Reflections on the relevance of updated, standardised, and reliable data on sexual and gender-based violence for research and policymaking for eradication, response, and prevention in Sierra Leone by Zinnya del Villar, Anna Spinardi, Ivette Yáñez, Alina Sotolongo, Ana Deborah Lana, Berenice Fernandez Nieto, Yara Antoniassi, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Emmanuel Letouzé

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Incidence and prevalence of traumatic and non-traumatic wounds and burns and access to wound care in Sierra Leone; data from a nationwide household survey (PRESSCO) 2020 by Jonathan H. Vas Nunes, Alex J. van Duinen, Daniel Boateng, Amidu J. Tommy, Osman Sankoh, Martin P. Grobusch, Håkon A. Bolkan

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Methodological issues of retrospective surveys for measuring mortality of highly clustered diseases: case study of the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone by Grazia Caleo, Kamalini Lokuge, Katina Kardamanidis, Jane Greig, Jaroslava Belava, Emer Kilbride, Alhaji Sayui Turay, Gbessay Saffa, Ronald Kremer, Francesco Grandesso, Kostas Danis, Armand Sprecher, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Holly Baker, Helen A. Weiss

“…Methods We analysed the outputs of two independent population-based surveys conducted at the end of the 2014–2016 EVD outbreak in Bo District, Sierra Leone, in urban and rural areas. In each area, 35 clusters of 14 households were selected with probability proportional to population size. …”
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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Culturally Adapted Non-Specialist Delivery Problem-Solving Therapy—Friendship Bench Intervention for Perinatal Psychological Distress in Sierra Leone by Abdulai Jawo Bah, Haja Ramatulai Wurie, Mohamed Samai, Rebecca Horn, Alastair Ager

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Bridging the gap: community health workers as a vital link in humanitarian medical responses by Cora P. Nally, Patrick Van de Voorde, Marleen Temmerman, Marleen Temmerman, Adama Koroma, Monique Mitchell, Mary B. Adam

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A Triple Obstetric Challenge of Thoracopagus-Type Conjoined Twins, Eclampsia, and Obstructed Labor: A Case Report from Sub-Saharan Africa by Mariatu Binta Leigh, Valerie John-Cole, Mike Kamara, Alimamy Philip Koroma, Michael Momoh Koroma, Edward Ejiro Emuveyan, Peter Bramlage, Ivo Buschmann

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Local governance of the 2014 ebola Epidemic: a PhD synthesis by Sabine Iva Franklin

“…Sierra Leone had integrated traditional and community leaders before the scale up of international aid resources. …”
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Living with psychosis in West and Southeast Africa: SUCCEED Africa’s four-country situation analysis by Olubukola Omobowale, Rachel Greenley, Grace Ryan, Olusegun Ogunmola, Lloyd Dzapasi, Abraham Jimmy, Anthony Sefasi, Mayowa Olusanmi, Rebecca Esliker, Alhaji Koroma, Adeola Afolayan, Rita Tamambang, Epiphania Munetsi, Janet Mambulasa, Ritsuko Kakuma, Dixon Chibanda, Olayinka Omigbodun, Julian Eaton

“…As part of the formative work of the SUCCEED Africa consortium, we followed a participatory process to identify existing gaps and resources needed for the development and implementation of a rights-based intervention for people with lived experience of psychosis in Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe.…”
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External quality assurance of chest X-ray interpretation to strengthen diagnosis of childhood TB by B.F. Melingui, E. Leroy-Terquem, J.V. Taguebue, T.C. Eap, L. Borand, C. Khosa, R. Moh, J. Mwanga-Amumpaire, S. Beneteau, M.T. Eang, I. Manhiça, A. Mustapha, O. Marcy, E. Wobudeya, P.Y. Norval, M. Bonnet, on behalf of the TB-Speed study group

