Prevalence and determinants of HIV testing-seeking behaviors among women of reproductive age in Tanzania: analysis of the 2022 Demographic and health survey by Jackson Micheal Asingwire, Isaac isiko, Kuli Faith Rombe, Aaron Mwesigwa, Emmanuel Asher Ikwara, Haron Olot, Lenz Nwachinemere Okoro, Manankong Jane Precious Izunwanne, Blessing Onyinyechi Agunwa, Abdul Aziiz Bwana, William Yiga Kalemba, Ebuka Louis Anyamene

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Ethnic and racial discrimination in maternal health care in Mexico: a neglected challenge in the search for universal health coverage by Edson Serván-Mori, Sergio Meneses-Navarro, Rocío García-Díaz, Diego Cerecero-García, David Contreras-Loya, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Arachu Castro

“…Thus, prioritizing maternal and child health underscores the need for comprehensive policies, including specific anti-racist interventions. …”
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Assessing the effectiveness of targeted educational interventions on enhancing self-efficacy and foot care practices among diabetic women in Jordan by Heba Hijazi, Heba Hijazi, Rabah Al Abdi, Rabah Al Abdi, Sawsan Abuhammad, Sawsan Abuhammad, Wegdan Bani Issa, Alham Al-Sharman, Alham Al-Sharman, Nesreen Saadeh, Alounoud AlMarzooqi, Fatma Refaat Ahmed, Fatma Refaat Ahmed, Ahmed Hossain, Hadia Radwan, Muhammad Arsyad Subu, Mohamad Alameddine

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Associations of prenatal urinary melamine, melamine analogues, and aromatic amines with gestational duration and fetal growth in the ECHO Cohort by Giehae Choi, Xiaoshuang Xun, Deborah H. Bennett, John D. Meeker, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Sheela Sathyanarayana, Susan L Schantz, Leonardo Trasande, Deborah Watkins, Edo D. Pellizzari, Wenlong Li, Kurunthachalam Kannan, Tracey J. Woodruff, Jessie P. Buckley

“…Melamine, its analogues, and aromatic amines (AAs) were commonly detected in a previous study of pregnant women in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Cohort. While these chemicals have identified toxicities, little is known about their influences on fetal development. …”
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Comparative-effectiveness research of COVID-19 treatment: a rapid scoping review by Sharon E Straus, Jesmin Antony, Andrea C Tricco, Rachel Warren, Erin Macdonald, Ba Pham, Milan Patel, Fatemeh Yazdi, Amruta Radhakrishnan, Marco Ghassemi, Patricia Rios, Chantal Williams, Naveeta Ramkissoon, Matthew P Muller, Nazia Darvesh, Gordon V Cormack, Maura R Grossman, Melissa Kampman, Reid Robson

“…The results suggest future studies should focus on children, elderly ≥65 years of age, patients with mild symptoms, outpatient treatment, multimechanism therapies, harms and active comparators. …”
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Technological dental sealants: in vitro evaluation of material properties and antibiofilm potential by Witalo Pereira de Jesus, Luiza de Almeida Queiroz Ferreira, Washington Henrique Themoteo da Silva, Fernanda Vieira Belém, Ana Paula Turrioni, Cláudia Silami de Magalhães, Mila Fernandes Moreira Madeira, Ivana Márcia Alves Diniz, Marco Aurelio Benini Paschoal

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Deployment and uptake of COVID-19 vaccines for refugees and migrants in regular and irregular situations: a mixed-method multicountry study by Biraj Man Karmacharya, Karl Blanchet, Jai K Das, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Maria Midea M Kabamalan, Nguyen Toan Tran, Zahra A Padhani, Anjali Joshi, Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour, Enrique Teran, Pierina Benavente, Vinay N Kampalath, Moussa Lonkila Zan, Elżbieta Anna Czapka, Cheryl Martens, Vicente B Jurlano

