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Validation and field operationalization of one- and two-stage LAMP assay for diagnosis of COVID-19 in low-resourced health facilities in Ghana (VoLCOV)
No full textThe rapid spread of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, necessitates early detection of infected persons as part of strategies to identify and control community transmission. Testing for COVID-19 remain important especially for frontline workers, other high-risk groups and travellers. Although testing methods are available there remains avenues for improving and increasing the capacity to test and detect the virus
Response to Health Crises in Africa: Insight From Executing a 2-Year Project in Nigeria
No full textScience advice aids in integrating scientific evidence into policymaking. In Africa, a significant gap exists between science and policy, necessitating high-quality advisory services. The Multifaceted Response Development from Research on COVID-19 in Africa (MURDER COVID-19) project by the Nigerian Young Academy (May 2021–April 2023) aimed to bridge this gap. Project outputs included eight policy briefs, 10 webinars, a hybrid international conference, and a searchable research equipment database. The project effectively dispelled COVID-19 myths, promoted vaccine confidence, and highlighted the need to strengthen health systems and research capacity. The project provides valuable lessons/recommendations and serves as a model for collaborative initiatives addressing health crises and enhancing research capacity
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Vers une maternité informée et soutenue dans l’arrondissement de Gninsy: une étude sur le suivi et l’accompagnement de la femme pendant la grossesse et la petite enfance.
Full text linkSupplemental Materials: https://osf.io/pjhze/Nous sommes à un moment crucial où il devient impératif de reconnaître et d’affronter une réalité souvent occultée, mais d’une importance capitale. Malgré les progrès de la médecine moderne et des initiatives de santé publique, la mortalité maternelle continue de sévir à des niveaux profondément inquiétants dans de nombreuses régions du monde. Cette situation, qui touche des communautés entières et transcende les frontières, nous interpelle tous. Environ 287000 femmes sont décédées pendant ou après une grossesse ou un accouchement en 2020. Près de 95 % des décès maternels, dont la plupart auraient pu être évités, sont survenus dans les pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire en 2020. L’accès à une consultation prénatale (CPN) précoce et régulière permet de réduire le risque de complications. Elle aide à prévenir, à dépister précocement et à prendre en charge les complications qui pourraient affecter la santé de la mère et de l’enfant à naître, tout en offrant un soutien à la femme et à ses proches tout au long de la grossesse. Afin d’évaluer la pertinence de l’information et de l’accompagnement fournis aux femmes pour préserver leur santé pendant la grossesse, l’accouchement et la période postnatale, ainsi que pour la santé de leur enfant, nous avons entrepris une étude intitulée : «Vers une maternité informée et soutenue dans l’arrondissement de Gninsy:une étude sur le suivi et l’accompagnement de la femme pendant la grossesse et la petite enfance »
Cette étude permet de faire un état des lieux et une réflexion prospective sur les besoins du suivi et d’accompagnement des femmes enceintes et les mamans des petits enfants. Ceci permet d’identifier les complications récurrentes afin de proposer l’action publique à mettre en place pour améliorer le confort et le vécu de chaque femme enceinte et des nouveau-nés durant toute leur petite enfance. Une initiative qui entre dans la dynamique des actions que le Bénin déploie afin de réduire la mortalité maternelle et infanto-juvénile. À travers 15 panels citoyens réalisés, l’étude a permis d’écouter 360 femmes de différents profils parmi une population totale de 19670 habitants (selon le RGPH 4 de 2013). Ces interactions ont engendré des discussions particulièrement enrichissantes et diversifiées. Au terme de l’analyse des discussions et des propos émis lors des rencontres des différents panels réalisés avec les participantes, il ressort que la majorité des participantes font 5 CPN au cours d’une grossesse, certaines en font 4 et d’autres minoritaires en font 6. Bien que le nombre de 5 CPN soit encourageant, il en demeure quand même inférieur aux 8 CPN recommandées par l’OMS. Il ressort également de ces discussions que la majorité des participantes entament les Consultations Prénatales (CPN) uniquement au cours du deuxième trimestre de grossesse, souvent à partir du quatrième mois. Cette tendance soulève des interrogations sur la sensibilisation et la compréhension des femmes enceintes quant à l’importance cruciale des CPN dès le premier trimestre, conformément aux recommandations médicales établies.
