African health sciences
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African health sciences · Dec 2017
The prevalence of and factors associated with tobacco smoking behavior among long-distance drivers in Lagos, Nigeria.
Factors associated with tobacco smoking are useful in designing tobacco control programs. ⋯ Prevalence of tobacco smoking is higher among non-AHS compared to AHS drivers. Having close friends that smoked, cargo driving, and lower education levels were associated with current smoking.
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African health sciences · Dec 2017
Abnormalities of the external genitalia and groins among primary school boys in Bida, Nigeria.
Abnormalities of the male external genitalia and groin, a set of lesions which may be congenital or acquired, are rather obscured to many kids and their parents and Nigerian health care system has no formal program to detect them. ⋯ Inguino-penoscrotal abnormalities are common in our community (36.20%). Screening of pre-school and school children to detect them should be introduced into the school health programs in Nigeria.
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African health sciences · Dec 2017
Low sero-prevalence of hepatitis delta antibodies in HIV/ hepatitis B co-infected patients attending an urban HIV clinic in Uganda.
Co-infection with hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis D (HDV) is common among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals in developing countries and it aggressively accelerates progression of liver disease to cirrhosis and other complications. There is scarcity of data on HDV in sub-Saharan Africa .We investigated the sero-prevalence and factors associated with HDV antibody among HIV/HBV co-infected patients attending a large urban HIV clinic in Uganda. ⋯ The sero-prevalence of HDV antibodies among the HIV/HBV co-infected patients is low in a Ugandan urban cohort.
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African health sciences · Dec 2017
Prevalence and predictors of unknown HIV status among women delivering in Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
Knowledge of a person's HIV status during pregnancy is critical for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. ⋯ Most participants had a known HIV status at labour (97%). Private clinics need to be supported to provide free quality HCT services in ANC.
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African health sciences · Dec 2017
Randomized Controlled TrialPlasma ACTH concentration and pituitary gland histo-pathology in rats infected with Trypanosoma brucei brucei.
Human African trypanosomiasis is one of the neglected and re-emerging infectious diseases in Africa with over 60 million people being at risk of contracting the disease. ⋯ T.b.brucei infection causes histological changes in both the paraventricular nucleus and pituitary gland in rats. These histological changes could account for the decrease in corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH) and ACTH production in the infected rats.