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Dengue in Western Uganda: a prospective cohort of children presenting with undifferentiated febrile illness.

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BACKGROUND: The spatial distribution and burden of dengue in sub-Saharan Africa remains highly uncertain, despite high levels of ecological suitability.

Boyce RM Collins M Muhindo R Nakakande R Ciccone EJ Grounds S Espinoza D Zhu Y Matte M Ntaro M Nyehangane D Juliano JJ Mulogo EM
BMC infectious diseases 2020 Nov 11; 20(1); 835. doi: 10.1186/s12879-020-05568-5. Epub 2020 11 11
Arbovirus Dengue Epidemiology Fever Uganda

Implementation and operational feasibility of SAMBA I HIV-1 semi-quantitative viral load testing at the point of care in rural settings in Malawi and Uganda.

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OBJECTIVE: We monitored a large-scale implementation of the Simple Amplification-Based Assay semi-quantitative viral load test for HIV-1 version I (SAMBA I Viral Load = SAMBA I VL) within Médecins Sans Frontières' HIV programmes in Mal

Gueguen M Nicholas S Poulet E Schramm B Szumilin E Wolters L Wapling J Ajule E Rakesh A Mwenda R Kiyaga C Balkan S
Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH 2020 Nov 07; doi: 10.1111/tmi.13519. Epub 2020 11 07
Malawi POC testing SAMBA I Uganda descriptive analysis

Point-of-Care Approaches for Meningitis Diagnosis in a Low-Resource Setting (Southwestern Uganda): Observational Cohort Study Protocol of the "PI-POC" Trial.

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BACKGROUND: A timely differential diagnostic is essential to identify the etiology of central nervous system (CNS) infections in children, in order to facilitate targeted treatment, manage patients, and improve clinical outcome.

Gaudenzi G Kumbakumba E Rasti R Nanjebe D Réu P Nyehangane D Mårtensson A Nassejje M Karlsson J Mzee J Nilsson P Businge S Loh E Boum Ii Y Andersson-Svahn H Gantelius J Mwanga-Amumpaire J Alfvén T
JMIR research protocols 2020 Nov 04; 9(11); e21430. doi: 10.2196/21430. Epub 2020 11 04
Uganda central nervous system infections children diagnostics global health low-resource settings meningitis pediatrics

Household air pollution and under-five mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: an analysis of 14 demographic and health surveys.

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BACKGROUND: Globally, over four million deaths are attributed to exposure to household air pollution (HAP) annually.

Bickton FM Ndeketa L Sibande GT Nkeramahame J Payesa C Milanzi EB
Environmental health and preventive medicine 2020 Nov 04; 25(1); 67. doi: 10.1186/s12199-020-00902-4. Epub 2020 11 04
Demographic Health Survey Household air pollution Sub-Saharan Africa Under-five mortality

Cost-effectiveness of screening and treatment using direct-acting antivirals for chronic Hepatitis C virus in a primary care setting in Karachi, Pakistan.

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Despite the availability of effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) treatments for Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, many people remain undiagnosed and untreated.

Mafirakureva N Lim AG Khalid GG Aslam K Campbell L Zahid H Van den Bergh R Falq G Fortas C Wailly Y Auat R Donchuk D Loarec A Coast J Vickerman P Walker JG
Journal of viral hepatitis 2020 Oct 14; doi: 10.1111/jvh.13422. Epub 2020 10 14
Pakistan chronic hepatitis C cost effectiveness low income population treatment costs

‘Being Stuck’: Refugees’ Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece.

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Waiting has traditionally been considered a passive state and Hage (2009) identified a sense of ‘stuckedness’, as the cornerstones of social life become suspended when liminality turns into protracted waiting (Hage 2009).

Bjertrup PJ Farhat JB Bouhenia M Neuman M Mayaud P Blanchet K
Immobility and Medicine 2020 (pp. 39-59)
Refugees Greece