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The journal serves as a platform for the rapid dissemination of original research, clinical investigations, surgical studies, preventive-health scholarship, and population-based health evidence with strong scientific and societal relevance.</div> <!-- AIMS + SCOPE --> <div style="margin-top: 12px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: 10px; align-items: stretch;"><!-- AIMS --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Aims</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;"><em>African Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Public Health Research</em> aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship that advances medical science, surgical practice, and public health research through ethically grounded, scientifically robust, and practically relevant studies.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Medical Research:</strong> disseminate high-quality evidence that improves clinical understanding, diagnosis, treatment, and patient care.<br> • <strong>Surgical Scholarship:</strong> promote research on surgical procedures, perioperative care, outcomes, innovations, and evidence-based surgical practice.<br> • <strong>Public Health Advancement:</strong> support preventive, epidemiological, community, and policy-oriented studies that strengthen population health and healthcare systems.<br> • <strong>Integrated Health Impact:</strong> encourage work linking clinical medicine, surgery, and public health to improve health outcomes across individual and community settings.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Submissions should clearly define the clinical, surgical, or public-health problem, report methods transparently, present defensible evidence, and articulate a meaningful contribution to healthcare research and practice.</div> </div> <!-- SCOPE --> <div style="flex: 1 1 320px; min-width: 0; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 12px; border: 1px solid #EAEAD2; border-radius: 14px; background: #FFFDF7; color: #2a3b50; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.86;"> <div style="margin: 0 0 8px 0; font-size: 17.6px; font-weight: 900; color: #142238; text-align: left;">Scope</div> <div style="margin: 0; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-word; hyphens: auto;">AJMSPHR welcomes original research papers and related scholarly contributions in medicine, surgery, and public health, especially studies that demonstrate scientific rigor, ethical responsibility, and clear relevance to health outcomes, healthcare delivery, and disease prevention.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; color: #2f425a; text-align: justify;">• <strong>Medicine:</strong> internal medicine, clinical research, disease management, diagnostics, therapeutics, and patient-centered healthcare studies.<br> • <strong>Surgery:</strong> general and specialized surgery, operative techniques, perioperative care, surgical outcomes, trauma care, and procedural innovation.<br> • <strong>Public Health:</strong> epidemiology, health promotion, disease prevention, environmental health, maternal and child health, and community-health interventions.<br> • <strong>Health Systems and Policy:</strong> healthcare access, service delivery, health management, workforce issues, and evidence informing public-health or clinical policy.<br> • <strong>Interdisciplinary Health Research:</strong> studies bridging medicine, surgery, and public health with implications for healthcare improvement and population well-being.</div> <div style="margin-top: 10px; padding: 10px 12px; border: 1px solid #DDE0C8; border-radius: 14px; background: #EEF0DA; color: #2f425a; font-size: 15.6px; line-height: 1.82; text-align: justify;">Priority is given to original research articles that demonstrate methodological rigor, ethical compliance, and a clear contribution to medical science, surgical knowledge, or evidence-based public-health practice.</div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- ========================= END AJMSPHR HOMEPAGE ========================= --> https://ejournal.yasin-alsys.org/AJMSPHR/article/view/11204 2026-07-11T10:30:49+08:00 Andemi E. J. [email protected] Hemen A. I. J. [email protected] Ronald W. A. [email protected]

<p>Vulvovaginal infections caused by <em>Candida albicans</em> and <em>Trichomonas vaginalis</em> remain important reproductive health concerns among women of childbearing age, yet epidemiological evidence from Wukari Metropolis is limited. This study examined the prevalence of <em>C. albicans</em> and <em>T. vaginalis</em> and their associations with sociodemographic, clinical, and behavioral factors among women of childbearing age in Wukari Metropolis. Vaginal swab specimens were collected from 163 consenting participants and examined macroscopically and microscopically, while <em>C. albicans</em> isolates were confirmed using the germ-tube test. No <em>T. vaginalis</em> infection was detected; therefore, subsequent analyses focused on <em>C. albicans</em>. The overall prevalence of <em>C. albicans</em> infection was 60.1%, with the highest prevalence recorded among women aged 40–49 years (100%) and the lowest among those aged 30–34 years (35.5%; χ² = 42.30, p &lt; .001). Infection prevalence was significantly higher among women with informal education (86.4%) or primary education (87.9%) than among those with tertiary education (41.9%; χ² = 26.69, p &lt; .001). Married women also had a higher prevalence than unmarried women (69.2% vs. 48.6%; χ² = 7.13, p = .008). Diabetes and HIV infection were important risk factors, with <em>C. albicans</em> detected in 100% of participants with diabetes and 75% of those living with HIV, yielding a combined prevalence of 91.3% (χ² = 4.11, p = .043). Significant clinical associations were observed for dyspareunia (80.2%), dysuria (69.7%), and vaginal discharge (52.4%; all p &lt; .05). Self-medication was also significantly associated with infection (74.3%; χ² = 10.38, p = .006), as was the use of feminine hygiene products (χ² = 4.37, p = .037). These findings demonstrate a high burden of <em>C. albicans</em> infection despite the absence of <em>T. vaginalis</em> and highlight the influence of educational status, marital status, underlying health conditions, clinical symptoms, and personal health practices. The study provides locally relevant epidemiological evidence to support targeted screening, health education, and prevention strategies for vulvovaginal candidiasis among women of childbearing age in Wukari Metropolis.</p>

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