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\n \n \n \nPosted 15/03/2023. In this systematic review, Abdulazeez Imam and colleagues summarise the evidence on missed nursing care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMIC). Missed nursing care undermines nursing standards of care, and minimising this phenomenon is crucial to maintaining adequate patient safety and the quality of patient care. The concept remains understudied in LMIC settings which have 90% of the global nursing workforce shortages.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 10/03/2023. Timo Tolppa and CCAA colleagues conducted a qualitative study across 4 South Asian countries to understand the implementation of a critical care registry, which is used to enable quality improvement and research. Implementation was possible due to motivated champions, a supportive community of practice and efforts to fit the registry with existing practice.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 08/03/2023. Research ethics struggles in practice to adequately account for and respond to the agency and autonomy of people considered vulnerable in the research context. Jennifer Roest and colleagues discuss some of the core concepts and critiques emerging from the literature on women and children's agency in under-resourced settings.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 07/03/2023. Understanding the Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PD) activity of vivax patients is critical for the appropriate choice of radical cure regimens for vivax malaria. Village malaria workers (VMWs) in rural Cambodia are frequently the first and only health care providers for malaria patients but lack G6PD diagnostics. Bipin Adhikari and colleagues found that after training VMWs can use biosensors to assess G6PD activity just as well as laboratory technicians.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 03/03/2023. Nadia Tagoe, Sassy Molyneux and colleagues conducted a case study involving three health research capacity strengthening (HRCS) consortia to critically examine their decision-making processes, strategies for resolving management tensions and potential implications for consortia outcomes. The researchers propose an evidence-informed management framework for consortia leaders to use to support decision-making to optimise research capacity gains.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 28/02/2023. Researchers from Heidelberg and Oxford worked with partners from eight countries across Asia and Latin America to develop an algorithm to improve early diagnosis of dengue; simple clinical and laboratory variables were collected daily from 5189 patients presenting with undifferentiated fever, among whom 2694 were subsequently confirmed to have dengue. Results will help to improve case management and use of limited resources in dengue-endemic areas. By Ronald Geskus
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\n \n \n \nPosted 17/02/2023. Low awareness of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance may lead to inappropriate antibiotic use and contribute to the problem of antibiotic resistance. Sonia Lewycka and colleagues found that most people in a rural community in northern Vietnam had heard of antibiotics, but practical knowledge about antibiotics and antibiotic resistance was limited. Type of health facility, distance from health facility, media use, and health information sources were associated with knowledge.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 10/02/2023. Over 97% of primary care patients with acute respiratory infections are prescribed antibiotics, and children under 5-years old are more likely to be prescribed antibiotics with higher resistance potential. This study in northern Vietnam by Nam Nguyen Vinh, Sonia Lewycka and colleagues highlights the urgent need for antimicrobial stewardship interventions in primary care settings.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 08/02/2023. Dr Anh used metagenomics to whole-genome sequence monkeypox virus in 2 women with mpox returning to Vietnam from the United Arab Emirates. The viruses belonged to an emerging sublineage, A.2.1, distinct from B.1 which is responsible for the ongoing multicountry outbreak. Enhanced genomic surveillance is needed to clarify pathogen evolution.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 07/02/2023. Rachel Greer and team in Chiangrai, Thailand found that the challenges research participants face in their daily lives, such as, language barriers and limited access to healthcare can influence their experiences of taking part in research. Researchers need to be responsive towards these specific vulnerabilities in order to reduce the burdens and maximize the benefits of research for participants.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 14/12/2022. Malaria outbreaks can be driven by genetic selection rather than environmental or behavioural causes. Varanya Wasakul, Olivo Miotto and colleagues investigated a Plasmodium falciparum outbreak in Attapeu, Laos, in 2020-2021, using genomic epidemiology methods to elucidate parasite population dynamics, identify the outbreak\u2019s causes and reconstruct the origin of the circulating strains.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 10/05/2022. In this study, Reagan Mogire and colleagues found that vitamin D deficiency was associated with a 98% increased risk of iron deficiency in African children and also influenced hepcidin and other markers of iron status. Both nutrients should be considered in strategies to manage their deficiencies in Africa.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 03/02/2023. As societies become increasingly diverse, understanding the complex nature of racism for multiple ethnic, social, and economic identities is required. Sonia Lewycka and colleagues in New Zealand showed that indigenous and minority experiences of racism are heterogeneous, and flexible resources such as wealth and perceived whiteness can mitigate against some forms of systemic and interpersonal racism.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 24/01/2023. Snakebite is a priority NTD that causes 94,000 deaths each year and many more cases of severe disability. In research led by PhD student Michael Abouyannis at KWTRP and LSTM, global academics, policy makers, and the Kilifi snakebite patient group developed a globally relevant set of core outcome measures to support future clinical trials.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 17/01/2023. PLOS Global Public Health features a blog on The Global Health Network Conference 2022 that took place at the University of Cape Town, South Africa from 24 \u2013 25 November 2022. The theme of the conference was Enabling Health Research in Every Healthcare Setting and 10 Years of addressing inequity in where research happens, who leads and who benefits. There were almost 900 abstract submissions and researchers, clinicians, practitioners, donors, and policymakers from across the world attended.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 13/01/2023. Nancy Kagwanja and colleagues highlight the influence of social norms, structures, and actor power practices on responsiveness. Power practices were rooted in actors\u2019 lived experiences which included social and organizational power relationships, personal characteristics, and worldviews. Our findings emphasize the need to consider actors\u2019 lived experiences when intervening to strengthen responsiveness.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 11/01/2023. A collaborative work between the Hanoi Medical University, UCLA, and OUCRU, showed no evidence of circulation of monkeypox virus among men who have sex with men attending a sexual health clinic in Hanoi, Vietnam in 2022. So far, the single case of monkeypox described in Vietnam was imported. By Thomas Kesteman
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\n \n \n \nPosted 22/12/2022. On Jan 27, 2022, WHO recommended a moratorium on the deployment of rectal artesunate suppositories for severe malaria and in doing so stopped the roll-out of a lifesaving intervention. The decision is based on data from a large demonstration project CARAMAL. Lorenz von Seidlein discusses the project and its consequences with two leaders of the project in a point- counterpoint published in the Lancet infectious Diseases.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 23/12/2022. December 2022 sees two notable anniversaries: the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Pasteur and the third anniversary of China's announcement of the COVID-19 outbreak. On these coinciding events, Phaik Yeong Cheah and colleagues reflect on past and current global challenges to bring epidemics under control.
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\n \n \n \nPosted 20/12/2022. Tan and colleagues showed that booster vaccination by BNT162b2 induced cross-neutralizing activities against Omicron variant sub-lineages BA.1 and BA.2 in Vietnamese health care workers completing primary immunization with ChAdOx1-S. These responses however significantly reduced at month 3 post booster doses. The need for a second booster merits further research.
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