Semeeh Akinwale Omoleke

Datos Biográficos

ID7752951
NOMBRESemeeh Akinwale Omoleke
NOMBRESSemeeh Akinwale
APELLIDOOmoleke
FIRMAOMOLEKE S A
AFILIACIONESWorld Health Organization - Nigeria
ORCID0000-0003-0538-9126
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2013
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • The scopes, outcomes, and limitations of health trials on oral sex practices

    Open AccessKafayat Aminu, Timothy Aladelusi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Worldwide, there is a paucity of health trials on oral sex practices. Despite methodological limitations, these trials reported mixed results, with the majority demonstrating positive changes in attitudes towards oral sex. Finally, there is a need for multi-country RCTs that are focused on oral sex practices, to ensure future policies related to oral sexual health are based on trials that are more rigorous, credible, and generalizable

  • Factors influencing vaccination up-take among nomadic population in four regions of Ghana

    Open AccessSamuel Afari-Asiedu, Lawrence Gyabaa Febir et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Community leaders support vaccination among pastoralist nomads. Nomadic pastoralist miss vaccination dues to language barrier, feel discriminated against, and lack information about diseases and vaccinations. Strengthening Ghana Health Service collaboration with leaders of pastoralist nomads could build trust, create awareness and overcome language barrier between healthcare providers and pastoralist nomads

  • An evaluation of the surveillance system for monitoring and reporting adverse events following immunization in Kebbi State, Northern Nigeria

    Open AccessSemeeh Akinwale Omoleke, Laurent Cleenewerck de KievARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The AEFI surveillance system in Northern Nigeria is well established but functioning sub-optimally. Based on the study findings, the capacity to provide information on vaccine safety exists but it is not robust enough to generate sufficient and convincing vaccine safety data and guide communication strategies for vaccine demand generation, especially for new vaccines and those under emergency authorization use

  • Barriers to optimal Aefi surveillance and documentation in Nigeria

    Open AccessSemeeh Akinwale Omoleke, Moyosola Bamidele et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Effective spontaneous AEFI reporting is the first step to ensuring vaccine safety. Half of the global population lives in countries with weak vaccine safety monitoring systems, especially in the African, Eastern Mediterranean, and Western Pacific regions. Further, Immunisation services have been upscaled without commensurate effective AEFI surveillance systems. Hence, this study aims to comprehensively investigate the impediments to an effective …

  • Tracking the uptake and trajectory of Covid-19 vaccination coverage in 15 West African countries

    Open AccessMuhammed O Afolabi, Oghenebrume Wariri et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    The African Union Bureau of Heads of State and Government endorsed the COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Access Strategy to vaccinate at least 60% of each country’s population with a safe and efficacious vaccine by 2022, to achieve the population-level immunity needed to bring the pandemic under control. Using publicly available, country-level population estimates and COVID-19 vaccination data, we provide unique insights into the uptake trends of …

  • Knowledge, attitude and practice towards tuberculosis in Gambia

    Open AccessAdedapo Olufemi Bashorun, Christopher Linda et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    About 3 in 10 Gambians had poor knowledge on TB, and significant stigma towards TB and persons with TB persists. Interventions to improve TB knowledge and address stigma are required as part of efforts to reduce the burden of undiagnosed TB in the country

  • Environmental, economic and socio-cultural risk factors of recurrent seasonal epidemics of cerebrospinal meningitis in Kebbi state, northwestern Nigeria

    Open AccessSemeeh Akinwale Omoleke, Olatunji Alabi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    As suggested by participants, there are potential environmental, socio-cultural and economic factors in the study area that might have been driving recurrent epidemics of cerebrospinal meningitis. In a bid to addressing this perennial challenge, governments at various levels supported by health development partners such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nation Habitat, and United National Development Programme can use the findings of…

  • Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance intensification for polio certification in Kaduna state, Nigeria

    Open AccessGregory Umeh, Gregory C Umeh et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    The different initiatives implemented in 23 LGAs of Kaduna state to intensify AFP surveillance may be responsible for the significant improvement in the AFP surveillance performance indicators in 2016

  • Awareness of diabetes mellitus among diabetic patients in the Gambia

    Open AccessMafomekong Ayuk Foma, Yauba Saidu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2013

    Our study shows that the majority of patients attending the MOPD have poor knowledge on several aspects of DM. Hence, there is need for conscious efforts towards improving the level of awareness through health education and promotion, not limited to the hospital but also within the general population, as part of strategies to prevent, manage and control DM