Publications by authors named "A Kashoti"
Background: Despite policies advocating centralised transfusion services based on voluntary donors, the hospital-based replacement donor system is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa.
Aims: To evaluate the cost of all laboratory resources needed to provide a unit of safe blood in rural Malawi using the family replacement donor system
Methods: Full economic costs of all laboratory tests used to screen potential donors and to perform cross-matching were documented in a prospective, observational study in Ntcheu district hospital laboratory.
Results: 1729 potential donors were screened and 11,008 tests were performed to ensure that 1104 units of safe blood were available for transfusion.
'Lost' smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases: where are they and why did we lose them?
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis
January 2005
Setting: Ntcheu District, rural Malawi.
Objectives: 1) To locate smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients who were identified during the first 6 months of 2000 but did not start treatment ('lost cases'); 2) to describe these patients' pathways to diagnosis, health status and socio-demographic characteristics; and 3) to explore why these patients did not start treatment.
Methods: Lost cases were traced from programme registers and interviewed using the qualitative research critical incidents narrative (CIN) interviews technique.