African region
Economic burden of cholera in the WHO African region
... Cholera is one of the main causes of diarrhoea. In 1997, a total of 118 349 cholera cases and 5 853 deaths were reported to WHO by countries of the African Region [2]. By the end of 2005, the number of ...
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Economic burden of diabetes mellitus in the WHO African region
... It is an approach that values health benefits in terms of the present value of future lost output (as proxied normally by earnings and other labour costs). This approach values health benefits in terms of production ...
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Pandemic influenza preparedness in the WHO African region: are we ready yet?
... Of the plans reviewed, 60% were initially developed be- tween 2006 (Table 2) in response to specific threats posed by the continuing spread of the avian influenza (H5N1) virus. Figure 1 shows composite scores of ...
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Analyzing Geothermal Energy Use in the East African Region: The Case of Kenya
... Africa region with Kenya as the lead nation and the new frontier in geothermal energy [30, ...East African region in 2016, Kenya held over 50% of the total load more than its neighbours from Tanzania ...
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Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE) in The WHO African Region
... Tetanus is a vaccine-preventable disease of significant public health importance especially in developing countries. The WHO strategy for the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus recommends the promotion of clean ...
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Assessing the Menace of Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Sub Saharan African Region
... Saharan region in a manner not realized previously did put the enquiry a step above other ...the region to the consumer areas in Asia and the European Community reached appalling ...Southern African ...
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Progress on the Implementation of Environmental Surveillance in the African Region, 2011-2016
... the African Region expansion plan such as Angola with 4 sites, Madagascar with 23 sites, Cameroon with 31 sites, Chad with 4 sites, Senegal with 3 sites, Niger 9 sites, Burkina Faso with 4 ...
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Indirect cost of maternal deaths in the WHO African Region in 2010
... WHO African Region’s population, maternal deaths and total GDP by economic group in ...the Region that ...the Region was Int$ 3,718 (STD = 5625), varying from Int$ 343 in the Democratic Republic of ...
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THE CHALLENGES OF REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY IN THE NORTH AFRICAN REGION
... the region is the most militarized in the world; authoritarian Arab states’ militaries are funded by the US and other Western governments so that stability, both within and between the states in the region, ...
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Elimination of Epidemic Meningitis in the African Region: Progress and Challenges: 2010-2016
... Results: The success of the project is evidenced by the large declines in cases of group A meningococcal disease since 2010, with no cases reported in vaccinated persons across the 16 countries, reflecting the highly ...
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Vaccine Safety and Pharmacovigilance in the African Region: Recent Updates
... WHO African Region, some of which have been used in a limited number of people, highlighting the need for functional national for pharmacovigilance systems for adverse events following immunization ...
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Innovation Policy And Governance In The African Region
... South African Department of Science and Technology (SA DST) Ministerial Review Committee, (2012:83) notes that the ways in which knowledge diffusion and spill-overs have operated historically, and now, are still ...
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Irrigated agriculture for food self-sufficiency in the sub-Saharan African region
... Furthermore, donor interest in this sector has waned for a number of reasons, such as the decline in world food prices, the high per-hectare development cost (which moreover increases because the easiest areas to develop ...
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Status of national research bioethics committees in the WHO African region
... An exploration of the modalities of South-South and North-South cooperation to strengthen the capacities of bioethics review systems in the Region should be made. For example, the WHO Regional Committee for Africa ...
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The Impact of Recent Rubella Vaccine Introduction in 5 Countries in The African Region
... sentinel surveillance is operational in a limited number of countries in the region including Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Zambia. A cumulative total of 267 suspected cases ...
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Injection practices in 2011–2015: a review using data from the demographic and health surveys (DHS)
... Results: Since 2011, 40 of 92 countries (43%) that conducted DHS surveys reported on injection practices. On average, the frequency of injection was 1.64 per person per year (from 3.84 in WHO Eastern Mediterranean ...
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Human and Animal Thermophilic Campylobacter infections in East African countries: Epidemiology and Antibiogram
... Literature search for the present review identified three studies which assessed contamination levels of animal meat products in the East African region. A survey in Tanzania revealed cattle carcass ...
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Roles of Nigeria in Defence and Security within the West African Sub-region
... West African states by pinpointing to figures and facts concerning the trends of its good ...West African region which among others include the internal factors such as the perception of the ...
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Job-embedded, collaborative and reflective professional development for university administrators: The action learning pedagogy
... Southern African context where, for a variety of reasons, professional development draws extensively on traditional pedagogies, their usefulness has not been fully ...Southern African Region (PULSAR) ...
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Analyzing the Tragedy of Illegal Fishing on the West African Coastal Region
... West African region have already collapsed and others will gradually follow, and some have been on the decline since the 1980s ...West African waters occurred illegally by fishers from abroad [38, ...
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