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To what extent did implementing a community-embedded intervention align with the goals and roles of stakeholders in adolescent sexual and reproductive health?
BACKGROUND: Adolescents' sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs are largely unmet due to poor access to SRH information and services. …
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Perspectives of pregnant women on maternal health information handouts at KwaZulu-Natal sub-district
BACKGROUND: Maternal health information handouts are used by midwives to facilitate health education of pregnant women during their antenatal care …
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Implementing active surveillance for TB: A descriptive survey of healthcare workers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
BACKGROUND: South Africa is a tuberculosis (TB) high-burden country. In the Eastern Cape (EC), community health worker (CHW) teams implement …
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Less than one in four mothers get quality intrapartum health care services in Ethiopia
Intrapartum care is a platform of comprehensive healthcare for pregnant women that is designed to improve birth outcomes for mother …
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Reducing the equity gap in under-5 mortality through an innovative community health program in Ethiopia: an implementation research study
BACKGROUND: The Ethiopian government implemented a national community health program, the Health Extension Program (HEP), to provide community-based health services …
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Geospatial and multilevel clustering of zero-dose children in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2022
Zero-dose children remain highly vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases and can sustain transmission even in highly vaccinated populations. The WHO Immunization …
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Understanding rapid implementation from discovery to scale: Rwanda’s implementation of rotavirus vaccines and PMTCT in the quest to reduce under-5 mortality
BACKGROUND: Over the last eight decades, many evidence-based interventions (EBIs) have been developed to reduce amenable under-5 mortality (U5M). Implementation …
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Multi-level barriers to early detection of breast cancer among rural midlife women in Tanzania: A qualitative case study
BACKGROUND: Breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer mortality among women in Tanzania and thus, early detection …
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Effectiveness of decentralizing outpatient acute malnutrition treatment with community health workers and a simplified combined protocol: a cluster randomized controlled trial in emergency settings of Mali
Background: Outpatient treatment of acute malnutrition is usually centralized in health centers and separated into different programs according to case …
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Challenges and opportunities for improving access to adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health services and information in the coastal counties of Kenya: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Globally, adolescents and youth experience high unmet need for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services. In Kenya, …
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Health seeking behaviour and knowledge on neonatal danger signs among neonatal caregivers in Upper Denkyira East Municipality, Ghana
BACKGROUND: The purpose of the project was to assess the health seeking behaviour and knowledge on neonatal danger signs among …
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Community health worker training to reduce mental health and substance use stigma towards patients who have disengaged from HIV/TB care in South Africa: protocol for a stepped wedge hybrid type II pilot implementation trial
BACKGROUND: South Africa has deployed community health workers (CHWs) to support individuals to enter and stay in HIV/TB care. Although …
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Formative research to adapt the ‘Diabetes Prevention Program- Power to Prevent’ for implementation in Bamako, Mali
BACKGROUND: There are few community-level behaviors change interventions for reducing diabetes and hypertension risk in Africa, despite increasing cases of …
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Factors associated with burnout among healthcare providers in a rural context, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Healthcare providers (HCPs) are at risk of burnout in sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is little research in rural and …
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“This is an illness. No one is supposed to be treated badly”: Community-based stigma assessments in South Africa to inform TB stigma intervention design
Background: Though TB-related stigma is a recognized barrier to care, interventions are lacking and gaps remain in understanding the drivers …
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Constraints on the functioning of Community-based Health Planning and Services facilities: A qualitative study in the Jirapa Municipality, Ghana
The declaration of the Alma-Alta on primary health care (PHC) in 1978 enjoined nations to make health care accessible, affordable, …
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Feasibility of a social protection linkage program for individuals at-risk for tuberculosis in Uganda
Social protection interventions have the potential to accelerate progress towards global tuberculosis (TB) targets. We piloted a screening and linkage …
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Does mHealth influence community health worker performance in vulnerable populations? A mixed methods study in a multinational refugee settlement in Uganda
Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide healthcare in under-served communities, including refugee settlements, despite various challenges hindering their performance. Implementers have …
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Community health workers’ quality of comprehensive care: a cross-sectional observational study across three districts in South Africa
Background Community healthcare worker (CHW) training programs are becoming increasingly comprehensive (an expanded range of diseases). However, the CHWs that …
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Acceptability and use of the electronic community health information system and its determinants among health extension workers in Ethiopia: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study
BACKGROUND: The electronic community health information system has been increasingly developed and deployed to quantify and support quality health service …