Serological survey in a university community after the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Senegal.

A cross-sectional survey was conducted at Polytechnic High School (PHS) to assess the spread of COVID-19 infection among students and staff. A random cluster sampling was conducted between May 19 and August 18, 2022, after the fourth wave of COVID-19 in Senegal. IgM and IgG SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were screened using WANTAI SARS-CoV-2 ELISA assays.

Improvement of blood transfusion safety using the chemiluminescence technique for viral marker screening of blood donors in sub Saharan Africa.

Introduction: Sub-Saharan Africa struggles continuously with insufficient resources and inadequate infrastructure that hinder the establishment of a safer blood supply despite improvements in transfusion safety over recent decades. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the chemiluminescence technique in combination with immunoenzymatic and immunochromatographic tests for viral marker screening of hepatitis B (HBV), hepatitis C (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in donated blood in a country of sub-Saharan Africa.

Method: This study was conducted in a population of 113,406 blood donors at the National Centre of Blood Transfusion in Senegal.

Living ethics: a stance and its implications in health ethics.

Moral or ethical questions are vital because they affect our daily lives: what is the best choice we can make, the best action to take in a given situation, and ultimately, the best way to live our lives? Health ethics has contributed to moving ethics toward a more experience-based and user-oriented theoretical and methodological stance but remains in our practice an incomplete lever for human development and flourishing. This context led us to envision and develop the stance of a "living ethics", described in this inaugural collective and programmatic paper as an effort to consolidate creative collaboration between a wide array of stakeholders. We engaged in a participatory discussion and collective writing process known as instrumentalist concept analysis.

Experiential Fallibilism and Decision-Making Process: A Perspective from a Patient with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Patient choice in healthcare follows a process in which references to evidence and experience are intertwined. From the perspective of a patient with chronic kidney disease, I propose experiential fallibilism as the use of uncertain evidence and experience, along with knowledge gained in new contexts, situations, and experiences, to attain truth and promote shared decision-making. Thus, because of their uncertain nature, both the patient's experience and the doctor's focus on evidence should be integrated into a decision-making process through a co-learning perspective so that they can mutually enrich each other and prevent inappropriate actions and decisions in other clinical contexts.

Towards a transactional medicine approach to combating global emerging pathogens: the case of COVID-19.

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck and China reported the first case to the World Health Organization in December 2019, there was no evidence-based treatment to combat it. With the catastrophic situation that followed, materialised by a considerable number of deaths, researchers, doctors, traditional healers, and governments of all nations committed themselves to find therapeutic solutions, including preventive and curative. There are effective treatments offered both by modern medicine and traditional medicine for COVID-19 today.