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Closing the Gap : Why Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Malawi Now Requires Targeted Investment in Underperforming and Underserved Districts
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Willingness to pay for community-based health insurance and associated factors among rural households of Bugna District, Northeast Ethiopia
OBJECTIVE: Community based health insurance schemes are becoming recognized as powerful method to achieve universal health coverage and reducing the …
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Access and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the forest belt of Ghana
BACKGROUND: Poor maternal health delivery in developing countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth …
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Results from a proactive follow-up intervention to improve linkage and retention among people living with HIV in Uganda: a pre-/post- study
BACKGROUND: Despite gains in HIV testing and treatment access in sub-Saharan Africa, patient attrition from care remains a problem. Evidence …
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Consequences, conditions and caveats: a qualitative exploration of the influence of undergraduate health professions students at distributed clinical training sites
BACKGROUND: Traditionally, the clinical training of health professionals has been located in central academic hospitals. This is changing. As academic …
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Quality of care in family planning services in rural Mozambique with a focus on long acting reversible contraceptives: a cross-sectional survey
BACKGROUND: In Mozambique, both the government and partners have undertaken efforts over the last decade to improve FP (family planning) …
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Successful implementation of a combined learning collaborative and mentoring intervention to improve neonatal quality of care in rural Rwanda
BACKGROUND: Globally, neonatal mortality remains high despite interventions known to reduce neonatal deaths. The All Babies Count (ABC) initiative was …
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Pharmacy-based hypertension care employing mHealth in Lagos, Nigeria – a mixed methods feasibility study
BACKGROUND: Access to quality hypertension care is often poor in sub-Saharan Africa. Some community pharmacies offer hypertension monitoring services, with …
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Causes of death and predictors of childhood mortality in Rwanda: a matched case-control study using verbal social autopsy
BACKGROUND: Rwanda has dramatically reduced child mortality, but the causes and sociodemographic drivers for mortality are poorly understood. METHODS: We …
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A comparison between raw and predicted mortality in a paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa
OBJECTIVE: Paediatric intensive care resources are limited in sub-Saharan Africa. The mortality rate in a combined Paediatric/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit …
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Patients’ perspectives of acceptability of ART, TB and maternal health services in a subdistrict of Johannesburg, South Africa
BACKGROUND: The field of acceptability of health services is emerging and growing in coherence. But there are gaps, including relatively …
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Setting health sector priorities: a brief overview of Ethiopia’s experience
As a country with significant resource constraints, a fair and efficient health priority setting should be at the cornerstone of …
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Integrated models of care for diabetes and hypertension in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) : Protocol for a systematic review
In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing against an existing burden of other …
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Understanding key drivers of performance in the provision of maternal health services in eastern cape, South Africa: a systems analysis using group model building
BACKGROUND: The Eastern Cape Province reports among the poorest health service indicators in South Africa with some of its districts …
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“We know it’s labour pain, so we don’t do anything”: healthcare provider’s knowledge and attitudes regarding the provision of pain relief during labour and after childbirth
BACKGROUND: Most women experience pain during labour and after childbirth. There are various options, both pharmacological and non-pharmacological, available to …
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Severe maternal outcomes in eastern Ethiopia: Application of the adapted maternal near miss tool
BACKGROUND: With the reduction of maternal mortality, maternal near miss (MNM) has been used as a complementary indicator of maternal …
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Parental costs for in-patient neonatal services for perinatal asphyxia and low birth weight in Ghana
The major causes of newborn deaths in sub-Saharan Africa are well-known and countries are gradually implementing evidence-based interventions and strategies …
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The global need for essential emergency and critical care
Critical illness results in millions of deaths each year. Care for those with critical illness is often neglected due to …
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Inspiration, innovation and integration: highlights from the third ICPCN conference on children’s palliative care, 30th May-2nd June 2018, Durban, South Africa
The International Children's Palliative Care Network (ICPCN) held its third international conference on children's palliative care in Durban, South Africa, …
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Basic Accountability to Stop Ill-Treatment (BASI); Study Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Tanzania
Background: Poor health system experiences negatively affect the lives of poor people throughout the world. In East Africa there is …