ACCEPTABILITY OF TEST AND TREAT WITH DOXYCYCLINE AGAINST ONCHOCERCIASIS IN AN AREA OF PERSISTENT TRANSMISSION IN MASSANGAM HEALTH DISTRICT, CAMEROON.

The main onchocerciasis elimination strategy is annual Community-Directed Treatment with ivermectin (CDTi).However, as a response to persistent high infection prevalence in Massangam Health District in Cameroon, two rounds of alternative treatments including biannual CDTi, ground larviciding and test and treat with doxycycline (TTd) were implemente

Beliefs and religious practices related to martyrdom and sainthood have existed since the first periods of Christianity, and the nature of these practices was formed by the conditions of the Early Christian period in which believers were persecuted and subject to hardship and torture.During this time, the practicioners of Paganism, which was the mo

Abstract Background The deregulated alternative splicing of key glycolytic enzyme, Pyruvate Kinase muscle isoenzyme (PKM) is implicated in metabolic adaptation of cancer cells.The splicing switch from normal PKM1 to cancer-specific PKM2 isoform allows the cancer cells to meet their energy and biosynthetic demands, thereby facilitating the cancer ce

One reason of the modest adoption of improved technologies by smallholder farmers is that the majority of them are resource constrained.Structural constraints at the households level cupcake ladder and institutional weaknesses have often prevented most of the farmers from joining the economic development process.This study analyses the production r