among the power drills ( electrical/ pneumatic/battery ) used in orthopedic surgery, battery drill has got several advantages. surgeons in low resource settings could not routinely use orthopedic battery drills (obd) due to the prohibitive cost of good drills or poor quality of other drills. “hardware” or engineering battery drill (hbd) is a viable alternative to obd. hbd is easy to procure, ru...

Recently proposed data collection frameworks for endangered language documentation aim not only to collect speech in the language of interest, but also to collect translations into a highresource language that will render the collected resource interpretable. We focus on this scenario and explore whether we can improve transcription quality under these extremely lowresource settings with the as...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) account for one third of the global mortality and one tenth of the global disease burden; however, if rates of hypertension, a cardiovascular risk factor, were controlled, the reduction of the CVD burden would follow. One of the major constraints for controlling hypertension is the limitation of resources for health care, particularly in low- and middle-income coun...

The goals of any cervical cancer prevention program should be threefold: to achieve high coverage of the population at risk, to screen women with an accurate test as part of high-quality services, and to ensure that women with positive test results are properly managed. This article focuses on the experiences of the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention (ACCP) in delivery of screening and tre...

To the editor: Starbuck et al. have identified a significant gap in any future global response to a severe influenza pandemic. The threat of inadequate preparedness and limited public health responses in low-resource settings, leading to uncontrolled transmission is a real and unwelcome possibility during a pandemic. The authors recommend that detailed authoritative guidance should be developed...

Here we present a new, rapid, immunofiltration assay for simultaneous detection of HIV p24 and Hepatitis B Virus antigens. The assay platform is composed of a 13 mm nitrocellulose filter spotted with capturing bioprobes and inserted in a Swinnex syringe filter holder. Samples and reagents are flown through the nitrocellulose filter by manual pressure on the syringe. A colorimetric detection all...

Lexical resources such as dictionaries and gazetteers are often used as auxiliary data for tasks such as part-of-speech induction and named-entity recognition. However, discriminative training with lexical features requires annotated data to reliably estimate the lexical feature weights and may result in overfitting the lexical features at the expense of features which generalize better. In thi...

There is growing recognition of the need to maximize efforts to bring evidence into practice in low-resource settings, following realization that the gap between evidence and practice in developing countries results in ineffective treatments that drain their health systems (1). In health systems with few resources, putting evidence into practice is proving exceedingly challenging for reasons th...

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The current fact sheet presents evidence from selected reports of screening and treatment that have been published since the paper cited above was written, in both lowand high-resource regions. This recent information continues to support the use of HPV DNA technologies and—until low-cost versions are available for use in developing countries—the use of visual inspection methods for cervical ca...