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  1. Population-based studies on COVID-19 have important implications for modeling the pandemic and determining vaccination policies. Limited data are available from such surveys in Egypt.

    Authors: Engy Mohamed El-Ghitany, Shehata Farag, Azza Galal Farghaly, Mona H. Hashish, Mahmoud A. Hassaan and Eman A. Omran
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:53
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:66

  2. Anthrax is a zoonotic infection caused by the bacteria Bacillus anthracis. Humans acquire cutaneous infection through contact with infected animals or animal products. On May 6, 2018, three cows suddenly died on ...

    Authors: Angella Musewa, Bernadette Basuta Mirembe, Fred Monje, Doreen Birungi, Carol Nanziri, Freda Loy Aceng, Steven N. Kabwama, Benon Kwesiga, Deo Birungi Ndumu, Luke Nyakarahuka, Joshua Buule, Caitlin M. Cossaboom, David Lowe, Cari B. Kolton, Chung K. Marston, Robyn A. Stoddard…
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:52
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  3. Sexual and reproductive health challenges among youth in low-income countries have persistently remained a public health challenge. In addition to these challenges, approximately 25% of youth experience a ment...

    Authors: Emily Tumwakire, Scholastic Ashaba, Vincent Mubangizi and Yahaya Gavamukulya
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:51
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  4. Awareness about obstetric fistula and its concomitant factors is central to efforts to eliminate obstetric fistula in sub-Saharan Africa. We, therefore, assessed the magnitude of obstetric fistula awareness an...

    Authors: Eugene Budu, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Joshua Okyere, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Richard Gyan Aboagye and Sanni Yaya
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:50
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  5. The WHO recommends continuous surveillance of malaria in endemic countries to identify areas and populations most in need for targeted interventions. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of malar...

    Authors: Moussa Lingani, Serge H. Zango, Innocent Valéa, Maïmouna Sanou, Serge Ouoba, Sékou Samadoulougou, Annie Robert, Halidou Tinto, Michèle Dramaix and Philippe Donnen
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:49
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  6. The COVID-19 pandemic had a severe impact on delivering essential health services, including HIV service delivery. Among the challenges encountered and addressed by the HIV and AIDS Department of the San Lazar...

    Authors: Rosario Jessica Tactacan-Abrenica, Dennis Gregg Almonte, Kristal An Agrupis, Greco Mark Malijan, Shuichi Suzuki, Ralph dela Cruz, Rich King Valdez, Lalaine Arcangel, Koya Ariyoshi and Chris Smith
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:48
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  7. The magnitude of unintended pregnancy is unacceptably high and more than half of it end up with abortions. This may limit lower and middle-income countries to achieve the sustainable development goal targets ...

    Authors: Daniel Gashaneh Belay and Fantu Mamo Aragaw
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:47
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  8. Infectious Disease Surveillance (IDS) in the community is essential to prevent, control, and detect outbreaks. A strong surveillance system is a need of time for low to middle-income countries like Pakistan wh...

    Authors: Taha Gul Shaikh, Summaiyya Waseem, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Sarya Swed and Mohammad Mehedi Hasan
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:46
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  9. Since 2015, the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Japan has been conducting a technical assistance project for improving patient safety in Vietnamese hospitals. During the COVID-19 pandemic, th...

    Authors: Jun Moriyama, Tomoo Ito, Masahiko Doi, Kaori Seino, Duong Huy Luong, Azusa Iwamoto and Hitoshi Murakami
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:45
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  10. Globally, there were about 50.8 million internally displaced people in 2020, of whom 42% were in sub-Saharan Africa. In areas where there are conflicts, the humanitarian emergency makes infectious disease mana...

    Authors: Gosa Ebrahim Geleto, Tesfu Kassa and Berhanu Erko
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:44
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  11. Yaws is a chronic, non-venereal, highly contagious skin and bone infection affecting children living in impoverished, remote communities and caused by Treponema pallidum subspecie pertenue. Social stigma and econ...

    Authors: Belen Lardizabal Dofitas, Sherjan P. Kalim, Camille B. Toledo and Jan Hendrik Richardus
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:43
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  12. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease that is associated with significant morbidity and mortality especially among maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients. COVID-19 vaccination is importa...

    Authors: Samar Tharwat, Marwa K. Khairallah, Mohammed Kamal Nassar, Dalia Kamal Nassar and Eman Nagy
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:42
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  13. Plasmodium falciparum infections remain among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in holoendemic transmission areas. Located within region 5q31.1, the colony-stimulating factor 2 gene (CSF2) encodes gra...

