BACKGROUND Onchocerciasis in Yemen is one of the most neglected diseases, where baseline estimates of onchocerciasis and monitoring of the impact of ivermectin regularly administered to the affected individuals on its transmission are lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the anti-Ov16 IgG4 seroprevalence among local communities of Hodeidah and Al-Mahwit governorates of Tihama regio...

Introduction. Despite the efforts of the malaria control programme, malaria morbidity is still a common health problem in Yemen, with 60% of the population at risk. Plasmodium falciparum is responsible for 99% of malaria cases. The emergence in Yemen of parasite resistance to chloroquine (CQ) prompted the adoption of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) in 2009, which involves the use of artes...

BACKGROUND Unsafe injection practices are a major public health problem and can lead to the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). METHODS The present study was conducted to determine the nature and magnitude of unsafe injection practices in healthcare facilities in Hodeidah governorate, Yemen. T...

Background: The radiological techniques namely chest radiography (chest X-ray) and computerized tomography (CT) scan play a major role not only in the early detection diagnosis, especially for false negative Real Time-Polymerase Reaction (RT-PCR) tests admission criteria, monitoring clinical course disease severity.
 Objective: study aimed to describe features of X-ray CT coronavirus disea...

Background: The biomolecular technique namely Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) is very important in confirmation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but progressive infection and predication the illness severity not used.
 Objective: Therefore, study aimed to determine relationship between viral load COVID-19 based on cycle threshold (Ct).
 Methodology: research was des...

Purpose: To determine the status of glycemic control and its associated factors among adult patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Hodeidah City, Yemen.
 Methods: This cross-sectional study involved T2DM attending an outpatient clinic at Military Hospital Hodeidah, from January to March 2017. Relevant socio-demographic characteristics, clinical self-management behaviours were rec...

A lot of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) related deaths were reported in Yemen about what risk factors contributing to this excess death? Hodeidah governorate at Western part exposed COVID-19 pandemic like other governorates Yemen, adding the current chronic diseases’ problems and endemic vector – borne diseases namely malaria dengue. The aim case report is explore more data dengue fever co...

1Department of Tropical Health, High Institute of Public Health, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt (Correspondence to H.K. Bassiouny: [email protected]). 2Department of Medical Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sana’a, Sana’a, Yemen. ABSTRACT To investigate the consequences of maternal malaria during late pregnancy, we conducted a preliminary study in the 2 hosp...