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Continuous quality improvement interventions to improve long-term outcomes of antiretroviral therapy in women who initiated therapy during pregnancy or breastfeeding in the Democratic Republic of Congo: design of an open-label, parallel, group randomized trial
BACKGROUND: Despite the rapid adoption of the World Health Organization's 2013 guidelines, children continue to be infected with HIV perinatally …
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“It’s so hard taking pills when you don’t know what they’re for”: a qualitative study of patients’ medicine taking behaviours and conceptualisation of medicines in the context of rheumatoid arthritis
BACKGROUND: Patients with chronic illnesses are often required to take lifelong medication to alleviate symptoms and prevent disease progression. Many …
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Health care providers’ perspectives regarding the use of chlorhexidine gel for cord care in neonates in rural Kenya: implications for scale-up
BACKGROUND: This paper explores the perspectives of health care providers regarding the use of 7.1% Chlorhexidine Digluconate (CHX) gel that …
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Patients who restart antiretroviral medication after interruption remain at high risk of unfavorable outcomes in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Achieving optimal adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is necessary to attain viral suppression and hence optimal clinical …
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Health workers perceptions and attitude about Ghana’s preparedness towards preventing, containing, and managing Ebola Virus Disease
BACKGROUND: Ebola virus is highly infectious and the disease can be very fatal. The World Health Organization has declared the …
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Perspectives of policy-makers and stakeholders about health care waste management in community-based care in South Africa: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, a new primary health care (PHC) re-engineering initiative aims to scale up the provision of community-based …
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Measuring health system responsiveness at facility level in Ethiopia: performance, correlates and implications
BACKGROUND: Health system responsiveness measures (HSR) the non-health aspect of care relating to the environment and the way healthcare is …
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The social accountability of doctors: a relationship based framework for understanding emergent community concepts of caring
BACKGROUND: Social accountability is defined as the responsibility of institutions to respond to the health priorities of a community. There …
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The level of nurses' knowledge on occupational post exposure to hepatitis B infection in the Tamale metropolis, Ghana
BACKGROUND: Health care workers especially nurses in developing countries are at serious risk for infection from blood-borne pathogens particularly hepatitis …
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Implementing the Emergency Triage, Assessment and Treatment plus admission care (ETAT+) clinical practice guidelines to improve quality of hospital care in Rwandan district hospitals: healthcare workers’ perspectives on relevance and challenges
BACKGROUND: An emergency triage, assessment and treatment plus admission care (ETAT+) intervention was implemented in Rwandan district hospitals to improve …
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Barriers and facilitators to enrollment and re-enrollment into the community health funds/Tiba Kwa Kadi (CHF/TIKA) in Tanzania: a cross-sectional inquiry on the effects of socio-demographic factors and social marketing strategies
BACKGROUND: Introduction of a health insurance scheme is one of the ways to enhance access to health care services and …
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Workplace violence against nurses in the Gambia: mixed methods design
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence, perpetrators and factors associated with workplace violence against nurses …
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Erratum to: The value of informal care in the context of option B+ in Malawi: a contingent valuation approach
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Erratum to: Training nurses in task-shifting strategies for the management and control of hypertension in Ghana: a mixed-methods study
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Accessibility of long-term family planning methods: a comparison study between Output Based Approach (OBA) clients verses non-OBA clients in the voucher supported facilities in Kenya
The study seeks to evaluate the difference in access of long-term family planning (LTFP) methods among the output based approach …
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Tuberculosis cure rates and the ETR.Net: investigating the quality of reporting treatment outcomes from primary healthcare facilities in Mpumalanga province, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis control programs rely on accurate collection of routine surveillance data to inform program decisions including resource allocation and …
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A protocol for the methodological steps used to evaluate the alignment of rehabilitation services in the Western Cape, South Africa with the National Rehabilitation Policy
BACKGROUND: Rehabilitation medicine plays an integral part in attainment of optimal functioning after injury or disease. The National Rehabilitation Policy …
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Task-shifting alcohol interventions for HIV+ persons in Kenya: a cost-benefit analysis
BACKGROUND: Among HIV+ patients, alcohol use is a highly prevalent risk factor for both HIV transmission and poor adherence to …
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Urban Health Extension Services Utilization in Bishoftu Town, Oromia Regional State, Central Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has been deploying specially trained new cadres of community based health workers in urban areas of the country …
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A process evaluation plan for assessing a complex community-based maternal health intervention in Ogun State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Despite increased investment in community-level maternal health interventions, process evaluations of such interventions are uncommon, and can be instrumental …