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  1. Malaria places a great burden on households, but the extent to which this is tilted against the poor is unclear. However, the knowledge of the level of the burden of malaria amongst different population groups...

    Authors: Nkolika P Uguru, Obinna E Onwujekwe, Benjamin S Uzochukwu, Godwin C Igiliegbe and Soludo B Eze
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:21
  2. There is considerable interest at present in exploring the potential of social health insurance to increase access to and affordability of health care in Africa. A number of countries are currently experimenti...

    Authors: Sophie Witter and Bertha Garshong
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:20
  3. The importance of human rights education has widely been recognized as one of the strategies for their protection and promotion of health. Yet training programs have not always taken into account neither local...

    Authors: Philippe Chastonay, Axel Max Klohn, Véronique Zesiger, Franziska Freigburghaus and Emmanuel Kabengele Mpinga
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:19
  4. Public acceptance of genetically modified crops is partly rooted in religious views. However, the views of different religions and their potential influence on consumers' decisions have not been systematically...

    Authors: Emmanuel B Omobowale, Peter A Singer and Abdallah S Daar
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:18
  5. Women living in every country, irrespective of its development status, have been facing the problem of unintended pregnancy. Unintended pregnancy is an important public health issue in both developing and deve...

    Authors: Ramesh Adhikari, Kusol Soonthorndhada and Pramote Prasartkul
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:17
  6. On the 26th December 2004 the Asian tsunami devastated the Sri Lankan coastline. More than two years later, over 14,500 families were still living in transitional shelters. This study compares the health of the i...

    Authors: Alex Turner, Sameera Pathirana, Amanda Daley and Paramjit S Gill
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:16
  7. Reproductive technologies have been extensively debated in the literature. As well, feminist economists, environmentalists, and agriculturalists have generated substantial debate and literature on gender. Howe...

    Authors: Jerome Amir Singh, Sunita Bandewar and Peter A Singer
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:15
  8. Violence against women, especially by intimate partners, is a serious public health problem that is associated with physical, reproductive and mental health consequences. Even though most societies proscribe v...

    Authors: Olalekan A Uthman, Stephen Lawoko and Tahereh Moradi
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:14
  9. The need to scale up treatment for HIV/AIDS has led to a revival in community health workers to help alleviate the health human resource crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. Community health workers have been employe...

    Authors: Sandrine Simon, Kathryn Chu, Marthe Frieden, Baltazar Candrinho, Nathan Ford, Helen Schneider and Marc Biot
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:13
  10. The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been undergoing collective violence for over 25 years, which has constituted a major public health problem. The objectives of this study were to investigate the predictors...

    Authors: Diddy Antai and Justina Antai
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:12
  11. The prevalence of methamphetamine use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence are high in lowland Thai society. Despite increasing social and cultural mixing among residents of highland and lowland Th...

    Authors: Eiko Kobori, Surasing Visrutaratna, Yuko Maeda, Siriporn Wongchai, Akiko Kada, Masako Ono-Kihara, Yoko Hayami and Masahiro Kihara
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:11
  12. The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Kenya is a major public-health problem. Estimating the prevalence of HIV in pregnant women provides essential information for an effective implementation of HIV/AIDS control measures a...

    Authors: Michael Kiptoo, Solomon Mpoke, Zipporah Ng'ang'a, Jones Mueke, Fredrick Okoth and Elijah Songok
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:10
  13. The implementation of decentralisation reforms in the health sector of Tanzania started in the 1980s. These reforms were intended to relinquish substantial powers and resources to districts to improve the deve...

    Authors: Michael A Munga, Nils Gunnar Songstad, Astrid Blystad and Ottar Mæstad
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:9
  14. In 2007, various countries around the world notified 178677 cases of cholera and 4033 cholera deaths to the World Health Organization (WHO). About 62% of those cases and 56.7% of deaths were reported from the ...

    Authors: Joses M Kirigia, Luis G Sambo, Allarangar Yokouide, Edoh Soumbey-Alley, Lenity K Muthuri and Doris G Kirigia
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:8
  15. Traditional birth attendants (TBAs) are likely to deliver lower quality maternity care compared to professional health workers. It is important to characterize women who are assisted by TBAs in order to design...

    Authors: Seter Siziya, Adamson S Muula and Emmanuel Rudatsikira
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:7
  16. In 2000, the prevalence of diabetes among the 46 countries of the WHO African Region was estimated at 7.02 million people. Evidence from North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean indicates t...

    Authors: Joses M Kirigia, Hama B Sambo, Luis G Sambo and Saidou P Barry
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:6
  17. World wide, there is plentiful evidence regarding the role of stigma in mental illness, as well as the association between poverty and mental illness. The experiences of stigma catalyzed by poverty revolve aro...

