Most of maternal deaths are preventable, and one-quarter of maternal deaths are due to hypertensive conditions of pregnancy, specifically pre-eclampsia and eclampsia. This thesis begins …
Lifestyle interventions serve as a method to support physical health by encouraging improvements in weight, physical activity, and dietary habits. They have demonstrated effectiveness in …
Latin America has the second-highest teen birth rate (births at age 15-19 per 1000 women) globally, with Ecuador reporting the highest rate in this region …
Background: The emergency authorization of Sars Cov-2 (COVID-19) vaccines in December 2020 required clinicians, public health leaders, and policymakers to rapidly understand the science of …
Over recent years, the landscape of sexual and reproductive health education and public health programs in Brazil has been jeopardized, potentially putting the future health …
In a randomized survey, we tested whether a program to disperse eye healthcare information to urban dwellers can be further improved by skipping a step …
Our research sought to understand this late-presenting patient population at KATH\u2019s HIV clinic. A two-pronged approach both identified the demographics of this population and investigated …
Using WHO data, I determined which countries saw a significant increase in their maternal mortality ratio (maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) between 2010 and …
In addition to increasing morbidity and mortality of the source case, delay in pulmonary TB (PTB) diagnosis can lead to multiple secondary cases. It is …
St. Luke Hospital, a private, Haitian-run tertiary care facility in the Tabarre area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, approached the researcher with an interest in developing a …
Previously treated tuberculosis (TB) patients have a higher risk of drug resistance disease which may adversely affect treatment outcome. TB retreatment patients (RTP) include those …
Background: Pharmaceutical medication consumption has grown by almost 40% internationally over the past decade. Unfortunately, over half of all medications are prescribed, dispensed, administered, or …
The objective was to evaluate care provision for time-critical interventions and mortality among patients treated by GPP as compared to EM trainees in the UTH-K …
The aim was to investigate the design, acceptability, and uptake of pneumonia, sickle cell, and malnutrition order sets currently used by nurses, attending physicians, and …
As the availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has increased throughout sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade, youth perinatally infected with HIV are reaching adolescence in …
As SARS-CoV-2 first began to infect humans in late 2019, the United States and Mexico were facing a migration crisis. Despite policies which nominally allowed …
South Africa faces the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with 5.6 million people living with HIV. This study takes place in Khayelitsha Township, South …