    Authors: Lily E. Kisia, Qiuying Cheng, Evans Raballah, Elly O. Munde, Benjamin H. McMahon, Nick W. Hengartner, John M. Ong’echa, Kiprotich Chelimo, Christophe G. Lambert, Collins Ouma, Prakasha Kempaiah, Douglas J. Perkins, Kristan A. Schneider and Samuel B. Anyona
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:41
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  14. Noma is a bacterial, non-communicable, grossly destructive and disfiguring necrotising oro-facial disease. It is rare, but occurs most commonly in chronically malnourished children with other debilitating illn...

    Authors: Razia Abdool Gafaar Khammissa, Johan Lemmer and Liviu Feller
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:40
    Content type: Review Published on:

  15. The global consumption of herbal medicine is increasing steadily, posing an extinction risk to medicinal plants. Uganda is among the top ten countries with a high threat of herbal medicine extinction, and Trad...

    Authors: Jamilu E. Ssenku, Shaban A. Okurut, Aidah Namuli, Ali Kudamba, Patience Tugume, Paul Matovu, Godfrey Wasige, Hussein M. Kafeero and Abdul Walusansa
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:39
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  16. The Nigerian health care system is weak due to lack of coordination, fragmentation of services by donor funding of vertical services, dearth and poor distribution of resources, and inadequate infrastructures. ...

    Authors: Oluwaseun Akinyemi, Adedamola Adebayo, Christopher Bassey, Chioma Nwaiwu, Anna Kalbarczyk, Terna Nomhwange, Olakunle O. Alonge and Eme T. Owoaje
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:38
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  17. A safe and effective vaccine is the ultimate key to mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccine acceptance is influenced by various factors, including perceptions about the vaccine’s safety and side effects. The...

    Authors: Hisham Ahmed Orebi, Hesham Elsayed Emara, Abdallah Ahmoud Alhindi, Mohamed Reda Shahin, Arwa Hassan Hegazy, Ibrahim Ali Kabbash and Shimaa M. Saied
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:37
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:84

  18. To bring out the diagnostic attitude of hearing professionals in Cameroon towards congenital hearing impairment (CHI), assess availability of tests, neonatal screening, and create a national map of availabilit...

    Authors: Emmanuel Choffor-Nchinda, Jean Valentin Fokouo Fogha, Adèle-Rose Ngo Nyeki, Asmaou Bouba Dalil, Roger Christian Meva’a Biouélé and Geschiere Peter Me-Meke
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:36
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  19. There were recent reports of a mysterious virus spreading in Pakistan causing dengue-like illness with hundreds of cases admitted to hospitals over the winter. The mysterious virus was touted as a new variant ...

    Authors: Hamid A. Merchant
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:35
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  20. Food-borne diseases are a major public health concern worldwide, particularly in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), such as Ethiopia. Poor food hygiene practices primarily exacerbate food-borne illness t...

    Authors: Demisu Zenbaba, Biniyam Sahiledengle, Fikadu Nugusu, Girma Beressa, Fikreab Desta, Daniel Atlaw and Vijay Kumar Chattu
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:34
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  21. The slow pace of fertility decline in Africa relative to other parts of the world has important implications for the region’s economic development. Modern contraceptive use is seen as important population cont...

    Authors: Edward Nketiah-Amponsah, Samuel Ampaw and Priscilla Twumasi Baffour
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:33
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  22. Human toxocariasis is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by the Toxocara canis and T. cati nematodes larvae. Dog owners are at a higher risk of acquiring T. canis infection, and there is no available evidence re...

    Authors: Prasit Na-Ek, Udomsak Narkkul, Nonthapan Phasuk and Chuchard Punsawad
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:32
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  23. Snakebites are a major cause of permanent injury and death among poor, rural populations in developing countries, including those in East Africa. This research characterizes snakebite incidence, risk factors, ...

    Authors: Peter S. Larson, Morris Ndemwa, Aleksandra F. Thomas, Noriko Tamari, Paul Diela, Mwatasa Changoma, Abdullatif Mohamed, Miles C. Larson, Kaan Cem Ketenci, Kensuke Goto and Satoshi Kaneko
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:31
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  24. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) pandemic continues to pose a threat to global health. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) has spread rapidly wor...

    Authors: Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Takaya Sakura, Yasuteru Sakurai, Yohei Kurosaki, Daniel Ken Inaoka, Norifumi Shioda, Chris Smith, Jiro Yasuda, Kouichi Morita and Kiyoshi Kita
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:30
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  25. Provider-initiated HIV testing, and counseling (PITC) is a service in which health professionals provide HIV testing to all patients in health facilities. Provider-initiated HIV testing, and counseling is an i...

    Authors: Daniel Atlaw, Biniyam Sahiledengle, Sisay Degno, Ayele Mamo, Zewudie Gudisa, Demisu Zenbaba, Zerihun Shiferaw and Habtamu Gezahegn
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:29
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  26. Open defecation facilitates the transmission of pathogens that cause diarrheal diseases, which is the second leading contributor to the global burden of disease. It also exposed hundreds of millions of girls a...

