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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Environmental Heat Exposure to Cardiovascular Diseases, Chronic Respiratory Diseases and Diabetes Mellitus in Low- & Middle-Income Countries
(Elsevier, 2025)Climate change has led to an increase in global temperatures and adversely impacted human health, for example, by exacerbating the burden of non-communicable diseases. This systematic review and meta-analyses aim to ... -
Assessing Courtesy Reporting Bias in Facility-Based Surveys on Person-Centred Maternity Care: Evidence from Urban Informal Settlements in Nairobi and Lusaka
(Journal of global health, 2025)Experience of care is typically measured through client exit surveys administered in the facility. Evidence suggests that such measures suffer from courtesy reporting bias whereby respondents do not accurately report on ... -
Associations Between Extreme Weather Events and Child Undernutrition: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, 2010 - 2019
(BMJ, 2025)Extreme weather events, or natural disasters, present a large and increasing threat to human health, infrastructure and food security, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where the burden of undernutrition is high. ... -
Beyond Physical Accessibility, Bypassing Health Facilities Offering Caesarean Section: Insights from Women in Dakar's Slums.
(BMJ, 2025)This study examines the geographic accessibility of Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care (CEmONC) among women residing in the slums of Dakar. Participants included 763 women living in urban slums who had undergone a ... -
Broken Promises: The USA Foreign Aid Freeze Threatens Women's, Children's, and Adolescents' Health
(The Lancet, 2025)In The Lancet, we present a concerning picture of progress in improving reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) and nutrition, characterised by a marked slowdown since the 2016 launch of the ... -
Building on Promising Covid-19 Responses for Women and Girls: African Governments Must Invest Further in Advancing and Sustaining Gender Equality.
(National Library of MedicineResearchGateThe BMJ, 2023)Kéfilath Bello and colleagues argue that building on promising practices to develop more sustainable strategies to advance gender equality will help African countries respond to future crises -
Childhood Anemia in Mozambique: A Multilevel Mixed-Effects Analysis of 2011 - 2022/23 Population-Based Surveys
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2025)Anemia adversely affects children's cognitive and motor development and remains a global public health problem. This study aimed to identify the individual, feeding, household, and community determinants of anemia among ... -
Epidemiology of Emergency and Elective Cesarean Section and Its Association with Early Neonatal Mortality in Sub-Saharan African Countries
(National Library of MedicineThe BMJ, 2023)Investigating elective and emergency caesarean section (CS) separately is important for a better understanding of birth delivery modes in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region and identifying bottlenecks that prevent favourable ... -
Exploring Interconnections: A Comprehensive Multi-country Analysis of Climate Change, Energy Demand, Long-Term Care, and Health of Older Adults.
(Science DirectMaturitas, 2024)Challenges faced by many countries are energy insecurity, climate change, and the health and long-term care of growing numbers of older people. These challenges are increasingly intersecting with rising energy prices, aging ... -
Geographic Inequalities, and Social-Demographic Determinants of Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health at Sub-national Levels in Kenya
(BMC, 2025)Global initiatives have emphasized tracking indicators to monitor progress, particularly in countries with the highest maternal and child mortality. Routine data can be used to monitor indicators for improved target setting ... -
Health Service Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020: A Multicountry Empirical Assessment With a Focus on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Services
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Introduction: There are concerns about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the continuation of essential health services in sub-Saharan Africa. Through the Countdown to 2030 for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' ... -
Hidden Cities, Hidden Gaps: Measuring Facility Readiness for Maternal and Newborn Health Services and its Association with Person-Centered Maternity Care in Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Lusaka and Ouagadougou Cities.
(medRxiv, 2025)In sub-Saharan Africa, maternal and newborn deaths remain disproportionately higher among low-income populations, and they are associated with delivery in poorly equipped facilities and a shortage of staff to manage birth ... -
Hot-Spots of HIV Infection in Cameroon: A Spatial Analysis Based on Demographic and Health Surveys Data
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Background: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) infection prevalence in Cameroon has decreased from [Formula: see text] in 2004 to [Formula: see text] in 2018. However, this decrease in prevalence does not show disparities ... -
How Zambia Reduced Inequalities in Under-Five Mortality Rates Over the Last Two Decades: A Mixed-Methods Study
(National Library of MedicineResearchGateBMC Health Service Research, 2023)Zambia experienced a major decline in under-five mortality rates (U5MR), with one of the fastest declines in socio-economic disparities in sub-Saharan Africa in the last two decades. We aimed to understand the extent to ... -
Investigating the Enablers and Barriers for Hypertension Control in Dakar: A Qualitative System Effectiveness Study.
(BMJ, 2025)Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death worldwide. The leading risk factor, hypertension, is a major public health issue in Senegal, putting the health system under pressure. This qualitative study aimed to ... -
Is Small Beautiful? L'irrigation Dans Le Delta Du Fleuve Sénégal, Une Question De Taille
(ResearchGate, 2023)The debate on the relationship between farm size and production results is long-standing, but not yet settled. In Senegal, this debate is fueled by the fact that recent governments have tended to favor large-scale irrigated ... -
Le Partenariat Public-Privé Appliqué Aux Investissements Dans La Grande Irrigation En Afrique: Le Projet De Promotion Du Partenariat Rizicole Dans Le Delta Du Fleuve Sénégal.
(ResearchGateResearch Papers in Economics, 2023)L’autosuffisance en riz poursuivie par l’État du Sénégal depuis l’Indépendance a motivé des investissements colossaux dans le Delta du fleuve Sénégal, au nord du pays. Cet article évalue la contribution du Projet de promotion ... -
Levels and Determinants of Person-Centred Maternity Care among Women Living in Urban Informal Settlements: Evidence from Client Exit Surveys in Nairobi, Lusaka and Ouagadougou
(BMJ, 2025)Sub-Saharan Africa's rapid urbanisation has led to the sprawling of urban informal settlements. The urban poorest women are more likely to experience worse health outcomes and poor treatment during childbirth. This study ... -
Non-inferiority Test for a Continuous Variable With a Flexible Margin in an Active Controlled Trial: An Application to the “Stratall ANRS 12110 / ESTHER” Trial
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Background: Non-inferiority trials are becoming increasingly popular in public health and clinical research. The choice of the non-inferiority margin is the cornerstone of such trials. Most of the time, the non-inferiority ... -
Observed Versus Estimated Actual Trend Of COVID-19 Case Numbers in Cameroon: A Data-Driven Modelling
(National Library of MedicineResearchGateScience Direct, 2023)Controlling the COVID-19 outbreak remains a challenge for Cameroon, as it is for many other countries worldwide. The number of confirmed cases reported by health authorities in Cameroon is based on observational data, which ...
