“…Admission weight of the baby ranging from 1,500 to 2,499 g (AHR: 0.18; 95% CI: 0.08–0.38), and Apgar score 7 – 10 at 5 minutes (AHR: 0.48; 95% CI: 0.27–0.86) were the protective factors against mortality. …”
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“…However, limited time for practice 81.3% (n=74), inadequate learning resources 42.9% (n=39), overcrowding of students during skills laboratory sessions 36.3% (n=33) and inadequate supervision 26.4% (n=24) were some of the challenges faced during learning. …”
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“…At the end of the first year, 90.2% (n = 174) were sexually active. There were statistically significant associations between PPFP utilization and duration of lactation amenorrhea, past behaviour and habits related to contraception, time of resuming sexual activity, level of education, marital status, age and parity of respondents, husband’s approval and postpartum counselling the mothers received. …”
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“…The mean CD4 cell counts were 640 ± 439 (87 – 2969). The mean Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnea score was 2.3 ± v 1. …”
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“…Adolescents and young adults present a growing share of people getting newly infected or living with HIV. Globally, 40% of all new infections occur in adolescents (10-19 years) and young adults (20-24 years). …”
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“…Factors associated with non compliance included; lack of adequate knowledge, denial of being pregnant (OR 2.1, 95% CI 0.62, 7.11), cost of starting antenatal care (OR 1.6, 95% CI 0.38,0.68), long distance to health facility (OR 1.5, 95% CI 0.80, 2.84), value attached to Focused Antenatal Care (OR 7.5, 95% CI 0.73, 7.77), in adequate health workers (OR 1.13, 95% CI 0.69, 1.87) and having age above 35 years (OR 1.38, 95% CI 0.66, 2.85). …”
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“…It causes an estimated 275,000 deaths in the world annually with the highest prevalence being in the developing countries. …”
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“…Self- reported HIV prevalence was 2% (1/42). Prevalence for Candida albicans infection was 29% (12/42) and genital warts 7% (3/42). …”
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“…The health service factors were transport 80.4%, distance 79.2%, a lack of provision of adolescent friendly services 72.5%, and inaccessible roads 62.9%. …”
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“…Severe pneumonia (19.7% vs. 29.3%, p< 0.0001), severe head injuries (0.3% vs. 1%; p= 0.0050), sepsis (1.7% vs. 9.0%, p< 0.0001), and unknown conditions (0.3% vs. 1%; p= 0.0050) increased significantly. …”
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“…Permission was sought from Kamuzu college of Nursing research and publications committee, Lilongwe district health office and the in charges of Kawale and Area 25 health centres. The findings of the study were that 60% of the respondents had junior certificate as their highest qualification while 40% had Malawi School certificate of examination. 100% of the respondents worked more than one year. 66.7% of the respondents had training before they started working and 80% of those who had training covered the full course of immunizations. …”
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“…The data obtained was analyzed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS Version 16.0). Data has been summarized using frequency tables, and bar charts and tables have been used to present the results. …”
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“…Among the 327 respondents, 100 (30.6%) were parents/guardians of children who presented with diarrhoea at the time of data collection. …”
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“…For the initial five-year period from 2016-2020, UNICEF’s Strategy for Health (hereafter called “the Strategy”) sets two overarching goals: 1 End preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths 2 Promote the health and development of all children To achieve these goals, the Strategy considers the health needs of the child at all life stages. …”
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“…This is a quantitative study which has a purpose of exploring factors leading to low utilization of under-five services by children age 12- 60 months of age at Mwanza District hospital. …”
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