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Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilisation in four Ethiopian regionsAtkure Defar, Dagu project lead at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and a PhD student supported through the project and his co-authors, published this paper in the International Journal for Equity in Health. The authors employed a cross-sectional community-based study with two-stage stratified cluster sampling in...
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Maternal and newborn health improves in rural Nigeria, Ethiopia and India but inequities still exist“Our findings have a both optimistic and pessimistic interpretation, in that families from all socioeconomic status groups benefited, but inequities have also persisted,” writes Dr. Tanya Marchant with coauthors. Underlying inequities in these rural settings mean that more work is needed to reach the poorest...
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“I felt like I should have delivered at home”The Northeast of Nigeria has some of the highest rates of maternal and newborn deaths in the world. Drastically reducing this number of preventable deaths is therefore seen as a top priority for the health sector. Evidence from around the world has shown that encouraging mothers to deliver their babies in a health...
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Learning from joint research: Maternal, newborn and child health in EthiopiaThese are just some of the results discussed during a joint MNCH learning conference held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the 7th of November. Approximately 100 researchers, including the IDEAS project team, government officials, development partners and implementers met at the conference, co-organised by the Federal...
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COMBINE – End of study reportThis End of Study Qualitative Review sought to systematically document key learning points from the experience of implementing the COMBINE study...
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Understanding mistreatment during institutional delivery in Northeast NigeriaThere is growing evidence from Nigeria and around the world that women who deliver their babies in health facilities can experience mistreatment....
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Geographic differences in maternal and child health care utilisation in four Ethiopian regionsAtkure Defar, Dagu project lead at the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and a PhD student supported through the project and his co-authors,...
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Maternal and newborn health improves in rural Nigeria, Ethiopia and India but inequities still exist“Our findings have a both optimistic and pessimistic interpretation, in that families from all socioeconomic status groups benefited, but...
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Monitoring childbirth care in primary health facilities: a validity study in Gombe State, northeastern NigeriaAntoinette Bhattacharya et al assessed twenty-five childbirth care indicators to validate health worker documentation and women’s...
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Final evaluation of the Community Based Newborn Care programme in EthiopiaThe overall evaluation plan included baseline, quality of care and follow up surveys, as well as two qualitative studies. It was conducted in...
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“I felt like I should have delivered at home”The Northeast of Nigeria has some of the highest rates of maternal and newborn deaths in the world. Drastically reducing this number of...
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A new appreciation for data: Impressions from the MNCH partnership in Gombe StateFor the IDEAS team working in Gombe, the past few months have again been a busy period. The last annual household survey was scheduled for August,...
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A new partnership with the University of LagosThe prototype phase of NHQI was implemented in Lagos between April 2015 and September 2017. To institutionalise gains from the prototype phase,...