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Understanding the relationship between couple dynamics and engagement with HIV care services: Insights from a qualitative study in Eastern and Southern Africa (2017)
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Objective To explore the interplay between couple dynamics and the engagement of people living with HIV (PLHIV) with HIV care and treatment services in three health and demographic surveillance sites in Tanzania, Malawi and South Africa. Methods A qu... Read More about Understanding the relationship between couple dynamics and engagement with HIV care services: Insights from a qualitative study in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Changing forms of HIV-related stigma along the HIV care and treatment continuum in sub-Saharan Africa: A temporal analysis (2017)
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Objectives Stigma remains pervasive for people living with HIV (PLHIV) in sub-Saharan Africa, undermining care engagement. Using everyday, biographical and epochal temporalities, we explored the manifestation of stigma at different stages of the HIV... Read More about Changing forms of HIV-related stigma along the HIV care and treatment continuum in sub-Saharan Africa: A temporal analysis.

Using theories of practice to understand HIV-positive persons varied engagement with HIV services: A qualitative study in six Sub-Saharan African countries (2017)
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Objectives This article considers the potential of 'theories of practice' for studying and understanding varied (dis)engagement with HIV care and treatment services and begins to unpack the assemblage of elements and practices that shape the nature a... Read More about Using theories of practice to understand HIV-positive persons varied engagement with HIV services: A qualitative study in six Sub-Saharan African countries.

Where are we now? A multicountry qualitative study to explore access to pre-Antiretroviral care services: A precursor to antiretroviral therapy initiation (2017)
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Objective To explore barriers and facilitators to accessing postdiagnosis HIV care in five sub-Saharan African countries. Methods In-depth interviews were conducted with 77 people living with HIV (PLHIV) in pre-Antiretroviral therapy care or not-yet-... Read More about Where are we now? A multicountry qualitative study to explore access to pre-Antiretroviral care services: A precursor to antiretroviral therapy initiation.

Tensions in relation: How peer support is experienced and received in a hepatitis C treatment intervention (2017)
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Background Peer support and involvement is recognised as a vital component of hepatitis C (HCV) treatment provision for marginalised populations, such as people who inject drugs (PWID). Developments in HCV treatments enable increased provision in com... Read More about Tensions in relation: How peer support is experienced and received in a hepatitis C treatment intervention.

Workplace well-being in the London-Chinese business community (2017)
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Purpose Workplace well-being is key to improving health and therefore productivity. Although the Chinese population and their influence on business in the UK are growing rapidly, little is known about the attitudes of Chinese employers and employees... Read More about Workplace well-being in the London-Chinese business community.

Pattern of referrals by Optometrists in Nigeria in relation to glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy (2016)
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Referrals from primary care practitioners such as optometrists to other health care providers is critical to the health care delivery system of any society. This study explores the pattern of referrals of Nigerian optome-trists with respect to glauco... Read More about Pattern of referrals by Optometrists in Nigeria in relation to glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.

Community engagement in practice in the UK: A systematic mapping review (2016)
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Background

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK commissioned a mapping review of current and emerging UK community engagement practice to inform their updated guidance.

Methods

Given the difficulties of iden... Read More about Community engagement in practice in the UK: A systematic mapping review.

Informed consent in health Research: Challenges and barriers in low-and middle-income countries with specific reference to Nepal (2016)
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Obtaining ‘informed consent’ from every individual participant involved in health research is a mandatory ethical practice. Informed consent is a process whereby potential participants are genuinely informed about their role, risk and rights before t... Read More about Informed consent in health Research: Challenges and barriers in low-and middle-income countries with specific reference to Nepal.

Medicamentosa keratoconjunctivitis: A case report (2016)
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We present a case of medicamentosa keratoconjunctivitis in a 42-year-old woman who complained of eye redness, blurred vision and pain after using inappropriate medications for treatment. Examination revealed severe conjunctival injection as well as p... Read More about Medicamentosa keratoconjunctivitis: A case report.

Parental knowledge and attitude to children's eye care services (2016)
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Background: The early years of life is very significant in the development of the eyes and vision, any disruption at this stage may lead to severe visual impairment or even blindness. Eye examination and treatment of childrenis not just a right of t... Read More about Parental knowledge and attitude to children's eye care services.

The behaviours that dementia care home staff in South Africa find challenging: An exploratory study (2016)
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Background: Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia are often the reasons for moving to a care home. Care staff, often with limited dementia training, may have to support residents with distressed behaviour on a daily basis. Evidence about... Read More about The behaviours that dementia care home staff in South Africa find challenging: An exploratory study.

Need and scope of global partnership on public health research (2016)
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Assessment of education requirements for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, based on the Polish version of the Educational Needs Assessment Tool (Pol-ENAT), in the light of some health problems – A cross-sectional study (2016)
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© 2016, Institute of Agricultural Medicine. All rights reserved. Introduction. Patients with chronic rheumatoid arthritis (RA) need advice in order to face the problems of everyday life, as well as suffering associated with the disease. Health profes... Read More about Assessment of education requirements for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, based on the Polish version of the Educational Needs Assessment Tool (Pol-ENAT), in the light of some health problems – A cross-sectional study.

Effect of the chemical composition of filter media on the microbial community in wastewater biofilms at different temperatures (2016)
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© 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry. This study investigates the microbial community composition in the biofilms grown on two different support media in fixed biofilm reactors for aerobic wastewater treatment, using next generation sequencing (NGS)... Read More about Effect of the chemical composition of filter media on the microbial community in wastewater biofilms at different temperatures.

Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia disease progression is associated with increased vaginal microbiome diversity (2015)
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Persistent infection with oncogenic Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is necessary for cervical carcinogenesis. Although evidence suggests that the vaginal microbiome plays a functional role in the persistence or regression of HPV infections, this has yet t... Read More about Cervical intraepithelial neoplasia disease progression is associated with increased vaginal microbiome diversity.

The indispensability of reflexivity to practice: The case of home energy efficiency (2015)
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This article offers new theoretical and empirical insights into decision-making with regard to the domestication and incorporation of home energy efficiency (HEE) artefacts. These items, such as insulation and heating systems, are currently of high s... Read More about The indispensability of reflexivity to practice: The case of home energy efficiency.

Visual function among commercial vehicle drivers in the central region of Ghana (2015)
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Aim
To determine the relationship between some visual functions: colour vision defects, abnormal stereopsis, visual acuity and the occurrence of road traffic accident (RTAs) among commercial vehicle drivers in the central region of Ghana, and to ass... Read More about Visual function among commercial vehicle drivers in the central region of Ghana.

Stigma- and non-stigma-related treatment barriers to mental healthcare reported by service users and caregivers (2015)
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Delayed treatment seeking for people experiencing symptoms of mental illness is common despite available mental healthcare. Poor outcomes are associated with untreated mental illness and caregivers may eventually need to seek help on the service user... Read More about Stigma- and non-stigma-related treatment barriers to mental healthcare reported by service users and caregivers.

Rapid detection of emerging pathogens and loss of microbial diversity associated with severe lung disease in cystic fibrosis (2015)
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Copyright © 2015, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. Respiratory infection in cystic fibrosis (CF) is polymicrobial, but standard sputum microbiology does not account for the lung microbiome or detect changes in microbial diversi... Read More about Rapid detection of emerging pathogens and loss of microbial diversity associated with severe lung disease in cystic fibrosis.