One in eight women in Sierra Leone risk dying during pregnancy or childbirth, says a report from Amnesty International. The charity's secretary general, Irene Khan, said that this was partly due to the "extremely low status" of women in rural areas and was explicitly linked to the lack of...
The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum in a cohort of over 900 nought to seven-year-old children living in a rural area of Sierra Leone was found to be approximately 61%, both before and after the rainy season. Plasmodium malariae rates measured in the same children were approximately 12%,...
Analysis of replies to questions to mothers about survival of their children and to all respondents about survival of their parents in the 1974 National Population Census of Sierra Leone revealed very high levels of mortality especially among infants and children. Results of using the Brass Sullivan...
Sierra Leone has seen some improvements in neonatal mortality over the past decade. In 2008, the rate stood at a concerning 48.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. By 2019, this number had decreased to 29.6 deaths per 1,000 live births [8]. However, these national averages mask substantial di...
On the control of malaria in Freetown, Sierra Leone; control methods and the effects upon the transmission of Plasmodium falciparum resulting from the reduced abundance of Anopheles gambiae. 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 25 作者: G. A. Walton 摘要: The following is virtually the ...
Worldwide maternal mortality rate falls by 45% in 13 years. Sierra Leone is estimated to have the highest maternal mortality rate in the world at 1100 deaths per 100 000 births, which is down from 2300 in 1990... Gulland,A. - Bmj 被引量: 1发表: 2014年 An ethnography of African Amer...
Skilled birth attendance Pre-service training Evaluation 1. Introduction Sierra Leone has one of the highest maternal and neonatal mortality ratios in sub-Saharan Africa with a maternal mortality ratio of 1100 per 100,000 live births and a neonatal mortality ratio of 50 per 1000 live births (Worl...
A population-weighted cluster-sample household survey was conducted throughout Sierra Leone in 2012 using the SOSAS survey tool.ResultsTotal of 1,840 households (11,870 individuals) were sampled, yielding a 98.3% response rate. Overall, there were 709 total deaths reported (6.0%). The mean ...