Meaning and scope The key objectives of a health system are to (i) address the health needs of local population and increase access to medicines and treatments for all [20]; and (ii) to expand the reach of health services beyond large cities to the diverse rural areas [21]. It is argu...
We also relied on peer debriefing as we undertook meaning-making workshops with the local CBO and NGO teams after initial coding by the researchers to ensure confirmability or “reproducibility” of the results. Transferability, or the ability to link the results to other contexts, was pursued ...
The Discussion section offers practice-based insights on the possible mechanisms at work and the meaning of the observed outcomes in the Uganda context. The Conclusion offers some final reflections on the implementation and study of strategic accountability work. Uganda’s legal and policy provisions ...
3) abuse of power, including theft of state funds and assets, and 4) proceeds of crime [12]. These flows sit on a spectrum of legality; some are clearly illegal, such as laundering the proceeds of crime and theft of state funds, while other transactions may be considered legal, such as...
(qPCR), all were positive. Nodular cases had a higher parasite load than macules. Using a slit skin smear with part of the sample tested using rK39 rapid diagnostic tests and part using PCR demonstrated a significant correlation between the rK39 test and PCR, meaning that rK39 rapid ...
The key domains include the meaning or definition of scaling up used in the conceptual model, the type of resources required for scaling up, and the different perspectives on planning, implementation and evaluation. We also reviewed the political, social, and environmental context in which scaling ...
All the 14 included studies were published post-2007, reflecting the nascent interest in depression-diabetes comorbidity in LICs. All of the included studies were cross sectional in design, and we did not identify any longitudinal or intervention studies, meaning that causal inference was not a po...
Many of the studies were conducted in sub-Saharan Africa and thus were likely to be reporting P. falciparum infections only [55] and most study groups used HRP2 RDTs (Additional file 1: Table S1), thus meaning only P. falciparum infections would be detected, but the possibility remains ...
Livelihood assets are people’s strengths (capital endowments) that can be converted into livelihood outcomes (DFID 1999). They may be tangible (e.g. trees and land) or intangible (e.g. access to education and information). Nurturing and combining a range of these assets (such as natural,...
Ghana piloted SMC intervention in July to October 2015, with a trial in the Upper West Region (which has one of the highest prevalence of malaria in the country—37.8 %) through support from the Department for International Development of the UK (DFID) and the Global Fund. Lessons learnt ...