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WAKISO, UGANDA — When Faridah Nabukeera walks through the streets of Mutungo Central, residents often pop their heads out of a crowded row of houses to greet her, waving hello and calling out questions about their health and treatments. As a Village Health Team member, Nabukeera has provided frontline medical support for this sprawling residential area of Wakiso district in central Uganda for 20 years. "Faridah is our nurse; she is always a call away when one of my children fall sick," says Mutungo Central resident Violet Nabukenya. Nabukeera's efforts grew all the more essential a year ago when the Ugandan government enlisted these workers to fight COVID-19 using a single tool: home-based care. The group played a key role in containing the disease by managing cases at the community level, where they are the primary health workers, and urging residents to follow such guidelines as wearing masks. But even as they stand as central figures in the battle against the dis...

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Stay-at-home orders, coupled with a fear of exposure to COVID-19, seemingly kept many people confined at home and out of the arms of unknown partners throughout much of 2020. But in a counterintuitive twist, experts are warning of a probable—and alarming—increase in cases of sexually transmitted infections in the United States. The main concern is that the pandemic hampered testing efforts for diseases such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis during the past two years. Testing is a critical part of controlling the spread of these infections, in part because both chlamydia and gonorrhea can initially appear without any symptoms. Between 2015 and 2019, documented cases of all three diseases had increased by 30 percent. Then, from 2019 to 2020, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data suggested that chlamydia cases dropped by 14 percent, while cases of primary and secondary stages of syphilis experienced a modest decline of 0.9 percent. But experts now say this dip was not real, ...

After the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the rapidly-developed vaccines were hailed as the best way to defeat the virus. Most people were keen to get vaccinated as soon as possible. However, some declined it or decided to wait. Medical News Today investigates the history of vaccine hesitancy and speaks to experts and individuals on both sides of the vaccine debate. Share on Pinterest Why are people hesitant about COVID-19 vaccines, and how can experts tackle this issue? Image credit: Bettmann/Getty Images. Vaccination is one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine. Smallpox is now a distant memory, wiped out by a comprehensive vaccination program, and polio is on the way to joining it in the realms of history. But it was not always like this. Infancy used to be a time of peril, with many carried off by communicable diseases before their fifth birthday. In the United States, almost half of all babies born in 1800 would not reach the age of 5. By 2020, that figure had dropped to just ...

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. Almost 15 thousand new cases were diagnosed in the US last year. But Dr. Ruth Stephenson of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey said there are vaccines on the market to protect against the virus that usually causes cervical cancer. "They're FDA-approved for all men and women ages 11 to 39, so basically we're recommending all young people get vaccinated because that's often the time where people are exposed to the HPV virus," she said. The virus is common. Most people are exposed to it at some point, but certain strains are more likely to cause cancer. She said the vaccine has been a lifesaver. "The biggest breakthrough in cervical cancer has been the HPV vaccine, we're seeing cervical cancers go down across the world and in our country due to the vaccine, it's important to see your gynecologist regularly and undergo Pap testing," she said. She said women are urged to begin Pap tests and cervical ...

The omicron variant is highly contagious. People develop symptoms faster than previous variants. Add it all up and a lot of Floridians are quickly falling ill to COVID-19. Daily hospital admissions have increased nearly twice as fast as during previous infection surges, federal data shows. In the past week, state hospitals admitted 12,495 confirmed COVID-19 patients. Those patients may be spared the worst symptoms of older variants. Omicron appears to be less severe — mostly affecting the upper respiratory system rather than the lungs — which can result in shorter hospital stays for those who need treatment. About 13 percent of the state's COVID-19 patients are currently in the ICU, compared to nearly 30 percent during the peak of the delta wave. The burden on Florida hospitals is being driven by the variant's mostly unchecked spread across a state where 31 percent of the total population — 6.9 million — are unvaccinated and public health measures such as masks and vaccination ...

The outbreak of a novel coronavirus, namely, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has caused the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 was first reported in a pneumonia-infected patient in Wuhan, China in 2019. Scientists have determined SARS-CoV-2 to be an RNA virus belonging to the genus Betacoronavirus of the family Coronaviridae . Study: Computational construction of a glycoprotein multi-epitope subunit vaccine candidate for old and new South-African SARS-CoV-2 virus strains . Image Credit: Corona Borealis Studio/Shutterstock Background To date, SARS-CoV-2 has claimed more than 5.5 million lives worldwide. Countries such as the United States of America, India, South Africa, and Brazil have been badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to some reports from the World Health Organization (WHO), 50.87% of total COVID-19 cases in Africa are from South Africa. In 2020, the B.1.351 strain of SARS-CoV-2, which is com...