“…Specificity ranged between 13% in Sierra Leone and 65% in Cambodia (first EQA) and increased in 4/5 countries after the EQA periods. …”
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Genotype × Environment Interaction of Mosaic Disease, Root Yields and Total Carotene Concentration of Yellow-Fleshed Cassava in Nigeria by Norbert G. Maroya, Peter Kulakow, Alfred G. O. Dixon, Busie B. Maziya-Dixon

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Experiences of gender-based violence among women in sub-Saharan Africa: identifying evidence for intervention and public health priorities by Lucky Norah Katende-Kyenda, Judith I. Ani

“…Women in Comoros had the lowest reported prevalence (10.76%), while Sierra Leone women had the highest (60.27%), followed by Uganda (56.92%). …”
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La diffusion d’Ébola dans les pays de la Mano River : approche géographique by Hélène Simon-Lorière, Benjamin Lysaniuk

“…Affecting mainly the Mano River countries (Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone), the epidemic has rapidly circulated in the region from the initial point of Gueckedou (Guinea). …”
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Cadmium Uptake and Distribution in Fragrant Rice Genotypes and Related Consequences on Yield and Grain Quality Traits by Adam Sheka Kanu, Umair Ashraf, Zhaowen Mo, Issaka Fuseini, Lamin R. Mansaray, Meiyang Duan, Shenggan Pan, Xiangru Tang

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Improving quality of surgical and anaesthesia care in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of hospital-based quality improvement interventions by Justine Davies, Nataliya Brima, Imran O Morhason-Bello, Andy JM Leather, Vandy Charles

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The Ivory Saltcellars: A contribution to the history of Islamic expansion in Greater Senegambia during the 16th and 17th centuries by Thiago H. Mota

“…The analysis concerns the Greater Senegambia, a region comprised of the Senegal River basin in the north, the Futa Jalon plateau in the east, and northern Sierra Leone in the south. The study is based on European written sources, African oral traditions, and African carved ivories owned by the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, Germany. …”
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Dynamical System Analysis and Optimal Control Measures of Lassa Fever Disease Model by Ifeanyi Sunday Onah, Obiora Cornelius Collins, Praise-God Uchechukwu Madueme, Godwin Christopher Ezike Mbah

“…This disease is endemic in parts of West Africa including Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. We formulate a mathematical model for Lassa fever disease transmission under the assumption of a homogeneously mixed population. …”
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Intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 and adherence to non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 prior to the second wave of the pandemic in Uganda: a cross-sectional stu... by Ambrose Talisuna, Solome Okware, Rhoda K Wanyenze, Solomon Tsebeni Wafula, Innocent B Mugume, Benjamin Sensasi, Alexander Chimbaru, Richard Kabanda, Tabley Bakyaita, Jayne Byakika-Tusiime

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Dynamical System Analysis of a Lassa Fever Model with Varying Socioeconomic Classes by Ifeanyi Sunday Onah, Obiora Cornelius Collins

“…It poses a serious health challenge around the world today, especially in West African countries like Ghana, Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. In this work, we formulate a multiple-patch Lassa fever model, where each patch denotes a socioeconomic class (SEC). …”
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Effects of social determinants on children’s health in informal settlements in Bangladesh and Kenya through an intersectionality lens: a study protocol by Helen Elsey, Alastair H Leyland, Linsay Gray, Laura Dean, Bachera Aktar, Zahidul Quayyum, Penelope Phillips-Howard, Ivy Chumo, Caroline Kabaria, Blessing Mberu, Samuel Saidu, Lana Whittaker, Lakshmi K Josyula, Md Imran Hossain Mithu, Ross Forsyth, Eliud Kibuchi, Varun Sai, Sureka Garimella, Proloy Barua, Noemia Teixeira de Siqueira Filha, Tasmiah Selim, Ibrahim Gandi

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Orality in War Novels: Different Aspects of Swear Words in Henri Barbusse’s and Ahmadou Kourouma’s works by Joanna Kotowska-Miziniak

“…Although Barbusse’s First World War soldiers do not use the same vocabulary as Kourouma’s child soldiers who took part in the fighting in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s, their language is characterized by the same abusive use of swear words. …”
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