Background: Determinants of abnormal lung function among students living in hostels have not been evaluated. University students commonly come into contact with residential pollution and others different factors in their ...
Background Every day, in our life we face a variety of circumstances in which we must make health-care decisions that affect our health. Such decisions can have a negative impact on our lives if they do not respond to our ...
Background: Intestinal helminthiases and Schistosomiasis are among neglected tropical diseases targeted by the World Health Organization for elimination as public health issues by 2030. For this, it is important to determine ...
Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been crucial in managing HIV, but its success heavily relies on patient adherence. In sub-Saharan countries, including Rwanda, adherence remains a challenge. Moreover, adult ...
INTRODUCTION: Malnutrition is a leading cause of mortality among children around the world, with over 6 million deaths occurring each year and an estimated 155 million worldwide being stunted in 2016. Rwanda has one the ...
Background: Hypertension is a significant public health issue both globally and in Rwanda. It is a leading cause of poor health outcomes such as cardiovascular diseases (CDVs), brain and kidney diseases as well as mortality ...
Background: The health supply chain, which is accountable for the performance of the health service delivery system, is responsible for providing a continuous supply of high-quality, safe, and effective health commodities ...
Since the introduction of the ‘’Test and Treat’’ approach in HIV management, different strategies have been developed and implemented by countries to decongest public health facilities from big numbers of people visiting ...
Over the past decades, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
has a mixed record in conflict resolution in Africa. In some cases, ECOWAS demonstrated
its capabilities in conflict prevention and peace-making, ...
Introduction: a strong health system relies on the existence of a robust health supply chain management system that ensures an uninterrupted supply of essential and affordable health products. In Rwanda, the National Supply ...
Background Rational medicine use improves patient and community health; however, irrational medicine use persists despite official efforts to reduce it. This study used WHO indicators to evaluate medicine use, with a focus ...
Background: It is widely known that the unregulated food sector may result in chaotic manufacturing, unjust preparation and substandardized food products that can lead to short and long-term adverse health effects ranging ...
Background: Youth corners are designed to make health services accommodate the unique needs of youth. Nevertheless, in developing countries like Rwanda, the use of the services provided in youth corner is limited. The main ...
This study assessed the role of PPP in the availability of essential medicines in health facilities in the Ubungo Municipal Council. The study further determined the role of PPP guidelines, assessed the influence of PPP ...
Background: The goal of antiretroviral therapy is to achieve sustained human immune deficiency virus (HIV) viral suppression. However, research on the prevalence and factors associated with viral load suppression among ...
Background: Newborn survival and development depend heavily on the neonatal period. Although there has been progress, there will still be 2.4 million newborn deaths worldwide in 2020. The regions with the greatest death ...
Background: Modern methods of contraception use studies often focus on married women due to their increased likelihood of being sexually active within the context of a committed partnership. This study expanded the focus ...
Introduction Malaria is one of vector-borne disease caused by Plasmodium parasite, the use of LLINs as one of malaria core intervention for vector control and reduce malaria burden faced significant obstacles, and some ...
Background: Despite the effective diagnostic tools and treatment availability tuberculosis (TB) remains the top cause of death as a single infectious disease worldwide. However, there is limited evidence on determinants ...
Background: Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite “plasmodium”. This disease is a leading cause of death worldwide, and remains one of the most important global public health problems, with an estimated 2 billion malaria ...