Photo: Marko Geber/Getty Images Two Florida healthcare providers have joined forces to improve access to post-acute home care for those living in Polk County. Effective Dec. 1, 2021, Lakeland Regional Health purchased a minority interest in BayCare HomeCare. In Polk County, BayCare HomeCare services will be known as BayCare HomeCare/Lakeland Regional Health.  The two nonprofit organizations touted the potential benefits of this type of care coordination, including improved patient communications, reduced readmission rates and more effective discharge planning. Lakeland Regional Health President and CEO Danielle Drummond said the two organizations can improve care delivery at a much faster pace by working together and that the collaboration will streamline the transition from hospital to home healthcare. WHAT'S THE IMPACT? BayCare HomeCare has provided in-home care and support services for decades, including serving many patients in the Lakeland community...

Gangrenous dermatitis, also known as necrotic dermatitis, is a skin condition found in young meat birds, typically between the ages of 4-20 weeks of age, that live in excessively warm, humid houses. Antibiotics remain the most effective approach against the disease, but other management strategies, such as vaccination against infectious…

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(WOWT) - Below are today's vaccination updates as well as data reports on new cases and other COVID-19 stats reported by health officials across Nebraska and western Iowa. Keep scrolling to find helpful links and other information, including phone numbers to call for help getting signed up for your vaccine. CHI Health discusses omicron, staffing In an update on their COVID-19 response, CHI Health's new CEO and president, E. J. Kuiper, officials will talk steps to rebuild their healthcare workforce post-pandemic. He will be joined by Ed Hannon, President of CHI Health St. Francis in Grand Island; and Kevin Miller, president of CHI Health Lakeside and CHI Health Midlands in the Omaha-metro. Watch the livestream above, in our apps, and on our Facebook page. Dr. Renuga Vivekanandan also talked about the latest on the omicron variant and when the peak is expected in Nebraska. Douglas County update DEATHS: The Douglas County health department reported three COVID-19 deaths on Thurs...

HOLLY SPRINGS, N.C. — From bathroom aids to hospital beds, Dressen Medical Supply is a staple for at-home patient care in the Triangle.   What You Need To Know Dressen Medical Supply is located in Holly Springs The home care industry is seeing a minimum delay of four to six weeks on power mobility devices Ed Dressen says he is seeing an increase in the cost of certain items as high as 50%   Ed Dressen opened his Holly Springs store front in 2003, but has been in the medical supply and home care industry for 41 years. "It's a very rewarding business. We help others recover from injuries and illness and make them feel better," Dressen said. However, over the last year and a half, the supply chain crisis has thrown a wrench in his operation. Dressen says it's caused delays like he's never seen before. "I've always been able to make a phone call and get it in a short amount of time. I've never had to plan out w...

Increasingly we are seeing how weather patterns and longer-term climate trends can impact the rate and spread of infectious diseases. Because of this, models that incorporate environmental predictions are in high demand. However, there are some key barriers that make it difficult for policy makers to use these models. For example, a health policy maker may not have the technical expertise to use a model or understand its outputs. Additionally, a model may produce information that doesn't fit the needs of the policy maker. This report is Wellcome's first step in identifying and addressing the technology gaps that undermine global climate-sensitive infectious disease preparedness. The findings include:  in papers published over the past 10 years only 37 fully developed and named tools were found. This suggests that either the ecosystem of modelling tools is under invested in and/or that there are few incentives for high-quality curation of code.   81...

(CNN) — Traveling around Europe may be about to get less complicated for fully vaccinated travelers from countries within the European Union. The EU is recommending that vaccinated residents should not be required to undergo testing or quarantine measures when entering member states. Under the new advice, which comes into effect on February 1, restrictions would be lifted for those who hold a valid EU Digital Covid Certificate in a "coordinated approach to facilitate safe free movement" across Europe. This means that fully vaccinated travelers could be allowed to move freely around the bloc's 27 member states provided each country follows the guidance. Individual EU destinations are permitted to issue their own additional restrictions, and many have opted to do so since the bloc's first recommendations on restrictions were issued at the start of the pandemic. 'Co-ordinated approach' While the guidance change would also apply to those who've recently recove...