Sexual and reproductive health services use among adolescents in pastoralist settings, northeastern Ethiopia (Publications)
family income [AOR = 10.92 (CI; 7.10-16.80)], prior discussions of ASRH issues [AOR = 4.53(CI: 2.52, 8.16)], prior sexual exposure [AOR = 4.75(CI: 1.35-16.70)], and being aware of ASRH services [AOR = 1
Global burden of chronic respiratory diseases and risk factors, 1990-2019: an update from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 (Publications)
(417.4-499.1) globally. While the total deaths and prevalence of CRDs have increased by 28.5% and 39.8%, the age-standardised rates have dropped by 41.7% and 16.9% from 1990 to 2019, respectively. COPD,
Effectiveness of a peer educator-coordinated preference-based differentiated service delivery model on viral suppression among young people living... (Publications)
versus 1 of 157 (0.6%) had died (adjusted OR 4.12; 95% CI [0.45 to 37.62]; p = 0.210); and 12 of 150 (8%) versus 23 of 157 (14.7%) had transferred out (adjusted OR 0.53; 95% CI [0.25 to 1.13]; p = 0.099)
Efficacy and safety of Shenfu injection for severe pneumonia in the elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on Western and Eastern... (Publications)
Background: Although increasing clinical trials studying Shenfu injection (SFI) comprising panaxoside 0.8 mg/ml extracted from Panax ginseng C.A. Mey. and aconitine 0.1 mg/ml extracted from Aconitum carmichaeli
A time-course comparative clinical and immune response evaluation study between the human pathogenic <em>Orientia tsutsugamushi </em>strains: Karp and... (Publications)
up-regulation of IFN-gamma, tumor necrosis factor (TNF), IL-15, IL-6, IL-18, regulatory IL-1ra, IL-10, IL-8 and granulocyte-colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF). These data suggest that the clinical outcomes and
Harmonization of human biomonitoring studies in Europe: characteristics of the HBM4EU-aligned studies participants (Publications)
consists of 50.4% boys and 49.5% girls, of which 44.1% live in cities, 29.0% live in towns/suburbs, and 26.8% live in rural areas. The teenagers' group includes 50.6% girls and 49.4% boys, with 37.7% of residents
Use of index testing to close the gap in HIV diagnosis among older people in Rwanda: analysis of data from a public health programme (Publications)
of whom 3156 (10.0%) were aged 50 years and older. Of the partners aged 50 years and older, 877 (27.8%) were female and 2279 (88.1%) were male, and 1638 (51.9%) were notified by index cases who were younger
High seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among Ethiopian healthcare workers (Publications)
ed COVID-19 cases is associated with seropositivity (Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) = 1.4, 95% CI 1.1-1.8; p = 0.015). CONCLUSION: High SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence levels were observed in the five Ethiopian hospitals
Epidemiology of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> infection in Ituri Province, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (Publications)
the 707 participants in 2017, 73.1% were tested positive for S. mansoni. Prevalence ranged from 52.8 to 95.0% across the health districts visited. Infection prevalence increased from north to south and
COVID-19 pandemic and health related quality of life in primary school children in Switzerland: a repeated cross-sectional study (Publications)
as leisure activities, physical activity and social contact. RESULTS: The overall scores (82.4 [81.8; 83.0] vs. 79.6 [79,1; 80.2]), and in particular the emotional well-being scores (85.6 [84.6; 86.6]
