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Challenges in the delivery of public HIV testing and counselling (HTC) in Douala, Cameroon: providers perspectives and implications on quality of HTC services
The Cameroon government has made HIV testing and counselling (HTC) a priority in its HIV/AIDS strategic plan. However, there is a dearth of literature on the perspectives of providers on the quality of HTC ser... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - April 8, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Patrice Ngangue, Marie-Pierre Gagnon and Emmanuelle Bedard Source Type: research

Prevalence of, and barriers to the disclosure of HIV status to infected children and adolescents in a district of Ghana
Globally there are about 3.3million children under the age of 15  years living with HIV. Of this number, 88% live in sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, an estimated 33,000 children were said to be living with the HI... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - April 8, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Eric Gyamfi, Paul Okyere, Acheampong Enoch and Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong Source Type: research

Challenges in the delivery of public HIV testing and counselling (HTC) in Douala, Cameroon: providers perspectives and implications on quality of HTC services
The Cameroon government has made HIV testing and counselling (HTC) a priority in its HIV/AIDS strategic plan. However, there is a dearth of literature on the perspectives of providers on the quality of HTC ser... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - April 8, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Patrice Ngangue, Marie-Pierre Gagnon and Emmanuelle Bedard Source Type: research

Prevalence of, and barriers to the disclosure of HIV status to infected children and adolescents in a district of Ghana
Globally there are about 3.3million children under the age of 15  years living with HIV. Of this number, 88% live in sub-Saharan Africa. In Ghana, an estimated 33,000 children were said to be living with the HI... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - April 8, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Eric Gyamfi, Paul Okyere, Acheampong Enoch and Emmanuel Appiah-Brempong Source Type: research

Bibliometric analysis of medicine – related publications on refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people: 2000 – 2015
Wars and violent domestic conflicts have forced millions of people to move outside their homes. Meeting the basic health needs of those people requires an understanding of research activity and research output... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - March 20, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Waleed M. Sweileh Source Type: research

Wife beating refusal among women of reproductive age in urban and rural Ethiopia
Wife beating is the most common and widespread form of intimate partner violence in Ethiopia. It results in countless severe health, socio-economic and psychological problems and has contributed to the violati... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - March 16, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Eshetu Gurmu and Senait Endale Source Type: research

Perceptions of adolescents ’ sexual and reproductive health and rights: a cross-sectional study in Lahore District, Pakistan
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a significant aspect of adolescents ’ growth, safeguarded by SRH rights (SRHR). Despite various global efforts to promote adolescents SRHR (ASRHR), the majority of adoles... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - February 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sarosh Iqbal, Rubeena Zakar, Muhammad Zakria Zakar and Florian Fischer Source Type: research

Methods to increase reporting of childhood sexual abuse in surveys: the sensitivity and specificity of face-to-face interviews versus a sealed envelope method in Ugandan primary school children
Underreporting of childhood sexual abuse is a major barrier to obtaining reliable prevalence estimates. We tested the sensitivity and specificity of the face-to-face-interview (FTFI) method by comparing the nu... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - February 23, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anna Louise Barr, Louise Knight, Ivan Fran ҫa-Junior, Elizabeth Allen, Dipak Naker and Karen M. Devries Source Type: research

Fine and Gray competing risk regression model to study the cause-specific under-five child mortality in Bangladesh
The cause-specific under-five mortality of Bangladesh has been studied by fitting cumulative incidence function (CIF) based Fine and Gray competing risk regression model (1999). For the purpose of analysis, Ba... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - January 28, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Khandoker Akib Mohammad, Most. Fatima-Tuz-Zahura and Wasimul Bari Source Type: research

Unpacking early infant male circumcision decision-making using qualitative findings from Zimbabwe
Early infant male circumcision (EIMC) has been identified as a key HIV prevention intervention. Exploring the decision-making process for adoption of EIMC for HIV prevention among parents and other key stakeho... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - January 9, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Webster Mavhu, Karin Hatzold, Getrude Ncube, Shamiso Fernando, Collin Mangenah, Kumbirai Chatora, Roy Dhlamini, Owen Mugurungi, Ismail Ticklay and Frances M. Cowan Source Type: research

Sexual abuse and risky sexual behaviors among young female hawkers in Burkina Faso: a mixed method study
The objectives of this study were to identify the socio-d... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - January 4, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Saide Yacine Y.A. Ou édraogo, Ebrima J. Sisawo and Song-Lih Huang Source Type: research

Sex trafficking and sexual exploitation in settings affected by armed conflicts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: systematic review
Sex trafficking and sexual exploitation has been widely reported, especially in conflict-affected settings, which appear to increase women ’s and children’s vulnerabilities to these extreme abuses. (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - December 28, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Alys McAlpine, Mazeda Hossain and Cathy Zimmerman Source Type: research

Assessing the universal health coverage target in the Sustainable Development Goals from a human rights perspective
The UN ’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, include a comprehensive health goal, “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages.” The health goal (SDG 3) has nine sub... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - December 15, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Audrey R. Chapman Source Type: research

Why the Convention on the Rights of the Child must become a guiding framework for the realization of the rights of children affected by tuberculosis
Until recently, paediatric tuberculosis (TB) has been relatively neglected by the broader TB and the maternal and child health communities. Human rights-based approaches to children affected by TB could be pow... (Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights)
Source: BMC International Health and Human Rights - December 8, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Robindra Basu Roy, Nicola Brandt, Nicolette Moodie, Mitra Motlagh, Kumanan Rasanathan, James A. Seddon, Anne K. Detjen and Beate Kampmann Source Type: research