“…Out of these, 5 million attain optimal recovery, 5 million die, and 5 million suffer from a long lasting disability, placing a huge burden on families and communities, other studies suggest that cases of fatality in those who develop a stroke are more in Sub-Saharan Africa than in developed countries. …”
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“…General danger signs are non specific signs that do not point out to a particular problem. This study was aimed at finding out knowledge and perception of guardians towards general danger signs in under-five children at Kamuzu Central hospital. …”
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“…It will use qualitative approach, data will be collected using a well structured questionnaire that will include both open and close ended questions and will be analysed manually. …”
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“…Malawian children admitted with cerebral malaria (CM) between 2010 and 2019 in a long-standing pathogenesis study at Blantyre’s main referral hospital, Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) were retrospectively sampled at admission and every six hours until two consecutive malaria smears were negative. …”
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“…Adolescents who reported having exposed to physical abuse were 1.5771 times likely to have multiple sexual partners as compared to those who were not exposed to reported physical abuse (OR=1.5771, Cl = 0.7879 – 3.1566 at 95%) and AOR was 1.4245 among the exposed. …”
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“…Drivers with high blood pressure were more likely to be diabetic than those with optimal blood pressure levels. (OR = 1.03, 95% CI: 3.98 - 25.07). The mean total blood cholesterol, including those currently on medication for raised cholesterol was determined at 6.4 mmol/L (95% CI, 6.0-6.7,). …”
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“…Hence, an assessment on uptake and utilisation of modern contraceptives among tertiary institutions of LUANAR and KCN was carried out in Lilongwe between 2017 and 2019. A cross sectional exploratory study which used a mixed methods approach to assess uptake and utilisation of modern contraceptive methods among young people in tertiary institutions of LUANAR and KCN in Lilongwe. 8 focus groups were conducted, 6 key informants were interviewed and 220 females and male students were interviewed using self-administered questionnaires from the two institutions which were purposively selected. …”
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“…Self- reported HIV prevalence was 2% (1/42). Prevalence for Candida albicans infection was 29% (12/42) and genital warts 7% (3/42). …”
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“…Eight service providers were recruited using purposive sampling to collect qualitative data using in-depth interviews and analyzed using Nvivo 8.0. Quantitative data was collected using a checklist and analyzed using SPSS v 20. …”
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“…Needle prick incidences were high due to improper waste disposal management among workers at Mangochi District Hospital. 427people on ART prophylaxis between 2017 and 2019, 127people were due to needle prick incidences by June 2019 representing 29.7% (Prophylaxis hard cover 2017 to 2019). Therefore, this study’s significance was that cleaners acquired knowledge on care to prevent risks and understand the process of waste disposal management, and the managers were reminded to do on job trainings for cleaners. …”
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“…Nsanje district was purposively selected based on the reason that it is second district in Malawi with highest rate of adolescent childbearing of girls aged 15-19 years. We conducted a Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with 9 traditional leaders, 11 Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with health workers, 20 In-depth Interviews (IDIs) with 12 adolescents and 4 teachers and 4 parents. …”
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“…This was an exploratory qualitative study employing a secondary data analysis which was done from the study titled ―Strategies for Early Access to HIV Services by Heterosexual Men in Blantyre, Malawi Version 5.0, dated 8th April 2019.‖ COMREC number P/06/18/2430. …”
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“…Of these thirty (11 males, 19 females) were members of Health Centre Management Committee and ten (4 males, 6 females) were local leaders. …”
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“…Although the retention rate of HIV infected people in Tanzania has increased slowly from 39.4% to 54.5% from 2008 to 2016, there remains some challenges in achieving optimal rates. …”
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“…In univariate analysis, age at ART initiation, occupation (OR 0.203, 95% CI 0.11, 0.39; p<0.003), marital status, duration on ART (OR 0.55, 95% CI 0.33, 0.92; p=0.023) and ART adherence (OR 5.125, 95% CI 3.01, 8.74; p<0.0001) were associated with VF. …”
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“…The study employed a cross-sectional qualitative study design. A total of 31 prisoners aged between 18 to 49 participated in the study. …”
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“…To achieve first 95 where 95% of PLHIV need to know their status, the Ministry of Health introduced the 2019 Active index testing policy, in which assisted partner notification services (APNS) were chosen as the key innovative and effective strategy to increase HIV case identification. …”
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“…Malawi has a national workplace HIV/AIDS policy. Despite its existence, the adoption of the policy is low. …”
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“…Data was analyzed using Stata version 14.0. Mean age was 72 years with SD of 8.5. Overall, about 24.69% (n=200) of participants were depressed with 40.49% having minimal depression, 26.47% mild depression, 9.01% moderate depression, and 2.43% having moderate to severe depression. …”
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“…Data was analyzed using thematic analysis method. Eight (8) themes emerged from the study. These include: (i) poor communication approaches, (ii) lack of knowledge of where to access screening services, (iii) fear emanating from negative experiences shared by peers, and fear of a cancer diagnosis itself), (iv) feeling of embarrassment over exposure of private body parts, (v) myths and misconceptions (vi), low perceived vulnerability, (vii) long travelling distances and (viii) long waiting times. …”
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