Evaluating implementation of a hospital‐based cancer registry to improve childhood cancer care in low‐ and middle‐income countries by Melissa R. Maas, Allison Yang, Michele A. Muir, James B. Collins IV, Courtney Canter, Gevorg Tamamyan, Inam Chitsike, Francine Kouya, Kim Hoa Nguyen, Alia Ahmad, Ana Patricia Alcasabas, Yi‐Jin Gao, Kimberly J. Johnson, Gia Ferrara, Nickhill Bhakta, Benyam Muluneh

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Towards a cervical cancer-free future: women’s healthcare decision making and cervical cancer screening uptake in sub-Saharan Africa by Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Richard Gyan Aboagye, Bernard Yeboah-Asiamah Asare, Joshua Okyere, Bupe Mwamba

“…We employed multilevel binary logistic regression modelling.Setting Sub-Saharan Africa.Participants Women aged 15–49 years in Benin (n=5282), Côte d’Ivoire (n=1925), Cameroon (n=7558), Kenya (n=6696), Namibia (n=1990) and Zimbabwe (n=5006).Primary outcome measures Cervical cancer screening uptake.Results The overall prevalence of cervical cancer screening across the six sub-Saharan African countries was 13.4%. …”
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Findings from the Tushirikiane-4-MH (supporting each other for mental health) mobile health–supported virtual reality randomized controlled trial among urban refugee youth in Kampa... by Carmen H. Logie, Moses Okumu, Zerihun Admassu, Frannie MacKenzie, Lesley Gittings, Jean-Luc Kortenaar, Naimul Khan, Robert Hakiza, Daniel Kibuuka Musoke, Aidah Nakitende, Brenda Katisi, Peter Kyambadde, Richard Lester, Lawrence Mbuagbaw

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Perceived usefulness of trauma audit filters in urban India: a mixed-methods multicentre Delphi study comparing filters from the WHO and low and middle-income countries by Max Petzold, Lovenish Bains, Ulf Ekelund, Kapil Dev Soni, Nobhojit Roy, Martin Gerdin Wärnberg, Swati Gupta, Monty Khajanchi, Anurag Mishra, Jyoti Kamble, Helle Mølsted Alvesson, Johanna Berg, Shamita Chatterjee, Siddarth David, Rajdeep Singh, Prosanta Kumar Bhattacharjee, Pawanindra Lal, Vikas Malhotra, Ravi Meher, Lakshmeswar Nagaraj Mohan, Ritu Saxena, Prabhat Shrivastava, Sumit Sural

“…Objective To compare experts’ perceived usefulness of audit filters from Ghana, Cameroon, WHO and those locally developed; generate context-appropriate audit filters for trauma care in selected hospitals in urban India; and explore characteristics of audit filters that correlate to perceived usefulness.Design A mixed-methods approach using a multicentre online Delphi technique.Setting Two large tertiary hospitals in urban India.Methods Filters were rated on a scale from 1 to 10 in terms of perceived usefulness, with the option to add new filters and comments. …”
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Subclinical Plasmodium spp. Infections in a Community Setting in Bangui, Central African Republic by Nzoumbou-Boko R, Denissio Morissi Nalingbo MCI, Yambiyo BM, Detol R, Moussa ERF, Nalinga D, Namsenei-Dankpea LJVDLG, Manirakiza A, Ayong L, Boum II Y

“…Romaric Nzoumbou-Boko,1,2 Mireille Cornelia Ingrid Denissio Morissi Nalingbo,1,3 Brice Martial Yambiyo,4 Roger Detol,5 Ermeland Rock Feller Moussa,1 Didita Nalinga,1 Lydie Joella-Venus de la Grace Namsenei-Dankpea,4 Alexandre Manirakiza,4 Lawrence Ayong,6 Yap Boum II1,7 1Parasitology Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Bangui, Bangui, Central Africa Republic; 2Faculty of Science, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central Africa Republic; 3Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Bangui, Bangui, Central Africa Republic; 4Epidemiology Department, Pasteur Institute of Bangui, Bangui, Central Africa Republic; 5Medical Entomology Department, Pasteur Institute of Bangui, Bangui, Central Africa Republic; 6Malaria Research Unit, Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon; 7Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé I, Yaoundé, CamerounCorrespondence: Romaric Nzoumbou-Boko, Parasitology Laboratory, Pasteur Institute of Bangui, P.O. …”
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Advancing poliovirus eradication: lessons learned from piloting direct molecular detection of polioviruses in high-risk and priority geographies by Paula L. Marcet, Brandon Short, Ashley Deas, Hong Sun, Chelsea Harrington, Shahzad Shaukat, Muhammad Masroor Alam, Marycelin Baba, Adedayo Faneye, Prossy Namuwulya, Lea Necitas Apostol, Tamer Elshaarawy, John Kofi Odoom, Peter Borus, Shelina Moonsamy, Yogolelo Riziki, Marie Claire Endegue Zanga, Mesfin Tefera, Anfumbom K. W. Kfutwah, Salmaan Sharif, Varja Grabovac, Cara C. Burns, Nancy Gerloff

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Social Progress and Economic Growth based on Simultaneous Equations of Panel Data by Seyed Ehsan Hosseinidoust, Akbar Khodabakhshi, Saeedeh Ahmadi

“…The countries studied in this research are: Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Cameroon, Egypt, Guinea, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Tunisia, Turkey and UAE. …”
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Evaluation of a short training course of chest X-ray interpretation for the diagnosis of paediatric TB by B. F. Melingui, E. Leroy-Terquem, M. Palmer, J-V. Taguebue, A. P. Wachinou, J. Gaudelus, A. Salomao, D. Bunnet, T. C. Eap, L. Borand, C. Chabala, C. Khosa, R. Moh, J. Mwanga-Amumpere, M. T. Eang, I. Manhiça, A. Mustapha, S. Beneteau, L. Falzon, J. A. Seddon, L. Berteloot, E. Wobudeya, O. Marcy, M. Bonnet, P. Y. Norval

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Factors influencing trust in algorithmic decision-making: an indirect scenario-based experiment by Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos, Rebecca Marrone, Malgorzata Korolkiewicz, Florence Gabriel, George Siemens, Srecko Joksimovic, Yuki Yamada, Yuki Mori, Talal Rahwan, Maria Sahakyan, Belona Sonna, Assylbek Meirmanov, Aidos Bolatov, Bidisha Som, Izuchukwu Ndukaihe, Nwadiogo C. Arinze, Josef Kundrát, Lenka Skanderová, Van-Giang Ngo, Giang Nguyen, Michelle Lacia, Chun-Chia Kung, Meiselina Irmayanti, Meiselina Irmayanti, Abdul Muktadir, Fransiska Timoria Samosir, Marco Tullio Liuzza, Roberto Giorgini, Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Hassan Banaruee, Asil Ali Özdoğru, Kris Ariyabuddhiphongs, Wachirawit Rakchai, Natalia Trujillo, Stella Maris Valencia, Armina Janyan, Armina Janyan, Kiril Kostov, Pedro R. Montoro, Jose Hinojosa, Jose Hinojosa, Kelsey Medeiros, Thomas E. Hunt, Julian Posada, Raquel Meister Ko Freitag, Julian Tejada

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Within Satisfaction and Distress: Characterizing the First Cultural Transition of Young Talented Cameroonian Footballers by Boris Tachom Waffo, Denis Hauw

“…Fourteen Cameroonian former footballers were purposively sampled following three criteria: having spent at least the formative years in Cameroon, did the first cultural transition for athletic career development, and having played professionally for a football club abroad at least one season. …”
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