BackgroundThe reasons for the persistence of risky sexual behaviours among adolescents and young adults in sub-Saharan Africa despite the increasing knowledge about the associated risks continue to attract scholarly debates.Drawing from a cross-sectional study conducted among male and female Nigerian university students, we examined the relationshi
Mood Symptoms and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Due to Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Are Associated with Immune Activation and Aberrations in the Erythron
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune and neuroinflammatory disease of the central nervous system characterized by peripheral activation of immune-inflammatory pathways which culminate in neurotoxicity causing demyelination of central neurons.Nonetheless, the pathophysiology of relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS)-related chronic fat
Social network-based group intervention to promote uptake of cervical cancer screening in Uganda: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
Abstract Introduction Cervical cancer (CC) is the most common cancer and accounts for one quarter of all cancer-related deaths among women in Uganda, where lifetime CC screening is Wood Message Frame estimated to be as low as 5%.This study will evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a social network-based group interve
An Audit of Protocol Deviations Submitted to an Institutional Ethics Committee of a Tertiary Care Hospital.
Protocol deviations (PDs) may jeopardize safety, rights, and welfare of subjects and data integrity.There is scarce literature and no guidelines for Institutional Ethics Committees (IECs) to process PD reports.The PD reports submitted to IECs from Jan 2011 to August 2014 were analyzed retrospectively.Types of studies reporting PDs, category and typ
The importance of reputation on health service institutions
Today, there is an ever-increasing importance of the concept of reputation for either public or private institutions that show a rapid change in the competition environment that has been brought along globalization.Corporate reputation is defined as the whole evaluation regarding whether or Outdoor Storage Bench not an institution is perceived as r