Upul Senarath, Kingsley Agho, Dure‐Samin Akram, Sanjeeva Godakandage et al.
Improving infant and young child feeding practices will help South Asian countries achieve the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child mortality. This paper aims to compare key indicators of complementary feeding and their determinants in children aged 6-23 months across five South Asian count...
Harry Campbell, Shams El Arifeen, Tabish Hazir, James O’Kelly et al.
Pneumonia remains a major cause of child death globally, and improving antibiotic treatment rates is a key control strategy. Progress in improving the global coverage of antibiotic treatment is monitored through large household surveys such as the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and the Multipl...
Tabish Hazir, Khadija Begum, Shams El Arifeen, Amira M. Khan et al.
BACKGROUND: Antibiotic treatment for pneumonia as measured by Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is a key indicator for tracking progress in achieving Millennium Development Goal 4. Concerns about the validity of this indicator led us to perform an eva...
Anne Marie Thow, Sumit Karn, Madhu Dixit Devkota, Sabrina Rasheed et al.
BACKGROUND: South Asian countries experience some of the highest levels of child undernutrition in the world, strongly linked to poor infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices. Strong and responsive policy support is essential for effective interventions to improve IYCF. This study aimed to id...
Aziz Sheikh, Harry Campbell, Dominique Balharry, Abdullah H Baqui et al.
The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Global Health Research Unit on Respiratory Health (RESPIRE) aims to reduce morbidity and mortality from respiratory diseases globally, with an initial focus on South Asia where respiratory conditions account for around one in five of all deaths. This ...
Shubhada Hooli, Carina King, Eric D. McCollum, Tim Colbourn et al.
OBJECTIVES: We determined the pulse oximetry benefit in pediatric pneumonia mortality risk stratification and chest-indrawing pneumonia in-hospital mortality risk factors. METHODS: We report the characteristics and in-hospital pneumonia-related mortality of children aged 2-59 months who were include...
H Martı́n, Jennifer Falconer, Emmanuel Addo‐Yobo, Satinder Aneja et al.
Background: The existing World Health Organization (WHO) pneumonia case management guidelines rely on clinical symptoms and signs for identifying, classifying, and treating pneumonia in children up to 5 years old. We aimed to collate an individual patient-level data set from large, high-quality pre-...