Evaluating the effectiveness of oral HIV self testing according to distribution models in Cameroon.

Innovative strategies such as HIV self-testing (HIVST) are useful for identifying hard-to-reach people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), especially in developing settings where considerable gaps still exist in reaching the first 95% UNAIDS target. We evaluated the effectiveness of HIVST in Cameroon using several distribution models and investigated the predictors of HIV seropositivity among self-testers. The study was conducted from 2021 to 2022 in three regions in Cameroon.

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Introduction: Several studies report that only 10% of Cameroonian women at risk have ever been screened for this disease.

Objective: This study aims to analyze the factors explaining the difficulties in accessing screening for cervical cancer in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Methodology: This was an analytical cross-sectional study (participed/not participated), conducted from May 1 to August 10, 2020.

A Qualitative Study of Transitions Between Health Care Settings After Injury in Cameroon.

Background: Populations in Cameroon, a lower middle-income country in Central Africa, have a higher than average burden of traumatic injury, suffer from more severe injuries, and face substantial barriers to accessing formal health care services after injury. The aim of this study was to identify and describe how recently injured Cameroonians use and adapt the formal and informal medical systems and what motivates these transitions.

Materials And Methods: Recently injured people or their surrogates residing in Southwest Region, Cameroon, were recruited from a larger community-based survey on injury.

[Couples' competences in immediate postpartum family planning in the Biyem-Assi health district Cameroon].

Introduction: Postpartum family planning is still little known and little practised by most couples in Cameroon. However, just after childbirth, many couples wish to postpone their second birth. This study aims to determine the level of competence and the education need of couples in immediate postpartum family planning in the Biyem-Assi health district, Cameroon.

Contraceptive use and determinants of unmet need for family planning; a cross sectional survey in the North West Region, Cameroon.

Background: Reducing unmet need for family planning by increasing the rate of modern contraceptive use is indispensable if Cameroon must meet maternal mortality targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The objective of this survey was to estimate the rate of contraceptive use and identify factors associated with unmet need for family planning in rural Cameroon.

Methods: It was conducted a community-based cross sectional survey from February to March 2016 targeting women in a union of the Wum Health District.

Contraceptive method mix and preference: A focus on long acting reversible contraception in Urban Cameroon.

Introduction: Meeting targets of the Sustainable Development Goals in the domain of maternal health and the Family Planning 2020 commitments for Cameroon requires an increased use of modern contraception. Long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are methods which have been proven highly efficient with contraceptive failure rates of less than 1%. The objective of this survey was to determine the contraceptive method mix in the Biyem-Assi Health District and identify factors associated to the use of LARCs.

Quantification and factors associated with HIV-related stigma among persons living with HIV/AIDS on antiretroviral therapy at the HIV-day care unit of the Bamenda Regional Hospital, North West Region of Cameroon.

Background: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus /Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is not just a medical problem but its social impact is increasingly affecting its effective management. The fear of HIV-stigma constitutes a major barrier to HIV testing, prevention, uptake and adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). We aimed to quantify HIV-related stigma, and identify the factors associated with high HIV-related stigma among persons living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIVA) and on ART.

Adherence to ivermectin is more associated with perceptions of community directed treatment with ivermectin organization than with onchocerciasis beliefs.

Background: The fight against onchocerciasis in Africa has boomed thanks to the Community Directed Treatment with Ivermectin (CDTI) program. However, in Cameroon, after more than 15 years of mass treatment, onchocerciasis prevalence is still above the non-transmission threshold. This study aimed to explore a possible association between people's beliefs/perceptions of onchocerciasis and of CDTI program, and their adherence to ivermectin in three regions of Cameroon.

The effect of free diabetes care on metabolic control and on health-related quality of life among youths with type 1 diabetes in Cameroon.

Objective: To assess the effect of free diabetes care on metabolic control and on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of youths living with type 1 diabetes in Cameroon.

Research Design And Methods: We conducted a clinical audit of a multicenter prospective cohort, performed in three of the nine clinics of the 'Changing Diabetes in Children' (CDiC) project in Cameroon. We collected data on demography, glycemic control, diabetes acute complications, and patients' HRQoL at baseline and after 1 year of follow-up.

Determinants of modern contraceptive practice in Yaoundé-Cameroon: a community based cross sectional study.

Background: Despite numerous efforts put in place to increase modern contraceptive use in Cameroon as a means to fight maternal and infant mortality, the prevalence of modern contraception has shown only a slow increase and maternal mortality is constantly rising. This paper attempts to identify barriers to contraceptive use in Biyem-Assi, Yaoundé-Cameroon so as to clearly define in which domain and how to intervene concerning contraceptive use in Cameroon.

Methods: It was a community-based cross sectional study involving a two-steps cluster sampling.

Determinants of unmet need for family planning among women in Urban Cameroon: a cross sectional survey in the Biyem-Assi Health District, Yaoundé.

Background: With the unacceptably high level of unmet need for family planning in Sub-Saharan Africa, reducing unmet need is paramount in the fight against the high levels of induced abortions, maternal and neonatal morbi-mortality. A clear understanding of the determinants of unmet need for family planning is indispensable in this light. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of unmet need for family planning in Urban Cameroon while identifying major determinants of unmet need among women in a union in Urban Cameroon.

A public private partnership to fight against malaria along the Chad-Cameroon pipeline corridor: I. Baseline data on socio-anthropological aspects, knowledge, attitudes and practices of the population concerning malaria.

Background: Malaria is ranked as the major public health problem in Cameroon, representing 50% of illness in less than five year old children, 40-45% of medical consultation and 40% of the annual home income spent on health. The Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) that exploits the Chad-Cameroon pipeline in Cameroon territory, initiated in 2010, a public private partnership project to control malaria along the pipeline corridor. A research component was included in the project so as to guide and evaluate the control measures applied in this pipeline corridor.

Access to second-line antiretroviral therapeutic regimens in low-resource settings: experiences from Cameroon.

Cameroon is one of the few sub-Saharan countries engaged in the implementation of a universal public health policy on HIV/AIDS. In May 2007, second-line antiretroviral regimens were made available in the country; thanks to the joint participation of the Cameroonian government and the UNITAID/Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative. This cooperation was achieved by means of a Memorandum of Understanding.

The Cameroon mobile phone SMS (CAMPS) trial: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial of mobile phone text messaging versus usual care for improving adherence to highly active anti-retroviral therapy.

Background: This trial aims at testing the efficacy of weekly reminder and motivational text messages, compared to usual care in improving adherence to Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment in patients attending a clinic in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Methods And Design: This is a single-centered randomized controlled single-blinded trial. A central computer generated randomization list will be generated using random block sizes.