Mass Drug Administration With High-Dose Ivermectin and Dihydroartemisinin-Piperaquine for Malaria Elimination in an Area of Low Transmission With High Coverage of Malaria Control I... by Dabira, Edgard Diniba, Soumare, Harouna M, Lindsay, Steven W, Conteh, Bakary, Ceesay, Fatima, Bradley, John, Kositz, Christian, Broekhuizen, Henk, Kandeh, Balla, Fehr, Alexandra E, Nieto-Sanchez, Claudia, Ribera, Joan Muela, Peeters Grietens, Koen, Smit, Menno Roderick, Drakeley, Chris, Bousema, Teun, Achan, Jane, D’Alessandro, Umberto

“…MethodsThe study is a cluster randomized trial in the Upper River Region of The Gambia and included 32 villages (16 control and 16 intervention). …”
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Etude sur les maladies abortives chez la race bovine locale N’Dama et propositions des mesures de lutte au niveau des sites du PROGEBE (République de Guinée) by Diallo A.O.S., Diallo B., Diallo S.T., Diallo M.R., Barry A.M., Goumou A., Konate Y., Sidime Y.

“…This study is funded by the Regional project for sustainable management of globally significant endemic ruminant livestock -PROGEBE- in West Africa, which includes Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Gambia. In Guinea, several prefectures were covered in the four natural regions of the country. …”

Introduction to the issue by Thera Marie Crane

“…Finally, Dione offers Lexical-Functional Grammar analyses of prominent linguistic features in Wolof, a Niger-Congo language that is spoken mostly in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania. …”
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Family history: an opportunity for early interventions and improved control of hypertension, obesity and diabetes by van der Sande Marianne A.B., Walraven Gijs E.L., Milligan Paul J.M., Banya Winston A.S., Ceesay Sana M., Nyan Ousman A., McAdam Keith P.W.J.

“…OBJECTIVE: To examine whether a family history of high-risk groups for major noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) was a significant risk factor for these conditions among family members in a study population in the Gambia, where strong community and family coherence are important determinants that have to be taken into consideration in promoting lifestyle changes. …”
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Female genital mutilation: trends, economic burden of delay and basis for public health interventions by Kathya Cordova-Pozo, Hisham Hussein Imam Abdalla, Ann-Beth Moller

“…Among the 14, nine countries, Uganda, Togo, Ghana, Benin, Kenya, Nigeria, Central African Republic, Chad, and Ethiopia had high year-decrease (CAGR − 1.01 and − 10.26) while five, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Djibouti, and Mali had low year-decrease (CAGR>-1 and < 0). …”
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Mapping the regulatory landscape of AI in healthcare in Africa by Beverley Alice Townsend, Beverley Alice Townsend, Irvine Sihlahla, Meshandren Naidoo, Shiniel Naidoo, Dusty-Lee Donnelly, Donrich Willem Thaldar

“…This paper offers a scoping exercise that maps the regulatory landscape of AI in healthcare (including health research) in certain African countries.Methods: This research is conducted across 12 African countries: Botswana, Cameroon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. …”
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Implementation of post-discharge malaria chemoprevention (PDMC) in Benin, Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda: stakeholder engagement meeting report by Jenny Hill, PDMC Saves Lives Consortium

“…The trials were conducted in The Gambia using monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine during the transmission season, in Malawi using monthly artemether-lumefantrine, and in Kenya and Uganda using monthly dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, showing a significant reduction in all-cause mortality by 77% (95% CI 30–98) and a 55% (95% CI 44–64) reduction in all-cause hospital readmissions 6 months post-discharge. …”
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Post-COVID Syndrome in Bipolar Affective Disorder Patient by Ahmad Firdaus, Adelita Vega Dwiputri, Aderisti Irkadiratna, Adi Satria Nugraha, Adinda Narulitia, Era Catur Prasetya, Absa Secka, Muhammad Muslih

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Maximum Entropy Niche Modelling to Estimate the Potential Distribution of Phytophthora megakarya (Brasier & M. J. Griffin) in Tropical Regions by Maxwell Obiakara, Peter Etaware, Kanayo Chukwuka

“…In West Africa, suitable environments were observed along the Atlantic coast, from southern Nigeria to Gambia. Our analysis suggested that P. megakarya is capable of subsisting outside its native range, at least in terms of climatic and edaphic factors. …”
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Differentials in Maternal Mortality Pattern in Sub-Saharan Africa Countries: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey Data by Osaretin Christabel Okonji, Chimezie Igwegbe Nzoputam, Michael Ekholuenetale, Emeka Francis Okonji, Anthony Ike Wegbom, Clement Kevin Edet

“…Based on the results, countries with the lowest adult female mortality rate include Senegal, Comoros, Rwanda, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, Gambia, and Ethiopia. In addition, Chad (44.7%), Niger (38.7%), the Congo Democratic Republic (34.8%), Nigeria (34.2%), Mauritania (32.0%), Senegal (29.2%), Liberia (28.8%), Benin (27.8%), and Guinea (27.5%), respectively, reported the highest female deaths that are pregnancy-related. …”
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Designing of banana shaped chromophores via molecular engineering of terminal groups to probe photovoltaic behavior of organic solar cell materials by Saeed Ahmed, Iram Irshad, Saima Nazir, Salma Naz, Muhammad Adnan Asghar, Saad M. Alshehri, Saifullah Bullo, Muhammed Lamin Sanyang

