BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The importance of stroke in low-income regions such as sub-Saharan Africa has recently been emphasized. However, little is known about the burden of stroke in sub-Saharan Africa. We investigated the prevalence of stroke survivors in the Agincourt Health and Population Unit, a demographic surveillance site in the rural northeast of South Africa. METHODS Census workers as...

BACKGROUND Unacceptably high levels of preventable maternal mortality persist as a problem across sub-Saharan Africa and much of south Asia. Currently, local assessments of the magnitude of maternal mortality are not often made, so the best available information for health planning may come from global estimates and not reflect local circumstances. METHODS A community-based cross-sectional su...

In-plane heat dissipation technology based on flexible thermoelectric film cooling is expected to provide a solution efficient in-plane of electronic devices. However, the low electrical transport performance films and difficulty in designing structure device seriously restrict applications this In work, an epoxy/Bi<sub>0.5</sub>Sb<sub>1.5</sub>Te<sub>3</sub>...

HIV and AIDS still pose a major public health problem to most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Zambia included. The objective of the paper is to determine changes in selected sexual behaviour and practice and HIV prevalence indicators between 2001-2002 and 2007. We used the Demographic and Health Survey Indicators Database for the computation of the selected indicators. We further used STATA 10...

Looking at the end-to-end processing, typical software-intensive systems are built as a system-of-systems where each sub-system specializes according to both the business and technology perspective. One challenge is the integration of all systems into a single system – crossing technological and organizational boundaries as well as functional domains. To facilitate the successful integration we...

One of the things that challenges HIV/AIDS redustion is stigma and 35 million people with (PLWHA). The number cases in Semarang Regency has increased every year, where District Bergas region highest case Regensy 2010-2018. purpose this study was to analyze factors associated housewives against PLHA Tegal Panas localization area, Regency. This used a quantitative method cross sectional design. R...

AIM The rising HIV infection rates among women especially of child bearing age particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa expose children to increased HIV risk even before they are born. Without effective measures or awareness campaigns to deal with mother-to-child transmission, 390 000 out of the global 430 000 children newly infected with HIV during 2008 were from sub-Saharan Africa This study was un...