    Authors: Joshua Ssebunnya, Fred Kigozi, Crick Lund, Dorothy Kizza and Elialilia Okello
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:5
  18. Over the last decade, utilization of ultrasound technology by non-radiologist physicians has grown. Recent advances in affordability, durability, and portability have brought ultrasound to the forefront as a s...

    Authors: Sachita P Shah, Henry Epino, Gene Bukhman, Irenee Umulisa, JMV Dushimiyimana, Andrew Reichman and Vicki E Noble
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:4
  19. This paper has its origins in Jonathan Mann's insight that the experience of dignity may explain the reciprocal relationships between health and human rights. It follows his call for a taxonomy of dignity: "a ...

    Authors: Nora Jacobson
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:3
  20. The prevalence of Coronary Atherosclerotic Heart Disease (CASHD) is increasing in India. Several modifiable risk factors contribute directly to this disease burden. Public knowledge of such risk factors among ...

    Authors: Omar Saeed, Vineet Gupta, Naveen Dhawan, Leanne Streja, John S Shin, Melvin Ku, Sanjeev Bhoi and Sanjay Verma
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:2
  21. Human rights violations have adverse consequences for health. However, to date, there remains little empirical evidence documenting this association, beyond the obvious physical and psychological effects of to...

    Authors: Vanessa Johnston, Pascale Allotey, Kim Mulholland and Milica Markovic
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2009 9:1
  22. Until recently, young people in Kazakhstan have been only moderately affected by the global HIV epidemic. Today, however, the HIV epidemic in Central Asia is one of the most rapidly increasing epidemics in the...

    Authors: Marit Hansson, Leo Stockfelt, Marat Urazalin, Clas Ahlm and Rune Andersson
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:14
  23. Under the "two countries, one system" policy implemented by China to manage the return of Hong Kong's sovereignty, Hong Kong has maintained a comparatively prosperous economy within the Asian region. This has ...

    Authors: William CW Wong, Eleanor Holroyd, Emily Y Chan, Sian Griffiths and Amie Bingham
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:13
  24. The main killer diseases of children all manifest as acute febrile illness, yet are curable with timely and adequate management. To avoid a fatal outcome, three essential steps must be completed: caretakers mu...

    Authors: Helena Hildenwall, Göran Tomson, Judith Kaija, George Pariyo and Stefan Peterson
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:12
  25. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been used to analyze the efficiency of the health sector in the developed world for sometime now. However, in developing economies and particularly in Africa only a few stud...

    Authors: James Akazili, Martin Adjuik, Caroline Jehu-Appiah and Eyob Zere
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:11
  26. The burning of biomass fuels results in exposure to high levels of indoor air pollution, with consequent health effects. Possible interventions to reduce the exposure include changing cooking practices and int...

    Authors: M Edelstein, E Pitchforth, G Asres, M Silverman and N Kulkarni
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:10
  27. Nigeria is home to more people living with HIV than any other country in the world, except South Africa and India – where an estimated 2.9 million [1.7 million – 4.2 million] people were living with the virus ...

    Authors: Olalekan A Uthman and Eugene J Kongnyuy
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:9
  28. Many refugees live for years in exile. The combination of stress in the host country, together with long-term effects resulting from traumatic stress usually experienced in the home country may affect mental h...

    Authors: Ulrike von Lersner, Ulrike Wiens, Thomas Elbert and Frank Neuner
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:8
  29. Indoor air pollution (IAP) from solid fuels is a serious health problem in low-income countries that can be alleviated using improved stoves. Although women are the principal users, few studies have investigat...

    Authors: Esperanza Díaz, Nigel Bruce, Dan Pope, Anaité Díaz, Kirk R Smith and Tone Smith-Sivertsen
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:7
  30. The health status and lifestyle of migrants is often poorer than that of the general population of their host countries. The Nepalese represent a relatively small, but growing, immigrant community in the UK, a...

    Authors: Pratik Adhikary, Padam P Simkhada, Edwin R van Teijlingen and Amalraj E Raja
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:6
  31. Costa Rica, like other developing countries, is experiencing an increasing burden of chronic conditions such as diabetes mellitus (DM), especially among its elderly population. This article has two goals: (1) ...

    Authors: Gilbert Brenes-Camacho and Luis Rosero-Bixby
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:5
  32. In order to improve child survival there is a need to target neonatal mortality. In this pursuit, valid local and national statistics on child health are essential. We analyze to what extent births and neonata...