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Exploring sensory processing sensitivity: Relationships with mental and somatic health, interactions with positive and negative environments, and evidence for differential suscepti... by Christienne G. Damatac, Marleen J. ter Avest, Tom F. Wilderjans, Véronique De Gucht, Dion H.A. Woestenburg, Laurens Landeweerd, Tessel E. Galesloot, Linda Geerligs, Judith R. Homberg, Corina U. Greven

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Piloting an automated query and scoring system to facilitate APDS patient identification from health systems by Amy M. FitzPatrick, Aaron T. Chin, Sharon Nirenberg, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, Keith Sacco, Jesse Perlmutter, Joseph F. Dasso, Athanasios Tsalatsanis, Jay Maru, Jessica Creech, Jolan E. Walter, Nicholas Hartog, Neema Izadi, Mandy Palmucci, Manish J. Butte, Klaus Loewy, Anurag Relan, Nicholas L. Rider

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Modulation of virulence and metabolic profiles in Klebsiella pneumoniae under indole-mediated stress response by Xueyao Fang, Yanhui Chen, Longhua Hu, Shumin Gu, Junqi Zhu, Yaping Hang, Xingwei Cao, Yanping Xiao, Hong Luo, Chuwen Zhao, Lianhua Xiao, Qiaoshi Zhong

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3D synergistic tumor-liver analysis further improves the efficacy prediction in hepatocellular carcinoma: a multi-center study by Yurong Jiang, Jiawei Zhang, Zhaochen Liu, Jinxiong Zhang, Xiangrong Yu, Danyan Lin, Dandan Dong, Mingyue Cai, Chongyang Duan, Shuyi Liu, Wenhui Wang, Yuan Chen, Qiyang Li, Weiguo Xu, Meiyan Huang, Sirui Fu

“…The AUC of the integrated model was not influenced by AFP level, BCLC stage, Child–Pugh grade, and treatment style in training (6 months p value: 0.245–0.452; 12 months p value: 0.357–0.845) and validation (6 months p value: 0.294–0.638; 12 months p value: 0.365–0.937) datasets. …”
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Association of handgrip strength asymmetry and weakness with intrinsic capacity impairment among older adults in China by Decheng Li, Yunhe Wang, Shuai Guo, Ziyang Ren, Binbin Su, Lichuan Zhang, Zuliyaer Talifu, Xiaoying Zheng

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Factors influencing in-hospital mortality for salvage percutaneous transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting in cirrhotic patients with recalcitrant variceal bleeding after... by J E J Krige, E G Jonas, M Setshedi, S J Beningfield, U K Lotze, M M Bernon, S Burmeister, J C Kloppers

“…On bivariate analysis, factors associated with death were Child-Pugh (C-P) score ≥10 (p=0.006), sodium Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD-Na) score ≥22 (p<0.001), ≥8 units of blood transfused (p<0.001), Sengstaken-Blakemore balloon tube placement (p<0.001), endotracheal intubation (p<0.001), inotropic support (p<0.001) and endoscopically uncontrolled bleeding (p<0.001). …”
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Bi-allelic variants in WDR47 cause a complex neurodevelopmental syndrome by Efil Bayam, Peggy Tilly, Stephan C Collins, José Rivera Alvarez, Meghna Kannan, Lucile Tonneau, Elena Brivio, Bruno Rinaldi, Romain Lecat, Noémie Schwaller, Ludovica Cotellessa, Sateesh Maddirevula, Fabiola Monteiro, Carlos M Guardia, João Paulo Kitajima, Fernando Kok, Mitsuhiro Kato, Ahlam A A Hamed, Mustafa A Salih, Saeed Al Tala, Mais O Hashem, Hiroko Tada, Hirotomo Saitsu, Mariano Stabile, Paolo Giacobini, Sylvie Friant, Zafer Yüksel, Mitsuko Nakashima, Fowzan S Alkuraya, Binnaz Yalcin, Juliette D Godin

