1,025 results match your criteria: "University of Namibia[Affiliation]"
PLoS One
December 2024
Institute of Virology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Free University Berlin, Humboldt-University Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
The genus Alphavirus harbors arboviruses of great concern, such as the Chikungunya virus and the equine encephalitis viruses. Transmission of pathogenic alphaviruses by mosquitoes could be influenced by insect-specific alphaviruses such as Eilat virus (EILV). However, insect-specific alphaviruses are rarely found in wild mosquitoes and only a few have been described in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Nutr
December 2024
Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi, China.
This study investigated the role of fish in addressing food and nutrition security challenges in Southern Africa, focusing on 10 countries including Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, and South Africa. It examined the current state of food and nutrition security, fish production, and fish consumption patterns. Additionally, the study investigated the challenges and opportunities to enhance fish production in these countries thereby enhancing food and nutrition security.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Anthropol Sci
December 2024
Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Italy.
Geography is a well-known factor shaping genetic variation in human populations. However, the potential role played by cultural variables remains much understudied. This study investigates the impact of socio-cultural variables on genomic similarity and the saliva microbiome, using data from populations in Lesotho and Namibia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIJTLD Open
December 2024
Division of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany.
Background: Computer-aided detection (CAD) tools for TB detection have the potential to enable screening programmes and reduce the diagnostic gap in settings where access to radiologists is limited. However, there are concerns that other common chest X-ray (CXR) abnormalities not due to TB may be missed.
Methods: We assessed the performance of three commercialised CAD tools (qXR, INSIGHT CXR and DrAID TB XR) to detect common non-TB abnormalities against readings with a standardised annotation guide by an expert radiologist.
Water Sci Technol
December 2024
Department of Civil Engineering, New Engineering Building, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7701, Cape Town, South Africa; Future Water Institute, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, Cape Town, South Africa.
Despite water being a significant output of water and resource recovery facilities (WRRFs), tertiary wastewater treatment processes are often underrepresented in integrated WRRF models. This study critically reviews the approaches used in comprehensive models for ozone (O) and biological activated carbon (BAC) operation units for wastewater tertiary treatment systems. The current models are characterised by limitations in the mechanisms that describe O disinfection and disinfection by-product formation, and BAC adsorption in multi-component solutes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhys Rev Lett
November 2024
Centre for Space Research, North-West University, Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa.
Owing to their rapid cooling rate and hence loss-limited propagation distance, cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CRe) at very high energies probe local cosmic-ray accelerators and provide constraints on exotic production mechanisms such as annihilation of dark matter particles. We present a high-statistics measurement of the spectrum of CRe candidate events from 0.3 to 40 TeV with the High Energy Stereoscopic System, covering 2 orders of magnitude in energy and reaching a proton rejection power of better than 10^{4}.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Imaging Radiat Sci
December 2024
Department of Radiography, School of Allied Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia, P.O Box 13301 Windhoek, Namibia. Electronic address:
Background: Clear communication during informed consent is crucial in paediatric computed tomography (CT) procedures, particularly in resource-constrained settings. CT offers valuable diagnostic information but carries potential radiation risks, especially for paediatric patients. Parents play a critical role in decision-making, necessitating thorough risk-benefit discussions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFS Afr J Sports Med
January 2024
Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Background: Rugby has not grown extensively in Africa compared to other continents, necessitating talent identification (TID) programs to recruit junior talent. However, it is unclear which physical characteristics and rugby-specific game skills to base the objective recruitment of potentially talented young players.
Objectives: This study profiled the physical fitness characteristics and rugby-specific game skills of schoolboy rugby players by playing standards to identify variables differentiating elite from sub-elite players from Under 16 (U16) to U19 age categories.
EBioMedicine
December 2024
Malaria Elimination Initiative, Global Health Group, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco 94158, USA; Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75390, USA; Department of Pediatrics, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco 94158, USA; Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF, San Francisco 94158, USA. Electronic address:
Medicine (Baltimore)
December 2024
Department of Human, Biological & Translational Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia.
Hypertension is a serious health concern, especially in developing countries, and assessing people's knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) is important for its awareness and management. This cross-sectional study aimed to assess the KAP on hypertension among students and staff from the Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Faculty of the University of Namibia. A cross-sectional study design was conducted on adult participants who completed the KAP questionnaire while resting, and thereafter their blood pressure (BP) was measured.
