Tag: Sub-Saharan Africa

A decade-long REACH trial analysis across four African countries finds hydroxyurea does not raise infection risk in children with sickle ...

A retrospective study at a Luanda tertiary hospital found sickle cell anemia was the leading chronic disease among hospitalized children, ...

A qualitative study of seventeen Ghanaian women reveals that poorly managed physical side effects of breast cancer radiotherapy deter treatment ...

A five-year cohort study at Uganda's national heart institute finds that rural residence, underweight status, defect severity and late diagnosis ...

A qualitative study of colorectal cancer patients and caregivers in Zimbabwe reveals that symptom normalisation, financial hardship, centralised services and ...

A dynamic panel threshold analysis of 44 sub-Saharan African countries finds that external debt boosts growth only below about 47% ...

A detailed survey of nearly 500 Ugandan coffee-farming households finds that almost a quarter of working children are exposed to ...

A participatory study in Ghana finds that adolescent girls and young women face layered cultural, emotional, and structural barriers to ...

A mixed-methods study of 221 Ghanaian mothers finds that one in three experienced dysfunctional obsessive thinking about COVID-19 during pregnancy, ...

A prospective study of 644 children at Ghana's Ho Polyclinic found that two-thirds missed school due to illness, with skin ...

In recent years, pediatric intussusception has emerged as a significant concern in children’s health, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This condition, ...

In a groundbreaking clinical trial led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the antiparasitic drug ...