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Establishing a new medical school: Botswana’s experience
(Academic Medicine, http://journals.lww.com/AcademicMedicine/pages/default.aspx, 2014-08)
Having adequate numbers of qualified human resources for health is essential for any effective health care system. However, there is a global shortage of skilled health care workers, especially in Sub-Saharan African ...
Are anatomical sciences adequately represented in the problems-based learning clinical cases?
(ScopeMed Journal Management System, http://www.scopemed.org, 2015-02)
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a relatively new teaching method, which was introduced in medical education as an alternative to the traditional method of teaching. One of the major advantages of the PBL method was that, ...
Reducing therapeutic injection overuse through patients-prescribers interaction group discussions in Kinondoni District, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Tanzania Journal of Health Research, www.ajol.info/index.php/thrb, 2011)
Inappropriately prescription of injections has been reported in developing and developed countries. Previous studies in Tanzania showed that over 70% of patients attending out- patient clinics at private dispensaries ...
Beneficial effects of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in gestational diabetes: consequences in macrosomia and adulthood obesity
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation//www.hindawi.com/journals/jdr/, 2015)
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are increasingly being used to prevent cardiovascular diseases, including diabetes and obesity. In this paper, we report data on the observed effects of omega-3 PUFA on major ...
Successful Introduction of Routine Opt-Out HIV Testing
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. http://journals.lww.com/jaids/pages/default.aspx, 2007)
Botswana has high HIV prevalence among pregnant
women (37.4% in 2003) and provides free services for prevention of
mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. Nearly all pregnant
women (.95%) have antenatal care (ANC) ...
The bacterium that could cause cancer
(The Lancet. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/issue/current, 2009)
Biopsy specimens were taken from intact areas of
antral mucosa in 100 consenting consecutive patients
presenting for gastroscopy at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia. Spiral or curved bacilli were found in biopsy ...
Asthma prevalence, knowledge and perceptions among secondary school pupils in rural and urban coastal districts in Tanzania
(BioMed Central// https://www.biomedcentral.com, 2014)
Background: Asthma is a common chronic disease of childhood that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of asthma among secondary school pupils in urban and rural areas ...
Safety and efficacy of pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in HIV-associated Kaposi’s sarcoma
(Dove Medical Press Ltd. http://www.dovepress.com/biologics-targets--therapy-journal, 2009)
Kaposi’s sarcoma is a vascular tumor linked to the presence of Kaposi’s
sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus-8) and the incidence of which has
increased considerably the world over after the onset of the ...
Lymph nodes and pathogenesis of infection with HIV-1
(Elsevier, http://www.elsevier.com, 2010)
Lymphadenopathy was identified as an essential feature of AIDS soon after its appearance and before the identification of HIV as its cause.¹ However, lymphadenopathy has not subsequently received much attention. Recently, ...
Diaspora engagement of African migrant health workers - examples from five destination countries
(Taylor and Francis; http://taylorandfrancis.com/, 2015)
Background: Migrant health workers fill care gaps in their destination countries, but they also actively engage in improving living conditions for people of their countries of origin through expatriate professional ...