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December 2024
Macha Research Trust, Choma, Zambia.
J Public Health Afr
November 2024
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Background: Healthcare workers (HCWs) are a priority group targeted for vaccination because they are greatly exposed to infectious agents.
Aim: To determine the prevalence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination and associated risk factors for vaccine hesitancy to recommend vaccine uptake strategies among student nurses.
Setting: The study was carried out at the University of Namibia, main campus in Windhoek.
Introduction: Globally, health care organizations need to provide quality, culturally congruent health care to increasingly diverse patients. Nursing education institutions must therefore produce culturally competent nursing professionals to provide safe and culturally congruent care. This review aimed to identify and outline strategies to enhance cultural competence of undergraduate nursing students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Rep
December 2024
Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Environmental Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Kita 18, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0818, Japan.
Sci Rep
December 2024
Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, 2006, South Africa.
J Glob Health
November 2024
Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Background: Active case finding could effectively detect tuberculosis (TB) patients, but it can be costly. Therefore, a feasible, cost-saving, and efficient algorithm for community-based TB screening is needed.
Methods: The study population was based on a previous TB prevalence survey conducted in the Zambia/South Africa Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Reduction trial.
Global Health
November 2024
Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Background: The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused significant morbidity and mortality in Africa, in addition to other socio-economic consequences. Across the continent, Schools of Public Health (SPHs) played several roles in supporting national, regional, and global response to the pandemic. Following a published and grey literature search, this paper reviews and analyses the contribution of SPHs in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysiology education in Africa faces challenges due to gaps in curricula across many of its universities, such as divergent content, a lack of standardized competencies, and suitable benchmarking. Here, we describe the development of Physiology Curriculum for African Universities (PhysioCAFUN), a competency-based curriculum development guideline, as a first step to address such shortcomings. A committee of 15 physiologists from different African regions, Europe, and USA was constituted to draft the PhysioCAFUN, which was introduced and revised during the joint East African Society of Physiological Sciences (EASPS) and African Association of Physiological Sciences (AAPS) conference held in Tanzania late 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHelicobacter
November 2024
Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Background: Although Helicobacter pylori infection (H. pylori) prevalence in Africa has declined in the last decade, it remains concerningly high. H.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth Phys
November 2024
University of Namibia, PO Box 21935, Windhoek, Namibia.
Background: In operating theatres, diagnostic radiography is used to capture images during surgical operations. With the growing use of fluoroscopy, there are concerns about increased radiation exposure to healthcare workers such as doctors and nurses. Thus, assessing HCWs' knowledge and adherence to radiation protection is crucial to prevent overexposure, radiation-related health issues, and ensure patient safety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pers Soc Psychol
November 2024
Department of Psychology, University of Oregon.
A "big two" model has shown stronger cross-cultural replicability and links to theory than other contemporary models of personality trait structure. However, its theoretical and measurement models require better specification. We address this to create an initial English-language version of the Cross-Cultural Big Two Inventory with an empirically informed and culturally decentered approach, meaning that input from global contexts is used from the outset, without prioritizing Western perspectives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Floods are one of the persistent major risk drivers impacting the Cuvelai-Etosha basin of northern Namibia. Locally known as , this disruptive event negatively impacts particularly the rural population, who have limited resources to combat its effects. Being mostly subsistence farmers in isolated communities, the floods wreak havoc with their homesteads, harvests, animals, and general way of life by cutting them off from their fields, neighbours, and essential services for prolonged periods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAfr J Disabil
October 2024
Department of Psychology and Social Work, Faculty of Health Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia.
Background: The greatest challenge for persons with disabilities is that of securing and maintaining employment, because of the limitations associated with being visually impaired.
Objectives: This study aims to explore the employment challenges of securing and maintaining employment faced by persons with visual impairments.
Method: A qualitative research approach with an exploratory research design was employed.
Infect Med (Beijing)
December 2024
Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, University of Zambia, P.O Box 50110, Lusaka 10101, Zambia.
Sci Rep
October 2024
Biosafety Research Institute and College of Veterinary Medicine, Jeonbuk National University, 79, Gobong‑Ro, Iksan‑Si, Jeollabuk‑Do, 54596, Republic of Korea.