Kagiso Mochankana

ORCID: 0009-0009-6574-1380
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  • HIV-related health complications and treatments
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Studies
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Global Maternal and Child Health
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Neonatal skin health care
  • Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Healthcare Systems and Technology
  • Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • Innovations in Medical Education

King Edward VIII Hospital
2024

University of KwaZulu-Natal
2024

University of Botswana
2023

Ministry of Health
2023

Pulmonary hemorrhage (PH) is a life-threatening complication seen in very sick newborns with high morbidity and mortality. There little data on the incidence, risk factors, ultimate survival of pulmonary sub-Saharan countries, where healthcare provision facility differ many ways compared to high-income countries. Hence, this study aimed determine identify describe outcome low middle income country setting.A cohort prospective collection was conducted public, tertiary-level hospital Botswana,...

10.3389/fped.2023.1171223 article EN cc-by Frontiers in Pediatrics 2023-06-14

Medical internship is the final year of training before independent practice for most doctors in Botswana. Internship Botswana faces challenges including variability participants' level knowledge and skill related to their completion medical school a variety settings (both foreign domestic), lack planned curricular content, limited time structured educational activities. Data on trainees' opinions regarding content delivery graduate education like are limited, which makes it difficult revise...

10.29024/aogh.22 article EN cc-by Annals of Global Health 2018-04-30

Background: Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria are a major cause of sepsis among hospitalized neonates globally. Aqueous chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) skin antisepsis has been shown to be safe for use in infants; however, its sustained effectiveness preventing pathogen colonization, bloodstream infection (BSI), and mortality is unclear. Methods: We conducted period prevalence survey, with 26 sampling events over 12 months (18 October 2022 – 31 2023) at 33-bed neonatal unit tertiary...

10.1017/ash.2024.111 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology 2024-07-01

Abstract Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAb) has emerged as a major and often fatal cause of bloodstream infections among hospitalized patients in low- middle-income countries (LMICs). CRAb outbreaks are hypothesized to arise from reservoirs the hospital environment, but outbreak investigations LMICs seldom able incorporate whole genome sequencing (WGS) due resource limitations. We performed WGS at National Institute for Communicable Diseases (Johannesburg, South Africa) on...

10.1101/2023.07.10.23292487 preprint EN cc-by medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) 2023-07-12

Welcome to Annals of Global Health,Annals Health is a peer-reviewed, fully open access, online journal dedicated publishing high quality articles all aspects global health. The journal's mission advance health, promote research, and foster the prevention treatment disease worldwide. Its goals are improve health well-being people, equity, wise stewardship earth's environment. latest impact factor 3.64.Annals supported by Program for Public Common Good at Boston College. It was founded in 1934...

10.1016/j.aogh.2017.03.288 article EN cc-by Annals of Global Health 2017-04-07
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