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COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It can present as asymptomatic, mild, or severe pneumonia, with the latter exhibiting signs of multiorgan dysfunction and contributing to millions of deaths. Limited predictive laboratory...

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a major global concern for public health. This laboratorybased study was conducted at the University of Zambia, School of Veterinary Medicine (UNZAVet) laboratory. The study aimed at developing an in-house test to detect SARS-CoV-2 using the recombinant...

The emergence of drug resistance among Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients poses a significant challenge to the success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programs globally. In Malawi, where HIV prevalence remains a major public health concern, the incorporation of Dolutegravir (DTG) into...

Malaria is one of the infectious diseases that causes a lot of deaths in under-five children in sub Saharan African countries and continues to be a public health problem. Most of these deaths occur in under-five children residing in remote and hard-to-reach areas where access to healthcare is a...

Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality globally especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2021, there were an estimated 344 million global incident episodes attributable to lower respiratory infections translating to an estimated 4350 episodes per 100,000...

In Zambia, HIV self-testing is vital for HIV prevention, but there's limited understanding of its use among adolescents. In Zambia, HIV self-testing has become integral to HIV prevention and control, yet a knowledge gap exists regarding its prevalence, utilization trends, and determinants among...

Background: A diagnosis of HIV usually causes stress in the affected individual because of its lack of cure. In an effort to eliminate mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) of HIV, pregnant women have to undergo HIV testing during antenatal care. Pregnancy is a sensitive and stressful state as the...

Coronavirus disease of 2019 is an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. It is a highly transmissible emerging pathogen in humans. Primarily, infection happens when the spike glycoprotein on the surface of the virus binds to the host cell receptors resulting in a variate of asymptomatic and...

This study introduces a groundbreaking TB detection system in Zambia, harnessing chest X-ray analysis via machine learning. Addressing the limitations of traditional TB detection methods, this research utilized a layered architecture for image processing and classification using a convolutional...

Breast cancer (BC) has become a public health problem world-wide due to its high mortality rate among women in both developed and developing countries. Numerous studies have been conducted to determine prognostic factors for breast cancer mortality and projection of mortality in developed...