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Eldred E, Devries K, Zinke-Allmang A, Mallick R, Mughis W, Banks L, et al.
EClinicalMedicine . 2025 Feb; 80:103060. PMID: 39896877
Background: Children with disabilities are twice as likely to experience violence compared to peers without disabilities. While evaluations of school-based interventions targeting the prevention of violence against children in schools...
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Datzberger S, Parkes J, Bhatia A, Nagawa R, Kasidi J, Musenze B, et al.
Child Youth Serv Rev . 2025 Jan; 159():107527. PMID: 39845614
There is strong evidence that outside parental care, informal kinship care is the most practiced, sustainable and affordable form of childcare in SSA (sub-Saharan Africa). As a longstanding cultural tradition,...
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Carter D, Pitcairn C, Eldred E, Knight L, Nakuti J, Mirembe A, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 Dec; 4(12):e0003827. PMID: 39729435
We aimed to estimate the impact of poor mental health in early adolescence on subsequent poor mental health, depression, and violence victimisation in late adolescence and to determine whether young...
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Akunzirwe R, Carter D, Hanna L, Zinke-Allmang A, Akim A, Datzberger S, et al.
BMC Public Health . 2024 Dec; 24(1):3405. PMID: 39695453
Background: Many studies have documented an association between violence victimisation and poor mental health. However, few studies use longitudinal data from low- and middle-income countries with attention to how associations...
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Chesang C, Leurent B, Fabbri C, Wilfred A, Mubyazi G, Shayo E, et al.
J Interpers Violence . 2024 Oct; :8862605241288154. PMID: 39445473
Experiences of violence have been reported to be associated with lower levels of subjective wellbeing (SWB). However, little is known about this association in conflict settings and among forcibly displaced...
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Bhatia A, Zinke-Allmang A, Bangirana C, Nakuti J, Amollo M, Mirembe A, et al.
Nat Med . 2024 Oct; 30(10):2721-2724. PMID: 39394272
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Shah P, Spinelli M, Irungu E, Kabuti R, Ngurukiri P, Babu H, et al.
AIDS Behav . 2024 Aug; 28(11):3836-3849. PMID: 39136824
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is highly effective at reducing HIV acquisition. We aimed to estimate usage of oral-PrEP, and factors associated with adherence among female sex workers (FSWs) in Nairobi, Kenya,...
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Turner E, Kelly S, Eldred E, Bouzanis K, Gatuguta A, Balliet M, et al.
PLoS One . 2024 Jul; 19(7):e0304240. PMID: 38968312
Background: Half of the world's children experience violence every year, but the meaning of violence is not universally agreed. We may therefore risk failing to measure, and address, the acts...
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Knight L, Atuhaire L, Bhatia A, Allen E, Namy S, Anton-Erxleben K, et al.
BMC Public Health . 2024 Jun; 24(1):1532. PMID: 38849782
Background: We sought to determine whether the Good School Toolkit-Primary violence prevention intervention was associated with reduced victimisation and perpetration of peer and intimate partner violence four years later, and...
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Shayo E, Mubyazi G, Barongo V, Bakari M, Kiwale Z, Fabbri C, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2024 Mar; 4(3):e0002917. PMID: 38498434
Tanzania has experienced several waves of COVID-19 since it was first detected in the country. During the first wave, Tanzania took several measures to prevent wider virus transmission with school...