Epidemiology of neurodegenerative diseases in the East African region: A meta-analysis

H Onohuean, AO Akiyode, O Akiyode… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Introduction There is a scarcity of epidemiological data on neurodegenerative diseases
(NDs) in East Africa. This meta-analysis provides the regional prevalence of NDs, their …

[HTML][HTML] Similar Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum and Non–P. falciparum Malaria Infections among Schoolchildren, Tanzania

R Sendor, CL Mitchell, F Chacky… - Emerging infectious …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Achieving malaria elimination requires considering both Plasmodium falciparum and non–P.
falciparum infections. We determined prevalence and geographic distribution of 4 …

Geographic accessibility to public and private health facilities in Kenya in 2021: an updated geocoded inventory and spatial analysis

AK Moturi, L Suiyanka, E Mumo, RW Snow… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objectives To achieve universal health coverage, adequate geographic access to quality
healthcare services is vital and should be characterized periodically to support planning …

Spatio-temporal modelling of routine health facility data for malaria risk micro-stratification in mainland Tanzania

SG Thawer, M Golumbeanu, S Lazaro, F Chacky… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
As malaria transmission declines, the need to monitor the heterogeneity of malaria risk at
finer scales becomes critical to guide community-based targeted interventions. Although …

Life expectancy of Anopheles funestus is double that of Anopheles arabiensis in southeast Tanzania based on mark-release-recapture method

W Ntabaliba, L Vavassori, C Stica, N Makungwa… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles funestus sensu stricto mosquitoes are major East
African malaria vectors. Understanding their dispersal and population structure is critical for …

Adherence to malaria management guidelines by health care workers in the Busoga sub-region, eastern Uganda

A Mpimbaza, H Babikako, D Rutazanna, C Karamagi… - Malaria Journal, 2022 - Springer
Background Appropriate malaria management is a key malaria control strategy. The
objective of this study was to determine health care worker adherence levels to malaria case …

Malaria vaccine coverage estimation using age-eligible populations and service user denominators in Kenya

AK Moturi, R Jalang'o, A Cherono, SK Muchiri… - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The World Health Organization approved the RTS, S/AS01 malaria
vaccine for wider rollout, and Kenya participated in a phased pilot implementation from 2019 …

Malaria hospitalisation in East Africa: age, phenotype and transmission intensity

A Kamau, RS Paton, S Akech, A Mpimbaza… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Understanding the age patterns of disease is necessary to target interventions
to maximise cost-effective impact. New malaria chemoprevention and vaccine initiatives …

Prevalence and associated factors of oligohydramnios in pregnancies beyond 36 weeks of gestation at a tertiary hospital in southwestern Uganda

G Twesigomwe, R Migisha, DC Agaba… - BMC Pregnancy and …, 2022 - Springer
Background Oligohydramnios is associated with poor maternal and perinatal outcomes. In
low-resource countries, including Uganda, oligohydramnios is under-detected due to the …

Persistent and multiclonal malaria parasite dynamics despite extended artemether-lumefantrine treatment in children

J Goodwin, R Kajubi, K Wang, F Li, M Wade… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Standard diagnostics used in longitudinal antimalarial studies are unable to characterize the
complexity of submicroscopic parasite dynamics, particularly in high transmission settings …