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Individual-network based predictions of microbial interaction signatures for response to biological therapies in IBD patients by Federico Melograna, Padhmanand Sudhakar, Behnam Yousefi, Behnam Yousefi, Clara Caenepeel, Gwen Falony, Gwen Falony, Gwen Falony, Sara Vieira-Silva, Sara Vieira-Silva, Sara Vieira-Silva, Sreenikhitha Krishnamoorthy, David Fardo, Bram Verstockt, Bram Verstockt, Jeroen Raes, Jeroen Raes, Severine Vermeire, Severine Vermeire, Kristel Van Steen

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Mental health and well-being in adolescent and young adult refugees in Sweden: A cross-sectional study of accompanied and unaccompanied individuals by Erica Mattelin, Amal R. Khanolkar, Johan Andersson, Hania Kutabi, Laura Korhonen

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A staged integrated model informing the promotion of healthy dietary behaviors in adolescents: a prospective study by Qijiao Liu, Huanyu Xu, Zihao Yuan, Lan Yu, Ruizhe Shang, Wanjie Tang, Yuchen Li, Shiying Li, Qiaolan Liu

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Addressing Critical Mistakes in Administering Intravenous Medications at Omdurman Military Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan by Ahmed WAM, Abdelrahman AEHE, Mohamed AA, Mohammed IO, Mustafa AMA, Ahmed ZEE, Mohamed MMT, Alghamdi FAA, Elbashir AEE, Alkubati S, Al-Sowaidi A, Dinar NMAA, Obadi AA, Saleh KA

“…Waled AM Ahmed,1,2 Amna Eltom Hajo Elsheikh Abdelrahman,3 Amal Abdelgadir Mohamed,4 Ibrahim Osman Mohammed,5 Amna Mohammed Ali Mustafa,6 Zeinab Eltayeb Elfaki Ahmed,7 Maab Mutaz Tagelsir Mohamed,8 Fahad Abdullah A Alghamdi,9 Amira EE Elbashir,10 Sameer Alkubati,11 Akram Al-Sowaidi,12 Neimat MAA Dinar,13 Abdalkhaliq Ahmed Obadi,1 Khalil A Saleh14 1Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Saeeda University, Sanaa, Yemen; 2Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Al-Baha University, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia; 3Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Omdurman Islamic University, Khartoum, Sudan; 4Department of Maternity and Childhood Nursing, College of Nursing, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia; 5Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazeira University, Gazeira, Sudan; 6Department of Nursing, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia; 7Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alzaeim Alazhari University, Khartoum, Sudan; 8Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan; 9Geriatric Care Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Al-Baha University, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia; 10Maternal and Child Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Al-Baha University, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia; 11Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Ha’il, Hail City, Saudi Arabia, and Department of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Hodeida University, Hodeida, Yemen; 12Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Al Janad University for Science & Technology, Taiz, Yemen; 13Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Al-Baha University, Al-Baha, Saudi Arabia; 14Department of Medical Surgical, College of Nursing, University of Ha’il, Hail, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Waled AM Ahmed, Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Saeeda University, Sanaa, Yemen. …”
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Hubungan Status Gizi dengan Status Sosial Ekonomi Keluarga Murid Sekolah Dasar di Daerah Pusat dan Pinggiran Kota Padang Lisbet Rimelfhi Sebataraja, by Lisbet Rimelfhi Sebataraja, Fadil Oenzil, Asterina .

“…If the low socioeconomic status family meals needs will not fulfilled so that the child will have malnutrition status. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of nutritional status and family socioeconomic status elementary students in the center and suburbs of Padang. …”
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Lower respiratory tract infection admissions and deaths among children under 5 years in public sector facilities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, before and during the C... by K Kehoe, E Morden, N Zinyakatira, A Heekes, H E Jones, S R Walter, T Jacobs, J Murray, H Buys, M T Redaniel, M-A Davies

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