be crucial …

Burden of meningitis and other severe bacterial infections of children in Africa: implications for prevention

H Peltola - Clinical infectious diseases, 2001 - academic.oup.com
… This calculation agrees with information obtained from 5 African countries ( figure 4 ). In
the same age group, the annual incidence of Hib meningitis (per 100,000 children) was 72 in …

The epidemiology of HIV among young people in sub-Saharan Africa: know your local epidemic and its implications for prevention

SN Mavedzenge, R Olson, AM Doyle… - Journal of Adolescent …, 2011 - Elsevier
countries in Central and Eastern Africa, and is lowest in West Africa and some countries in the
Horn of Africa … the hyperendemic countries of Southern Africa, a high prevalence country in …

Concurrent sexual partnerships help to explain Africa's high HIV prevalence: implications for prevention

DT Halperin, H Epstein - The Lancet, 2004 - thelancet.com
… of these countries reported five or more partners a year. 12 Men and women in Africa report
… western countries. 13–15 Of increasing interest to epidemiologists is the observation that in …

HIV prevention for a threatened continent: implementing positive prevention in Africa

R Bunnell, J Mermin, KM De Cock - Jama, 2006 - jamanetwork.com
… industrialized countries, 7 and should now become a priority in Africa and other high-prevalence
regions. We propose 10 approaches for implementing positive prevention in Africa that …

Traditional African beliefs and customs: Implications for AIDS education and prevention in Africa

AC Van Dyk - South African Journal of Psychology, 2001 - journals.co.za
… and prevention programmes have failed dismally in Africa and they may only succeed if
traditional African … This article discusses relevant aspects of the traditional African worldview by …

Cancer burden in Africa and opportunities for prevention

A Jemal, F Bray, D Forman, M O'Brien, J Ferlay… - Cancer, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
… of Sub-Saharan Africa, will have far-reaching implications in dissemination of … prevention
programs in Sub-Saharan African countries could be integrated with ongoing HIV prevention

The Ebola Virus Prevention and Human Rights Implication

F Shu-Acquaye - U. Mass. L. Rev., 2017 - HeinOnline
… of eliminating this disease in Africa. This article examines the African countries that have
been … It also considers the human rights implications that are invariably intertwined with the …