Maintaining essential healthcare services in Addis Ababa during COVID-19: A qualitative study.

Background: Worldwide, health systems have been challenged by the overwhelming demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Ethiopia, maintaining essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical to preventing severe outcomes and protecting the gains made over the past years in the health sector. This project aims to explore the health system's response to maintaining essential healthcare services in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Empowering youth as Changemakers for gender-transformative action: a play-based participatory approach in South-East Nepal.

Aims: This study explored how youth participatory action research (YPAR) methods, specifically play-based activities integrated with cricket, can engage adolescent girls in Nepal's Terai region to identify and address gender-related health challenges. It aimed to assess how these methods contribute to empowering girls, developing research capacities, and promoting gender equity through sports.

Methods: Three interactive workshops were held with adolescent girls forming 'Cricket Changemakers' teams.

Articulating the ultimate objectives of research capacity strengthening programmes: Why this is important and how we might achieve it.

'Research capacity strengthening' (RCS) is an umbrella term that can be used to describe a wide variety of activities conducted in support of diverse objectives premised upon distinct, potentially opposing, views. Despite this, the ultimate objective of RCS activities is rarely made explicit which can be problematic when diverse objectives are possible. By 'ultimate' objective we are referring to the overarching (often long-term) goal an RCS initiative is intended to contribute towards (e.

Finding the missing men with tuberculosis: a participatory approach to identify priority interventions in Uganda.

Gender impacts exposure and vulnerability to tuberculosis (TB) evidenced by a higher prevalence of both TB disease and missed TB diagnoses among men, who significantly contribute to new TB infections. We present the formative research phase of a study, which used participatory methods to identify gender-specific interventions for systematic screening of TB among men in Uganda. Health facility-level data were collected at four Ugandan general hospitals (Kawolo, Gombe, Mityana and Nakaseke) among 70 TB stakeholders, including healthcare workers, TB survivors, policymakers and researchers.

Reasons for mosquito net non-use in malaria-endemic countries: A review of qualitative research published between 2011 and 2021.

Mosquito nets, particularly insecticide-treated nets, are the most recommended method of malaria control in endemic countries. However, individuals do not always have access to insecticide-treated nets or use them as recommended. The current paper expands on a previous review published in 2011 which highlighted a need for more qualitative research on the reasons for mosquito net non-use.