Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Surveys of an HIV & TB Workplace Program in Ghana
HIV and Tuberculosis have profound social and economic effects which impacts severely on enterprises, workers and their families in Africa. A successful approach to improve this situation is, to...

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Fighting HIV at a hot-spot: identifying driving and resisting factors in the decision making process for Voluntary Councelling and Testing in East Champaran District, Bihar, India
This study is to identify driving and resisting factors in the decision making process for VCT among the target communities being covered by the ACT project of Duncan Hospital; to examine the...

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Inaction Against User Fees in Pursuit of MDGs 4 and 5 in Ethiopia: Power, Process and Politics of the Reform
The terrain of health policy analysis in developing countries is in its infancy. Most health policy analysis wrongly focuses on the content of the reform, as opposed to paying attention to the...

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Antenatal Care and Delivery Assistance by Health Personnel in Indonesia: The Association with the Complications during Delivery
This study is to analyze the association between antenatal care of women who have the delivery assisted by health personnel with complications during delivery in Indonesia during 2007 in ever...

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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices toward Lymphatic Filariasis among People in Indra Jaya Sub-district, Pidie, Aceh, Indonesia
Currently there are nearly 1.3 billion people who are at high risk for infection with lymphatic filariasis (LF), and an estimated 120 million people in 83 countries are already infected. The...

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Provider-related factors influencing IUD insertion by trained midwives in Cambodia
Since 2005, training in IUD (intra-uterine device) insertion has been provided to 557 midwives in 283 health centers (HCs) with the support of the German Development Bank KfW in all Cambodian...

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Prevalence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Village of Palmas Bellas, Province of Colon, Panama
This study was done with the intention to generate information about the prevalence of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in a rural area (Palmas Bellas) of the District of Chagres, Province of Colon, Panama...

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Determinants of drug resistant tuberculosis in Swaziland
This study looked at factors being associated with MDR-TB in Swaziland. Genotyping analysis were applied to assess prevalent lineages in the country and to identify dominant strain-families such as...

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Clients’ perceived quality of PMTCT: Ugandan and Tanzanian Experience
Low uptake of PMTCT services has been noted in sub-Saharan Africa despite wide scale-up of ARVs as well as expansion of PMTCT programme. The aim of the study was to assess the quality of care...

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Sociocultural, Infrastructural and Political Determinants surrounding Severe Maternal Morbidity: The case of Severe Acute Maternal Morbidity and Obstetric Fistula in Kasese district, Western Uganda
This study is to explore the underlying sociocultural, infrastructural and political factors contributing to severe maternal morbidity in Western Uganda by understanding the experiences of...

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