Urinary biomarkers and haematuria as indicators of urogenital schistosomiasis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Schistosomiasis, is a parasitic infection that leads to chronic illness and socioeconomic challenges in tropical regions. Adult Schistosoma (S.) haematobium worms inhabit the bladder's venous plexus and produce eggs that cause tissue inflammation and systemic pathologies, detectable as urinary biomarkers in bodily fluids like urine, blood, and serum.

Frailty modelling for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis mortality in Namibia.

Background: Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is fast becoming a major public health concern, with 80% of the reported global MDR-TB deaths occurring in high burden countries including Namibia where drug susceptibility testing is not routinely performed. Previous studies on TB in Namibia have primarily focused on TB and HIV co-infection and MDR-TB development. However, no study to date has specifically examined the epidemiology of MDR-TB mortality or its associated risk factors at a national level.

Effect of breastfeeding and maternal characteristics on diarrhoea morbidity among children aged 0-2 years in Namibia.

Background: Despite it being treatable and preventable, morbidity from diarrhoeal disease still remains one of the leading killers of young children in developing countries.

Objectives: To examine the effect of breastfeeding and maternal characteristics on diarrhoea morbidity among 0-2 years old children in Namibia.

Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study design with a multivariable log-binomial model was used to examine the effect of breastfeeding and maternal characteristics on diarrhoea morbidity among 0-2 year old children from data collected from the 2013 NDHS.

Impact of an educational intervention on water, sanitation and hygiene knowledge, attitudes, and practices in early childhood development centres in low-socio-economic areas in the Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.

Good water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) enhance healthy living and safe environments for child development. The study aimed to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention on WASH status, knowledge, attitudes and practices in early child development (ECD) centres in low socio-economic areas in the Nelson Mandela Bay in 2021. This quasi-experimental, one group, pre-post-test study elicited responses from 51 ECD practitioners (1 per ECD centre).

The burden of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. These infections are diverse, but the majority are lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI), surgical site infection (SSI), bloodstream infection (BSI), and urinary tract infection (UTI). For most sub-Saharan African countries, studies revealing the burden and impact of HAI are scarce, and few systematic reviews and meta-analysis have been attempted.

Prevalence of locoregional recurrence and survival post-treatment of head and neck cancers in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Recurrent cancers of the head and neck are associated with poor survival outcome. Yet, their burden in Africa is not reliably known. We therefore aimed to estimate the prevalence of recurrence and the 5-year overall survival among patients treated for head and neck cancers (HNC) in Africa.

An Empirical Analysis of the Effects of Household Demographics on Diarrhea Morbidity in Children Aged 0 to 48 Months in Namibia.

Many of the simple and low-cost child diarrhea morbidities interventions, such as adequate home care, access to health care services, and improved sanitation and hygiene practices, are far beyond the reach of many households in developing countries, and Namibia is not an exception to this. In this study, a quantitative cross-sectional study design using a multivariable log-binomial model was used to examine the effect of household demographic characteristics on diarrhea morbidity in children aged zero to 48 months using data collected from the 2013 Namibia Demographic and Health Survey. Household demographic characteristics such as household's wealth index and main language spoken at home had lower risks on child diarrhea morbidity, while characteristics such as age of household head, toilet facilities shared with other households, current age of child, residency of the child, and child vaccination status had higher risks.

Childhood anaemia levels among under-5 children in Namibia and their associated sociodemographic factors: A multivariate ordinal modelling approach.

Background: Anaemia is a serious global public health problem with high prevalence (>40%) in children particularly in low- and middle-income countries including Namibia with a current 46.1% prevalence rate.

Aim: This study was aimed at examining the sociodemographic factors influencing the occurrence of childhood anaemia levels in Namibia.

Extension of biplot methodology to multivariate regression analysis.

At the core of multivariate statistics is the investigation of relationships between different sets of variables. More precisely, the inter-variable relationships and the causal relationships. The latter is a regression problem, where one set of variables is referred to as the response variables and the other set of variables as the predictor variables.

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Geospatial dataset of trace elements including manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), titanium (Ti), rubidium (Rb), strontium (Sr), thorium (Th), Vanadium (V) and Zirconium (Zr) of near-surface soils in a Cu-Ni prospecting field at Airstrip North, Central Botswana were statistically analysed. Grid sampling method was used in the field data collection. The relatively new portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer (Delta Premium, 510890, USA) technology in a "soil" mode was used to measure the concentrations of trace elements in the soils.

Quantitative geospatial dataset on the near-surface heavy metal concentrations in semi-arid soils from Maibele Airstrip North, Central Botswana.

This article contains a statistically analyzed dataset of the heavy metals including Cr, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn and Pb contents of near-surface (~30 cm depth) soils in a Cu-Ni prospecting field at Airstrip North, Central Botswana. The soils developed on paragneisses and amphibolites parent materials in a semi-arid environment with hardveld vegetation, "The geology of the Topisi area" (Key et al., 1994) [1].