Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia in Low-Income African Countries

Risk Factors for Severe Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

BACKGROUND Available evidence suggests that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear the greatest burden of severe neonatal hyperbilirubinemia characterized by disproportionately high rates of morbidity, mortality and neurodevelopmental disorders compared to high-income countries. We set out to identify the risk factors that contribute to the burden of severe hyperbilirubinemia in the most...

Registering New Drugs for Low-Income Countries: The African Challenge

What is the best strategy to approve novel drugs for disease such as sleeping sickness that predominantly affect patients in Africa? How can African regulators best be supported to evaluate these drugs for their own populations? For many years, African medicines regulatory authorities (MRAs) have relied on stringent regulators in developed countries to assess novel pharmaceutical products such ...

issues of renal replacement therapy in elders living low-income african countries

The relation between administrative corruption & economic growth in low income and medium income countries

Corruption is almost exist in all human societies throughout thehistory. Any continuation of corruption in different ages made most ofresearchers and policy makers to consider corruption as an inevitablepart of human being challenges (Mukum, 2008).Administrative corruption is common in most developed and/orunder –developed countries.In other words, there is no country in the world that has note...

Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.

Care of the high-risk neonate usually refers to the low-birth-weight infant or the sick term newborn. Whereas hyperbilirubinemia is certainly a matter of concern in these infants, the decisions that must be made regarding jaundice in the high-risk neonate are, in general, less complex than those that must be made for the healthy full-term infant. For the term and near-term infant, shorter hospi...