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Walking Together: Towards a Collaborative Model for Maternal Health Care in Pastoralist Communities of Laikipia and Samburu, Kenya
(10/1/2017)
Purpose: In 2009 the Kenyan Government introduced health system reforms to address
persistently high maternal and newborn mortality including deployment of skilled birth
attendants (SBAs) to health facilities in remote ...
Factors Influencing Place of Delivery for Pastoralist Women in Kenya: A Qualitative Study
(2016)
Background: Kenya’s high maternal mortality ratio can be partly explained by the low proportion of women delivering in health facilities attended by skilled birth attendants (SBAs). Many women continue to give birth at ...
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Traditional Birth Attendants in Pastoralist Communities of Laikipia and Samburu Counties, Kenya: a Cross-sectional Survey
(Pan African Medical Journal, 11/26/2016)
Introduction: current efforts to reduce maternal and newborn mortality focus on promoting institutional deliveries with skilled birth attendants
(SBAs), and discouraging deliveries at home attended by traditional birth ...
Preliminary report - Effectiveness of expanded delivery mechanisms channels and empowerment of caregivers in improving access of ORS and Zinc in Narok County, Kenya
(Ministry of Health, Kenya, 2015-09)
Millennium development goal 4 calling for a reduction of child deaths by two thirds by 2015 up from the 1990 levels is unlikely to be achieved in Africa. Pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria account for more than 50% of deaths ...
Challenges in Controlling the Ebola Outbreak in Two Prefectures in Guinea: Why Did Communities Continue to Resist?
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2015-10-11)
Introduction: The Ebola outbreak emerged in a remote corner of Guinea in December 2013, and spread into Liberia and Sierra Leone in the context of weak health systems. In this paper, we report on the main challenges faced ...