نتایج جستجو برای: rwanda

تعداد نتایج: 4267  

2015
Aimable Musafili Birgitta Essén Cyprien Baribwira Agnes Binagwaho Lars-Åke Persson Katarina Ekholm Selling

BACKGROUND Rwanda has embarked on ambitious programmes to provide equitable health services and reduce mortality in childhood. Evidence from other countries indicates that advances in child survival often have come at the expense of increasing inequity. Our aims were to analyse trends and social differentials in mortality before the age of 5 years in Rwanda from 1990 to 2010. METHODS We perfo...

2015
Mwumvaneza Mutagoma Catherine Kayitesi Aimé Gwiza Hinda Ruton Andrew Koleros Neil Gupta Helene Balisanga David J Riedel Sabin Nsanzimana

HIV prevalence is disproportionately high among female sex workers compared to the general population. Many African countries lack useful data on the size of female sex worker populations to inform national HIV programmes. A female sex worker size estimation exercise using three different venue-based methodologies was conducted among female sex workers in all provinces of Rwanda in August 2010....

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2008
Aimable Twahirwa

Mandatory participation in mutual health insurance schemes and public subsidies for the poor have led to considerable improvement in public health and health care in Rwanda, but even at US$ 2 a year, the price for some members of the population remains prohibitively high. Aimable Twahirwa reports from Kigali. Rwanda’s Ministry of Health plans, to boost community participation in the financing o...

2017
Sophia Holmlund Joseph Ntaganira Kristina Edvardsson Pham Thi Lan Jean Paul Semasaka Sengoma Annika Åhman Rhonda Small Ingrid Mogren

BACKGROUND Obstetric ultrasound has become an indispensable part of antenatal care worldwide. Although the use of ultrasound has shown benefits in the reduction of maternal and foetal morbidity and mortality, it has also raised many ethical challenges. Because of insufficient numbers of midwives in Rwanda, uncomplicated pregnancy care is usually provided by nurses in local health centres. Obste...

2013
G. R. Demarée H. Van de Vyver

Detailed probabilistic information on the intensity of precipitation in Central Africa is highly needed in order to cope with the risk analysis of natural hazards. In the mountainous areas of Rwanda land slides frequently occur and might cause a heavy toll in human lives. The establishment of Intensity-Duration-Frequency curves for precipitation in Central Africa remains a difficult task as ade...

Journal: :BMJ open 2016
Pauline Bakibinga Dennis J Matanda Rogers Ayiko Joseph Rujumba Charles Muiruri Djesika Amendah Martin Atela

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between pregnancy history and the use of contraception among women of reproductive age (15-49 years) in East Africa. METHODS Demographic and Health Surveys data from Burundi (2010), Kenya (2008-2009), Rwanda (2010), Tanzania (2010) and Uganda (2011) were used in the analysis. Logistic regression was used to determine the effects of women's pregnancy histo...

Journal: :Studies in family planning 2012
Paulin Basinga Ann M Moore Susheela D Singh Elizabeth E Carlin Francine Birungi Fidele Ngabo

Abortion is illegal in Rwanda except when necessary to protect a woman's physical health or to save her life. Many women in Rwanda obtain unsafe abortions, and some experience health complications as a result. To estimate the incidence of induced abortion, we conducted a national sample survey of health facilities that provide postabortion care and a purposive sample survey of key informants kn...

2014
Nadine Rujeni Léonidas Mbanzamihigo

The incidence of human brucellosis is not documented in Rwanda despite several reports on the disease in cattle. Because brucellosis has been associated with abortion, the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of positive serology in women presenting with abortion and/or stillbirth. The study was done in Huye District, in the Southern Province of Rwanda, and the patients were recr...

Journal: :IJSDIR 2011
Felicia Olufunmilayo Akinyemi Ernest Uwayezu

Geographic information is becoming more important everyday at all levels of society. It has a central role in supporting economies, improving business effectiveness in the private sector, enabling more efficient decision-making and increasing citizens’ involvement in governance. The need to share becomes apparent when individuals and organisations cannot produce all datasets they need. Identify...

2015
Catherine A. Staton Vijitha De Silva Elizabeth Krebs Luciano Andrade Stephen Rulisa Badra Chandanie Mallawaarachchi Kezhi Jin Joao RicardoVissoci Truls Østbye

BACKGROUND Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are a leading cause of death. In low and middle income countries (LMIC) data to conduct hotspot analyses and safety audits are usually incomplete, poor quality, and not computerized. Police data are often limited, but there are no alternative gold standards. This project evaluates high road utilizer surveys as an alternative to police data to identify RTC ...

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