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Ambrose Alli University
Education•Ekpoma, Nigeria•
About: Ambrose Alli University is a education organization based out in Ekpoma, Nigeria. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Government. The organization has 973 authors who have published 927 publications receiving 8148 citations.
Topics: Population, Government, Lassa fever, Agriculture, Higher education
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TL;DR: The epidemiology, clinical features, and management of monkeypox is reviewed and its growing public health threat is discussed in this context.
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TL;DR: Eight years after initiation of this privately financed vaccination project (private-public partnership), vaccination coverage in this rural community is at a level that provides high protection against DPT/OPV and completeness of vaccination was significantly correlated with knowledge of mothers on immunization.
Abstract: Childhood immunization is a cost effective public health strategy. Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) services have been provided in a rural Nigerian community (Sabongidda-Ora, Edo State) at no cost to the community since 1998 through a privately financed vaccination project (private public partnership). The objective of this survey was to assess vaccination coverage and its determinants in this rural community in Nigeria A cross-sectional survey was conducted in September 2006, which included the use of interviewer-administered questionnaire to assess knowledge of mothers of children aged 12–23 months and vaccination coverage. Survey participants were selected following the World Health Organization's (WHO) immunization coverage cluster survey design. Vaccination coverage was assessed by vaccination card and maternal history. A child was said to be fully immunized if he or she had received all of the following vaccines: a dose of Bacille Calmette Guerin (BCG), three doses of oral polio (OPV), three doses of diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT), three doses of hepatitis B (HB) and one dose of measles by the time he or she was enrolled in the survey, i.e. between the ages of 12–23 months. Knowledge of the mothers was graded as satisfactory if mothers had at least a score of 3 out of a maximum of 5 points. Logistic regression was performed to identify determinants of full immunization status. Three hundred and thirty-nine mothers and 339 children (each mother had one eligible child) were included in the survey. Most of the mothers (99.1%) had very positive attitudes to immunization and > 55% were generally knowledgeable about symptoms of vaccine preventable diseases except for difficulty in breathing (as symptom of diphtheria). Two hundred and ninety-five mothers (87.0%) had a satisfactory level of knowledge. Vaccination coverage against all the seven childhood vaccine preventable diseases was 61.9% although it was significantly higher (p = 0.002) amongst those who had a vaccination card (131/188, 69.7%) than in those assessed by maternal history (79/151, 52.3%). Multiple logistic regression showed that mothers' knowledge of immunization (p = 0.006) and vaccination at a privately funded health facility (p < 0.001) were significantly correlated with the rate of full immunization. Eight years after initiation of this privately financed vaccination project (private-public partnership), vaccination coverage in this rural community is at a level that provides high protection (81%) against DPT/OPV. Completeness of vaccination was significantly correlated with knowledge of mothers on immunization and adequate attention should be given to this if high coverage levels are to be sustained.
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TL;DR: In this article, a new design of solar still with a hemispherical top cover for water desalination with and without flowing water over the cover is reported, and the daily distillate output of the system is increased by lowering the temperature of the cover by water flowing over it.
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TL;DR: Responding to fears that a 10-fold surge in cases in Nigeria in 2018 signaled an incipient outbreak, Kafetzopoulou et al. performed metagenomic nanopore sequencing directly from samples from 120 patients, finding no strong evidence of a new strain emerging nor of person-to-person transmission; rather, rodent contamination was the main source.
Abstract: The 2018 Nigerian Lassa fever season saw the largest ever recorded upsurge of cases, raising concerns over the emergence of a strain with increased transmission rate. To understand the molecular epidemiology of this upsurge, we performed, for the first time at the epicenter of an unfolding outbreak, metagenomic nanopore sequencing directly from patient samples, an approach dictated by the highly variable genome of the target pathogen. Genomic data and phylogenetic reconstructions were communicated immediately to Nigerian authorities and the World Health Organization to inform the public health response. Real-time analysis of 36 genomes and subsequent confirmation using all 120 samples sequenced in the country of origin revealed extensive diversity and phylogenetic intermingling with strains from previous years, suggesting independent zoonotic transmission events and thus allaying concerns of an emergent strain or extensive human-to-human transmission.
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Royal Veterinary College1, University of Ghana2, Ambrose Alli University3, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland)4, University of KwaZulu-Natal5, University of London6, University of Khartoum7, Sokoine University of Agriculture8, National Institute for Medical Research9, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College10, Makerere University11, Zambian Ministry of Health12, University College London13, Queen Mary University of London14
TL;DR: While lockdown measures may have helped inhibit community transmission, the pattern and nature of the epidemic remains unclear and there are signs of lockdown harming health by affecting the functioning of the health system and causing social and economic disruption.
Abstract: Lockdown measures have been introduced worldwide to contain the transmission of COVID-19. However, the term ‘lockdown’ is not well-defined. Indeed, WHO’s reference to ‘so-called lockdown measures’ indicates the absence of a clear and universally accepted definition of the term ‘lockdown’. We propose a definition of ‘lockdown’ based on a two-by-two matrix that categorises different communicable disease measures based on whether they are compulsory or voluntary; and whether they are targeted at identifiable individuals or facilities, or whether they are applied indiscriminately to a general population or area. Using this definition, we describe the design, timing and implementation of lockdown measures in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. While there were some commonalities in the implementation of lockdown across these countries, a more notable finding was the variation in the design, timing and implementation of lockdown measures. We also found that the number of reported cases is heavily dependent on the number of tests carried out, and that testing rates ranged from 2031 to 63 928 per million population up until 7 September 2020. The reported number of COVID-19 deaths per million population also varies (0.4 to 250 up until 7 September 2020), but is generally low when compared with countries in Europe and North America. While lockdown measures may have helped inhibit community transmission, the pattern and nature of the epidemic remains unclear. However, there are signs of lockdown harming health by affecting the functioning of the health system and causing social and economic disruption.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Etinosa O. Igbinosa | 23 | 74 | 2481 |
George O. Akpede | 21 | 75 | 1556 |
Titus S Ibekwe | 16 | 57 | 719 |
Oyaziwo Aluede | 14 | 50 | 632 |
Sylvanus Okogbenin | 13 | 35 | 865 |
K. S. Akinlade | 12 | 39 | 382 |
C. P. Aloamaka | 12 | 32 | 357 |
I. B. Enweani | 12 | 23 | 314 |
Ambrose O. Isah | 12 | 43 | 449 |
M. S. Okundamiya | 11 | 25 | 553 |
I.A. Onimawo | 11 | 14 | 382 |
C. Isaac | 10 | 43 | 299 |
AO Afolabi | 10 | 32 | 574 |
Emmanuel Isaac Akpan | 10 | 49 | 345 |
F. E. Oviasogie | 9 | 20 | 349 |