Funding Information: This work was supported by UNICEF and Government of Angola under contract number 43252845. Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2025.; Background: The first evaluation of iodine nutritional status in Angola was carried out in 2006. This involved a limited survey of urinary iodine concentration (UIC) among school-aged children, conducted in 24 schools within the municipalities of Bié Provinc...
Funding Information: This research was funded by Abbott Rapid Diagnostics Group. The study sponsors had no role in the design of the study. Publisher Copyright: © 2024 by the authors.; Rotavirus group A (RVA) is a major cause of pediatric acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Vaccination is an effective public health strategy and Angola implemented it in 2014. This hospital-based study aimed to estimate the prevalence o...
In the last decade, in Lusophone African countries, like in other countries from Africa, health research has increased and in response Research Ethics Committees have been established namely in Universities, Research Centers and Ministries of Health. But these committees still face a serious lack of staff trained in research ethics, and the "language divide" is an important barrier faced by them, as the main et...