A pox on all our houses: a missing component in the global mpox response is equity

E Jonas, N Hamraz, N Marcadieu… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2024 - thelancet.com
The global health community has had more than a decade to develop pandemic
preparedness programmes and apply lessons learnt to new disease outbreaks. Mpox has …

Financing and provision of healthcare for two billion people in low-income nations: Is the cooperative healthcare model a solution?

WC Hsiao, W Yip - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
The international consensus in support of universal health coverage (UHC), though
commendable, thus far lacks a clear mechanism to finance and deliver accessible and …

Maternal mortality study in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

IBE Ramazani, SDM Ntela, M Ahouah… - BMC pregnancy and …, 2022 - Springer
Background The reduction of maternal mortality in developing countries such as the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) still raises many questions. Indeed, this large country …

Burundi cancer care needs: a call to action

AVC Manirakiza, F Rubagumya… - The oncologist, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Burundi is a landlocked country in the East Central Africa region. Beyond a long civil war
strife, cancer care remains overlooked, in terms of both infrastructure and human resources …

Geospatial evaluation of trade-offs between equity in physical access to healthcare and health systems efficiency

HS Iyer, J Flanigan, NG Wolf, LF Schroeder… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction Decisions regarding the geographical placement of healthcare services require
consideration of trade-offs between equity and efficiency, but few empirical assessments are …

Oral Health Survey in Burundi; Evaluation of the Caries Experience in Schoolchildren Using the DMFT Index

D Lamloum, M Dettori, P La Corte, MR Agnoli… - Medicina, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background and objectives: There are no data on oral health in the population of Burundi.
This study aimed to describe the oral health status of schoolchildren in Burundi using the …

[HTML][HTML] Wealth-related inequalities in the coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in 36 countries in the African Region

FC Wehrmeister, CM Fayé, ICM da Silva… - Bulletin of the World …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To investigate whether sub-Saharan African countries have succeeded in
reducing wealth-related inequalities in the coverage of reproductive, maternal, newborn and …

Service supply chain risk management in the public healthcare sector

GK Getele, X Ruoliu - International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The study research aims to examine the effects of supply chain management
practices on risk mitigating (RM) by studying the correlation between social ties, institutional …

Effects of scaling up various community-level interventions on child mortality in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania: a modeling study

C Hategeka, G Tuyisenge, C Bayingana… - Global health research …, 2019 - Springer
Background Improving child health remains one of the most significant health challenges in
sub-Saharan Africa, a region that accounts for half of the global burden of under-five …

[PDF][PDF] COVID-19 in Africa: the little we know and the lot we ignore

S Colombo, R Scuccato, A Fadda, AJ Cumbi - Epidemiol Prev, 2020 - academia.edu
ABSTRACT COVID has stirred up an information deluge that challenges our capacity to
absorb and make sense of data. In this unrelenting flow of information, Africa has been …