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Newest firstEfforts to improve maternal health in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have often focused on expanding access and improving structural readiness. These are critical first steps, but this analysis reveals a critical missing link: womens perceptions of care--including how they are treated, how much they trust providers, and how affordable care seems--which are more predictive of health-seeking behavior than ob…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThe availability of essential medicines and supplies remains a serious impediment to effective primary health care (PHC) in many lower and lower middle-income countries. Most of these countries rely on centralized procurement, centralized stores, and a "push" distribution system. We describe here the impacts of a large-scale randomized trial in Nigeria, which provided modest funding directly to facilitie…
Open article record in new tab ↗Previous work has shown that primary healthcare facilities can benefit from both in-kind support (e.g., medication shipments) as well as increased cash-on-hand to spend to address service readiness gaps. However, there is limited evidence on how facility managers choose to spend available cash or how their decisions to manage their facility budgets are affected by in-kind support. Economic theory suggests that the…
Open article record in new tab ↗Key messagesO_LISecondary analysis of data from the Nigeria States Health Investment Project showed improvements in facility autonomy, budget control, and management practices in experimental (PBF and DFF) districts much more so than in control districts. C_LIO_LISupportive supervision, including use of a quantified checklist, contributed to improvements in facility readiness to provide services and clinical produ…
Open article record in new tab ↗BackgroundThe first case of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was reported by Nigeria on February 27, 2020. While case counts in the entire region remain considerably less than those being reported by individual countries in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, SSA countries remain vulnerable to COVID morbidity and mortality due to systemic healthcare weaknesses, less financial resources and infrastructure to addres…
BackgroundAbsolute numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths reported to date in the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) region have been significantly lower than those across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. As a result, there has been limited information about the demographic and clinical characteristics of deceased cases in the region, as well as the impacts of different case management strategies. MethodsData from deceased cas…