Background: Birth weight is an important indicator of health status of an infant and is a principal factor that determines the infant‘s, physical, survival and mental growth. Though efforts made in reducing incidences of low birth weight worldwide, the problem of l...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i330186
Background: Skin diseases are common among school age children. In the absence of population based studies, data from hospital based studies could be a pointer to the enormity of the problem within the community. Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and pattern of skin diseases...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrid/2020/v3i430134
Aim: To determining the prevalence of gastrointestinal helminth parasites among school children attending two community schools in Auta-balefi, Karu. Nasarawa State. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted between July and August, 2019 in two community schools in Aut...
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Research Article10.9734/arrb/2020/v35i230193
Aims: The aims of this study were to assess risk factors of breast cancer in female and to find out the hospital-based prevalence of female breast cancer in Nepal. Study Design: Hospital-based descriptive cross-sectional study was done. Place and Duration of Study: The study site...
Background: Self-medication or self-care is regarded as an unhealthy practice. However, it is widely accepted and practiced in the low and middle-income countries (LMICs) due to scarcity of health resources. Objectives: To assess the prevalence and practice of self-medication amo...
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Research Article10.9734/ajrimps/2019/v8i3-430138
Mousa Motavallihaghi, Manoochehr Karami, Khadijeh Rahmati, Pegah Ameri, Fariborz Etemadifar & Amir Hossein Maghsood·South Asian Journal of Parasitology·2020
Introduction: Despite many studies that have been done in different parts of Iran, comprehensive information on the epidemiology of Acanthamoeba is not available. Therefore, this review was conducted to collect the reports from studies accompanied in different parts of the countr...
The aim of this study is to investigate the epidemiology of Human Papillomavirus genotypes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive women attending selected Government Hospitals in Ondo state, Nigeria. Questionnaires containing information about age, sex, parity, occupation...
Candidiasis is increasingly affecting women in developing countries, due to several factors relating to environmental and physiological conditions of the individual. Knowledge of the factors influencing the epidemiology of Candida spp. will be useful in formulating public health...
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Research Article10.9734/ijpr/2019/v3i430098
Background: Co-morbidity between erectile dysfunction and depression is reported high among males with type 2 diabetes mellitus and these constitute a major public health challenge due to the number of persons affected by these conditions and the negative impact on their physical...
Schistosomiasis is a pathology, today called Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD). It is a chronic parasitic disease caused by flatworms called Schistosoma or bilharzia, transmitted to humans by a freshwater mollusc. This disease is the 2nd most common parasitic disease in the world....
Background: HIV/AIDS related stigmatization has been reported to be traced to several factors. Little or no knowledge on the illness, misapprehensions, as well as chauvinism against sufferers, to mention just a few. Aim: In this study, the stigmatization of people living with HIV...
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Research Article10.9734/ISRR/2020/v9i130104
This study the examined feacal sampled from 1392 goats from Trans Nzoia area in Kenya for Gastro-Intestinal Helminths (GIH). A total of 642 (46.1%) were found positive for GIH. Trematodes were 22.1%, cestodes 12.6% and nematodes were the least prevalent at 11.4% with a mixed infe...
Background: Malaria is one of the most severe public health problems worldwide, particularly in Africa, with Nigeria having the greatest number of cases. This study evaluated a five-year (2012-2016) retrospective and a current trend (August-December 2017) of malaria prevalence in...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2019/v40i230224
Background: Vitamin K deficiency can cause severe haemorrhage in the newborn and is an important cause of infant morbidity and mortality. HDN can be classified according to the time of presentation after birth into early (0–24 hours), classical (1–14 days) and late (2–12 weeks) H...
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Research Article10.9734/ajpr/2020/v3i130119
Aims: This study aims to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors of leptospirosis in slaughtered cattle and abattoir workers at the Ngaoundéré Municipal Abattoir, Adamawa region, Cameroon. Study Design: 10% of the average number of cattle slaughtered in the abattoir within...
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Research Article10.9734/ajravs/2020/v3i182