"Africa" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The continent south of EUROPE, east of the ATLANTIC OCEAN and west of the INDIAN OCEAN.
| Descriptor ID |
D000349
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.058
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Africa".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Africa".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Africa" by people in this website by year, and whether "Africa" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1998 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2001 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2002 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2003 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2004 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2005 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2006 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2010 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2011 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2013 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
| 2014 | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| 2015 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 2016 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 2017 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 2018 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2019 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 2020 | 0 | 25 | 25 |
| 2021 | 0 | 27 | 27 |
| 2022 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2023 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2024 | 0 | 17 | 17 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Africa" by people in Profiles.
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African Hospital-Based Paediatric Palliative Oncology Care Independent of Economic Indicators: An International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) Global Mapping Programme Survey. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2025 May; 72(5):e31598.
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Evaluating the socioeconomic benefits of heat-health warning systems. Eur J Public Health. 2025 Feb 01; 35(1):178-186.
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Preferences for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis formulations and delivery among young African women: results of a discrete choice experiment. J Int AIDS Soc. 2025 Feb; 28(2):e26422.
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Access to Health Care and Use of Health Care Services Among Males in Africa: Protocol for a Scoping Review. JMIR Res Protoc. 2025 Jan 31; 14:e52351.
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Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa. Nature. 2025 Feb; 638(8051):718-728.
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SARS-CoV-2 cross-sectional serosurvey across three HIV-1 therapeutic clinical trials in Africa. AIDS. 2025 Mar 15; 39(4):448-456.
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Enhancing clinical microbiology for genomic surveillance of antimicrobial resistance implementation in Africa. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2024 Nov 13; 13(1):135.
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Epidemiology of human metapneumovirus among children with severe or very severe pneumonia in high pneumonia burden settings: the Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) study experience. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2025 Mar; 31(3):441-450.
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Long Covid: a global health issue - a prospective, cohort study set in four continents. BMJ Glob Health. 2024 Oct 21; 9(10).
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Cancer Care Terminology in African Languages. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 08 01; 7(8):e2431128.