Unskilled traditional healers are widely blamed for complications to male circumcision performed in low- and middle-income settings. However, attributions of culpability are mostly anecdotal. We identify self-circumcision in adults that was performed during adolescence, hereby termed retrospective self-circumcision, and unexpectedly discovered during interviews with Somali men in Sweden in 2010...

This paper explores how people from low-income, minority ethnic groups perceive and experience exclusion from informal science education (ISE) institutions, such as museums and science centers. Drawing on qualitative data from four focus groups, 32 interviews, four accompanied visits to ISE institutions, and field notes, this paper presents an analysis of exclusion from science learning opportu...

Title: Factors associated with diarrheal morbidity among under-five children in Jigjiga town, Somali Regional State, eastern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study Authors: Hailemichael Bizuneh ([email protected]) Fentabil Getnet ([email protected]) Beyene Meressa ([email protected]) Yonatan Tegene ([email protected]) Getnet Worku ([email protected]) Version: 3 Date: 03 Jul 2017...

INTRODUCTION Communication is key for the successful implementation of polio vaccination campaigns. The purpose of this study is to review and analyse the sources of information utilized by caregivers during polio supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) in Somali, Ethiopia in 2014 and 2015. METHODS Data on sources of information about the polio campaign were collected post campaign from ...

A telepsychiatry project was conducted to improve access to culturally appropriate care providers (i.e. culturally competent, bilingual clinicians) by the use of videoconferencing. A self-completed retrospective questionnaire survey was conducted with asylum seekers, refugees and migrants. The purpose of the referral was either for diagnostic assessment with a subsequent treatment recommendatio...

Objective: Refugees are at high risk of experiencing mental health problems due to trauma in their pasts and to acculturation stress as they settle in a new country. To develop efficient health services that meet the needs of refugees from different regions, an understanding is required of how they make sense of and prefer to cope with mental health problems. This study aims to investigate lay ...

Because some antibiotics have proved active in certain parasitic infections, there appears to be good prospect that this rapidly growing and meagerly tested class of chemotherapeutic agents (there are already some 4,000 known antibiotics!) will some day provide efficient treatments for some of the parasitic diseases of livestock and poultry. Antibiotics are especially useful for combating bacte...

Çalışma, 2019-2020 arasında Somali’nin Shabelle bölgesindeki Afgoye şehrinden 10 km uzakta açık alanda yürütülmüştür. Araştırmada, Somali koşullarında farklı papaya çeşitlerinin fenolojik özelikleri ve verim açısından gösterdikleri performansları belirleyerek, üreticiye uygun çeşit önermek amaçlanmıştır. Denemede materyal olarak dişi erkek ağaç oranının dengelenmesine ihtiyaç duymaksızın, üreti...