In Kenya, millions of children have limited access to nurturing care. With the Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, it is anticipated that vulnerable children will bear the …

Objective This review presents a list of developmental screening tests used in clinical
settings worldwide and provides a broad estimate of their accuracy (PROSPERO …

Background and aim The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.5 billion and
2.2 billion people have hearing and vision impairment, respectively. The burden of these …

Children and young people with developmental disabilities are a large and growing
population. But across the world, children and young people with development disabilities …

Diagnosing autism or ID using a gold‐standard tool can be time‐consuming, costly, and
requires training, which is generally limited in Nigeria, and the rest of Africa. Screening, on …

This chapter provides a critique of current legislation, public policy, service development and
civil society action to promote the health, wellbeing and social integration of persons with …

There are many well-developed screening tools for both intellectual disabilities and autism,
but they may not be culturally appropriate for use within Africa. Our specific aims were to …

Delays in development that occur during early childhood can have long-lasting
consequences, potentially leading to poor academic achievement. Research has shown that …

Perinatal HIV infection is associated with delayed neurocognitive development, but less is
known about children perinatally HIV‐exposed but uninfected (CHEU). We compared …

Background: In 2019, South Africa, Nigeria, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Uganda, Mozambique, Zambia, Angola, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi …