Publications by authors named "Estelle Monique Sidze"
Article Synopsis
- The majority of births occur in urban areas, posing unique challenges for providing high-quality maternal care during pregnancy, childbirth, and postnatal periods in large cities across Africa.
- The study analysed data from Demographic and Health Surveys in 22 African cities to assess health service utilization and care content along the maternal continuum, focusing on antenatal care, childbirth care, and postnatal care.
- Results showed significant variation in maternal care service performance among the cities, with some cities like Cotonou and Accra performing well, while others, such as Nairobi and Ndjamena, faced considerable challenges.
Psychosocial challenges and individual strategies for coping with mental stress among pregnant and postpartum adolescents in Nairobi informal settlements: a qualitative investigation.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth
September 2021
Background: This study was part of a project funded under the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative to engage adolescent girls living in the main slums of Nairobi. This involved an innovative co-creation initiative through jointly designing and testing the feasibility of a toolkit of information, skill, and confidence-building, and coping mechanisms that can effectively shield them and their peers against the risks of mental stress during pregnancy and early motherhood.
Methods: Qualitative interviews and discussions from visual methodologies including Photovoice, digital storytelling, and public service announcements were conducted with 30 pregnant and adolescent mothers aged 14-19 years in four informal settlements either pregnant or having a child less than 2 years.
Article Synopsis
- - Subnational inequalities in health coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) have been largely overlooked in tracking health progress, despite their importance for effective health planning and intervention delivery in countries.
- - The study reveals significant disparities in RMNCH coverage across 39 sub-Saharan African nations, highlighting different inequality patterns based on national coverage levels and regional performance.
- - While some countries have made strides in reducing these inequalities from 2004 to 2015, many still exhibit persistent gaps, often linked to factors like poor governance and conflict, necessitating targeted efforts to ensure essential health interventions reach all populations.
Mapping of reproductive health financing: methodological challenges.
Sex Reprod Healthc
October 2014
Low level of funding for reproductive health (RH) is a cause for concern, given that RH service utilization in the vast majority of the developing world is well below the desired level. Though there is an urgent need to track the domestic and international financial resource flows for RH, the instruments through which financial resources are tracked in developing countries are limited. In this paper we examined the methodological and conceptual challenges of monitoring financial resources for RH services at international and national level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe link between family structure experiences and premarital sexual initiation in sub-Saharan African settings has been investigated using primarily the socialization perspective. This article tests additional hypotheses using the perspectives of change and duration of exposure. The analyses are based on time-dependent retrospective data on family living arrangements from a sample of 1182 individuals aged 12-24 years old, drawn from the Cameroon Family and Health Survey.
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