… In view of this and the high impact that the MSF intervention had on reducing maternal
mortality (Tayler-Smith et al. 2013), using routine programme data from a rural district in Burundi, …

Background. Triage is one of the core requirements for the provision of effective emergency
care and has been shown to reduce patient mortality. However, in low- and middle-income …

Background TB is one of the main health priorities in Uzbekistan and relatively high rates of
unfavorable treatment outcomes have recently been reported. This requires closer analysis …

Setting: The Black Lion Referral Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Objective: To document
indications for admission, complications and outcomes of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) …

In 2009, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) and
Médecins sans Frontières Brussels-Luxembourg (MSF) began developing an outcome-…

Objectives Zimbabwe has started to scale up Option B+ for the prevention of mother‐to‐child
transmission of HIV , but there is little published information about uptake or retention in …

Background In Burundi, the annual incidence of obstetric fistula is estimated to be 0.2-0.5%
of all deliveries, with 1000–2000 new cases per year. Despite this relatively high incidence, …

Although user fees are a common form of healthcare financing in resource-poor countries,
there is growing consensus that their use compromises health service utilisation and …

… Citation: Singla N, Satyanarayana S, Sachdeva KS, Van den Bergh R, Reid T, Tayler-Smith
K, et al. (2014) Impact of Introducing the Line Probe Assay on Time to Treatment Initiation of …

Objectives Between 2009 and 2012, eight operational research capacity building courses
were completed in Paris (3), Luxembourg (1), India (1), Nepal (1), Kenya (1) and Fiji (1). …