HIV Paediatric Case Study Training Films • 03. Baby Elizabeth
Team of specialists
Medical Aid Films Elizabeth and her HIV positive mother have been transferred to hospital from a health centre after Elizabeth suffered birth asphyxia. This is one of a set of HIV paediatric films made by parter organisation Picturing Health. These interactive training films are designed to copy the way clinicians learn in....
COVID-19 Testing
Peter Muturi
COVID-19 Case management webinar. Sample collection procedures and results of interpretations
Health Care workers balancing fear vs duty to care
MIRIAM C.A.WAGORO RN, PhD
Online mental health webinar. Discussing Health care workers and balancing fear vs duty to care.
Leadership: effective communication
Team of specialists
The Royal College of Midwives We can not help but communicate – everything you do (or don’t do) sends a message out in some way. Considering communication is something we all do all of the time poor communication or a breakdown in effective communication is often at the heart of poor practice and poor outcomes. This short modul....
Leadership: strategic thinking
Team of specialists
The Royal College of Midwives In terms of leadership, strategic thinking is about having a vision and finding a solution to meet the aims and outcomes of that vision. This module looks at how strategic thinking impacts on leadership in maternity service provision.
Communication (Care Certificate Standard 6)
Specialists
The Royal College of Midwives This module has been designed to support the care certificate standards with maternity specific information. However, in order to achieve the various care certificate standards and the qualification that goes with them, it is essential to download and complete the relevant workbooks for all 15 sta....
Helping Babies Breathe
Deborah Van Dyke and Peter Cardellichio
Global Health Media This course presents three short videos that show the key steps of newborn resuscitation following the Helping Babies Breathe 2.0 Guidelines (American Academy of Pediatrics). The videos use different approaches to convey the essential information: a live-action video showing the full procedure; a demonstra....
Anti-retroviral therapy after “Treat All” in Harare, Zimbabwe: What are the changes in uptake, time to initiation and retention?
Takura Matare,Hemant Deepak Shewade,Ronald T. Ncube,Kudzai Masunda,Innocent Mukeredzi,Kudakwashe C. Takarinda,Janet Dzangare,Gloria Gonese,Bekezela B. Khabo,Regis C. Choto,Tsitsi Apollo
Globally in 2018, there were an estimated 37.9 million people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV). Following evidence from research studies on the clinical and public health benefits of immediate ART, in July 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released guidelines on when to start ART and pre-exposure prophyla....
Trends and factors associated with long-acting reversible contraception in Kenya
Wambui Kungu,Anne Khasakhala,Alfred Agwanda
Family planning is a critical component of Kenya’s development agenda and it is addressed in the Vision 2030 social pillar on provision of reproductive health for the poor and vulnerable population. Kenya is a model of fertility transition, having moved from a very high level of fertility of over eight children in the 1970s to a....
Diversity and Molecular Characterization of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in Selected Ecological Regions in Kenya.
Moni Makanda,Gladys Kemunto,Lucy Wamuyu,Joel Bargul,Jackson Muema,James Mutunga
Mosquitoes are vectors responsible for transmission of numerous pathogens causing diseases such as, malaria, lymphatic filariasis, avian malaria and arboviruses including dengue virus, chikungunya virus, yellow fever virus, West Nile virus, and Zika virus (. In the recent past, there has been an increasing spread of mosquito-bor....
Management and cost of snakebite injuries at a teaching and referral hospital in Western Kenya
Mitchel Otieno Okumu,Minal Naran Patel,Foram Rajnkant Bhogayata,Francis Okumu Ochola,Irene Awuor Olweny,Joshua Orungo Onono,Joseph Kangangi Gikunju
Snakebite envenoming is a topic perhaps too little discussed on the global stage. The disease has only recently been formally re-instated to the WHO list of neglected tropical diseases after a four-year hiatus. Specifying the requirements for antivenom at the local level, educating at-risk groups, improving accessibility to anti....
