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Spanning maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) and health systems research boundaries: conducive and limiting health systems factors to improving MNCH outcomes in West Africa

Despite improvements over time, West Africa lags behind global as well as sub-Saharan averages in its maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) outcomes. This is despite the availability of an increasing body of knowledge on interventions that improve such outcomes. Beyond our knowledge of what interventions work, insights are needed on others fact...
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Promoting research to improve maternal, newborn, infant and adolescent health in West Africa: the role of West African Health Organisation

West Africa has adopted numerous strategies to counter maternal and infant mortality, provides national maternal and infant health programmes, and hosts many active technical and financial partners and non-governmental organisations. Despite this, maternal and infant morbidity and mortality indicators are still very high. In this commentary, intern...
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Improving maternal and child health policymaking process in Nigeria: an assessment of policymakers’ needs, barriers and facilitators of evidence-informed policymaking.

In Nigeria, interest in the evidence-to-policy process is gaining momentum among policymakers involved in maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH). However, numerous gaps exist among policymakers on use of research evidence in policymaking. The objective of this study was to assess the perception of MNCH policymakers regarding their needs and the ...
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Prevalence and determinants of childhood mortality in Nigeria

Childhood mortality has remained a major challenge to public health amongst families in Nigeria and other developing countries. The menace of incessant childhood mortality has been a major concern and this calls for studies to generate new scientific evidence to determine its prevalence and explore predisposing factors associated with it in Nigeria...
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Maternal death review and outcomes: An assessment in Lagos State, Nigeria

The objective of the study was to investigate the results of Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) conducted in three referral hospitals in Lagos State, Nigeria over a two-year period and to report the outcomes and the lessons learned. MPDRS panels were constituted in the three hospitals, and beginning from January 2015, we...
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An Assessment of National Maternal and Child Health Policy-Makers’ Knowledge and Capacity for Evidence- Informed Policy-Making in Nigeria

There is increasing interest globally in the use of more rigorous processes to ensure that maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care recommendations are informed by the best available research evidence use. The purpose of this study was to engage Nigerian MNCH policy-makers and other stakeholders to consider issues around research to policy a...
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May
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An assessment of maternal, newborn and child health implementation studies in Nigeria: implications for evidence informed policymaking and practice

The introduction of implementation science into maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) research has facilitated better methods to improve uptake of research findings into practices. With increase in implementation research related to MNCH world-wide, stronger scientific evidence are now available and have improved MNCH policies in many countries...
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Unlocking the Benefits of Emergency Obstetric Care in Africa

Emergency Obstetric care (EmOC) is the form of clinical care that responds to un-expected complications of pregnancy such as haemorrhage and hypertensive crisis in pregnancy. Read more...
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Improving the standards-based management recognition initiative to provide high quality, equitable maternal services in Malawi: an implementation research protocol

This project addresses a key concern of the Malawian Ministry of Health (MOH), namely, the persistence of a high maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of 675/100 000 live births despite a facility birth rate of 73%.1 With the goal of reducing MMR to 155/ 100 000, the MOH wants to understand how interventions aimed at enhancing quality of care that have pr...
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The impact of universal home visits with pregnant women and their spouses on maternal outcomes: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Bauchi State, Nigeria

Introduction   Maternal mortality in Nigeria is extremely high. Access to quality antenatal and obstetric care is limited. In Bauchi State, we found maternal morbidity was associated with domestic violence, heavy work in pregnancy, ignorance of danger signs, and lack of spousal communication. This cluster randomized controlled trial tested the...
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Narrative depictions of working with language interpreters in cross-language qualitative research

The role of the interpreter in cross-language qualitative research warrants methodological consideration at the onset and throughout the research. This study used a narrative approach to portray how two researchers' epistemological positionings about the interpreter role were negotiated within the practical realities of conducting research. Data we...
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Knowledge acquisition of Helping Babies Survive in rural Tanzania.

While the effectiveness of Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) training in Tanzania has been reported, no published studies of Essential Care for Every Baby (ECEB) and Essential Care for Small Babies (ECSB) in this setting have been found. This study compared knowledge before and after HBB, ECEB and ECSB training in Tanzania. Read more...  
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"Promoting Respectful Maternity Care in Rural Tanzania: Nurses’ Experiences of the “Health Workers for Change” Program"

Disrespectful and abusive care of women during their pregnancies has been shown to be a barrier for women accessing health care services for antenatal care and delivery. As part of an implementation research study to improve women's access to health care services in Rorya District, Mara, Tanzania, we conducted a pilot study training reproductive he...
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Interventions for depression delivered by non-physician primary health care workers in Nigeria

The WPA Action Plan 2017‐2020 1 has been released by H. Herrman, new WPA President, during the recent World Congress of Psychiatry in Berlin. An agreement that could assist in achieving the objectives of that Action Plan in an African context has been produced during the WPA‐World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Mental Health Forum meeting that to...
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Prevalence and risk factors for maternal mortality in referral hospitals in Nigeria: a multicenter study

While reports from individual hospitals have helped to provide insights into the causes of maternal mortality in low-income countries, they are often limited for policymaking at national and subnational levels. This multisite study was designed to determine maternal mortality ratios (MMRs) and identify the risk factors for maternal deaths in referr...
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Promoting evidence informed policymaking for maternal and child health in Nigeria: lessons from a knowledge translation workshop

Knowledge translation (KT) is a process that ensures that research evidence gets translated into policy and practice. In Nigeria, reports indicate that research evidence rarely gets into policymaking process. A major factor responsible for this is lack of KT capacity enhancement mechanisms. The objective of this study was to improve KT competence o...
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Increasing women’s access to skilled pregnancy care to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality in rural Edo State, Nigeria: a randomized controlled trial

Nigeria presently has the second highest absolute number of maternal deaths and perinatal deaths (stillbirth and neonatal deaths) in the world. The country accounts for up to 14% of global maternal deaths and is second only to India in the number of women who die during childbirth. Although all parts of the country are worsened by these staggering ...
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Impact of universal home visits on maternal and infant outcomes in Bauchi state, Nigeria: protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial

Maternal mortality in Nigeria is one of the highest in the world. Access to antenatal care is limited and the quality of services is poor in much of the country. Previous research in Bauchi State found associations between maternal morbidity and domestic violence, heavy work in pregnancy, lack of knowledge about danger signs, and lack of spousal co...
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Assessment of policy makers’ individual and organizational capacity to acquire, assess, adapt and apply research evidence for maternal and child health policy making in Nigeria: a cross-sectional quantitative survey.

Throughout the world, there is increasing awareness and acknowledgement of the value of research evidence in the development of effective health policy and in quality health care practice and administration. Among the major challenges associated with the lack of uptake of research evidence into policy and practice in Nigeria is the capacity constra...
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High Impact Interventions On Quality-Of-Care Improvements In Facilities For Maternal, Newborn And Child Health / Sexual And Reproductive Health In Sub-Saharan Africa

The sub-Saharan African (SSA) region has over two thirds of the global burden of maternal deaths and records high infant mortality rates. The region recorded an average of 534 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2017 (WorldBank 2017). 

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