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Integrated community case management of malaria and pneumonia in Eastern Uganda: care-seeking, adherence, and community health worker performance.
(Makerere University, 2013-11-22)
Background: Despite being easily preventable and treatable, malaria and pneumonia are major killers of children aged less than five years. Integrated community based interventions through which lay persons called community ...
Access to health care for febrile children in Uganda: symptom recognition, care seeking practices and provider choice
(Karolinska Institutet and Makerere University, 2009)
Background: Febrile illnesses including malaria and pneumonia are leading causes of death among children under five in Uganda. Despite government efforts to increase health care access by offering free services at government ...
Can community health workers and caretakers recognise pneumonia in children? Experiences from Western Uganda
(Elsevier, 2006)
Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are leading killers of children. Case management using community health workers (CHW) has halved ARI mortality in children in Asia. WHO/UNICEF recommend integrating pneumonia into Home ...
Delayed care seeking for fatal pnemonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study
(World Health Organization, 2008)
Objective To review individual case histories of children who had died of pneumonia in rural Uganda and to investigate why these children did not survive. Methods This case-series study was done in the Iganga/Mayuge ...
Availability of child-friendly medicines and child caretaker knowledge on administering them among children below 5 years at lower public health facilities under Kampala Capital City Authority
(Makerere University, 2014-11)
Introduction
In 2011, an estimated 7.6 million children under the age of 5 years died globally (Lozano et al.,2011). In Uganda, 32% of childhood mortality is due to malaria (MoH, 2010) and another 17–26% attributed to ...