This analysis seeks to identify strengths and gaps in the existing facility capacity for intrapartum and immediate postpartum fetal and neonatal care, using data collected as a part of Malawi's Helping Babies Breath program evaluation. From August to September 2012, the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program (MCHIP) conducted a cross-sectional survey in 84 Malawian health facilities to ca...

BACKGROUND Early diagnosis of HIV and treatment initiation at higher CD4 counts improves outcomes and reduces transmission. However, Lesotho is not realizing the full benefits of ART because of the low proportion of men tested (40%). Public sector VMMC services, which were launched in district hospitals in February 2012 by the Lesotho MOH supported by USAID/MCHIP, include HIV testing with refer...

o c to b e r 20 0 6 www.insidegnss.com the term “Correlator” is often used in discussions of GPS and GNSS receiver design. It has been used to describe devices as simple as a single exclusive OR gate through to complete “baseband” chips that include a microprocessor. Most usually, and in this article, the term describes the hardware or software that produces all of the required correlation data...

reverse link transmission model. The single mobile user is assumed to continuously transmit information data at 64kbit/s. The data are divided into a sequence of 5120bit data frames. Frame data are frst 16bit CRC encoded and then turbo encoded with coding rate of 1/3 and generator polynomials of 1, 517, 5/7 in octal notation (the two RSC encoders are the same and have a constraint length of 3 b...

Globally, unmet need for postpartum family planning remains high, while immunization services are among the most wide-reaching and equitable interventions. Given overlapping time frames, integrating these services provides an opportunity to leverage existing health visits to offer women more comprehensive services. From March through November 2012, Liberia's government, with support from the Ma...

In this work a novel approach for asynchronous CDMA receivers, based on artificial neural networks, is presented. Starting from code tracking systems which can be found in literature, the aim of this study is directed at finding an alternative solution to non-coherent delay lock loop, with the purpose to improve performances. Introduction Direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) ...