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    Informing a target product profile for rapid tests to identify HBV-infected pregnant women with high viral loads: a discrete choice experiment with African healthcare workers

    Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) requires infant immunoprophylaxis and antiviral prophylaxis for pregnant women with high viral loads. Since real-time polymerase chain rea...

    Yasir Shitu Isa, Jonathan Sicsic, Henry Njuguna, John Ward in BMC Medicine (2023)

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    A nationwide cross-sectional review of in-hospital hepatitis B virus testing and disease burden estimation in Ghana, 2016 - 2021

    Data are needed to inform hepatitis B virus (HBV) testing and treatment policies in Ghana to make progress towards achieving the 2030 WHO elimination targets. This study investigated testing patterns for HBV a...

    Yvonne Ayerki Nartey, Rafiq Okine, Atsu Seake-Kwawu, Georgia Ghartey in BMC Public Health (2022)

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    Severe acute respiratory infection in children in a densely populated urban slum in Kenya, 2007–2011

    Reducing acute respiratory infection burden in children in Africa remains a major priority and challenge. We analyzed data from population-based infectious disease surveillance for severe acute respiratory ill...

    Robert F Breiman, Leonard Cosmas, M Kariuki Njenga in BMC Infectious Diseases (2015)