Barriers to PrEP use and adherence among adolescent girls and young women in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa: a scoping review.

Background: Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are disproportionately affected by HIV. Globally, in 2022, an estimated 4000 AGYW 15-24 were newly infected with HIV weekly, and nearly 78% of these infections occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a key HIV prevention option within an overall HIV combination prevention approach with an efficacy of over 90% when taken correctly.

Temperature Simulation of an Ablation Needle for the Prediction of Tissue Necrosis during Liver Ablation.

Microwave ablation (MWA) is the leading therapy method for treating patients with liver cancer. MWA simulation is used to further improve the therapy and to help develop new devices. A water-cooled ablation needle was reconstructed.

How to (or how not to) implement crowdsourcing for the development of health interventions: lessons learned from four African countries.

Crowdsourcing strategies are useful in the development of public health interventions. Crowdsourcing engages end users in a co-creation process through challenge contests, designathons or online collaborations. Drawing on our experience of crowdsourcing in four African countries, we provide guidance on designing crowdsourcing strategies across seven steps: deciding on the type of crowdsourcing strategy, convening a steering committee, developing the content of the call for ideas, promotion, evaluation, recognizing finalists and sharing back ideas or implementing the solutions.

MRI-compatible and sensorless haptic feedback for cable-driven medical robotics to perform teleoperated needle-based interventions.

Purpose: Surgical robotics have demonstrated their significance in assisting physicians during minimally invasive surgery. Especially, the integration of haptic and tactile feedback technologies can enhance the surgeon's performance and overall patient outcomes. However, the current state-of-the-art lacks such interaction feedback opportunities, especially in robotic-assisted interventional magnetic resonance imaging (iMRI), which is gaining importance in clinical practice, specifically for percutaneous needle punctures.