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Circumstances of child deaths in Mali and Uganda: a community-based confidential enquiry
(The Lancet Global Health, 2009)
Background Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved, causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a community enquiry into the circumstances of death could ...
Incidence of postpartum infection, outcomes and associated risk factors at Mbarara regional referral hospital in Uganda
(BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2018)
Background: There is a paucity of recent prospective data on the incidence of postpartum infections and associated risk factors in sub-Saharan Africa. Retrospective studies estimate that puerperal sepsis causes approximately ...
Puerperal sepsis, the leading cause of maternal deaths at a Tertiary University Teaching Hospital in Uganda
(BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2016)
Background: Maternal mortality is highest in sub-Saharan Africa. In Uganda, the WHO- MDG 5 (aimed at reducing maternal mortality by 75 % between 1990 and 2015) has not been attained. The current maternal mortality ratio ...
Circumstances of child deaths in Mali and Uganda: a community-based confidential enquiry
(The Lancet Global Health, 2018)
Background: Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved, causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a community enquiry into the circumstances of death ...