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Bladder outlet obstruction; a rare complication of the neglected schistosome, Schistosoma haematobium: two case reports and public health challenges
BACKGROUND: Schistosomiasis is a severe parasitic infestation with debilitating complications and is the third most devastating tropical disease in the …
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A retrospective review of birth outcomes at the Mother and Child Health Hospital in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2004–2013
BACKGROUND: The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a lower-middle income country making steady progress improving maternal and child …
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Strengthening referral of sick children from the private health sector and its impact on referral uptake in Uganda: a cluster randomized controlled trial protocol
BACKGROUND: Uganda's under-five mortality is high, currently estimated at 66/1000 live births. Poor referral of sick children that seek care …
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Development and validation of a rapid assessment tool for malaria prevention
BACKGROUND: Insecticide-treated bed nets (ITN) have been shown to be efficacious in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality in many regions. …
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Use of angiotensin receptor – neprilysin inhibitors in heart failure: a paradigm shift
Heart failure is a clinical syndrome responsible for at least one-third of hospitalisations amongst cardiac patients, with escalating mortality and …
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A pilot program of knowledge translation and implementation for newborn resuscitation using US Peace Corps Volunteers in rural Madagascar
BACKGROUND: Prevention of adverse perinatal outcome using the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) neonatal resuscitation algorithm can reduce perinatal mortality in …
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Community health workers adherence to referral guidelines: evidence from studies introducing RDTs in two malaria transmission settings in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Many malaria-endemic countries have implemented national community health worker (CHW) programmes to serve remote populations that have poor access …
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Non-adherence to community oral-antibiotic treatment in children with fast-breathing pneumonia in Malawi– secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND: Despite significant progress, pneumonia is still the leading cause of infectious deaths in children under five years of age. …
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Improving early childhood care and development, HIV-testing, treatment and support, and nutrition in Mokhotlong, Lesotho: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Since 1990, the lives of 48 million children under the age of 5 years have been saved because of …
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Low prevalence of laboratory-confirmed malaria in clinically diagnosed adult women from the Wakiso district of Uganda
BACKGROUND: The malaria burden in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has fallen substantially. Nevertheless, malaria remains a serious health concern, and Uganda …
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Individual, household and community level factors associated with keeping tuberculosis status secret in Ghana
BACKGROUND: In tuberculosis (TB) control, early disclosure is recommended for the purposes of treatment as well as a means of …
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Information, regulation and coordination: realist analysis of the efforts of community health committees to limit informal health care providers in Nigeria
One of the consequences of ineffective governments is that they leave space for unlicensed and unregulated informal providers without formal …
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The effects of MCH insurance cards on improving equity in access and use of maternal and child health care services in Tanzania: a mixed methods analysis
BACKGROUND: Inequity in access and use of child and maternal health services is impeding progress towards reduction of maternal mortality …
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A Presumptive Case of Human Rabies: A Rare Survived Case in Rural Ghana
Rabies remains endemic in Ghana and continues to pose a major public health threat to humans and animals with a …
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Implementation and acceptability of strategies instituted for engaging men in family planning services in Kibaha district, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Men as the main decision makers in most of African families have an important role to play towards acceptance …
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Scaling-up the use of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine for the preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy: results and lessons on scalability, costs and programme impact from three local government areas in Sokoto State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with 3+ doses of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (IPTp-SP) reduces maternal mortality and stillbirths in …
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Predictors of mortality in a cohort of tuberculosis/HIV co-infected patients in Southwest Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis/HIV co-infection is a bidirectional and synergistic combination of two very important pathogens in public health. To date, there …
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Absence of Association between Cord Specific Antibody Levels and Severe Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Disease in Early Infants: A Case Control Study from Coastal Kenya
BACKGROUND: The target group for severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) disease prevention is infants under 6 months of age. Vaccine …
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Asymptomatic only at first sight: malaria infection among schoolchildren in highland Rwanda
BACKGROUND: Plasmodium infection and malaria in school children are increasingly recognized as a relevant public health problem, but data on …
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Determinants of use of health facility for childbirth in rural Hadiya zone, Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality remains a major global public health concern despite many international efforts. Facility-based childbirth increases access to appropriate …