Browsing School of Public Health by Author "Nsibande, Duduzile"
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Approaches and strategies used in the training and supervision of Health Extension Workers (HEWs) delivering integrated community case management (iCCM) of childhood illness in Ethiopia: a qualitative rapid appraisal
Nsibande, Duduzile; Loveday, Marian; Daniels, Karen; Sanders, David; Doherty, Tanya; Zembe, Wanga (Makerere University Medical School (Uganda), 2018)BACKGROUND: Globally, preventable and treatable childhood conditions such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, malnutrition and newborn conditions still account for 75% of under-five mortality. To reduce the mortality rate ... -
Assessment of the uptake of neonatal and young infant referrals by community health workers to public health facilities in an urban informal settlement, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Nsibande, Duduzile; Doherty, Tanya; Ijumba, Petrida; Tomlinson, Mark; Jackson, Debra; Sanders, David; Lawn, Joy (Biomed CentralBiomed Central, 2013)Background: Globally, 40% of the 7.6 million deaths of children under five every year occur in the neonatal period (first 28 days after birth). Increased and earlier recognition of illness facilitated by community health ... -
Completeness of patient-held records: observations of the Road-to-Health Booklet from two national facility-based surveys at 6 weeks postpartum, South Africa
Ramraj, Trisha; Goga, Ameena E.; Larsen, Anna; Ramokolo, Vundli; Bhardwaj, Sanjana; Chirinda, Witness; Jackson, Debra; Nsibande, Duduzile; Ayalew, Kassahun; Pillay, Yogan; Lombard, Carl J.; Ngandu, Nobubelo K. (Edinburgh University Global Health Society, 2018)BACKGROUND Continuity of care is important for child well-being in all settings where postnatal retention of mother-infant pairs in care remains a challenge. This analysis reports on completeness of patient-held infant ... -
Improving the coverage of the PMTCT programme through a participatory quality improvement intervention in South Africa
Doherty, Tanya; Chopra, Mickey; Nsibande, Duduzile (BMC, 2009)Despite several years of implementation, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in many resource poor settings are failing to reach the majority of HIV positive women. We report on a data driven ...