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Crude childhood vaccination coverage in West Africa: Trends and predictors of completeness [version 1; referees: 1 approved, 3 approved with reservations] by Jacob S. Kazungu, Ifedayo M.O. Adetifa

“…Methods: We utilized datasets from the Demographic and Health Surveys Program, available for Benin, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo, to obtain coverage for Bacillus Calmette-Guerin, polio, measles, and diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus (DPT) vaccines in children aged 12 – 23 months. …”
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Guiding principles to maintain public trust in the use of mobile operator data for policy purposes by Ronald Jansen, Karoly Kovacs, Siim Esko, Erki Saluveer, Kaja Sõstra, Linus Bengtsson, Tracey Li, Wole A. Adewole, Jade Nester, Ayumi Arai, Esperanza Magpantay

“…Three projects (in Estonia, Ghana, and the Gambia) were described and reviewed with respect to the compliance and applicability of the five principles. …”
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Partially randomized, non-blinded trial of DNA and MVA therapeutic vaccines based on hepatitis B virus surface protein for chronic HBV infection. by James S Cavenaugh, Dorka Awi, Maimuna Mendy, Adrian V S Hill, Hilton Whittle, Samuel J McConkey

“…Healthy but chronically HBV-infected males between the ages of 15-25 who lived in the western part of The Gambia were eligible. Participants in some groups received 1 mg or 2 mg of pSG2.HBs intramuscularly twice followed by 5×10(7) pfu or 1.5×10(8) pfu of MVA.HBs intradermally at 3-weekly intervals with or without concomitant 3TC for 11-14 weeks. …”
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Learning from One-Health approaches to explore links between farming practices, animal, human and ecosystem health in Nigeria by Akaninyene Otu, Akaninyene Otu, Obiageli Onwusaka, Obiageli Onwusaka, Clement Meseko, Emmanuel Effa, Emmanuel Effa, Emmanuel Effa, Bassey Ebenso, Isong Isong Abraham, Jeremiah Ijomanta, Ayokunle Omileye, Chinenye Emelife, Sunday Eziechina, Kabiru Suleiman, Chinwe Ochu, Victor Adetimirin

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Assessment of health benefits and cost-effectiveness of 10-valent and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination in Kenyan children. by Philip Ayieko, Ulla K Griffiths, Moses Ndiritu, Jennifer Moisi, Isaac K Mugoya, Tatu Kamau, Mike English, J Anthony G Scott

“…We used vaccine efficacy estimates from a trial in The Gambia and accounted for serotype distribution in Kilifi. …”
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Modeling COVID-19 dynamics in the sixteen West African countries by Sewanou H. Honfo, Hemaho B. Taboe, Romain Glèlè Kakaï

“…The detection rate of the disease was also relatively low (0.9% for West Africa as a whole) and <2% for most countries, except for Gambia (12.5 %), Cape-Verde (9.5%), Mauritania (5.9%) and Ghana (4.4%). …”
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Evidence for non-communicable diseases: analysis of Cochrane reviews and randomised trials by World Bank classification by Heneghan, C, Blacklock, C, Perera, R, Davis, R, Banerjee, A, Gill, P, Liew, S, Chamas, L, Hernandez, J, Mahtani, K, Hayward, G, Harrison, S, Lasserson, D, Mickan, S, Sellers, C, Carnes, D, Homer, K, Steed, L, Ross, J, Denny, N, Goyder, C, Thompson, M, Ward, A

“…Other than the five Cochrane NCD corresponding authors from South Africa, only one other corresponding author was from Africa (Gambia). DISCUSSION: The overwhelming body of evidence for NCDs pertains to high-income countries, with only a small number of review authors based in low-income settings. …”

Genetic variants of MARCO are associated with susceptibility to pulmonary tuberculosis in a Gambian population. by Bowdish, D, Sakamoto, K, Lack, N, Hill, P, Sirugo, G, Newport, M, Gordon, S, Hill, A, Vannberg, F

“…DNA samples from newly-detected, smear-positive, pulmonary tuberculosis cases were collected from The Gambia. Controls for this study consisted of DNA from cord bloods obtained from routine births at local Gambian health clinics. …”

Relation between severe malaria morbidity in children and level of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in Africa. by Snow, R, Omumbo, J, Lowe, B, Molyneux, C, Obiero, J, Palmer, A, Weber, M, Pinder, M, Nahlen, B, Obonyo, C, Newbold, C, Gupta, S, Marsh, K

“…METHODS: We have prospectively recorded paediatric admissions with severe malaria over three to five years from five discrete communities in The Gambia and Kenya. Demographic analysis of the communities exposed to disease risk allowed the estimation of age-specific rates for severe malaria. …”