Background and objectives: According to WHO (World Health Organization), Hospital Acquired Infection (HAI) is an infection that is not typically present at the time of admission, and acquired after hospitalization then ...

BACK GROUND: Globally, about 130 million neonates are delivered every year with an estimated 4 million deaths happening within 4 weeks after birth and 1, 5 million of those deaths are caused by infections. In absence of ...

Background: Despite availability of methods to manage labor pain, there is a big disparity in labor analgesia knowledge and access between low and high-income countries. Laboring women have significant pain. Healthcare ...

In both children and adults, asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system that affects lung function and results in breathing problems because it narrows and inflames the airways. Even though it cannot be cured, ...

Transport, particularly, road transport is very important to the society by its simplification of the movement of the people and goods, its supports on economic growth and play an important role in job creation. The positive ...

Objective: To evaluate the level of knowledge and awareness on symptoms and risk factors for ovarian cancer among women visiting two hospitals in Kigali. Methods: We conducted a prospective cross-sectional study among ...

In Rwanda, low birth weight (LBW), which is caused by maternal undernutrition, is a public health concern. Five Districts have adopted the Gikuriro Program, which consists of an integrated ‘nutrition-sensitive’ and ...

Background: Malaria during pregnancy can lead to adverse effects on the mother, fetus and neonate. Neonatal complications include intrauterine growth restriction, low birth weight, prematurity, intrauterine fetal demise, ...

Rapid economic growth has led to the current modern world facing a serious threat of climatic change, which has a negative impact on human socioeconomic condition. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the combustion of ...

In developing countries many customers do not get good quality of electricity power supply; frequent and prolonged power fluctuations/cuts usually disturb them. Distribution transformer (DT) is a service transformer that ...