Background: Orofacial clefts (OFCs) are the commonest craniofacial birth defects with a worldwide birth prevalence of 1/700 live birth. It varies from 1/2500 to 1/500 births depending on the geographic origin, racial and ...

Background: A maternal near-miss event or severe acute maternal morbidity is defined by the World Health Organization as „a woman who nearly died but survived a complication that occurred during pregnancy, childbirth or ...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is among the major public health problems over the world. Thus, global efforts have been designed to combat three distinct, but overlapping humanitarian, public health, and economic burdens ...

Background: - Lower respiratory tract infections are a leading cause of mortality worldwide, causing 1.6 million deaths annually in adults. Excluding tuberculosis they are the third most common cause of death worldwide ...

Background: Mortality in African children is unacceptably high. Providing free health care to young children has been hypothesized to improve access to health care and lead to better health outcomes. However, there have ...

Background: HIV/AIDS is known to be one of the most catastrophic diseases that have confronted humanity in living memory. Even though there are segments of disadvantaged social groups who are at risk HIV infection due ...