L’amélioration de l’accueil aux Centre de Santé (CS), le renforcement des capacités des prestataires sur la CPN, la réduction du temps d’attente des femmes lors des CPN, le renforcement des connaissances des femmes enceintes sur les soins préventifs, la mise en place d’un système d’information pour sensibiliser les femmes et mettre à leur disposition toutes les informations de santé nécessaires et utiles liées à la grossesse et la maternité, sont entre autres des actions à prendre en considération afin d’améliorer les soins prénataux et obstétricaux, le confort et le vécu de chaque femme enceinte, et donc de réduire les mortalité maternelle et infanto-juvénile
Transmuted Cosine Topp-Leone G Family Of Distributions: Properties And Applications
Full text linkA new trigonometric generalized family of distribution, the "Transmuted Cosine Topp-Leone G Family" is proposed in this study. Established on the foundations of, this family combines the adaptability of the Topp-Leone distribution with the periodicity of the cosine function and transmutation theory to produce a flexible framework that may be used to represent a wide range of real-life phenomena. We derive some of the statistical properties of the introduced family such as; survival and hazard functions, and moment and moment-generating function. Moreover, the model parameters are estimated using the Maximum Likelihood method, and a Monte Carlo simulation was performed to ascertain the behavior and the consistency of the estimates. Lastly, we demonstrate the applicability of the family on the two-lifetime datasets
Petition for the dissolution of the United Nations and the prosecution of certain personalities and their associates for the crime of genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo
No full textThe main message of this unusually long 124-page petition is found in the nine "Recommended actions to world leaders" in section two of the document. They include, among others, that 'Congolese President Felix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo be apprehended and tried for the crime of genocide', and 'to disband the United Nations for its military support of a genocidal regime and militias in DRC'.
This is a petition from a single individual. Its strength does not lie in a multitude of signatures, but in in-depth research, precise references and deliberately long quotations. Indeed, we believe that the world leaders it is addressing do not have the time to read the archives or conduct in-depth research on the conflict in eastern DRC. Moreover, the two reports of the ”Group of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and other Forms of Wealth in the Democratic Republic of Congo” created by the UN in 2000; the “Report of the Mapping Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003” released in August 2010; as well as the 41 reports produced between July 2004 and June 2024 by the “UN Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo” established by resolution 1533 (2004) of 12 March 2004 have not provided world leaders with credible information on the subject. Instead, they clearly embraced and promoted the conspiracy theories of racist anti-Tutsi ideology, as this petition shows. The activism linked to this racist ideology even pushed at least two of the former coordinators of this UN Group of Experts (GoE) to take part in the conspiracy which aimed to 'weaken the CNDP role and influence in the army', pushing for the creation of the rebellion of the M23. A report from this UN GoE had already complained about ‘the expanding and disproportionate power that ex-CNDP commanders and units held within the FARDC-led Amani Leo operations for the Kivus’. One of the actions recommended by this petition aims to prosecute these UN experts and their accomplices 'who sparked the conflict in eastern DRC in 2012 and who continue to fuel it with their false and racist narrative'.
The author of this petition is a researcher; not an activist. In 1990, he was ordained as a Catholic priest of the diocese of Goma in North Kivu in the DRC by Pope John Paul II in Kabgayi in Rwanda. In 1992, he renounced the priesthood and joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in the maquis of Byumba, in northern Rwanda, where the movement had launched its liberation struggle two years earlier. He obtained his laicization from Pope Francis in 2017. Since 1993, he has researched, published and spoken in the media about Rwanda and the African Great Lakes region, mainly to denounce and combat the racist and genocidal ideology responsible for violence and instability. Thanks to a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he has been conducting research at Humboldt University since 2022 on colonial racialism and its consequences in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region of Africa. The images of extreme violence in the first subsection of this petition are not clashes between rival African tribes as presented by Western media and so-called researchers. They are the consequence of this ideology coming from the West and implemented in a radical way in Rwanda - before spreading to the entire region - by the Belgian colonial administration and the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), during the first genocide against the Tutsi from 1959 as this is shown by unpublished documents cited in this petition. Denouncing this genocidal ideology and showing support for the political organizations that fight it like the RPF in Rwanda in the 1990s and the M23 today in the DRC is not showing partiality. It is a service of truth and righteousness consistent with faith in Jesus Christ. Claiming neutrality or defending the status quo, whether out of conviction, fear, interest, intellectual laziness or indifference, amounts to condoning the crime. The author applies a decolonial and interpretivist approach which allows him to carry out rigorous research, with his positionality.Non
Understanding the Impacts of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) over the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) (2013-2023)
No full textTo fulfil her ever-growing commercial and economic needs, the 21st century China is undertaking multiple assignments and involved in several mega developmental projects across the globe nevertheless the South Asia, Central Asia and African Union (AU) have been enjoying primary importance in this regard and have attracted billions of dollars during the term of current Chinese President Xi Jinping. Keeping the preceding fact in view, the instant study focuses on the engagements of China with the member states of AU to understand the nature and scope of various projects being undertaken to increase the regional and intercontinental connectivity aligned with Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) and the Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) during 2013-2023 across five African geographical regions. By qualitatively evaluating relevant academic literature, project reports, and financial documents, it finds that China and the AU are mutually engaged in infrastructure development, establishing trade routes along with economic zones to promote industrialization and ensure economic growth. It establishes that substantial Chinese investment in the length and breadth of AU has contributed to regional integration and social prosperity whereas China, in return, has secured a deep-rooted as well as long-lasting penetration into the region which, for centuries, had commonly been dubbed as the dark continent