Nicole Bellows, Ben Bellows, Charlotte Warren
OBJECTIVES: To identify where vouchers have been used for reproductive health (RH) services, to what extent RH voucher programmes have been evaluated, and whether the programmes have been effective. METHODS: A systematic search of the peer review and grey literature was conducted to identify RH vouc...
Katharine McCarthy, Ann K. Blanc, Charlotte Warren, Ashish Bajracharya et al.
Background Global indicators for monitoring progress in maternal and newborn health have tended to rely on contact coverage indicators rather than the content of services received. As part of the effort to improve measurement of progress in maternal and newborn health, this study examines how accura...
Ann Gottert, Tracy McClair, Sharif Hossain, Sina Pascal Dakouo et al.
BACKGROUND: Ensuring that Community Health Workers (CHWs) are motivated is critical to their performance, retention and well-being - and ultimately to the effectiveness of community health systems worldwide. While CHW motivation is as multi-dimensional construct, there is no multi-dimensional measur...
Shongkour Roy, Shivani Pandya, Sharif Hossain, Timothy Abuya et al.
INTRODUCTION: Bangladesh has a long history of mature and institutionalized community health worker (CHW) programs in primary health care. However, there is a lot of variability in the performance of the CHW programs in Bangladesh, as well as challenges associated with retention of CHWs. This study ...
Smisha Agarwal, Udochisom Anaba, Timothy Abuya, Richard Kintu et al.
Introduction There is a renewed global interest in improving community health worker (CHW) programmes. For CHW programmes to be effective, key intervention design factors which contribute to the performance of CHWs need to be identified. The recent WHO guidelines recommends the combination of financ...
Shongkour Roy, Sarah M. Kennedy, Sharif Hossain, Charlotte Warren et al.
INTRODUCTION: Understanding community health workers' (CHWs) experiences of sustaining routine health care promotion and provision activities as well as their challenges in adopting new responsibilities within a dynamic context is critical. This study explored the roles and perspectives of CHWs with...
Amy Dempsey, Pooja Sripad, Kanij Sultana, Karen Kirk et al.
BACKGROUND: While women in low- and middle-income countries face a range of barriers to accessing care for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, there is little understanding of the pathways taken to overcome these constraints and reach the services they need. This study explores the perspectives of ...
Jessie Pinchoff, Mohammad Shamsudduha, Sharif Mohammed Ismail Hossain, Abdullah Al Mahmud Shohag et al.
Abstract This analysis examines whether salinity in drinking water is associated with pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E), a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. Bangladesh’s national health information system data were extracted at the district level ( n = 64) to assess PE/E rates, and...
Ann Gottert, Tim Abuya, Sharif Hossain, Alain Casseus et al.
Background Emerging data, media reports, and anecdotal evidence suggest that domestic violence (DV) has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, more detailed data are needed on the magnitude, forms, and causes of DV during COVID-19 in different contexts worldwide. We sought to contribute su...
Pooja Sripad, Ann Gottert, Timothy Abuya, Alain Casseus et al.
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and national responses, trust (one's belief that a system acts in one's best interest) is important to consider. In community health systems, trust is embedded in relationships between clients, CHWs, and health system stakeholders. This mixed-methods study explores trust...
David W. Eyre, Sheila Lumley, Denise O’Donnell, Mark Campbell et al.
Article Figures and data Abstract Introduction Results Discussion Materials and methods Data availability References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract We conducted voluntary Covid-19 testing programmes for symptomatic and asymptomatic staff at a UK teach...
Kaji Tamanna Keya, Ben Bellows, Ubaidur Rob, Charlotte Warren
To test a statistically significant change in delivery by medically trained providers following introduction of a demand-side financing voucher, a population-based quasi-experimental study was undertaken, with 3,300 mothers in 2010 and 3,334 mothers at follow-up in 2012 in government-implemented vou...
Shongkour Roy, Kanij Sultana, Sharif Mohammed Ismail Hossain, Pooja Sripad et al.
BACKGROUND: Pharmacy workers in Bangladesh play an important role in managing pregnancy complications by dispensing, counselling and selling drugs to pregnant women and their families. This study examined pharmacy workers' drug knowledge and practice for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E) management...
Sharif Hossain, Shongkour Roy, Kanij Sultana, Charlotte Warren
In resource-poor countries such as Bangladesh, proven life-saving commodities for pregnant women have not been optimally examined, such as magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) to manage severe pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, use of anti-hypertensives to manage high blood pressure during pregnancy, aspirin prophylaxi...
Charlotte Warren, Sharif Mohammed Ismail Hossain, Rahat Ara Nur, Kanij Sultana et al.
Globally more than 800 women die every day from preventable complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, and 99 percent of these deaths occur in developing countries. Every day approximately 7,200 babies are stillborn. Pre-eclampsia and eclampsia (PE/E) contribute significantly to these mortal...