COVID-19 Vaccine Administration
Prof. Tumbwene Mwansisya
This course is aimed at equipping the nurses and midwives on proper vaccine administration to ensure the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine. This course adheres to the CDC recommendations that requires each health care personnel who administer vaccines to have received comprehensive, competency-based training on vaccin....
COVID-19 Vaccine Storage
Dr. Maureen Akolo
This course intends to equip nurses with knowledge on vaccine storage.
Anaphylaxis
Imogen Ketchley and Louella Vaughan
0.75 Hours
This session explores the triggers, pathogenesis, presentation, clinical diagnosis and natural history of anaphylaxis, as well as the use of laboratory confirmatory markers.
Control of NCDs in Primary Health Care: An eco-Bio-Psycho-Socio- Spiritual Approach
Dr. Mercy Wanjala
This presentation would aim to cover the multidimensional aspects of managing Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in a primary healthcare setting, acknowledging the complexity of factors that influence health outcomes.
Renal Cystic Syndromes
Uday Patel
0.5 Hours
A companion session in Module 4c Genito-Urinary and Adrenal/Simple Renal Cysts (300-0416) focused on simple cysts and calyceal diverticula. This session will expand on the various renal cystic syndromes and miscellaneous cystic conditions.
Post-operative Pathophysiology CVS Fluid Balance and Renal Failure
Bubby Thava and Ridzuan Farouk
0.5 Hours
This session describes post-operative pathophysiology with reference to cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS), fluid balance and renal failure.
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents
By The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents explores the lived experience of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease and their families. The course features interactive content that will provide healthcare workers with the knowledge they need to improve care, quality of life, and health outcomes....
Session 2 - How to Have a MECC Conversation
Ashlee Mulimba, and Madeeha Iqbal
In this session, you will learn how to start a healthy conversation with someone about their health and well-being. This will include exploring how to support people to make informed choices about behaviour change.
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....
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....
Seroprevalence and characterisation of herpes simplex virus from human immunodeficiency virus in samples collected from the North-West and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces: a retrospective study
Oluwafemi Samuel Obisesan,Nomathamsanqa Patricia Sithebe,Hazel Tumelo Mufhandu
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a prevalent organism that belongs to the sub-family of alpha Herpesviridae (. The prevalence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 infection in the United States from a survey conducted in 2018 was reported as 47.8% and 11.9%, respectively (. Recently, HSV-1 has become a major factor influencing genital herpes in most....
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....
Evaluation of fracture resistance of Cerasmart and lithium disilicate ceramic veneers with different incisal preparation designs: an invitro study
Bushra Mohammed,Jylan EL-Guindy
Laminate veneer restorations have gained popularity and patient contentment owing to their good esthetics and highly conservative tooth preparation designs. The success rate of ceramic laminate veneers has been clinically evaluated and has shown range from 18 months up to 15 years; the rate of success varies between 75% and 100%....
Apoptosis inducing effects of chlorhexidine and essential oil mouthwashes on BHK-21 fibroblast cell line: An in vitro study
Shaimaa Ali Hamouda Ali El Basuony,Naglaa El Hossary,Nermine Raouf Amin
Fibroblasts are the common cell type in connective tissue and plays a major role in normal function and in pathologic changes of oral tissues. In fibroblasts, EOs can induce depolarization of the mitochondrial membranes by decreasing the membrane potential, affecting ionic Ca++ cycling. CHX inhibits protein and DNA synthesis, re....
Structural, functional and docking analysis against Schistosomamansoni dihydroorotate dehydrogenase for potential chemotherapeutic drugs
Benson Otarigho
DHODH: dihydroorotate dehydrogenasen
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....
Virtual-screening workflow tutorials and prospective results from the Teach-Discover-Treat competition 2014 against malaria
Sereina Riniker,Gregory A. Landrum,Floriane Montanari,Santiago D. Villalba,Julie Maier,Johanna M. Jansen,W. Patrick Walters,Anang A. Shelat
Teach-Discover-Treat (TDT) is an initiative that aims to provide high-quality tutorials of important tasks in computer-aided drug discovery, in order to impact education and drug discovery for neglected diseases. Malaria is caused in humans by several species of the protozoan parasite. Challenge 1 of the 2014 TDT competition inv....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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
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