Aims: To estimate out-of-pocket (OOP) payments, catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and forgone care among women using reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health services in Northern Ghana, and to compare CHE by financing model. Study Design: Community-based cross-section...
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Background: Nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus may provide a reservoir for transmission in university communities. Aim: This study examined carriage and antimicrobial susceptibility among students at Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, Nigeria. Methods: Nasal swabs were collect...
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Aims: To assess awareness of tuberculosis (TB) and the factors associated with TB-LAMP positivity among patients with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) at a specialised chest hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria. Study Design: Hospital-based cross-sectional study. Place and Duratio...
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Background: Maternal satisfaction is an important outcome of labour analgesia, reflecting pain relief and childbirth experience. This study compared maternal satisfaction and side-effect profiles following single-shot spinal labour analgesia using low-dose bupivacaine alone or wi...
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Chinenye Okafor, Best Ordinioha, Okongko Aniefiok Dickson, Daniel Okon, Ejekwu, Samuel Soni, Tariebi Katherine Owei-Tongu & Emmanuel Etim Clement·International Journal of TROPICAL DISEASE & Health·2026
Background: Outbreak response depends on health-system capacities that extend beyond formal planning, including surveillance, coordination, staff readiness, supplies and community trust. Evidence about measured preparedness and real-world response is dispersed across different de...
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Soil-transmitted helminth (STH) infections remain concentrated in children living in settings where poverty, inadequate sanitation, recurrent enteric infection and undernutrition overlap. This convergence has encouraged a long-standing expectation that deworming should improve we...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2026/v47i101787
Background: Plastic production and waste have expanded rapidly, and small plastic particles are now documented across environmental compartments and in several human tissues. Nanoplastics are of particular concern because their small size, large specific surface area and dynamic...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2026/v47i101786
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular apicomplexan that links environmental contamination, food-animal production, wildlife ecology, maternal-fetal health, and opportunistic disease. The outcome of infection is determined by interactions among parasite developmental stag...
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Research Article10.9734/ijtdh/2026/v47i101784
Background: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are diseases of public health importance that affect the reproductive health of the general population. Genital herpes contributes to the burden of STIs, affecting 520 million people globally. Infection with herpes simplex virus...
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Background: Sub-Saharan Africa carries a disproportionate burden of preventable maternal deaths while also experiencing substantial male mortality across communicable diseases, injuries, violence, non-communicable diseases, and other life-course risks. These burdens are both shap...
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