Structural, functional and docking analysis against Schistosomamansoni dihydroorotate dehydrogenase for potential chemotherapeutic drugs
Benson Otarigho
DHODH: dihydroorotate dehydrogenasen
Evaluation of portal pressure by doppler ultrasound in patients with cirrhosis before and after simvastatin administration – a randomized controlled trial
Nadia Elwan,Raafat Salah,Manal Hamisa,Ebtsam Shady,Nehad Hawash,Sherief Abd-Elsalam
Liver cirrhosis is considered to be the most common cause of portal hypertension (PHT). The ideal hypotensive drug for PHT should decrease portal pressure by lowering intrahepatic vascular resistance while maintaining or increasing hepatic blood flow. Currently, the available therapies for PHT are based on the use of β-adrenergi....
Post-orgasmic illness syndrome: a case report
Abdalla M Attia,Hossam A Yasien,Magda H Al-Ziny
Post-orgasmic illness syndrome (POIS) was first reported and named by Waldinger and Schweitzer in 2002. To the best of our knowledge, aside from two cases reported by Waldinger and Schweitzer. POIS appears to be principally a male orgasmic disorder, as most of the reported cases are males. Its manifestations start within seconds....
Female circumcision: Limiting the harm
Mohamed Kandil
Female genital cutting/mutilation (FGC/M), or circumcision as it was previously described. The legislations enacted in most countries to ban FGC had minimal effect on its prevalencen
HIV Paediatric Case Study: Early infant diagnosis
Dr Stephen Chu and Nadine Ammon (RN, MPH)
This paediatric HIV course covers a case study regarding early infant diagnosis.
Peptide arrays incubated with three collections of human sera from patients infected with mosquito-borne viruses
Maria del Pilar Martinez Viedma,Nurgun Kose,Leda Parham,Angel Balmaseda,Guillermina Kuan,Ivette Lorenzana,Eva Harris,James E. Crowe Jr.,Brett E. Pickett
Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus within the. The sequence similarity at the amino acid level in many flavivirus immunogenic protein regions contributes to the observed cross-reactivity in serological assays, which is especially high in the E protein and also present in the NS1 protein. Recent efforts to generate whole-genome se....
Influenza virus infection of well-differentiated human airway epithelial cells by infectious aerosols: insights into the earliest stages of infection
Claire M. Smith,Dani Do Hyang Lee,Hemant Kulkarni,Priya Radhakrishnan,Robert Hirst,Andrew Easton,Chris O'Callaghan
Influenza viruses cause annual epidemics that are associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. We have previously used human ciliated epithelial cells in culture to evaluate the effects of bacteria and viruses. The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of influenza virus infection, either by aerosol or by....
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype specific anti-microbial susceptibility profiles among PCV-10 vaccinated and unvaccinated children attending Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital: a cross-sectional study
Michael Walekhwa,Margaret Muturi,Eucharia Kenya,Beatrice Kabera
Globally, there is a growing concern over the burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) because it is presently estimated to account for more than 700,000 deaths per year worldwide (. Diverse forms of pneumococcal disease are rated among the highest vaccine preventable etiologies of child morbidity and mortality globally (. Overt....
Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemoperfusion with high dose oxaliplatin: Influence of perfusion temperature on postoperative outcome and survival
Johanna Verhulst
The research data that were used by the author are part of a study n
Drug Utilization Evaluation of Vancomycin among Patients in Jafar Ibn Auf Pediatric Hospital, 2018
Tagwa A. M. Salih,Bashir A. Yousef,Mohamed A. M. Salih,Khalid S. Eltom
The majority of admitted inpatients are given antimicrobials as therapy or prophylaxis during their hospitalization. It has been shown that at least 50% of antimicrobial prescriptions are unnecessary. Antimicrobial over prescription increases the costs of health care, increases super-infection due to antimicrobial-resistant bact....
Administration of intravenous sedation
John Lyne
This session will cover the necessary equipment, safe titration and ideal end point for outpatient dental sedation with midazolam.
Principles of intravenous sedation
John Lyne
This session covers the basic principles of intravenous sedation (IVS) and current guidelines relating to the provision of IVS in the UK.
Anaemia Webinar
Lynn Brown
Understanding anemia in patient with chronic kidney disease. Adapted from content produced in collaboration with Donia George and Kay MC Laughlin for Anemia Workshop 2023