“…Without treatment, 50% of the children living with HIV die before 2 years of age. Hence, HIV exposed infants are recommended to have an Early Infant Diagnosis (EID) at 4-6 weeks of age. …”
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“…Finally, the participants will be given a consent form to sign before data collection to show that they have accepted to take part in the study.…”
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“…There was statistically significant difference in the prevalence of Blastocystis, being more common in the controls than the cases (87.5% and 30% respectively, p=0.0107). …”
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“…The actual prevalence of children with shock may be lower as the FEAST definition we used may have overestimated shock prevalence. …”
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“…The demographic data showed that the majority of the participants were 18-24 years old; all were Christians and married; had primary level of education and their main source of income was peasant farming; and on average the participants had given birth to 3 children. …”
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“…Some mothers face various disorders after childbirth like postpartum haemorrhage, fatigue, sepsis, breast engorgement, sore nipple among others. …”
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“…The main contributing factors were poor deployment of midwives to this hospital; lack of preoperative care guidelines; and lack of in-service training for the midwives in perioperative care.…”
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“…Over the study period, 185 patients with intestinal anastomosis were identified; the overall leak rate was 16.8% (31/185) and 30-day mortality rate post AL was 35.5% (11/31). …”
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“…Findings: The results of the study have shown that education level, gender, marital status, occupation, side effects o tuberculosis drugs; lack of food, financial and social support and stigma and discrimination are the influencing factors of drug resistance tuberculosis. …”
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“…The issue of HIV/AIDS is a major health problem both in developed and developing countries. Developed countries have advanced with strategies to combat the transmission of HIV/AIDS compared to developing countries like Malawi that is struggling to control the transmission of HIV/AIDS because there are so many factors that contributing to transmission of HIV/AIDS among people and lack of resources. …”
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“…Qualitative research design was employed and interviews were used during data collection. The data was analysed manually using content analysis. …”
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“…The data has been presented using frequency tables, bar graphs, and pie charts. The results of the study showed the following are factors contributing to increased HIV prevalence among people of Namalaka in Mangochi: Practice of sexual intercourse among youth in sexual relationship, underutilization of condoms among people in the area, use of one blade for several children during circumcision, low HIV testing among people before marriage and risky cultural practice like polygamy. …”
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“…In 2018, 1.2 million deaths from TB among HIV-negative individuals and 251,000 deaths among HIV-positive people were estimated. Identifying patients at risk of death during TB treatment should be a priority for proper management. …”
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“…Purposive sampling technique was employed and a semi-structured questionnaire was used as an instrument to obtain data from 19 responds through face-to-face interviews. Qualitative data was analyzed using thematic content analysis approaches. …”
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“…However, since the introduction of the national drug investigation unit (DTIU) in 2017, drug theft cases have declined and most perpetrators were apprehended. …”
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“…Sexual practices in the past one year were also accessed. All study participants (100%) reported to have engaged in fingering and clitoris to clitoris sexual contact; (59%) had multiple female sex partners and (26%) were involved in female-male sex. (36%) reported using unsterilized sex toys and (28.5%) were involved in oral sex. …”
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“…On a logistic regression analysis, several factors were found to be associated with HDP, these included age (OR 0.15; 95% CI, 0.09-0.25, P≤0.001), education (OR 0.43; 95% CI, 0.32-0.58; P≤0.01), occupation (OR 0.65; 95% CI, 0.51-0.84; P≤0.001), residency (OR 14.24; 95% CI, 7.95-25.53; P≤0.001), HIV status (OR 16.24; 95% CI, 3.78-69.69; P≤0.001), parity (OR 0.19; 95% CI, 0.99-0.39; P≤0.001), mode of delivery (OR 3.87; 955 CI, 2.59-5.78; P≤0.001) and diabetes mellitus (OR 17.37; 95% CI, 7.22-41.84; P≤0.001). …”
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“…We did the same for 2018. Spina bifida cases were defined as a documented confirmed case note diagnosis of spina bifida, myelomeningocele or meningocele. …”
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“…The findings have been presented in percentages, frequency tables, pie charts, bar graphs, as well as in writing. …”
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