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Long-term effects of payment for performance on maternal and child health outcomes: evidence from Tanzania
BACKGROUND: The success of payment for performance (P4P) schemes relies on their ability to generate sustainable changes in the behaviour …
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If we build it, will they come? Results of a quasi-experimental study assessing the impact of maternity waiting homes on facility-based childbirth and maternity care in Zambia
INTRODUCTION: Maternity waiting homes (MWHs) aim to increase access to maternity and emergency obstetric care by allowing women to stay …
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Association of maternal prenatal selenium concentration and preterm birth: a multicountry meta-analysis
BACKGROUND: Selenium (Se), an essential trace mineral, has been implicated in preterm birth (PTB). We aimed to determine the association …
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Scaling up Kangaroo Mother Care in Ethiopia and India: a multi-site implementation research study
OBJECTIVES: Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), prolonged skin-to-skin care of the low birth weight baby with the mother plus exclusive breastfeeding …
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Essential Emergency and Critical Care: a consensus among global clinical experts
BACKGROUND: Globally, critical illness results in millions of deaths every year. Although many of these deaths are potentially preventable, the …
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Exploring smoke: an ethnographic study of air pollution in rural Malawi
Air pollution adversely affects human health, and the climate crisis intensifies the global imperative for action. Low-/middle-income countries (LMIC) suffer …
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Child health and the implementation of Community and District-management Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES) in Uganda: a randomised controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: Uganda's district-level administrative units buttress the public healthcare system. In many districts, however, local capacity is incommensurate with that …
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Performance assessment of the county healthcare systems in Kenya: a mixed-methods analysis
INTRODUCTION: A well performing public healthcare system is necessary for Kenya to continue progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). Identifying …
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Effectiveness and safety of reactive focal mass drug administration (rfMDA) using dihydroartemisinin–piperaquine to reduce malaria transmission in the very low-endemic setting of Eswatini: a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial
INTRODUCTION: To reduce malaria transmission in very low-endemic settings, screening and treatment near index cases (reactive case detection (RACD)), is …
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Monitoring, reporting and regulating medicine quality: tensions between theory and practice in Tanzania
In 2012, the WHO launched its Global Surveillance and Monitoring System (GSMS) for substandard and falsified medicines, with the aim …
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Economic and cost-effectiveness analysis of the Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) trials in India, Pakistan and Mozambique
BACKGROUND: The Community-Level Interventions for Pre-eclampsia (CLIP) trials (NCT01911494) in India, Pakistan and Mozambique (February 2014-2017) involved community engagement and …
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Exploring equity in health and poverty impacts of control measures for SARS-CoV-2 in six countries
BACKGROUND: Policy makers need to be rapidly informed about the potential equity consequences of different COVID-19 strategies, alongside their broader …
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Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study in South Africa
BACKGROUND: South Africa has high burdens of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-HIV, yet the quality of patient care in the private …
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Immediate postnatal care following childbirth in Ugandan health facilities: an analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys between 2001 and 2016
INTRODUCTION: Progress in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, is insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Developmental Goals …
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Subnational estimates of factors associated with under-five mortality in Kenya: a spatio-temporal analysis, 1993–2014
BACKGROUND: To improve child survival, it is necessary to describe and understand the spatial and temporal variation of factors associated …
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Delivering nutrition interventions to women and children in conflict settings: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Low/middle-income countries (LMICs) face triple burden of malnutrition associated with infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases. This review aims to …
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Small and sick newborn care during the COVID-19 pandemic: global survey and thematic analysis of healthcare providers’ voices and experiences
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting health systems globally. Maternity care disruptions have been surveyed, but not those related to …
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Using treatment guidelines to improve antibiotic use: insights from an antibiotic point prevalence survey in Kenya
Clinical practice guidelines have the potential to improve quality of care through improving decision making and antibiotic prescription. These guidelines …
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Integrated digital system for community engagement and community-based surveillance during the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone: lessons for future health emergencies
Community engagement and community-based surveillance are essential components of responding to infectious disease outbreaks, but real-time data reporting remains a …
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Long-term outcomes for children with disability and severe acute malnutrition in Malawi
INTRODUCTION: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and disability are major global health issues. Although they can cause and influence each other, …