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Volume 12, Issue 2 (2025)

ISSN: 3067-2740

DOI Prefix: 10.5281/zenodo.

EXPLORING INFECTIOUS DISEASE CHALLENGES AND ADVANCES IN AFRICA: INSIGHTS FROM THE DECEMBER 2024 ISSUE

By Emmanuel Kwame Mensah , Josephine N Tsekpo

We bring you this December 2024 Issue of African Health Sciences in a season when the Africa region is grappling with infectious diseases such as Mpox. Fortunately, the Marburg outbreak in the region has been nipped in the bud, and there is a semblan...

GENOMIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS ISOLATES FROM BLOOD AND LUNGS OF TB-HIV POSITIVE COHORTS IN UGANDA

By Esther M Nakimuli , Isaac P Kaggwa

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) clinical strains are relatively varied at the genome level. This in-silico study analyzed genomic differences between MTB isolates from the blood and lungs of TB-HIV positive cohorts in Uganda. The hypothesis was that...

PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS OF ONCOGENIC HPV INFECTION AMONG WOMEN UNDERGOING CERVICAL CANCER SCREENING IN EAST GOJJAM ZONE, NORTHWEST ETHIOPIA

By Amanuel T Gebremariam , Mulugeta W Tekle

Human papillomavirus is a common pathogen that infects the skin and mucosal epithelium, is transmitted sexually; causes condylomas or squamous cell carcinomas. Two (16 and 18) of the 150 HPV serotypes are oncogenic types. Studies have been done on th...

PREVALENCE OF SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM INFECTION AMONG VESICOVAGINAL FISTULA PATIENTS IN KATSINA, NIGERIA

By Fatimah Usman Adamu, Ibrahim Musa Aliyu

possible Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS), Schistosoma haematobium (S. haematobium) which can interfere with the wound healing of infection has been identified as an uncommon contributor to VVF, potentially hindering the urogenital tissues and ev...