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Reactions to the media coverage during the first wave of COVID-19 in Bangladesh

Heliyon, 2021
Background: The news media play a critical role in disseminating accurate and reliable information during an outbreak like COVID-19, especially in LMICs.
Samiun Nazrin Bente Kamal Tune, Md. Mehedi Hasan Sarkar, Md. Nasir Uddin, Md. Zakir Hossain Pinto, Syed Masud Ahmed   +4 more
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National public health institutes in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Insights from experts in the field

BMJ Global Health
National public health institutes (NPHIs) are crucial to the effectiveness of public health systems, including delivering essential public health functions and generating evidence for national health policies, strategies and plans.
Awad Mataria, Hala Abou-Taleb, Sebastian van Gilst, Nada Mohamed   +3 more
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Setting research priorities for sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in humanitarian settings

Conflict and Health, 2021
Background An estimated 70.8 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide, 75% of whom are women and children. Prioritizing a global research agenda to inform guidance, service delivery, access to and quality of services is essential to improve the ...
Loulou Kobeissi, Mahalakshmi Nair, Egmond Samir Evers, Mansuk Daniel Han, Samira Aboubaker, Lale Say, Nigel Rollins, Gary L. Darmstadt, Karl Blanchet, Daniel Martinez Garcia, Olivier Hagon, Per Ashorn, Members of the WHO research prioritization group for SRMNCAH promotion in humanitarian settings   +12 more
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Scaling up delivery of HIV services in Africa through harnessing trends across global emerging innovations

Frontiers in Health Services, 2023
Globally, innovations for HIV response present exciting opportunities to enhance the impact and cost-effectiveness of any HIV program. However, countries especially in the African region are not on equal footing to effectively harness some of the ...
Moredreck Chibi, William Wasswa, Chipo Nancy Ngongoni, Frank Lule   +3 more
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Vitamin A supplementation in Tanzania: the impact of a change in programmatic delivery strategy on coverage. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND\ud \ud Efficient delivery strategies for health interventions are essential for high and sustainable coverage. We report impact of a change in programmatic delivery strategy from routine delivery through the Expanded Programme on Immunization (
A Mills, B Schreuder, CG Victora, CG Victora, CG Victora, CJ Murray, D Bishai, D Filmer, Don de Savigny, G Jones, GH Beaton, Godwin D Ndossi, Hassan M Mshinda, Honorati Masanja, J Armstrong Schellenberg, J Armstrong Schellenberg, JL Etlinge, JL Etlinge, JL Etlinge, JL Fiedler, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Joseph KL Mugyabuso, Meera Shekar, OB Ahmad, S Bennett, TNB Statistics, TNB Statistics, TNB Statistics, USAIDM Program, W Bank, WW Fawzi, Y Choi   +31 more
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The provision and utilization of essential health services in Afghanistan during COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted provision of essential health services and overwhelmed even robust health systems worldwide. The Afghanistan health system has suffered both from the pandemic, as well as from political upheaval and regime ...
Narges Neyazi, Christina Lindan, Saber Perdes, Abdul Ghani Ibrahimi, Dirk Horemans, Deena Al Afsoor   +5 more
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The cost of health workforce gaps and inequitable distribution in the Ghana Health Service: an analysis towards evidence-based health workforce planning and management

Human Resources for Health, 2021
Background Despite tremendous health workforce efforts which have resulted in increases in the density of physicians, nurses and midwives from 1.07 per 1000 population in 2005 to 2.65 per 1000 population in 2017, Ghana continues to face shortages of ...
James Avoka Asamani, Hamza Ismaila, Anna Plange, Victor Francis Ekey, Abdul-Majeed Ahmed, Margaret Chebere, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Juliet Nabyonga-Orem   +7 more
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Improving Women's Health through Universal Health Coverage [PDF]

, 2014
Jonathan Quick and colleagues discuss how women's health world-wide can be improved through universal health coverage.
Jay, Jonathan, Langer, Ana, Quick, Jonathan   +2 more
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Health workforce strategies during COVID-19 response: insights from 15 countries in the WHO Africa Region

BMC Health Services Research
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic unveiled huge challenges in health workforce governance in the context of public health emergencies in Africa. Several countries applied several measures to ensure access to qualified and skilled health workers to ...
Adam Ahmat, Sunny C Okoroafor, James Avoka Asamani, Millogo Jean, Abdou Illou Mourtala, Jennifer Nyoni, Kasonde Mwinga   +6 more
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Greater political commitment needed to eliminate malaria

Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2019
Malaria-related mortality has a very high association with poverty rates, and the disease is most prevalent in low- and middle-income countries. To achieve the malaria-specific targets of the Sustainable Development Goals, malaria-endemic countries and ...
Minghui Ren
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