Aims: This study compares the sexual behaviour of the residents of Bonny kingdom, Rivers State in pre-intervention and post-intervention periods of a comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention program carried out by the African Health Project in collaboration with independent research con...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i630284
Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common infections in outpatients in Nigeria. However, antimicrobial drug resistance is a challenge in the treatment of UTIs and therefore, there is need for drug resistance surveillance to guide treatment. Aim: This s...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i630283
Background: Soil transmitted helminth infections are Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) affecting mostly pupils in developing countries. They seem to lose more and more interest due to the fact that resources and research are being justifiably diverted to more recent priorities su...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i630282
Medicinal plants, also called herbal medicine, have been used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. The phytochemical screening of root and shoot extracts of Euphorbia hirta plant commonly known as asthma weed was evaluated using soxhlet and aqueous extract a...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i630281
Background: The worldwide obesity epidemic continues to be a major public health challenge, particularly in women of childbearing age. There is a need to understand the associations between maternal BMI and perinatal outcome. Objectives: To evaluate recent trends in maternal body...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530280
Edgar Mugema Mulogo, Moses Ntaro, Jessica Kenney, Palka Patel, Andrew Wesuta, Peter Chris Kawungezi, Shem Bwambale, Michael Matte, Fred Bagenda & Geren Stone·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2020
Objective: Teenage pregnancy is a growing health challenge among adolescents in Uganda with its magnitude varying across the different regions of Uganda. This study evaluated the magnitude and factors associated with prior teenage pregnancy among women aged 18-67 years in a rural...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530278
Nicolas Padilla-Raygoza, Cuauhtémoc Sandoval-Salazar, Luis-Antonio Díaz-Becerril, Vicente Beltrán-Campos, Daniel Alberto Díaz-Martinez, Efraín Navarro-Olivos, María de Jesús Gallardo-Luna, Francisco J Magos-Vazquez & Ma Guadalupe León-Verdín·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2020
Aims: Disease for a novel coronavirus has been a big public health challenge around the world in the past several months. The aim of this study is to describe the epidemic and report the number of confirmed cases and deaths of disease for a novel coronavirus in Mexico until May 1...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530277
Introduction: Chronic nonhealing ulcers, with varied etio-pathologies, are difficult to manage and warrant meticulous, early and prolonged directed treatment to prevent their development and complications. Methods: Patients of chronic ulcers (>3 months’ duration), having under...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530279
Context: This research is performed in Banjarnegara, an endemic malaria area in Indonesia. Considering the incidence of malaria in Indonesia in the last ten years, it is essential to assess the potential risk factors to maintain the cases and to accelerate malaria elimination. Ai...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530276
Background: Medicinal plants are now becoming indispensable in the treatment and management of many ailments. The unaffordability, unavailability and adverse effects of conventional therapy in the treatment and management of many diseases have geared keen interest in the use of h...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530275
Background: Covid-19 outbreak is the current pandemic confronting nations in the world. The virus had caused so much loss of lives, loss of jobs and serious damages to global economy. One major way of preventing the spread of the virus and guide against being infected is to avoid...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530273
Background: Malaria is a major cause of fever in endemic countries, although the prevalence of malaria has been declining across Sub-Saharan Africa, the proportion of clinical presentation attributable to febrile illness due to malaria to febrile illnesses have remained high. It...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i530274
Aims: The aim of this research work was to survey the epidemiology and diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) amongst HIV and Diabetic patients in Anambra state of Nigeria using Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) and Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA). Study Design: This wa...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i430272
Aims: To describe the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Mexico. Study Design: Ecological descriptive study. Place and Duration of Study: Registries of confirmed cases for COVID-19 in Mexican population during February and until 28 March 2020, 13:00 PM, from National System...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i430271
Aims: The objective was to compare the sedimentation spontaneous in tube technique (SSTT), the direct smear, the zinc sulfhate (surface film and sediment analyzed) methods with the formalin-ethyl acetate method as the reference standard. Study Design: This a cross-sectional study...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2020/v41i430270