Maternal mortality rate is unacceptableThe article focuses on the maternal mortality rate in Malawi. It asserts that Malawi has the worst maternal mortality rate of any non-conflict country in the world with 200 doctors and 3,...
A Cox proportional hazard model was applied to Malawi Demographic and Health Surveys to determine the association between ITN access and use and infant mortality between 2004 and 2015-2016. The overall infant mortality rate for the entire period was 47.9/1000 live births. Infants from the ITN-...
Reported are the results of a study to assess the prevalence and risk factors for perinatal death among pregnant women in Malawi over the period 1987-90. There were 264 perinatal deaths among the 3866 women with singleton pregnancies (perinatal mortality rate, 68.3 per 1000 births). Among the ...
Evaluating the Impact of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Malawi through Immunization Clinic-Based Surveillance BACKGROUND: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programs can greatly reduce the vertical transmission rate (VTR) of HIV, and Malawi i... MA Sin...
Maternal Mortality Rate Is Unacceptable: Malawi Has the Worst Maternal Mortality Rate of Any Non-Conflict Country in the World. Statistics Show That 16 Women Die Daily from Childbirth and Pregnancy-Related Complications. While Malawian Nurses Are Leaving for the West in Droves, One Midwife, Dorothy...
To analyse mortality, loss to follow-up (LTFU) and retention on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in the first year of ART across all age groups in the Malawi national ART programme.Cohort study including all patients who started ART in Malawi's public sector clinics between 2004 and 2007.ART ...
Child mortality rate was 16.6/1000 PYO (95% CI 14.5-19.1) from 206 deaths. HIV-exposed children had 4.5 times higher (p<0.001) mortality rate compared to the HIV-unexposed children. Higher mortality rates were observed in children under one year (129.2/1000 PYO) compared to older age ...
Design: A two-stage, 30 cluster household survey was undertaken in three districts from the 16th to the 26 th of May 2005, with a sample size of 3610 people. Results: The crude mortality rate (CMR) of 0.8/10,000/day (95%CI: 0.7-0.9). The reported CMR was significantly lower than ...
Factors associated with maternal mortality in Malawi: application of the three delays model Background The three delays model proposes that maternal mortality is associated with delays in: 1) deciding to seek care; 2) reaching the healthcare facil... F Mgawadere,R Unkels,A Kazembe,... - 《...
Background The rate of decline in child mortality is too slow in most African countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing under-five m... A Amouzou,B Banda,W Kachaka,... - 《Plos One》 被引量: 13发表: 2014年 Potential barriers to healthcare in Malawi for under-fi...