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Strengthening national health research systems in the WHO African Region – progress towards universal health coverage
BACKGROUND: Health challenges and health systems set-ups differ, warranting contextualised healthcare interventions to move towards universal health coverage. As such, …
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Point-of-care HIV testing best practice for early infant diagnosis: an implementation study
BACKGROUND: With Universal Health Coverage and Integrated People-centred Health Care, streamlined health-systems and respectful care are necessary. South Africa has …
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Recommendations to facilitate managers’ compliance with quality standards at primary health care clinics
BACKGROUND: The Republic of South Africa (RSA) is shifting towards universal health coverage and a unified health system. This milestone …
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Scenario-based simulation training for the WHO hand hygiene self-assessment framework
global hand hygiene campaign, launched in 2009 and celebrated annually on the 5th of May, features specific calls to action …
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Availability and inequality in accessibility of health centre-based primary healthcare in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Achieving fair access to healthcare and improving population health are crucial in all settings. Properly staffed and fairly distributed …
Rapport
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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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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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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Government roles in regulating medical tourism: evidence from Guatemala
BACKGROUND: Regulation of the medical tourism and public health sectors overlap in many instances, raising questions of how patient safety, …
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Conclusions of the digital health hub of the Transform Africa Summit (2018): strong government leadership and public-private-partnerships are key prerequisites for sustainable scale up of digital health in Africa
BACKGROUND: The use of digital technologies to improve access to health is gaining momentum in Africa. This is more pertinent …
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An analysis of pharmacy workforce capacity in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Pharmacists are critical for attaining the goal of universal health coverage and equitable access to essential health services, particularly …
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Lest we forget, primary health care in Sub-Saharan Africa is nurse led. Is this reflected in the current health systems strengthening undertakings and initiatives?
# Background Primary health care (PHC) in most African countries is nurse led. In South Africa, PHC has a unique …
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Leveraging the power of partnerships: spreading the vision for a population health care delivery model in western Kenya
BACKGROUND: The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) has been a model academic partnership in global health for nearly …
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Inequalities in maternal health care utilization in Benin: a population based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Ensuring equitable access to maternal health care including antenatal, delivery, postnatal services and fertility control methods, is one of …
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Challenges in the management of cardiovascular emergencies in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case report of acute heart failure complicating infective endocarditis in a semi-urban setting in Cameroon
BACKGROUND: Infective endocarditis is a deadly disease if not promptly treated with antibiotics either in association with cardiac surgery or …
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Scaling-up strategic purchasing: analysis of health system governance imperatives for strategic purchasing in a free maternal and child healthcare programme in Enugu State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Significant knowledge gaps exist in the functioning of institutional designs and organisational practices in purchasing within free healthcare schemes …
Lettre
Correspondence regarding ‘Assefa Y, et al., BMC Health Services Research. 2011; 11 (1):81 and 2014; 14(1):45’: The Positive-Deviance approach for translating evidence into practice to improve patient retention in HIV care
The purpose of this correspondence is to describe how the positive-deviance approach can be used to translate evidence into practice, …
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Selling my sheep to pay for medicines – household priorities and coping strategies in a setting without universal health coverage
BACKGROUND: The first month of life is the period with the highest risk of dying. Despite knowledge of effective interventions, …