    Authors: Daniel Gashaneh Belay, Melaku Hunie Asratie, Fantu Mamo Aragaw, Nuhamin Tesfa Tsega, Mastewal Endalew and Moges Gashaw
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:28
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  27. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected all healthcare systems worldwide. Effective COVID-19 preventive measures, including wearing a mask, hand washing, avoiding the “Three Cs”, and city...

    Authors: Rapeepun Prasertbun, Hirotake Mori, Aongart Mahittikorn, Sukhontha Siri and Toshio Naito
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:27
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  28. A computer is one of the most widely used office tools. The leading occupational health problem of the twenty-first century is computer vision syndrome (CVS). Research findings across Ethiopia on the magnitude...

    Authors: Fentahun Adane, Yoseph Merkeb Alamneh and Melaku Desta
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:26
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  29. Human mobility, particularly during certain festivals in rapidly growing megacities in low- and middle-income countries, has critical implications in infectious diseases surveillance and preparedness. In this ...

    Authors: Mohammad Sorowar Hossain
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:25
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  30. Little is known about parental coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD). This survey estimated the prevalence and predictive factors of vaccine ...

    Authors: Mohammad Ali, Tasnuva Shamarukh Proma, Zarin Tasnim, Md. Ariful Islam, Tania Akter Urmi, Sohel Ahmed, Abu-sufian Sarkar, Atia Sharmin Bonna and Umme Salma Khan
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:24
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  31. In Myanmar, third wave of COVID-19 epidemic began with a surge of confirmed cases in the last week of May 2021. The laboratory-confirmed cases and deaths distinctly increased within 9 weeks. The government and...

    Authors: Ye Minn Htun, Tun Tun Win, Nyan Htet Shan, Zin Thu Winn, Kaung Si Thu, Nyan Lin Maung, Pyae Phyo Aung, Htun Aung Kyaw, Hpone Pji Kyaw, Yan Naing Myint Soe, Myint Myat Ko, Zin Ko Aung, Kyaw Thiha Aung, Yan Paing Chit Lwin, Wai Yan, Phyo Tayza Soe…
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:23
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

    The Correction to this article has been published in Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:96

  32. Due to the high transmission rate and mortality index of the current coronavirus pandemic, many settings in Africa instituted lockdowns to reduce its rate of spread and avert exponential growth rate. At the ea...

    Authors: Aishat Jumoke Alaran, Abubakar Olaitan Badmos, Oumnia Bouaddi, Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi, Kenechukwu Ben-Umeh, Umarfarouq Idris and Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:22
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  34. In October 2016, a mumps outbreak occurred among the students living in the on-campus dormitory of a public university located in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. This study aimed to investigate the outbreak an...

    Authors: Siat Yee Fong, Daisuke Mori, Jecelyn Leaslie John, Nelbon Giloi, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree and Kamruddin Ahmed
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:20
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  35. Plasmodium falciparum has acquired resistance to artemisinin in Southeast Asia, with mutations in the P. falciparum Kelch-13 (Pfk13) gene associated with the resistance phenotype. The widespread use of Artemisini...

    Authors: Nguyen Quang Thieu, Vu Duc Chinh, Truong Van Hanh, Nguyen Van Dung, Hidekazu Takagi, Takeshi Annoura, Satoru Kawai, Gaku Masuda, Nguyen Van Tuan, Vu Viet Hung, Shusuke Nakazawa, Richard Culleton, Nguyen Thi Huong Binh and Yoshimasa Maeno
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:19
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  36. Dengue fever is an arthropod-borne viral illness caused by four dengue virus serotypes (DENV 1–4), spread by Aedes mosquitos. Common symptoms of dengue include high peak temperature, headache, myalgia, and mal...

    Authors: Govinda Khatri, Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Somina Shaikh, Syeda Lamiya Mir, Abdul Moiz Sahito, Priya, Ian Christopher N. Rocha and Osman Kamal Osman Elmahi
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:18
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  37. Primaquine is a gametocytocidal drug known to significantly reduce malaria transmission. However, primaquine induces a dose-dependent acute hemolytic anemia (AHA) in individuals with glucose-6-phosphate dehydr...

    Authors: Richard O. Mwaiswelo, Hamis Kabuga, Eliningaya J. Kweka and Vito Baraka
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:17
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death globally, and the rise in drug-resistant forms of TB has become a significant threat. Subsequently, it is crucial to explore new, effective and safe anti...

    Authors: Benson Oloya, Jane Namukobe, Willy Ssengooba, Mathias Afayoa and Robert Byamukama
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:16
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  39. COVID-19 continues to strain, stress, and stretch health systems globally. With the development of the COVID-19 vaccines, there are many issues still lurking behind the widespread coverage; one of which is COV...

