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Maternal age at first childbirth and geographical variation in HBV prevalence in Cameroon: Important role of mother-to-child transmission

Maternal age at first childbirth and geographical variation in HBV prevalence in Cameroon: Important role of mother-to-child transmission
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Economic empowerment and intimate partner violence: a secondary data analysis of the cross-sectional Demographic Health Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa

Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been recognized as a defining human rights, development and public health issue of our time. Economic empowerment is one of the most promising interventions to reduce IPV in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the evidence around economic factors that are key to ensure a reduction in IPV are still mixed. Furthermore, there is a lack of clarity on what kinds of economic empowerment works for which population group. This paper seeks a more nuanced understanding, by investigating whether the associations between indicators of economic empowerment and physical and/or sexual IPV are similar between the general population of women and among urban versus rural and young, or middle aged women versus older women. Using couples data from 25 DHS surveys across 15 countries (n = 70,993 women and men aged 15 and above at time of survey), we analyse how household wealth, men’s and women’s education and employment status, decision making on women

Institutional Mistrust and Child Vaccination Coverage in Africa

Stoop); International Food Policy Research Institute ( Hirvonen); Université catholique de Louvain, or UCLouvain ( Maystadt); Lancaster University ( Maystadt) Recognising the extent to which a lack of institutional trust jeopardises vaccination campaigns is crucial to improve immunisation rates. While the persistence of subnational pockets of low vaccination coverage in Africa has been attributed to societal, cultural, and religious considerations, as well as to limited access to vaccination services and to caregiver knowledge gaps, researchers are increasingly pointing to the role of vaccine hesitancy in hindering progress towards universal child immunisation coverage. Qualitative evidence suggests that lack of trust in local and national authorities is linked to vaccine hesitancy and refusal across the continent. For example, lack of trust in governments has been found to lead parents to question the vaccine information they receive from health authorities and thus affect

Institutional mistrust and child vaccination coverage in Africa - World

Institutional mistrust and child vaccination coverage in Africa Format Abstract Introduction Despite considerable improvements in vaccination coverage over the last decade, half of the world’s unvaccinated and undervaccinated children are located in Africa. The role of institutional trust in explaining vaccination gaps has been highlighted in several qualitative reports but so far has only been quantified in a small number of high-income countries. Methods We matched information on child vaccination status from the Demographic Health Surveys with information on institutional trust from the Afrobarometer surveys at the subnational level. A total of 166 953 children from 41 surveys administered in 22 African countries covering 216 subnational regions were used. Based on a principal component analysis, we constructed an institutional mistrust index that combined the level of mistrust in the head of state, parliament, electoral system, courts and local government. Associations be

Air pollution causes huge pregnancy loss

Air pollution causes huge pregnancy loss     Air pollution has been associated with a significant proportion of pregnancy loss in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, according to a study published in the Lancet. The study said that in Bangladesh India and Pakistan, air pollution might have contributed to 29 per cent of pregnancy losses. Bangladesh was named the world’s most polluted country for PM2.5 exposure in the 2019 World Air Quality Report. Fine particulate matter or PM2.5 of less than 12 micrograms per cubic metre is considered good although the World Health Organisation targets the countries that achieve PM2.5 less than 10 µg/m³. Bangladesh’s average PM2.5 was 83.30 µg/m³ in 2019, according to the 2019 World Air Quality Report published in 2020.

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