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Prevalence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positivity and its associated factors in Rwanda
BACKGROUND: The epidemiology of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the general population in Rwanda is not well known. This …
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A study on the neurodevelopment outcomes of late preterm infants
BACKGROUND: The study is intended to fill the knowledge gap about the neuropsychology and neuromotor developmental outcomes, and identify the …
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Are Communities Receiving Appropriate Care? : A Study on the Community Health Worker Program in Mozambique
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Evaluation of facility and community-based active household tuberculosis contact investigation in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: No established strategy for household tuberculosis (TB) contact investigation (HTCI) exists in Ethiopia. We implemented integrated, active HTCI model …
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National guidance and district-level practices in the supervision of community health workers in South Africa: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Supportive supervision is considered critical to community health worker programme performance, but there is relatively little understanding of how …
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The incidence of pregnancy hypertension in India, Pakistan, Mozambique, and Nigeria: A prospective population-level analysis
BACKGROUND: Most pregnancy hypertension estimates in less-developed countries are from cross-sectional hospital surveys and are considered overestimates. We estimated population-based …
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Mobile Phone Based Strategies for Preconception Education in Rural Africa
Abstract Background prepregnancy health care is vital to alleviate and prevent maternal and neonatal disability and death. Objective The purpose …
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Effect of a community health worker mHealth monitoring system on uptake of maternal and newborn health services in Rwanda
BACKGROUND: In an effort to improve access to proven maternal and newborn health interventions, Rwanda implemented a mobile phone (mHealth) …
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Setting the global research agenda for community health systems: literature and consultative review
BACKGROUND: Globally, there is renewed interest in and momentum for strengthening community health systems, as also emphasized by the recent …
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Malaria case management commodity supply and use by community health workers in Mozambique, 2017
BACKGROUND: Community health workers (CHWs) provide preventive care and integrated community case management (iCCM) to people with low healthcare access …
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High level of treatment failure and drug resistance to first-line antiretroviral therapies among HIV-infected children receiving decentralized care in Senegal
In Senegal in 2015, an estimated 4800 children were living with HIV, with 1200 receiving ARV treatment, of whom half …
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HOSENG trial – Effect of the provision of oral self-testing for absent and refusing individuals during a door-to-door HIV testing campaign on testing coverage: protocol of a cluster randomized clinical trial in rural Lesotho
Abstract BACKGROUND: HIV testing coverage remains below the targeted 90% despite efforts and resources invested into testing in sub-Saharan Africa. …
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Preference for Artemisinin–based combination therapy among healthcare providers, Lokoja, North-Central Nigeria
BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy (ACT) is the recommended first line antimalarial medicine for uncomplicated malaria. However, health care …
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The role of price and convenience in use of oral rehydration salts to treat child diarrhea: A cluster randomized trial in Uganda
BACKGROUND: Over half a million children die each year of diarrheal illness, although nearly all deaths could be prevented with …
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Pathways to diabetic care at hospitals in rural Eastern Uganda: a cross sectional study
BACKGROUND: Prompt access to appropriate treatment reduces early onset of complications to chronic illnesses. Our objective was to document the …
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Exploring the sorting of patients in community health centres across Gauteng Province, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Primary health care worldwide faces large numbers of patients daily. Poor waiting times, low patient satisfaction and staff burnout …
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Urinary incontinence and its relation to delivery circumstances: A population-based study from rural Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of urinary incontinence (UI), the different UI subtypes and the association between …
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Primary health care workers’ understanding and skills related to cervical cancer prevention in Sango PHC centre in south-western Nigeria: a qualitative study
AIM: The study explored the knowledge and service delivery skills of primary health care (PHC) workers to conduct cervical cancer …
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Access to and use of preventive intermittent treatment for Malaria during pregnancy: A qualitative study in the Chókwè district, Southern Mozambique
BACKGROUND: Malaria remains a significant health problem in Mozambique, particularly in the case of pregnant women and children less than …
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Disparities in access to diagnosis and care in Blantyre, Malawi, identified through enhanced tuberculosis surveillance and spatial analysis
BACKGROUND: A sizeable fraction of tuberculosis (TB) cases go undiagnosed. By analysing data from enhanced demographic, microbiological and geospatial surveillance …