A5086465041- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Global Health Care Issues
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Maternal and fetal healthcare
- Syphilis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Global Health Workforce Issues
- Child and Adolescent Health
University of Zimbabwe-University of California San Francisco
2010-2020
University of Zimbabwe
2014
University of California, San Francisco
2013
Despite notable progress reducing global under-five mortality rates, insufficient in most sub-Saharan African nations has prevented the achievement of Millennium Development Goal four (MDG#4) to reduce by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. Country-level assessments factors underlying why some countries have not been able achieve MDG#4 published. Zimbabwe was included a four-country study examining barriers facilitators survival 2000 2013 due its comparatively slow towards MDG#4. A review...
In Zimbabwe, abortions are legally restricted and complications from unsafe a major public health concern. This study in 2012 explored women's providers' perspectives Zimbabwe on the acceptability of use misoprostol as form treatment for abortion post-abortion care. In-depth interviews were conducted with 115 participants at seven care facilities. Participants included 73 women reproductive age who received services incomplete 42 providers, including physicians, nurses, midwives, general...
Background . Vaginal practices (VPs) may increase HIV risk by injuring vaginal epithelium or increasing of bacterial vaginosis, an established factor for HIV. Methods HIV-negative Zimbabwean women (<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>n</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math>,185) participating in a prospective study on hormonal contraception and completed ancillary questionnaire capturing detailed VP data at quarterly followup...
Despite numerous international and national efforts, only 12 countries in the World Health Organization's African Region met Millennium Development Goal #4 (MDG#4) to reduce under-five mortality by two-thirds 2015. Given variability across sub-Saharan Africa, a four-country study was undertaken examine barriers facilitators of child survival prior Liberia Zambia were chosen represent making substantial progress towards MDG#4, while Kenya Zimbabwe represented less progress. Our individual...
Reducing child mortality is a key global health challenge. We examined reasons for greater or lesser success in meeting under-five rate reductions, i.e. Millennium Development Goal #4, between 1990 and 2015 Sub-Saharan Africa where remains high. first factors associated with from all World Health Organization African Region nations during the period. This analysis was followed by case studies of facilitators barriers to #4 four countries - Kenya, Liberia, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Quantitative...
Intravaginal practices--including behaviours such as washing with soap or other materials, using fingers cloth, insertion of herbs, powders products to dry, cleanse 'tighten' the vagina--may increase women's risk bacterial vaginosis by disrupting vaginal microbiota. In Zimbabwe, intravaginal practices are common. The objective this study was assess feasibility an intervention based on transtheoretical model behaviour change (also called 'stages change' model) encourage cessation among a...
Hormonal contraception (HC) use by HIV-infected women has been identified the World Health Organization as an important strategy for reducing vertical HIV transmission. Little is known about factors associated with HC discontinuation among women.We analyzed data from a prospective study of 231 users oral contraceptive (OC) or injectable depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) in Uganda and Zimbabwe. We used Kaplan-Meier survival curves to estimate median duration OC DMPA any highly...