Documenting Community Health Worker Compensation Schemes and Their Perceived Effectiveness in Seven sub-Saharan African Countries: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Community health worker (CHW) incentives and remuneration are core issues affecting the performance of CHWs and health programs. There is limited documentation on the implementation details of CHW financial compensation schemes used in sub-Saharan African countries, including their mechanisms of delivery and effectiveness. We aimed to document CHW financial compensation schemes and understand CHW, government, and other stakeholder perceptions of their effectiveness.

Pregnancy outcome during haemodialysis: a case report.

Objective: Successful pregnancy outcome is an uncommon occurrence in women requiring chronic dialysis treatment.

Methods: We reported the course and outcome of a case of pregnancy occurred in a woman affected by lupus erythematosus on chronic hemodialysis.

Results: At 33rd gestational week the woman underwent to caesarean section because of starting labour.

Addison's disease and pregnancy: case report.

Objective: Addisonian crises, a rare but life-threatening event in pregnant women, may accompany stressful conditions such as labor, puerperium, infection, hyperemesis gravidarum or surgery.

Methods: A 36-year-old woman, primigravida, with Addison's disease, diagnosed when she was 10 year-old and treated with cortisone and fludrocortisone. The therapy was regulated to avoid adrenal crisis during pregnancy.

Determinants of high vitamin A supplementation coverage among pre-school children in Mali: the National Nutrition Weeks experience.

Objectives: To assess vitamin A supplementation (VAS) coverage of children aged 6-59 months and the factors that favour or limit this coverage during the National Nutrition Weeks in Mali.

Design: Cross-sectional study. Interviews about demographic factors and children's adherence to the vitamin A capsule distribution programme were conducted.

Methods for assessing quality of provider performance in developing countries.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of methods for assessing the quality of pediatric outpatient health provider performance in developing countries.

Design: Exit interviews, record reviews, and provider interview results were compared with those of direct observation of pediatric patient care. Thirty health care providers in 14 facilities in Lilongwe District, Malawi were interviewed and observed, treating 436 children in August 1994.