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Infant feeding counselling in Uganda in a changing environment with focus on the general population and HIV-positive mothers - a mixed method approach
(BioMed Central, 2010)
Background: Health workers’ counselling practices are essential to improve infant feeding practices. This paper will assess how infant feeding counselling was done and experienced by counsellors and mothers in Eastern ...
Fetal heart rate monitoring practices at a public hospital in Northern Uganda – what health workers document, do and say
(Global Health Action, 2020-01-20)
Background: In Uganda, perinatal mortality is 38 per 1000 pregnancies. One-third of these deaths are due to birth asphyxia. Adequate fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring during labor may detect birth asphyxia but little is ...
Health care workers’ experiences of managing foetal distress and birth asphyxia at health facilities in Northern Uganda
(BMC, 2021-01)
Background: Birth asphyxia is one of the leading causes of intrapartum stillbirth and neonatal mortality worldwide. We sought to explore the experiences of health care workers in managing foetal distress and birth asphyxia ...
Factors associated with birth asphyxia among term singleton births at two referral hospitals in Northern Uganda: A cross sectional study
(BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2022)
Background: Birth asphyxia is one of the leading causes of neonatal mortality worldwide. In Uganda, it accounts
for 28.9% of all neonatal deaths. With a view to inform policy and practice interventions to reduce adverse ...