Language Contact, Contamination, Containment, and Shift: Lessons From Multilingual Gwanda South, Zimbabwe

Depression in developing countries: lessons from Zimbabwe.

Multilingual Language Processing From Bytes

We describe an LSTM-based model which we call Byte-to-Span (BTS) that reads text as bytes and outputs span annotations of the form [start, length, label] where start positions, lengths, and labels are separate entries in our vocabulary. Because we operate directly on unicode bytes rather than languagespecific words or characters, we can analyze text in many languages with a single model. Due to...

Mental health innovations in Africa: lessons from Ethiopia and Zimbabwe.

During the last 5 years, mental health intervention research in lowand middle-income countries (LMIC) has been flourishing. This research has been spurred by substantial investments by funders such as the UK Department for International Development, Grand Challenges Canada, the National Institute of Mental Health, the European Commission and the Wellcome Trust. Many of these studies have been a...

Lessons learned from the contamination of heparin.

Heparin is unique as one of the oldest drugs currently still in widespread clinical use as an anticoagulant, a natural product, one of the first biopolymeric drugs, and one of the few carbohydrate drugs. Recently, certain batches of heparin have been associated with anaphylactoid-type reactions, some leading to hypotension and death. These reactions were traced to contamination with a semi-synt...

Economic burden of malaria on rural households in Gwanda district, Zimbabwe

BACKGROUND Malaria is a serious public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa and is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. AIM To estimate the economic burden of malaria in rural households. SETTING The study was conducted in Gwanda district of Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe. A total of five malarious wards and all their households were selected for the study frame, out of which 80 hous...