RETINOBLASTOMA
Dr Abubaker Kakinaki
Eye Health Africa https://eyehealthafrica.org/ Retinoblastoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy of childhood and accounts for about 3% of all childhood cancers. Its of embryonal origin. Occurring up to 1:18000 live births.
CONGENITAL CATARACTS
Dr Abubaker Kakinaki
Eye Health Africa https://eyehealthafrica.org/ This course will describe the different aspects of cataracts: Pathophysiology Epidemiology Mortality/Morbidity Etiology Workup & Tx Complications Parents education
REFRACTIVE ERROR
Kagumba Nicholas Musisi and Tanvi Shah
Emmetropia: a condition in which incident parallel light rays are focused on retinal photoreceptors Ammetropia: parallel light rays not focused on photoreptors of the retina under minimum accommodation
CHILDHOOD BLINDNESS: RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY TRAUMA VITAMIN-A DEFICIENCY
Dr Joyce Chan
Eye Health Africa https://eyehealthafrica.org/ This course describes the CHILDHOOD BLINDNESS: RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY TRAUMA VITAMIN-A DEFICIENCY
RSA Webinar: Relevance of New Clinical Trials in Management of CKD
Professor Carol Pollock &
To provide front line staff with new knowledge re trials that have shown benefit in patients with diabetic and non-diabetic CKD. Secondarily to provide information regarding new trials underway in patients with kidney disease.
Self-management and its associated factors among people living with diabetes in Blantyre, Malawi: a cross-sectional study
Chimwemwe Kwanjo Banda,Belinda T. Gombachika,Moffat J. Nyirenda,Adamson Sinjani Muula
Diabetes mellitus significantly contributes to morbidity and mortality from non-communicable diseases in Malawi. Although the study by Cohen. The conceptual framework guiding the study was adapted from social cognitive theory (SCT) by Albert Banduran
Case Report: rare hybrid lesion of a central giant cell granuloma within a juvenile ossifying fibroma
Hadeer Rizk Saad,Noura M. Kamal,Hatem W. Amer
Central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) is believed to be an entity exclusive to jaw bones. The term “benign fibro-osseous lesions” generically describes an aggregate of pathologies that are characterized by replacement of normal bone with a highly cellular connective tissue associated with newly formed bone trabeculae. Radiographic....
Case Report: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a HIV-positive patient
Sibi Joseph,Jerry George,Mongezi Tau,Lourdes de Fatima Ibanez-Valdes,Thozama Dubula,Humberto Foyaca-Sibat
Most authors define neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) as a rare, yet life-threatening, idiosyncratic reaction to medications, mostly but not limited to neuroleptic drugs (dopamine receptor antagonists). NMS was initially described by Delay and colleagues in 1960, who noticed it in patients treated with high-potency antipsycho....
Revisiting early-stage COVID-19 strategy options
Philip Machanick
When I first submitted this paper in May 2020, I wrote with some urgency because I believed the issue of asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 was not receiving the attention it deserved, and updated the paper before any reviews were in. All the versions of the paper, read in conjunction of the reviews, form a living review, sho....
Knowledge and compliance with Covid-19 infection prevention and control measures among health workers in regional referral hospitals in northern Uganda: a cross-sectional online survey
Sharon Bright Amanya,Richard Nyeko,Bonniface Obura,Joy Acen,Caroline Nabasirye,Rebecca Nakaziba,Florence Oyella,Victor Afayo,Mark Okwir
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is arguably the greatest global health threat of our time. As of January 24, 2021, 19,462,112 people were infected globally, with 2,112,759 deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued interim guidance on Covid-19 IPC that emphasized several measures, including applying standard precauti....
Development of a simple and valid nutrition screening tool for pediatric hospitalized patients with acute illness
Hoda Atef Abdelsattar Ibrahim,Rasha Abdel-Raouf,Ahmed S. Zeid,Eman H. Elsebaie,Shaimaa Abdalaleem,Aya A. Amin,Hanna Aboulghar
Nutrition is an essential factor in the development, growth, and functioning of any child. Good nutritional status provides energy and nutrients which are essential to maintain our life and promote social, physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Childhood malnutrition is known to be a global health concern as it is compl....
Understanding Diabetes and Hypertension: Symptoms, Risk Factors and Treatment
The International Rescue Committee Non-Communicable Diseases Consortium Project
Medical Aid Films This animation aims to help community health workers in humanitarian settings gain a better understanding of two common non-communicable diseases - diabetes and hypertension - including their symptoms, associated risk factors and treatment. It was produced for The International Rescue Committee Non-Communicabl....
How to provide antenatal care
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film explains the importance of antenatal care and in particular, the principles of ‘focused antenatal care’ (FANC). It describes what is involved in the four visits that make up FANC, including taking a patient’s history, examinations, checks and giving information. This film is for use in health work....
Counselling for Comprehensive Abortion Care
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film reanacts the best practicies providing abortion councelling.
Understanding healthy eating during pregnancy
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film explains how women can eat healthily during their pregnancy to ensure their own health and that of their child. This film is for use in community health education
Child health: understanding signs of diarrhoea
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film is about the important signs and symptoms to look for in a sick child, with a focus on diarrhoea. This film is for use in community health education.
Child health: understanding signs of pneumonia
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film is about the important signs and symptoms to look for in a sick child, with a focus on pneumonia. This film is for use in community health education.
What to do when a newborn baby is not breathing
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films This film shows the key steps to follow if a newborn baby is not breathing. This film is for use in community health education
HIV Paediatric Case Study Training Films • 05. Martha
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films 13-month-old Martha is an HIV positive baby who started ART very late and has developed an abscess on her right armpit - around the lymph node below the arm where her BCG was done. This is one of a set of HIV paediatric films made by parter organisation Picturing Health. These interactive training films ar....
HIV Paediatric Case Study Training Films • 02. Baby Chisomo
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films Baby Chisomo is a newborn who has been brought to hospital after being found abandoned by a river. Because the status of the mother is unknown, she is treated as if she has been exposed to HIV. This is one of a set of HIV paediatric films made by parter organisation Picturing Health. These interactive trai....
Nutrition: An Introduction
Gwyneth Cotes, Altrena Mukuria and Abigail Kaplan Ramage
This course discusses basic concepts of good nutrition, common nutritional deficiencies, causes of undernutrition, and the magnitude of the problem. It also outlines the major population-based interventions to improve nutritional status, as well as key indicators for measuring and monitoring progress in nutrition.
Strategies to Improve Vascular Access Outcomes (Webinar)
Dr Andrea Viecelli
Improving vascular access outcomes
Diabetes, CKD and SGLT2 Inhibitors
Renal Society of Australasia
This Webinar will focus on evidence that sodium-glucose-linked cotransport inhibitors (SGLT2i) reduces the development of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), cardiovascular events, including heart failure and cardiac death in diabetic and non-diabetic patients, with and without chronic kidney disease.
Assessment and Initial Management of Clients Presenting for Intrapartum Care
Jhpiego
Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when novel coronavirus (nCoV) infection is suspected Interim guidance. Note: information on COVID-19 is changing rapidly. This information was up to date as of 25 March 2020. Do not assume it will be current after this date. Take note of WHO guidance: Clinical man....
Module 1A - EU Functioning. How EU Came Together?
Prof. Dr. Paul De Raeve, EFN Secretary General
Combining sovereignty means that each member state delegates part of its power to common institutions that make decisions on specific issues of common interest at European level. This course will describe how this came to be.