Browsing by Author "Nawaz, Faisal A."
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Challenges faced by African healthcare workers during the third wave of the pandemic
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Abstract: Africa experienced the third wave of the coronavirus disease in 2019, which caused an 18% rise in cases in most parts of the continent. As of January 2022, the region had an estimated 10.4 million cumulative ... -
Challenging the Illusion: Health Equity Amidst New Variants
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)HIGHLIGHTS • LMICs with limited capacities and infrastructures have experienced striking and disproportionate public health and economic losses during the COVID-19 pandemic—particularly due to imposed lockdowns and ... -
Child malnutrition in Afghanistan amid a deepening humanitarian crisis
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Abstract: Decades of political turmoil and stifling war, among other issues, has turned Afghanistan into the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. Just 4 months after the Taliban seized control, the majority of the Afghan ... -
Comorbidities Associated With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents at a Tertiary Care Setting
Nawaz, Faisal A.; Khan, Abdul Rahman; Sultan, Meshal A. (2022)Abstract: Studies have revealed high rates of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric comorbid conditions among individuals diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, research on this topic in ... -
COVID-19 Rapid Antigen Tests: Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Literature
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Abstract: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt health systems worldwide, conducting Rapid Antigen Testing (RAT) at specified intervals has become an essential part of many people’s lives around the world. We ... -
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A narrative review of four South Asian countries
Ennab, Farah; Zary, Nabil; Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Objectives: Vaccine hesitancy remains a global issue, especially within poverty-stricken countries where there’s an interplay of financial and nonfinancial barriers. This narrative review aims to understand attitudes and ... -
Double trouble: COVID-19 vaccine misinformation amidst conflict in Ukraine
Ennab, Farah; Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022-08)Abstract: The repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic have presented valuable insights into new public health challenges which were once difficult to recognize. At the core of this strenuous public health emergency, lies ... -
Effects of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on blood donation and blood banks in India
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Abstract: India, the second most populous country in the world, started its mass vaccination campaign on January 16th, 2021. With the aim to vaccinate 1.3 billion people, this vaccination programme was dubbed as the world’s ... -
Enhancing public trust in COVID-19 vaccination during ramadan 2022: A call for action
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Abstract: Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar in which it is compulsory for Muslims to abstain from eating and drinking during the daytime. The COVID-19 pandemic posed additional challenges for Muslims ... -
From black to white: A roadmap to containing the rise of candidiasis amidst COVID-19 and mucormycosis in India
Nawaz, Faisal A.; Khan, Abdul Rahman (2021)Abstract: With numbers of active COVID-19 cases in India falling in recent weeks and the healthcare system finally showing signs of coping with the mucormycosis epidemic, several new reports of COVID-19 cases linked to ... -
Impacts of biomedical hashtag-based Twitter campaign: #DHPSP utilization for promotion of open innovation in digital health, patient safety, and personalized medicine
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2021)Abstract: The open innovation hub Digital Health and Patient Safety Platform (DHPSP) was recently established with the purpose to invigorate collaborative scientific research and the development of new digital products ... -
Implications of conflict on mental health in Somalia and beyond
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Introduction: Somalia, a nation in the horn of Africa, has been suffering from continuous conflict, political unrest and a high disease burden since the outbreak of civil war in 1991 (World Bank n.d.; IHME n.d.). The ... -
Implications of social media misinformation on COVID-19 vaccine confidence among pregnant women in Africa
Ennab, Farah; Khan, Abdul Rahman; Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Abstract: It has been over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and subsequently a global pandemic. The world has experienced ... -
Low Birth Weight Prevalence in Children Diagnosed with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Dubai
Nawaz, Faisal A.; Sultan, Meshal A. (2021)Abstract: The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of low birth weight and other perinatal risk factors in children diagnosed with neurodevelopmental disorders. This is one of the first studies in the Arabian ... -
Medical and Health-Related Misinformation on Social Media: Bibliometric Study of the Scientific Literature
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Background: Social media has been extensively used for the communication of health-related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation. Conventional systematic reviews have been published ... -
Mental health of children in Palestine: An Intergenerational Crisis
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Introduction: Palestine has been a war-torn state for the past 70 years with sociopolitical fragmentation resulting in a mental health crisis stemming from constant violence, trauma, and deprived human resources. Palestinians ... -
Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms in an Adolescent with Intellectual Disability
Al-Abdullah, Zainab; Nawaz, Faisal A.; Kair, Hawk M.; Sultan, Meshal A. (2022)Abstract: Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) experience various psychiatric comorbidities including anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in a rate that is equivalent or higher than ... -
People’s Willingness to Vaccinate Against COVID-19 Despite Their Safety Concerns: Twitter Poll Analysis
Nawaz, Faisal A. (2021)Background: On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization’s Emergency Committee declared the rapid, worldwide spread of COVID-19 a global health emergency. Since then, tireless efforts have been made to mitigate the ... -
A potential rise of breast cancer risk in the UAE post-COVID-19 lockdown: A call for action
Ennab, Farah; Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected in late December of 2019 with early reports of pneumonia-like symptoms from Wuhan, China. This outbreak has quickly caused major healthcare havoc, with ... -
Rise of monkeypox: Lessons from COVID-19 pandemic to mitigate global health crises
Ennab, Farah; Nawaz, Faisal A. (2022)Introduction: The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential has occurred regularly throughout history. HIV/AIDS, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza are some of the highest-profile examples. ...