    Authors: Mats MÃ¥lqvist, Leif Eriksson, Nguyen Thu Nga, Linn Irene Fagerland, Dinh Phuong Hoa, Lars Wallin, Uwe Ewald and Lars-Ã…ke Persson
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:4
  33. This paper presents the methodology and findings from a proof-of-concept study undertaken to explore the viability of conducting a systematic, largely qualitative synthesis of evaluation reports emanating from...

    Authors: Pim Kuipers, Sheila Wirz and Sally Hartley
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:3
  34. Smoking is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. There is therefore need to identify relevant factors associated with smoking among adolescents in order to better tailor public health interventi...

    Authors: Seter Siziya, Adamson S Muula and Emmanuel Rudatsikira
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2008 8:1
  35. Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand consistently place near the top of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index (HDI) rankings, yet all have minority Indigenous populat...

    Authors: Martin Cooke, Francis Mitrou, David Lawrence, Eric Guimond and Dan Beavon
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:9
  36. Little is known about the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Indian Ocean region, including Mauritius. National records suggest a prevalence of HIV in Mauritius of < 1% in the general population, which is one of the low...

    Authors: Yumiko H Nishimura, Masako Ono-Kihara, Jagdis C Mohith, Renaud NgManSun, Takayuki Homma, Ralph J DiClemente, Delia L Lang and Masahiro Kihara
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:8
  37. Achieving sustainable economic and social growth through advances in health is crucial in Latin America within the framework of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

    Authors: Carlos Franco-Paredes, Anna Von, Alicia Hidron, Alfonso J Rodríguez-Morales, Ildefonso Tellez, Maribel Barragán, Danielle Jones, Cesar G Náquira and Jorge Mendez
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:7
  38. The spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa is believed to be driven by unsafe sex, and identification of modifiable risk factors of the latter is needed for comprehensive HIV prevention programming in the region....

    Authors: Eugene J Kongnyuy and Charles Shey Wiysonge
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:6
  39. The Botswana government began providing free antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2002 and in 2004 introduced routine HIV testing (RHT) in government health facilities, aiming to increase HIV testing and uptake of ...

    Authors: Anne Cockcroft, Neil Andersson, Deborah Milne, Thamie Mokoena and Mokgweetsi Masisi
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:5
  40. To benefit from available care and treatment options, patients should first be counselled and tested for HIV. Our aim was to assess the acceptability of HIV testing among tuberculosis patients under routine ca...

    Authors: Degu Jerene, Aschalew Endale and Bernt Lindtjørn
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:4
  41. Manipur and Nagaland, in the north-east of India, are classified as high prevalence states for HIV, and intravenous drug use is an important route of transmission. Most injecting drug users (IDUs) are men, an ...

    Authors: Alexandra Devine, Michelle Kermode, Prabha Chandra and Helen Herrman
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:3
  42. Urban slums, like refugee communities, comprise a social cluster that engenders a distinct set of health problems. With 1 billion people currently estimated to live in such communities, this neglected populati...

    Authors: Lee W Riley, Albert I Ko, Alon Unger and Mitermayer G Reis
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2007 7:2
  43. In a recently published article, it was suggested that governance was the significant structural factor affecting the epidemiology of HIV. This suggestion was made notwithstanding the observed weak correlation be...

    Authors: Daniel D Reidpath and Pascale Allotey
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2006 6:12
  44. The 2004 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) in Cameroon revealed a higher prevalence of HIV in richest and most educated people than their poorest and least educated compatriots. It is not certain whether the...

    Authors: Eugene J Kongnyuy, Charles S Wiysonge, Robinson E Mbu, Philip Nana and Luc Kouam
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2006 6:11
  45. Patient's rights law is intended to secure good medical practice, but it can also serve to improve understanding between patients and medical staff if both were aware of their rights.

    Authors: Danute Ducinskiene, Jurgita Vladickiene, Ramune Kalediene and Irja Haapala
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2006 6:10
  46. The structured admission form is an apparently simple measure to improve data quality. Poor motivation, lack of supervision, lack of resources and other factors are conceivably major barriers to their successf...

    Authors: Sekela Mwakyusa, Annah Wamae, Aggrey Wasunna, Fred Were, Fabian Esamai, Bernhards Ogutu, Assumpta Muriithi, Norbert Peshu and Mike English
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2006 6:9
  47. The World Health Organization estimates that seeking prompt and appropriate care could reduce child deaths due to acute respiratory infections by 20%. The purpose of our study was to assess care seeking behavi...

    Authors: Chandrashekhar T Sreeramareddy, Ravi P Shankar, Binu V Sreekumaran, Sonu H Subba, Hari S Joshi and Uma Ramachandran
    Citation: BMC International Health and Human Rights 2006 6:7