    Authors: Israel Oluwaseyidayo Idris, Gabriel Omoniyi Ayeni and Yusuff Adebayo Adebisi
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:15
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  40. Podoconiosis is a preventable, progressive, and non-infectious form of elephantiasis that can contribute to significant disability and economic burden when not treated early. Nurses play a critical role in ear...

    Authors: Lilian Nantume Wampande, Lamek Mageto Nyabuga, Kelly Fowler, Grace Chinelo Okengwu, Ursin Bayisenge and Janna M. Schurer
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:14
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  41. This paper discusses the challenges of disseminating COVID-19 information to migrant populations by sharing our trial-and-error approach. In 2018, the Migrants’ Neighbor Network & Action (MINNA), a consortium ...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Kiyohara, Yuko Teshima, Haru Angelique Hoshino, Miwa Kanda, Sadatoshi Matsuoka, Azusa Iwamoto and Masami Fujita
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:13
    Content type: Review Published on:

  42. Urinary schistosomiasis is a serious threat in endemic territories of Africa and the Middle East. The status of female urinary schistosomiasis (FUS) in published literature between 2016 and 2020 was investigated.

    Authors: Morteza Shams, Sasan Khazaei, Ezatollah Ghasemi, Naser Nazari, Erfan Javanmardi, Hamidreza Majidiani, Saeed Bahadory, Davood Anvari, Mohammad Fatollahzadeh, Taher Nemati and Ali Asghari
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. Dengue fever is a viral infection caused by Aedes mosquitoes that has recently expanded fast in many of the WHO member states globally. Female mosquitoes, mostly Aedes aegypti and, to a smaller degree, Aedes albo...

    Authors: Mohammad Mehedi Hasan, Abdul Moiz Sahito, Muhammad Muzzamil, Parvathy Mohanan, Zarmina Islam, Md. Masum Billah, Mohammod Johirul Islam and Mohammad Yasir Essar
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:11
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  44. Authors: Mohammad Robed Amin, Mohammad Jahid Hasan, Md. Abdullah Saeed Khan, Md Abdur Raf, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Tarek Shams, Mohammed Jahedul Islam, Abu Saif Mohammad Lutful Kabir, Mohiuddin Sharif and David Gozal
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:10
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:9

  45. Chikungunya is a severely debilitating disease. Bangladesh witnessed one of the largest outbreaks in 2017. Here, we described the clinical profile of the chikungunya outbreak in Bangladesh and its heterogeneit...

    Authors: Mohammad Robed Amin, Mohammad Jahid Hasan, Md. Abdullah Saeed Khan, Md Abdur Rafi, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, Tarek Shams, Mohammed Jahedul Islam, Abu Saif Mohammad Lutful Kabir, Mohiuddin Sharif and David Gozal
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:9
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:10

  46. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) in humans and animals. Numbers of multi drug resistance TB (MDR-TB), extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) and zoonotic TB cases a...

    Authors: Yogendra Shah, Sarad Paudel, Kishor Pandey, Govind Prasad Gupta, Eddie Samuneti Solo, Jagadish Joshi, Dhan Kumar Pant and Basu Dev Pandey
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:8
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  47. Tetanus vaccination is an indispensable component of the antenatal care (ANC) and is considered one of the most effective and protective measures against tetanus deaths. However, data on antenatal tetanus vacc...

    Authors: Sagad Omer Obeid Mohamed and Esraa Mohammed Ahmed
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:7
    Content type: Short Report Published on:

  48. Genetic variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) began to emerge in 2020 and have been spreading globally during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite the pr...

    Authors: Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Takaya Sakura, Yasuteru Sakurai, Yohei Kurosaki, Daniel Ken Inaoka, Norifumi Shioda, Jiro Yasuda, Kiyoshi Kita and Kouichi Morita
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:6
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  49. Globally, diarrheal and respiratory diseases are among the main causes of mortality and morbidity. In Uganda, cities are facing proliferation of trade in herbal medicines (HM), including those for diarrhea and...

    Authors: Abdul Walusansa, Savina Asiimwe, Jamilu. E. Ssenku, Godwin Anywar, Milbert Namara, Jesca L. Nakavuma and Esezah K. Kakudidi
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:5
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  50. Vaccines are effective and reliable public health interventions against viral outbreaks and pandemics. However, hesitancy regarding the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is evident worldwide. Therefore, u...

    Authors: Roy Rillera Marzo, Waqas Sami, Md. Zakiul Alam, Swosti Acharya, Kittisak Jermsittiparsert, Karnjana Songwathana, Nhat Tan Pham, Titik Respati, Erwin Martinez Faller, Aries Moralidad Baldonado, Yadanar Aung, Sharmila Mukund Borkar, Mohammad Yasir Essar, Sunil Shrestha and Siyan Yi
    Citation: Tropical Medicine and Health 2022 50:4
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