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25 November 2015
2015

Ebola: lessons learned and future challenges for Europe

2015-11-25T15:19:58+01:0025 November 2015|

Quaglio G., Goerens C., Putoto G., Rübig P., Lafaye P., Karapiperis T., Dario C., Delaunois P., Zachariah R.
Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015 November

The Ebola epidemic that has ravaged West Africa – Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone in particular – since 2014 had led to more than 28,000 reported cases by October 2015, with implications not only for the health of communities involved, but also in terms of its impact on the region’s economies and overall development and [...]

30 September 2015
2015

How Can Childbirth Care for the Rural Poor Be Improved? A Contribution from Spatial Modelling in Rural Tanzania

2015-09-30T14:18:26+02:0030 September 2015|

Fogliati P., Straneo M., Brogi C., Fantozzi P.L., Salim R.M., Msengi H.M., Azzimonti G., Putoto G.
PLoS One, 2015 September

The use of spatial and geographic models such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) was integrated into this study, whose aim was to assess the coverage of health care centers offering obstetric services in two rural areas of Tanzania, the Iringa and Ludewa Districts. Both areas have a high density of health care facilities. However, the [...]

24 August 2015
2015

Determinants of utilization of antenatal care and skilled birth attendant at delivery in South West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

2015-08-24T14:17:31+02:0024 August 2015|

Wilunda C., Quaglio G., Putoto G., Takahashi R., Calia F., Abebe D., Manenti F., Dalla Riva D., Betrán A.P., Atzori A.
Reproductive Health Journal, 2015 August

Ethiopia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world (676 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births) and is one of the ten countries in the world that comprise 58% of global maternal deaths. Problems of coverage are certainly among the factors contributing to this dire mortality rate. Indeed, pregnant women’s failure to [...]

19 June 2015
2015

Assessing Coverage, Equity and Quality Gaps in Maternal and Neonatal Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Integrated Approach

2015-06-19T14:16:21+02:0019 June 2015|

Wilunda C., Putoto G., Dalla Riva D., Manenti F., Atzori A., Calia F., Assefa T., Turri B., Emmanuel O., Straneo M., Kisika F., Tamburlini G.
PLoS One, 2015 June

The performance of a health care system can be measured by three parameters: the coverage, equity and quality of health care services. In Sub-Saharan Africa there are still major problems in each of these areas which prevent the respective countries from achieving the Millennium Development Goals related to maternal and neonatal health. The objective of [...]

16 April 2015
2015

Point of Care Testing and Transfusion Safety in Resource Limited Settings: A Review

2015-04-16T15:17:08+02:0016 April 2015|

La Raja M., Musi R., Fattorini M., Piva E., Putoto G.
Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion, 2015 April

Diagnostic laboratory tests have always had the disadvantage of being too expensive for use in countries with limited resources. There is now growing interest in a new form of lab tests that go by the name “point of care testing” (POCT). POCT enables non-specialized health care personnel to carry out chemical analyses and immunology and [...]

8 April 2015
2015

Availability, utilisation and quality of maternal and neonatal health care services in Karamoja region, Uganda: a health facility-based survey

2015-04-08T14:12:58+02:008 April 2015|

Wilunda C., Oyerinde K., Putoto G., Lochoro P., Dall'Oglio G., Manenti F., Segafredo G., Atzori A., Criel B., Panza A., Quaglio G.
Reproductive Health Journal, 2015 April

Maternal and neonatal health indicators in Uganda are very poor: the maternal mortality rate is 438 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, while the child mortality rate is 54 deaths per 1,000 live births. The study presented here was carried out in the Karamoja region, an area where Doctors with Africa CUAMM has been active [...]

1 April 2015
2015

Harmonization of clinical laboratories in Africa: a multidisciplinary approach to identify innovative and sustainable technical solution

2015-04-01T15:15:11+02:001 April 2015|

Cortese A., Putoto G., Pecorari I., Musi R., Nunziata E.
Diagnosis, 2015 April

Laboratory medicine plays a fundamental role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of health care systems and making possible timely diagnoses and operations. However, in the Sub-Saharan African region it is frequently of poor quality, due in part to insufficient economic resources, in part to a lack of personnel trained in using technical diagnostic tools, [...]

1 March 2015
2015

Predictors of Treatment Failure in HIV-Positive Children Receiving Combination Antiretroviral Therapy: Cohort Data From Mozambique and Uganda

2015-03-01T15:13:08+01:001 March 2015|

Costenaro P., Penazzato M., Lundin R., Rossi G., Massavon W., Patel D., Nabachwa S., Franceschetto G., Morelli E., Bilardi D., Nannyonga M.M.,Atzori A., Mastrogiacomo M.L., Mazza A., Putoto G., Giaquinto C.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, 2015 March

The increase in treatments for people affected by HIV virus has led to a global reduction of new childhood infections. Nonetheless, particularly in settings with limited resources, the level of emergency is still high, despite the efforts to expand access to combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), One of the main causes of the still high percentage [...]

1 January 2015
2015

A hospital-centered approach to improve emergency obstetric care in South Sudan

2015-01-01T11:18:40+01:001 January 2015|

Groppi L., Somigliana E., Pisani V., Ika M., Mabor J.L., Akec H.N., Nhial J.A., Mading M.S., Scanagatta C., Manenti F., Putoto G.
International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, 2015 January

Between 1990 and 2014, significant results were obtained for reducing child and maternal mortality, as set by the fourth and fifth Millennium Development Goals. However, there are alarming disparities from country to country and between rural and urban regions with concentrations of mortality in the poorest rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia. To [...]

2 December 2014
2014

Where do the rural poor deliver when high coverage of health facility delivery is achieved? Findings from a community and hospital survey in Tanzania.

2014-12-02T14:25:15+01:002 December 2014|

Straneo M., Fogliati P., Azzimonti G., Mangi S., Kisika F.
PLoS One. 2014 December

In Tanzania, like in the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, there are high maternal mortality rates. In response to the fifth Millennium Development Goal, the government has put in place strategies to extend the coverage of health facilities to increase the number of deliveries in health facilities. As a result, in the district of Iringa, in [...]