African health sciences
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African health sciences · Sep 2022
HIV/AIDS services quality in health centers of East Shoa zone, Oromia, Ethiopia.
HIV/AIDS is a major public health, social and economic problem in Ethiopia. However, little has been done on assessment of the quality of the services given to patients in this country. ⋯ The studied facilities were challenged by different factors including, scarcity of human power, stockout of various HIV/AIDS related medicines and inability to make patients adhere to the services given by the facilities. The consequences of these factors can be dangerous to the patients as well as to the wider public and hence making available the appropriate human resource and HIV/AIDS related commodities including medicines should be the priority for the health facilities and the region to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS services in the study area.
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African health sciences · Sep 2022
Case ReportsPhysiotherapy management of a rare variant of Guillain Barre Syndrome, acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy (AMSAN) along with COVID-19 in a 35-year-old male -a case report.
COVID-19 emerged as a novel pandemic with serious illness. Acute motor and sensory axonal neuropathy, a Guillain-Barré syndrome variant also results in ventilator support, and bed-ridden state. Presence of COVID-19 along with GBS will cause serious complications if left untreated. ⋯ From the results, it can be concluded that physiotherapy will be beneficial in AMSAN patients with COVID-19 in Intensive care units and further studies have to declare evidence-based practice.
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African health sciences · Sep 2022
Current practice of family planning among teachers in public secondary school in Enugu East Senatorial District, Nigeria.
The aim of this study is to determine the current practice level of family planning and the associated factors among public secondary school teachers in Enugu East Senatorial District. ⋯ The level of current practice of family planning is low and a significant number of factors predict the current practice of family planning. A family planning educational workshop among teachers is needed to improve teacher's knowledge on family planning to address the issue of adolescent sexual reproduction as teachers are vessels of knowledge impartation to students.
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African health sciences · Sep 2022
Prediction of promiscuous epitopes in ORF2 of Hepatitis E virus: an In-Silico approach.
Vaccine development against emerging infections is essentially important for saving people from increasing viral infections. In developing countries, Hepatitis E (HEV) is a common infection affecting millions of people worldwide. Based on In-silico analysis, different approaches have been targeted. ⋯ Collectively, our data suggests promiscuous epitopes that can potentially acts as new candidates for the design of HEV peptide vaccine.
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African health sciences · Sep 2022
Performance of the allometric power model in scaling from adult to paediatric antiretroviral dose in children at a Referral Hospital in Windhoek, Namibia.
World Health Organization (WHO) advocates use of weight bands in antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines. Allometric scaling could be a more reliable method because it uses a non-linear approach in relating dose to body weight. This study evaluates performance of the allometric ¾ power model in comparison to WHO weight band method in children receiving ART. ⋯ WHO weight bands may result in the 25 kg weight category receiving a much higher dose leading to ADRs. Using allometric scaling, we recommend a weight band strategy that could improve paediatric ABC/3TC dosing.