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Context Specific Paediatric Rheumatology Care-Lessons from Africa

Guest Editors:
Angela Migowa: Aga Khan University Medical College East Africa, Kenya Paediatric Association (KPA) and PAFLAR, Kenya

Wafa Hamdi: Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 January 2024


Pediatric Rheumatology is calling for submissions to our collection on Context Specific Paediatric Rheumatology Care-Lessons from Africa. The landscape of paediatric rheumatology care across Africa is rapidly changing and expanding. Despite the health burden of acute conditions such as infections we strive to promote awareness and optimize healthcare for children with arthritis and its associated diseases to mitigate against the associated morbidity, disability and mortality. We hope to do this by showcasing how best to adopt best clinical practice despite the diverse socio-cultural background of countries in Africa. We invite interested authors to showcase their ideologies and research in promoting context specific paediatric rheumatology care in low middle income countries.

About the collection

Pediatric Rheumatology is calling for submissions to our collection on Context Specific Paediatric Rheumatology Care-Lessons from Africa. The landscape of paediatric rheumatology care across Africa is rapidly changing and expanding. Despite the health burden of acute conditions such as infections we strive to promote awareness and optimize healthcare for children with arthritis and its associated diseases to mitigate against the associated morbidity, disability and mortality. We hope to do this by showcasing how best to adopt best clinical practice despite the diverse socio-cultural background of countries in Africa. We invite interested authors to showcase their ideologies and research in promoting context specific paediatric rheumatology care in low middle income countries.

The goal of this series is to highlight the challenges paediatric rheumatology patients in low middle income regions face and showcase various strategies to help overcome these challenges through socio-cultural adaptation of best clinical practice. Cognizant of the fact that we have diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, it is key to emphasize how we intend to customize our proposed solutions for the various populations we serve to be socio-culturally acceptable while keeping in mind solutions that are affordable, feasible, acceptable accessible, sustainable and safe.

We look forward to receiving editorials, quantitative research, qualitative research and reviews highlighting sociocultural adaptation for best clinical practice regarding the healthcare offered to our pediatric rheumatology patients along with articles that explore solutions to the problems the patients face.

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of Research Articles, Data Notes, Case Reports, Study Protocols, and Database Articles. Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Editorial Manager. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a collection, please select "Context Specific Paediatric Rheumatology Care-Lessons from Africa" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.