The in-hospital tuberculosis diagnostic cascade and early clinical outcomes among people living with HIV before and during the COVID-19 pandemic - a prospective multisite cohort study from Ghana

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic had a disruptive impact on tuberculosis (TB) and HIV services.We assessed the in-hospital TB diagnostic care among people with HIV (PWH) overall and before and during the pandemic.Methods: In this prospective study, adult PWH admitted at three hospitals in Ghana were recruited if they had a positive World Health Or

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The Black Belt

This essay considers the historical-geographical Black Belt, beginning as a rich, dark-soil, cotton-growing region of Alabama occupied voodoo one 2019 by slaveholders in the 1820s and 30s, and becoming, over time, a more generalized designation for a region or place with a majority black population.By the late twentieth century, the Alabama Black B

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