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Improvements in malaria testing and treatment after a national community health worker program in rural Liberia
Background Progress in reducing malaria incidence and deaths has stalled, in part due to limited access to quality malaria testing …
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Existing barriers to utilization of health services for maternal and newborn care in rural Western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Understanding the existing barriers to utilization of maternal and newborn health care services can inform improvement of care services …
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Alternative mechanisms for delivery of medication in South Africa: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: The number of people in South Africa with chronic conditions is a challenge to the health system. In response …
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Exploring the promise and reality of ward-based primary healthcare outreach teams conducting TB household contact tracing in three districts of South Africa
BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis (TB) household contact tracing is a form of targeted active case-finding for which community health workers ('outreach teams') …
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Community’s experience and perceptions of maternal health services across the continuum of care in Ethiopia: A qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Continuum of care is an effective strategy to ensure that every woman receives a series of maternal health services …
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Where will it end? Pathways to care and catastrophic costs following negative TB evaluation in Uganda
INTRODUCTION: Catastrophic costs incurred by tuberculosis (TB) patients have received considerable attention, however little is known about costs and pathways …
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Determinants of quality in home-based management of malaria by community health volunteers in rural Kenya
INTRODUCTION: Kenya adopted the World Health Organization's recommendation of community case management of malaria (CCMM) in 2012. Trained community health …
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Exploring community tuberculosis program in the pastoralist setting of Ethiopia: a qualitative study of community health workers’ perspectives in Borena Zone, Oromia Region
BACKGROUND: Pastoralist community accounts for a significant portion of the population in Ethiopia. This community is different from majority of …
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Extent and causes of increased domestic violence during the COVID-19 pandemic: community health worker perspectives from Kenya, Bangladesh, and Haiti
Background Emerging data, media reports, and anecdotal evidence suggest that domestic violence (DV) has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, …
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Community based screening for sickle haemoglobin among pregnant women in Benue State, Nigeria: I-Care-to-Know, a Healthy Beginning Initiative
BACKGROUND: Haemoglobin genotype screening at prenatal care offers women an opportunity to be aware of their genotype, receive education on …
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Correlates of attendance at community engagement meetings held in advance of bio-behavioral research studies: A longitudinal, sociocentric social network study in rural Uganda
BACKGROUND: Community engagement is central to the conduct of health-related research studies as a way to determine priorities, inform study …
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Scorecard metrics for assessing the extent of integration of community health worker programmes into national health systems
BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of community health workers (CHWs) in delivering community-based preventive services is often curtailed by inadequate or complete …
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Acceptability of patient-centered hypertension education delivered by community health workers among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of hypertension is increasing among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). However, …
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Visual inspection with acetic-acid (VIA) service utilization and associated factors among women in Hawassa city, southern Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Reducing cervical cancer mortality and morbidity using visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) is a primary option, particularly in …
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Role of community health volunteers in identifying people with elevated blood pressure for diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension in Malawi: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been greater recognition of the important role of community health volunteers in many countries …
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Malaria prevalence, knowledge, attitude, and practice among febrile patients attending Chagni health center, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has achieved considerable progresses in the prevention and control of malaria in the past decades; hitherto it is …
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Usability of a point-of-care diagnostic to identify glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency: a multi-country assessment of test label comprehension and results interpretation
BACKGROUND: Point-of-care glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) testing has the potential to make the use of radical treatment for vivax malaria safer …
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Late initiation and low utilization of postnatal care services among women in the rural setting in Northwest Tanzania: a community-based study using a mixed method approach
BACKGROUND: Maternal and newborn mortality is high immediately after childbirth and up to 42 days postnatally despite the availability of …
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Community-Engaged Approaches to Cervical Cancer Prevention and Control in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
Background: Cervical cancer remains one of the top causes of cancer mortality among African women. Cervical cancer screening and early …
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Multiple pathways to scaling up and sustainability: an exploration of digital health solutions in South Africa
BACKGROUND: With the aim to support further understanding of scaling up and sustaining digital health, we explore digital health solutions …