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Assessing disparities in medical students’ knowledge and attitude about monkeypox: a cross-sectional study of 27 countries across three continents

Samar Abd ElHafeez1 Assem Gebreal2 Mohammad Adnan Khalil3 Naglaa Youssef4,5 Malik Sallam6,7 Abdelhamid Elshabrawy8 Suzan Abdel-Rahman8 Amira Saad Mahboob9 Saja Yazbek10 Eman H. Elbanna9 Riddhi Adhyaru11 Zarin Nudar Rodoshi12 Yap Siew Kih13 Huda Jawad14 Evangelos Kolotouros15 Arkadiusz Jaworski16 Ghadah AlQarni17 Mohammad Gablan18 Alexandra Condurat19 Ahmed El-Sayed Said Nour Elden20 Oumayma Bennani21 Kamna Rawat22 Areeba Ismail23 […]

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Attitudes of parents towards influenza vaccine in the EasternMediterranean Region: A multilevel analysis

Mohamed Mostafa Tahoun, Horeya M. Ismail, Osman Abubakar Fiidow, Rasha Ashmawy, Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda, Iffat Elbarazi & Ramy Mohamed Ghazy Background: Seasonal influenza vaccines (SIVs) can protect against influenza and substantially reduce therisk of influenza-related hospitalizations and fatalities in children. This study aimed to assess parentalattitudes towards SIVs in the Eastern Mediterranean region (EMR).Methods: Through

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Quality of life among the Arab population two years after COVID-19 pandemic

Mohamed Mostafa Tahoun, Horeya M. Ismail, Osman Abubakar Fiidow, Rasha Ashmawy, Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda, Iffat Elbarazi & Ramy Mohamed Ghazy Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in severe consequences worldwide. Our study aims to assess the quality of life (QoL) domains and its determinants among the general population in Arab countries after two

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Azathioprine as an adjuvant therapy in severe Graves’ disease: a randomized controlled open-label clinical trial

Magdy Mohamed Allam, Hanaa Tarek El-Zawawy, Amr Abdel Kader Okda, Ayoub Ali Alshaikh and Ramy Mohamed Ghazy Introduction: Azathioprine (AZA) interferes with the activation of T and B lymphocytes, which are the main cells involved in the pathogenesis of Graves’ disease (GD). The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of AZA as an

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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the catastrophic costs incurred by tuberculosis patients

Ramy Mohamed Ghazy, Haider M. El Saeh, Shaimaa Abdulaziz, Esraa Abdellatif Hammouda, Amira Mohamed Elzorkany, Heba Khidr, Nardine Zarif, Ehab Elrewany & Samar Abd ElHafeez One of the strategies of the World Health Organization End Tuberculosis (TB) was to reduce the catastrophic costs incurred by TB-affected families to 0% by 2020.Catastrophic cost is defined by

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Progress of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries Towards Achieving the 95-95-95 UNAIDS Targets: A Review

Salah Al Awaidy, Ramy Ghazy & Ozayr Mahomed Background: In 2014, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and partners launched the 90-90-90 targets. These were further updated to correspond to 95-95-95 by the year 2025. We present an overview of the progress made by Gulf Cooperated Council (GCC) countries towards meeting the global

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Determinants of parental seasonal influenza vaccine hesitancy in the Eastern Mediterranean region: A cross-sectional study

Noha Fadl1*†, Salah T. Al Awaidy2,3, Abdelhamid Elshabrawy4†, Mona Sayed Aly Hassan Makhlouf5†, Sarah Assem Ibrahim4†, Suzan Abdel-Rahman4†, Nazir Ahmad Tookhy6†, Abdullah Alsalmani7†, Mays Al-Saeedi8†, Ibrahim Al-Sawalha9†, Mohammad Amin Aly El-Din10†, Janet Saad11†, Zainab Ayoob12†, Mohamed Khalil Rourou13†, Manahil Ali14†, Salha M. Tawati15†, Yahia Marwan Ahmed Gadain16, Sara Yunis Al-saidi17†, Ghadeer Ali Hassan18, Mariam Alsanafi19†,

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