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The relationship between a microfinance-based healthcare delivery platform, health insurance coverage, health screenings, and disease management in rural Western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Structural barriers often prevent rural Kenyans from receiving healthcare and diagnostic testing. The Bridging Income Generation through grouP Integrated …
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Willingness of community based health insurance uptake and associated factors among urban residents of Oromia regional state, Oromia, Ethiopia, a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Globally, Millions of people cannot use health services because of the fear of payment for the service at the …
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“If you are on duty, you may be afraid to come out to attend to a person”: fear of crime and security challenges in maternal acute care in Nigeria from a realist perspective
BACKGROUND: Maternal and Child Health is a global priority. Access and utilization of facility-based health services remain a challenge in …
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Determinants of antenatal care dropout among mothers who gave birth in the last six months in BAHIR Dar ZURIA WOREDA community; mixed designs
BACKGROUND: Antenatal care is the care provides for a pregnant mother to improve the health of the mother and her …
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Barriers and facilitators for transitioning of young people from adolescent clinics to adult ART clinics in Uganda: unintended consequences of successful adolescent ART clinics
BACKGROUND: There is a growing number of adolescents and young adults living with HIV (YPLHIV) who require the transfer of …
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Community health worker motivation to perform systematic household contact tuberculosis investigation in a high burden metropolitan district in South Africa
Abstract Background South Africa faces a chronic shortage of professional health workers. Accordingly, community health workers (CHWs) are being employed …
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Components of antenatal care received by women in fishing communities on Lake Victoria, Uganda; a cross sectional survey
BACKGROUND: Uganda has one of the highest maternal deaths at a ratio of 336 per 100,000 live births. As Uganda …
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Opportunities and challenges to integrating mental health into HIV programs in a low- and middle-income country: insights from the Nigeria implementation science Alliance
BACKGROUND: In Nigeria, there is an estimated 1.9 million people living with HIV (PLHIV), 53% of whom utilize HIV care …
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Physician burnout in Nigeria: a multicentre, cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers are a burnout-prone occupational group and the prevalence is particularly high among physicians. With the prevailing low …
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Challenges and prospects for implementation of community health volunteers’ digital health solutions in Kenya: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: The value of digital health technologies in delivering vital health care interventions, especially in low resource settings is increasingly …
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Geographical and socioeconomic inequalities in the utilization of maternal healthcare services in Nigeria: 2003–2017
BACKGROUND: Maternal mortality has remained a challenge in many low-income countries, especially in Africa and in Nigeria in particular. This …
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Factors influencing mothers’ health care seeking behaviour for their children: evidence from 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Almost half of the estimated 5.3 million deaths of under-five children in 2018 occurred in sub-Saharan Africa with morbidity …
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Correction to: Human-centered design as a guide to intervention planning for non-communicable diseases: the BIGPIC study from Western Kenya
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
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Consolidating strategic information to monitor progress against the UNAIDS 90–90–90 targets: evaluating the operational feasibility of an electronic HIV testing register in Cape Town, South Africa
BACKGROUND: HIV diagnosis in South Africa is based on a point-of-care testing (PoCT) algorithm with paper-based record-keeping. Aggregated testing data …
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Perspectives and practices of health workers around diagnosis of paediatric tuberculosis in hospitals in a resource-poor setting – modern diagnostics meet age-old challenges
BACKGROUND: Detection of tuberculosis (TB) in children in Kenya is sub-optimal. Xpert MTB/RIF® assay (Xpert®) has the potential to improve …
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A geospatial analysis of two-hour surgical access to district hospitals in South Africa
BACKGROUND: In a robust health care system, at least 80% of a country's population should be able to access a …
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Scaling up Ghana's national newborn care initiative: integrating 'helping babies breathe' (HBB), 'essential care for every baby' (ECEB), and newborn 'infection prevention' (IP) trainings
BACKGROUND: Responding to stagnating neonatal mortality rates in Ghana, a five-year collaboration called Making Every Baby Count Initiative (MEBCI) was …
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Assessing the costs and efficiency of HIV testing and treatment services in rural Malawi: implications for future “test and start” strategies
BACKGROUND: Reaching the 90-90-90 targets requires efficient resource use to deliver HIV testing and treatment services. We investigated the costs …
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Institutionalized data quality assessments: a critical pathway to improving the accuracy of integrated disease surveillance data in Sierra Leone
BACKGROUND: Public health agencies require valid, timely and complete health information for early detection of outbreaks. Towards the end of …
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Implementing oncology clinical trials in Nigeria: a model for capacity building
BACKGROUND: There is both higher mortality and morbidity from cancer in low and medium income countries (LMICs) compared with high …