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StoryNo relevant topicsA study funded through Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF) shows how some young farmers weathered the pandemic in Kenya.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsRice husks to power communities
A rice husk gasification process has been developed in order to generate rural electricity. Electricity is neither accessible nor affordable for many Malawians.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsWhole-system change : case study of factors facilitating early implementation of a primary health care reform in a South African province
The case study highlights how collective vision can facilitate commitment to and engagement with new policy in complex organisational environments.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsGerman and African researchers join forces for health
In this audio interview (recorded in June, in Yaoundé, Cameroon) Andreas Strecker, a programme director responsible for the Foundation’s Africa initiative, expands on DFG’s funding criteria and ref
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsClimate vulnerability and adaptation of water provisioning in developing countries : approaches to disciplinary and research-practice integration
In the case of developing countries, water delivery infrastructure is often unreliable and not well understood.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsHealth policy and systems research : needs, challenges and opportunities in South Africa – a university perspective
Health Policy and Systems Research (HPSR) addresses systemic challenges in order to improve service delivery while supporting implementation of public health priority programmes, and thus contribut
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsAssessment of the multi-sectoral approach to tobacco control policies in South Africa and Togo
Tobacco use is the world’s leading preventable cause of illness and death and the most important risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly cardiovascular and chronic respirator
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsPredictors of women’s utilization of primary health care for skilled pregnancy care in rural Nigeria
The study identifies factors that lead pregnant women to use or not use existing primary health care (PHC) facilities for antenatal and delivery care.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsTackling youth inclusion and its link to radicalization through inclusion in post-revolutionary Tunisia
The article reports on the Maghreb Economic Forum (MEF) research “Tackling Youth Radicalization through Inclusion.” Civic Engagement is providing a sense of belonging to youth and helping them main
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsAdaptação multicêntrica do guia para a gestão autônoma da medicação
O uso crescente de psicofármacos e o
baixo empowerment dos usuários
mostram-se críticos à qualificação da
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsPlantations, women, and food security in Africa : interrogating the investment pathway towards zero hunger in Cameroon and Ghana
The paper critically engages with sustainable development goal targets (SDG-2- Target 2.3; SDG-5) to examine how and why large-scale agricultural land acquisitions modify the social relations of wo
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsIntegrated vector control of Chagas disease in Guatemala : a case of social innovation in health
An interdisciplinary team from the Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Parasitology (LENAP) of the Universidad de San Carlos (USAC), in collaboration with communities of Comapa, Guatemala, develop
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsThe effects of ABRACADABRA on reading outcomes : an updated meta-analysis and landscape review of applied field research
A Balanced Reading Approach for Children Designed to Achieve Best Results for All (ABRA) is an evidence-based suite of interactive multimedia that engages learners in the development of core readin
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsComparative case studies in integrated care implementation from across the globe : a quest for action
The case studies represent integrated care implementation efforts from five countries and continents (United States, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Israel, and Nigeria), targeting a range of clinical pop
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsClimate-environmental governance in the Mexico valley metropolitan area : assessing local institutional capacities in the face of current and future urban metabolic dynamics
The paper presents an estimation of the material footprint of the Mexico Valley Metropolitan Area (MVMA), developed in context of the upcoming United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, “T
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsTechnical document for the implementation of interventions based on generic operational scenarios for Aedes aegypti control
Traditional methods to control the Aedes vector have had only a limited and temporary impact on disease prevention, either because they are not very effective or their coverage is limited.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsGestão em saúde : reflexões, diversidades temáticas, teóricas, metodológicas e tecnologias de discentes e docentes em gestão em saúde coletivaPublication Date
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsConhecimentos de gestantes e parceiros sobre as arboviroses transmitidas pelo Aedes aegyptiPublication Date
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsSocial assessment on an integrated intervention for the prevention of Zika and other Aedes-borne diseases in pregnant women and their families in Mexico
Results of the project show that pregnant women can be provided with free or low-cost integrated interventions with methods of known efficacy (topical repellent and insecticide-treated window scree
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsModelling future safe and just operating spaces in regional social-ecological systems
Simulations of fish catch from India's Chilika lagoon are compared to conditions that are ecologically and socioeconomically desirable.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsSouth Asian river basins in a 1.5 °C warmer world
The study provides a regional quantitative assessment of the impacts of global warming for a major global climate change hotspot: the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins (IGB) in South Asia
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsFood insecurity in relation to obesity in peri-urban Cape Town, South Africa: Implications for diet-related non-communicable disease
Choice was framed as a driver of diet-related non-communicable disease (NCD) in the study participants' encounters in clinical settings.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsIncreasing women’s access to skilled pregnancy care to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in rural Edo State, Nigeria : a randomized controlled trial
Based on the urgency for increased access to maternity care through Primary Health Care (PHC) the project intends to identify supply and demand factors that prevent Nigerian women from using PHCs f
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsDriving the health agenda in West Africa
This journal article covers the background and activities of the West African Health Organisation (WAHO).
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsBuilding knowledge, strengthening capacities and improving CRVS systems
The Centre of Excellence for civil registration and vital statistics (CoE-CRVS) system worked to support uptake of good practice at scale, supporting knowledge generation and capacity strengthening
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