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Leadership and governance of community health worker programmes at scale: a cross case analysis of provincial implementation in South Africa
BACKGROUND: National community health worker (CHW) programmes are returning to favour as an integral part of primary health care systems, …
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A systematic review of factors that shape implementation of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis in sub-Saharan Africa
BACKGROUND: Understanding factors surrounding the implementation process of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis (MDA for LF) elimination programmes is …
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Use of malaria RDTs in various health contexts across sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization recommends parasitological confirmation of malaria prior to treatment. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) represent one …
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An investigation of maternal mortality at a tertiary hospital of the Limpopo province of South Africa
Objective: To understand the elements influencing the maternal deaths in the Limpopo province, South Africa. Methods: A retrospective review of …
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Use of Lot quality assurance sampling surveys to evaluate community health worker performance in rural Zambia: a case of Luangwa district
BACKGROUND: The Better Health Outcomes through Mentoring and Assessment (BHOMA) project is a cluster randomized controlled trial aimed at reducing …
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The effect of phlebotomy training on blood sample rejection and phlebotomy knowledge of primary health care providers in Cape Town: A quasi-experimental study
BACKGROUND: There is an increasing amount of blood sample rejection at primary health care facilities (PHCFs), impacting negatively the staff, …
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Pain in amaXhosa women living with HIV/AIDS: a cross-sectional study of ambulant outpatients
BACKGROUND: Pain is one of the most commonly reported symptoms in people living with HIV/AIDS, whether or not they are …
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Perspectives of policy-makers and stakeholders about health care waste management in community-based care in South Africa: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, a new primary health care (PHC) re-engineering initiative aims to scale up the provision of community-based …
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Contraceptive uptake after training community health workers in couples counseling: A cluster randomized trial
BACKGROUND: Young women in Malawi face many challenges in accessing family planning (FP), including distance to the health facility and …
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Knowledge, attitudes and practices in the control and prevention of malaria in four endemic provinces of Zambia
This study sought to determine malaria knowledge levels, attitudes and practices of the communities in four malaria endemic provinces of …
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Stroke survivors’ levels of community reintegration, quality of life, satisfaction with the physiotherapy services and the level of caregiver strain at community health centres within the Johannesburg area
Background: Stroke survivors are discharged home before they are functionally independent and return home with activity limitations that would not …
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A process evaluation plan for assessing a complex community-based maternal health intervention in Ogun State, Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Despite increased investment in community-level maternal health interventions, process evaluations of such interventions are uncommon, and can be instrumental …
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Low contribution of health extension workers in identification of persons with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis in Ethiopian Somali Region pastoralists
BACKGROUND: To accelerate the expansion of primary healthcare coverage, the Ethiopian government started deploying specially trained community health workers named …
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Improving Community Health Using an Outcome-Oriented CQI Approach to Community-Engaged Health Professions Education
Health professionals providing health-care services must have the relevant competencies and clinical experiences needed to improve population health outcomes in …
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Exploring stakeholders’ perceptions of a task-shifting strategy for hypertension control in Ghana: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to explore stakeholders' perception of an on-going evidence-based task-shifting strategy for hypertension (TASSH) …
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Serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) polymorphism and susceptibility to a home-visiting maternal-infant attachment intervention delivered by community health workers in South Africa: Reanalysis of a randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Clear recognition of the damaging effects of poverty on early childhood development has fueled an interest in interventions aimed …
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Community unit performance: factors associated with childhood diarrhea and appropriate treatment in Nyanza Province, Kenya
BACKGROUND: The government of Kenya launched its community health strategy in 2006 to improve certain aspects of its community health …
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The impact of community health worker-led home delivery of antiretroviral therapy on virological suppression: a non-inferiority cluster-randomized health systems trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
BACKGROUND: Home delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by community health workers (CHWs) may improve ART retention by reducing the time …
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A Smartphone App (AfyaData) for Innovative One Health Disease Surveillance from Community to National Levels in Africa: Intervention in Disease Surveillance (Preprint)
BACKGROUND We describe the development and initial achievements of a participatory disease surveillance system that relies on mobile technology to …
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Universal versus conditional three-day follow up visit for children with uncomplicated fever at the community level: design of a cluster-randomized, community-based, non-inferiority trial in Tanganyika, Democratic Republic of Congo
BACKGROUND: The current recommendation within integrated Community Case Management guidelines that all children presenting with uncomplicated fever and no danger …