SPH: Global Health Datasets
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/24130
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MAHMAZ maternity waiting home: setup cost dataset
These datasets detail 1) the setup costs expended to set up 10 maternity waiting homes in rural Zambia and 2) the monthly occupancy of the maternity waiting homes. The former includes the date of purchase, cost category, ... -
Dataset: Observational study of the clinical performance of a Public-Private Partnership national referral hospital network in Lesotho: Do improvements last over time?
Public-private partnerships (PPP) may increase healthcare quality but lack longitudinal evidence for success. The Queen ‘Mamohato Memorial Hospital (QMMH) in Lesotho is one of Africa's first healthcare PPPs. We compare ... -
Simplified clinical algorithm for identifying patints eligible for immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy for HIV (SLATE): protocol for a randomised evaluation
(Boston University, 2017-05)INTRODUCTION: African countries are rapidly adopting guidelines to offer antiretroviral therapy (ART) to all HIV-infected individuals, regardless of CD4 count. For this policy of 'treat all' to succeed, millions of new ... -
Dataset for "Barriers and facilitators to facility-based delivery in rural Zambia: A qualitative study of women’s perceptions after implementation of an improved Maternity Waiting Homes intervention"
Objectives: Women in sub-Saharan Africa face well-documented barriers to facility-based deliveries. An improved maternity waiting homes (MWH) model was implemented in rural Zambia to bring pregnant women closer to facilities ... -
Components of clean delivery kits and newborn mortality in the Zambia Chlorhexidine Application Trial (ZamCAT): an observational study
(2021)BACKGROUND: Infection, a leading cause of neonatal death in low- and middle-income countries, is often caused by pathogens acquired during childbirth. Clean delivery kits (CDKs) have shown efficacy in reducing infection-related ... -
Changing the South African national antiretroviral therapy guidelines: The role of cost modelling
Background We were tasked by the South African Department of Health to assess the cost implications to the largest ART programme in the world of adopting sets of ART guidelines issued by the World Health Organization between ...
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