INTRODUCTION Male partner HIV testing has been recognized as an important component of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission. Scheduled home-based couple HIV testing may be an effective strategy to reach men. METHODS Women attending their first antenatal visit at Kisumu County Hospital in Kenya were randomized to home-based education and HIV testing within 2 weeks of enrollment (HOPE...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportion and number of cancers occurring in Australia in 2010 attributable to parous women having breastfed for total durations of ≤12 months. METHODS We estimated the population attributable fraction (PAF) of breast cancers (the only cancer site with convincing evidence of causal association) associated with women breastfeeding for ≤12 months in total, using stan...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of music therapy on breastfeeding rates among mothers of premature newborns. METHOD In this open randomized controlled trial, mothers of premature neonates weighting ≤ 1,750 g were submitted to music therapy sessions three times a week for 60 minutes. The endpoints were breastfeeding rates at the moment of infant hospital discharge and at follow-up visits (7-1...

the cowpea seed beetle, callosobruchus maculatus (fab.) (coleoptera: chrysomelidae: bruchinae) is one of the major pests infesting stored pulses and is distributed worldwide. in this research, efficiency of plant extracts from eucalyptus globulus labill. and eucalyptus camaldulensis dehnh. were tested against the cowpea seed beetle for its antifeedant activity. several experiments were designed...

BACKGROUND The goal of virtual elimination of horizontal and mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa (SA) has been proposed, but there have been few systematic investigations of which interventions are likely to be most critical to reducing HIV incidence. OBJECTIVE This study aims to evaluate SA's potential to achieve virtual elimination targets and to identify which interventions wi...

Managed plantations of saltbush have the potential to increase productivity and climate resilience farming systems low rainfall areas world, where livestock are important. The objective was dynamically simulate behaviour grazing with a new modelling capacity in APSIM framework enable dynamic forage systems. Scenarios simulated included: choice plant species growing interrow area between shrub-r...

BACKGROUND Childhood overweight has increased dramatically, particularly among young girls. Genetic and environmental factors produce the overweight phenotype. Nonshared environments appear to account for a substantial proportion of the population variance in overweight but remain largely unspecified and unmeasured. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to evaluate the influence of maternal control in feedi...

Background: Feeding intolerance is prevalent in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates and is a barrier for better and faster growth in these neonates. Some studies have supported the administration of oral probiotic to decrease feeding intolerance. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of probiotic on feeding intolerance in VLBW neonates. Methods: This randomized clinical trial st...

Prelacteal feeding practices are associated with an increased risk of diarrhoea and many early-life diseases. This paper examined trends and predictors of prelacteal feeding practices in Nigeria. A sample of 6416 infants aged 0-6 months from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey data for the period (2003-2013) was used. Trends and multilevel logistic regression analyses were used to determi...

There is considerable controversy about the existence, extent and adaptive value of integrated multimodal memory in non-human animals. Building on prior results showing that wild capuchin monkeys in Argentina appear to recall both the location and amount of food at patches they had previously visited, I tested whether they also track and use elapsed time as a basis for decisions about which fee...