Publications by authors named "Angela Siteyi"
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- International health financing programs in low- and middle-income countries often operate separately from local funding, which can lead to inefficiencies in healthcare delivery and poor health outcomes.
- The ConnDx initiative, implemented in private health facilities in Kisumu, Kenya, utilized digital diagnostics to objectively identify and monitor health funds for malaria diagnosis among patients with fever, detecting 2,199 cases out of 11,689.
- ConnDx's data-driven approach not only revealed malaria hotspots and informed patient behavior, but it also suggested a potential 25% reduction in costs while improving care quality, aiding local health policymakers in effectively targeting interventions for better health coverage.
Introduction: Patient support group interventions have been widely used to manage chronic diseases in Kenya. However, the potential benefits of these groups on patient health outcomes, and how this is influenced by multimorbidity, have not been rigorously evaluated.
Objective: We assessed the effect of a patient support group intervention on blood pressure (BP) management and the potential moderating effect of multimorbidity among low- and middle-income patients with hypertension in Kenya.
Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, the material and human capacity to diagnose patients reporting with fever to healthcare providers is largely insufficient. Febrile patients are typically treated presumptively with antimalarials and/or antibiotics. Such over-prescription can lead to drug resistance and involves unnecessary costs to the health system.
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