Accès ouvert
2015
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Michael A. Ruderman, Deirdra F. Wilson, Savanna R Reid
OBJECTIVE: This administrative data-linkage cohort study examines the association between prison crowding and the rate of post-release parole violations in a random sample of prisoners released with parole conditions in California, for an observation period of two years (January 2003 through December …
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Accès ouvert
2014
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OpenAlex
Mbah P Okwen, Savanna R Reid, Basile M. Njei, Lawrence C. E. Mbuagbaw
BACKGROUND: Hepatitis B vaccine has been recommended for use in people living with HIV (PLHIV) mostly because of the similarities in routes of infection and their prevalence in the same geographic areas. PLHIV may not develop sero-protection after receiving standard hepatitis B …
Cameroun, us
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2012
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Lawrence C. E. Mbuagbaw, Savanna R Reid, Basile M. Njei
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the efficacy of vaccination in preventing hepatitis B virus infection and its consequences among PLWH.
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Accès ouvert
2012
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Axel Klein, Vonthanak Saphonn, Savanna R Reid
Cambodia, confronted by the spread of drug misuse among young people, requested support from international agencies to develop a drug treatment programme in 2000. The initial plan developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime was to set up a …
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Accès ouvert
2012
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Savanna R Reid
BACKGROUND: Unsafe medical injections are a prevalent risk factor for viral hepatitis and HIV in India. OBJECTIVES: This review undertakes a cost-benefit assessment of the auto-disable syringe, now being introduced to prevent the spread of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and …
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2011
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Patrick Okwen, Bedes Y Ngem, Fozao A Alomba, Mireille V Capo et autres
BACKGROUND: Unsafe reuse of injection equipment in hospitals is an on-going threat to patient safety in many parts of Africa. The extent of this problem is difficult to measure. Standard WHO injection safety assessment protocols used in the 2003 national injection safety …
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Accès ouvert
2010
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OpenAlex
Savanna R Reid
CONTEXT: In Tanzania and some other African rural settings, a traditional proscription of injections for the treatment of cerebral malaria (degedege) stems from parents' fear that injections will kill a child with fever and convulsions. The re-use of injection equipment in rural …
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Accès ouvert
2010
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Savanna R Reid, Suraya Dawad, AA Van Niekerk
"Iatrogenic HIV transmission in South Africa: Evidence, estimates and moral perspectives." South African Family Practice, 52(5), pp. 476–477
us, Afrique du Sud
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2009
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Savanna R Reid, Anton Albert Van Niekerk
The sexualization of the HIV epidemic in South Africa has been used as evidence that unsafe medical injections are of minimal importance to transmission in Africa, because the country was thought to be free of unsafe injection risks. More recent observation reveals …
us
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2009
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Savanna R Reid
This review considers whether HIV prevalence data on children in sub-Saharan Africa support the hypothesis that blood exposures account for a large proportion of HIV infections in Africa. Data from a systematic search on HIV-infected children support two analyses. In 25 studies …
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2009
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Savanna R Reid, O A Juma
The probability of HIV-1 transmission in a small blood exposure such as a needlestick injury or an unsafe medical injection has been estimated indirectly. Now that several comparable laboratory simulations have provided data on inoculum volumes for such exposures, the epidemiological evidence …
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2009
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Savanna R Reid
This letter to the editor focuses on injection safety in Africa with specific attention to its relation to HIV/AIDS.
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