rural Zambia
User fees impact access to healthcare for female children in rural Zambia
... To address the potential impact of user fees as a deterrent for care in a vulnerable population, we evaluated healthcare utilization among children in a large hospital in rural Zambia where user fees for ...
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Plasmodium falciparum HRP2 ELISA for analysis of dried blood spot samples in rural Zambia
... Dried blood spots represent a common and simple sample collection method for clinical and non-clinical settings. Samples stored in this way are stable and eas- ily shipped. In order to analyse these samples, methods must ...
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Barriers to the care of HIV infected children in rural Zambia: a cross sectional analysis
... In rural Zambia, three quarters of the HIV-infected chil- dren seeking care had a parent as the primary caregiver, although one third had lost at least one ...
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Evaluation of recruitment and retention strategies for health workers in rural Zambia
... variables being analyzed. Although highly representative of the facilities surveyed, the generalizability of the results from these respondents to other areas is uncertain. Further, these data include only the ...
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Disclosure to HIV-seropositive children in rural Zambia
... One of the strengths of our study is that it contains both quantitative and qualitative results. Additionally, it focuses on a resource-limited setting in rural Zambia. Together these features distinguish ...
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Assessment of interventions to attract and retain health workers in rural Zambia: a discrete choice experiment
... improve rural health worker attraction and retention in rural Zambia to address Zambia ’ s rural health workforce ...for rural health workers are likely to be most effective in ...
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Skin, thermal and umbilical cord care practices for neonates in southern, rural Zambia: a qualitative study
... In rural Zambia, practices that are potentially the most harmful to the newborn are those that increase the risk of infection, including putting foreign material on the umbilical stump, using unclean blades ...
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The influence of quality maternity waiting homes on utilization of facilities for delivery in rural Zambia
... in Zambia [7 – ...in rural areas and still face physical barriers to ...in Zambia sug- gests that this reform has not overcome key barriers to utilization of public sector facilities for delivery, ...
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Reasons for home delivery and use of traditional birth attendants in rural Zambia: a qualitative study
... in Zambia [12, 13] and other developing countries [14–16] have focused on the structural barriers to facility delivery services such as lack of geographical access to emer- gency obstetric care and financial ...in ...
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Weight and height z scores improve after initiating ART among HIV infected children in rural Zambia: a cohort study
... a rural area of Southern Province, ...of Zambia ’ s antiretroviral treatment program, with additional support from the President ’ s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through the non-governmental ...
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The contribution of non-physician clinicians to the provision of surgery in rural Zambia—a randomised controlled trial
... sampled for the situation analysis, in 2011–2012, did not provide information on their capacity to deliver surgery. Secondly, an initial agreement with the Ministry of Health was undermined when responsibility for ...
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A STUDY ON THE CHALLENGES FACED BY SMALL AND MARGINAL WOMEN FARMERS IN RURAL ZAMBIA
... Page | 24 The forty three percent of agriculture laborer comprises of women and in some case it goes upto 70 per cent 1 . Especially in Africa, 80% of the agricultural produces grown by small and marginal farmers, who ...
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The challenge of community engagement and informed consent in rural Zambia: an example from a pilot study
... The protocol for the pilot study and its evaluation was submitted to the University of Zambia Biomedical Re- search Ethics Committee for ethical clearance and the Regional Ethical Committee of Western Norway (REK- ...
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Use of innovation platforms in addressing soil fertility challenges: experiences from rural Zambia
... La faible fertilité des sols a été reconnue comme un des défis contribuant à une faible productivité des cultures en Zambie. Afin de relever ce défi, le gouvernement, le secteur privé et les organisations non ...
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Measuring access to emergency obstetric care in rural Zambia
... In Zambia, the vast majority of profession- ally attended deliveries are performed by either nurses, who complete 2–3 years of post-secondary school training including basic obstetric care, or midwives, who have ...
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Personal and environmental factors associated with the utilisation of maternity waiting homes in rural Zambia
... To overcome these physical and economic barriers, maternity waiting homes (MWHs) have been established in many low and middle income countries (LMICs), in- cluding Zambia [8, 14, 15]. For example, in Kalomo ...
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AHeffelfinger_Master_Paper_July_2016.pdf
... in rural Zambia showed that 60% of patients achieved full adherence at 6 weeks by never skipping doses and following the time requirements of their recommended ART regimen (Sasaki et ...
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A creative tension between spirituality and physical needs: a theological ecclesiological evaluation of the food security programme for the council of churches in Zambia
... in Zambia and its member churches should actively participate in the promotion of sustainable agriculture and food production in rural Zambia to enhance sufficient food supplies to ...in ...
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Hypertension management in rural primary care facilities in Zambia: a mixed methods study
... Existing performance indicators for hypertension were developed in North America and Europe through a modified Delphi process at the national level, with expert panel review of the scientific litera- ture and evaluation ...
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Design of Circular Arc Blade Hydrokinetic Turbine—A Case of Rural Electrification in Zambia
... in Zambia stood at 28% in ...of Zambia shows the figure of 31%. The rate of electrification in rural areas, as it is the case in most developing countries, is currently much lower at 5% (World Bank) ...
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