“…Antibiotics have remained useful to humans and animals in the treatment of serious infectious diseases for decades now. Unfortunately, irrational antibiotic use has resulted in the emergency of antimicrobial resistance. …”
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“…Consequently the current HRD interventions have had limited impact in improving the quantity and quality of personnel needed to implement the Essential Health Package (EHP). …”
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“…There should be good relationship and mutual trust between nurses and mothers to work hand in hand in caring for the sick children in order to meet their emotional needs. Health workers should avoid shouting at mothers but rather make them understand why some of the ward’s regulations should be followed and for their own benefit. …”
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“…However, PMTCT remains a challenge after childbirth, with inadequate adherence among the breastfeeding mothers which needs greater attention. The aim of the study was to investigate factors associated with ART adherence by specifically determining social-demographic factors, assessing patient related factors, identifying the therapy related factors, assessing condition related factors, determining health care system factors associated with ART adherence and determining ART adherence rate among breastfeeding mothers on option B+ strategy at Mzuzu Health Centre Malawi. …”
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“…The study has identified the need to take into account the major differences between children and their care givers in managing Type 1 Diabetes and also the need to invest considerable amount of efforts and resources aimed at supporting Type 1 diabetic children by establishing school clinics or ensuring the presence of school nurses in schools…”
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“…Data collection was done from 22nd October to 20th November, 2020. Data was analysed using thematic analysis. …”
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“…The study showed the following results: 100% of the respondents were aware of their role in clinical teaching and appreciated that clinical teaching offered them the opportunity to reflect on and improve their practice. Ninety-nine percent of the respondents also indicated that they were proud to see students developing professionally. …”
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“…Findings revealed that 58% of the participants first consulted general practitioners (GPs), 28% consulted traditional healers, 8% consulted religious healers, 4% went straight to ZMH and 2% were first in contact with police. …”
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“…However, despite the offer of free services, there is now increasing cases of informal payments for members to access services in public health facilities. …”
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“…The emergence of antibiotic resistance and vaccine serotype replacement negatively affects the control of pneumococcal infections, necessitating the need for other treatment alternatives. We investigated the antimicrobial activity of local herbs against pneumococcal serotypes 1 and 6A. …”
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“…Proper assessment and availability of adequate support would positively influence the caregiver’s experiences of caregiving and the child’s quality of life. Hence, there is need to develop practical interventions that will lessen the caregivers’ challenges.…”
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“…Strength of association was measured using odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals. The p-value <0.05 was set for statistical significance. I have found huge burden of maternal and perinatal death and complications, which makes it a big priority for the health system. …”
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“…We identified the following risk factors for HAI; length-of-stay between 8 and 14 days (OR=14.4, 95% CI: 1.65-124.7, p=0.0143), presence of indwelling urinary catheter (OR=8.3, 95% CI: 2.24-30.70, p=0.003) and the history of surgery in the vii past 30 days (OR=5.11, 95% CI: 1.46-17.83, p=0.011). 29/105 patients (27.6%) were prescribed antimicrobials, most commonly the 3rd-generation cephalosporin, ceftriaxone (n=15). …”
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“…Shock is an important pathophysiological mechanism of death in children in low-resource settings. Despite this, limited data is available on the prevalence, causes and outcome of shock in children in these settings. …”
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