AIMC Topic: Malawi

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Genome evolution of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV).

Journal of virology
UNLABELLED: Kaposi sarcoma (KS) is the most common cancer in people living with HIV (PLWH), particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV or human herpesvirus 8 [HHV-8]) is endemic. In KSHV endemic areas, the overal...

Developing cholera outbreak forecasting through qualitative dynamics: Insights into Malawi case study.

Journal of theoretical biology
Cholera, an acute diarrheal disease, is a serious concern in developing and underdeveloped areas. A qualitative understanding of cholera epidemics aims to foresee transmission patterns based on reported data and mechanistic models. The mechanistic mo...

Virological Findings and Treatment Outcomes of Cases That Developed Dolutegravir Resistance in Malawi's National HIV Treatment Program.

Viruses
Millions of Africans are on dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy (ART), but few detailed descriptions of dolutegravir resistance and its clinical management exist. We reviewed HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) testing application forms submitted betwe...

Generalisability of fetal ultrasound deep learning models to low-resource imaging settings in five African countries.

Scientific reports
Most artificial intelligence (AI) research and innovations have concentrated in high-income countries, where imaging data, IT infrastructures and clinical expertise are plentiful. However, slower progress has been made in limited-resource environment...

HIV is associated with endothelial activation despite ART, in a sub-Saharan African setting.

Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation
OBJECTIVE: To study the relationship between endothelial dysfunction, HIV infection, and stroke in Malawians.

Consumption of illegal home-made alcohol in Malawi: A neglected public health threat.

Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.)
This study assessed the ethanol and methanol contents of homemade spirit (Kachasu) sold in Blantyre, Malawi. The likelihood of ethanol and methanol toxicity, respectively, was determined through Monte Carlo simulations using reported Kachasu intake v...

Measurement of viral load by the automated Abbott real-time HIV-1 assay using dried blood spots collected and processed in Malawi and Mozambique.

South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
BACKGROUND: The use of dried blood spots (DBS) for HIV-1 viral load quantification can greatly improve access to viral monitoring for HIV-infected patients receiving treatment in resource-limited settings.

A novel deep learning method for predictive modeling of microbiome data.

Briefings in bioinformatics
With the development and decreasing cost of next-generation sequencing technologies, the study of the human microbiome has become a rapid expanding research field, which provides an unprecedented opportunity in various clinical applications such as d...

Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
Reliable data on economic livelihoods remain scarce in the developing world, hampering efforts to study these outcomes and to design policies that improve them. Here we demonstrate an accurate, inexpensive, and scalable method for estimating consumpt...

Semen profiles of young men involved as bicycle taxi cyclists in Mangochi District, Malawi: A case-control study.

Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi
AIM: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the semen profiles of bicycle taxi cyclists and healthy controls in Mangochi district, Malawi.