"When You Look at This Chart, That Is Not My Whole Life": Caregiver Perspectives to Inform Improved Primary Care Practice and Outcomes.

Objective: Worsening rates of infant and maternal mortality in the United States serve as an urgent call for multi-modal intervention. Infant Well Child Visits (WCVs) provide an opportunity for prevention, however not all infants receive the recommended schedule of visits, with infants of low-income and Black families missing a higher portion of WCVs. Due to diverse experiences and needs of under-resourced communities throughout the United States, caregiver voice is essential when designing improvement efforts.

African American Breastfeeding Peer Support: All Moms Empowered to Nurse.

Although breastfeeding is optimal infant nutrition, disparities in breastfeeding persist in the African American population. AMEN (Avondale Moms Empowered to Nurse) launched a Peer-to-Peer support group to increase breastfeeding initiation and duration in an under-resourced African American urban community with low breastfeeding rates. A Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR)-guided project was developed in partnership with a neighborhood church.

A Five-year Retrospective Study of the Pattern of General Surgical Procedures Performed at a Tertiary Health Institution in Nigeria.

Background: There is a paucity of documentation of the procedures performed by general surgeons in sub-Saharan Africa.

Aims And Objectives: To describe the pattern of general surgical procedures performed at our institution.

Study Design: A descriptive, retrospective study.

Abdomino-Perineal Resection for Low Rectal and Anal Malignancies in Ibadan, SOUTHWEST NIGERIA.

Background: Colonic tumours are the third most common tumours in the Nigerian cancer registry after breast and cervical carcinoma. Tumours involving the distal rectum and anus are increasingly a significant portion of all colorectal and anal malignancies in Nigeria. The patients frequently present with advanced disease.

A review of posttraumatic bowel injuries in ibadan.

Background. Bowel injuries are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality following trauma. Evaluating patients who sustained abdominal trauma with bowel injury may pose a significant diagnostic challenge to the surgeon.