Getting Up to Date with What Works: A Systematic Review on the Effectiveness and Safety of Task Sharing of Modern Methods in Family Planning Services.

Objective: This systematic review was conducted to provide up-to-date evidence on the safety and effectiveness of task sharing in the delivery of modern contraceptives. . The review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.

Barriers to the implementation of quality maternal death reviews in health districts in Burkina Faso.

Objective: To identify barriers to the implementation of maternal death reviews in health districts in Burkina Faso.

Methods: We conducted a multiple case study in seven health facilities chosen by contrasted purposive sampling. Sampling criteria were based on intrahospital maternal mortality rates and the location of the health facility.

Assessment of the maternal death surveillance and response implementation process in Burkina Faso.

Objective: To evaluate the maternal death surveillance and response (MDSR) implementation process in two health districts in Burkina Faso and identify factors that have affected implementation.

Methods: We conducted a case study in two health districts selected by purposive sampling according to location (rural or urban) during the period 2015-2016. Data gathering consisted of semi-structured interviews with several health personnel involved in the implementation process.

Maternal and neonatal death surveillance and response in Liberia: An assessment of the implementation process in five counties.

Objective: To evaluate the implementation of the maternal and neonatal death surveillance and response (MNDSR) system at county level in Liberia.

Methods: Secondary analysis of data from a cross-sectional study carried out in March 2016, using both quantitative and qualitative methods to collect data in five counties based on set criteria. Three health facilities were selected in each county through the Health Management Information System (HMIS) by random sampling.

Low prevalence of HIV infection among persons with disabilities in Niger: findings from a household-based cross-sectional study in 2018.

The aim of this work was to report for the first time the prevalence of HIV infection among people with disabilities (PWDs) in Niger. The Washington Group Short questionnaire was used to identify people with disabilities during a household survey. Blood samples for HIV testing were collected using the Dried Blood Sampling (DBS) method.

Prevalence and risk factors of violence among persons with disabilities in Burkina Faso.

This study aimed to analyse factors associated with violence against people with disabilities in Burkina Faso. This is a secondary analysis of data from cross-sectional study among people with disability with Grade 3-4 between 15 and 65 years of age. The prevalence of violence was 13.

Evaluation of the quality of maternal death review cycles in Burkina Faso.

Objective: To assess the quality of the maternal death review (MDR) cycle in selected health facilities in Burkina Faso in accordance with national standards.

Methods: A multiple case study using a qualitative approach performed in five health districts and two regional hospital centers in Burkina Faso. The facilities were chosen by contrasted purposive sampling based on hospital maternal mortality rate and urban or rural location.

Determinants of childbirth care quality along the care continuum in limited resource settings: A structural equation modeling analysis of cross-sectional data from Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.

Introduction: Despite the important increase in in-facility births, perinatal mortality rates have remained high and slow to decrease in many developing countries. This situation is attributed to poor childbirth care quality. The reason why women delivering in health facilities do not always receive care of an adequate standard is unclear.

Effectiveness of the World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist (WHO-SCC) in preventing poor childbirth outcomes: a study protocol for a matched-pair cluster randomized control trial.

Background: Women delivering in health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa and their newborns do not always receive proven interventions needed to prevent and/or adequately manage severe complications. The gaps in quality of care are increasingly pointed out as major contributing factor to the high and slow declining perinatal mortality rates. The World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist (WHO-SCC), as a quality improvement strategy, targets low cost and easy to perform interventions and suits well with the context of limited resource settings.

Yam Daabo interventions' effects on postpartum family planning use in Burkina Faso at 24 months after childbirth.

Introduction: After testing the interventions for improving the prevalence of contraceptive use, very few studies have measured the long-term effects thereafter the end of the implementation. This study aimed to measure Yam Daabo interventions' effects on contraceptive use in Burkina Faso at twelve months after completion of the intervention.

Methods: Yam Daabo was a two-group, multi-intervention, single-blind, cluster randomized controlled trial.

Blood transfusion requirements among children with severe malarial anemia: a cross-sectional study in a second level reference hospital in Burkina Faso.

Introduction: blood transfusion (BT) is an important part of pediatrics healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa because of anemia due to malaria, malnutrition and hereditary anomalies of red blood cells. However, BT services experienced chronic blood shortage, unsafe blood products and poor procedures of clinical use of blood. This results in inadequate management of severe anemia.

Discontinuation and switching of postpartum contraceptive methods over twelve months in Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of the Congo: a secondary analysis of the Yam Daabo trial.

Introduction: Women who use contraceptive methods sometimes stop early, use methods intermittently, or switched contraceptive methods. All these events (discontinuations and switching) contribute to the occurrence of unwanted and close pregnancies. This study aimed to explore contraceptive discontinuation and switching during the Yam-Daabo project to measure the effect of interventions on the continuation of contraceptive methods use.

Prevalence and risk factors for overweight and obesity: a cross-sectional countrywide study in Burkina Faso.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and predictors of overweight and obesity in Burkina Faso using a population-based countrywide sample. We hypothesise that there is a significant burden related to overweight/obesity in Burkina Faso.

Design: Secondary analysis of a population-based countrywide cross-sectional study.

Feasibility study on the adoption of the WHO safe childbirth checklist by front-line healthcare providers and managers in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.

Background: The World Health Organization Safe Childbirth Checklist tool was specifically designed for developing countries such as sub-Saharan African countries, to ensure safety and security of the couple mother and newborn around the time of childbirth. However, the implementation of the Safe Childbirth Checklist tool requires a good knowledge of the context setting to face challenges. Our study objectives were (1) to assess the acceptability of the WHO SCC tool and (2) to identify conditions and strategies for a better introduction and use of the WHO SSC tool.

Quality of maternal and newborn care in limited-resource settings: a facility-based cross-sectional study in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire.

Objective: To assess and compare the quality of intrapartum and immediate postpartum care across levels of healthcare in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire using validated process indicators.

Design: Health facility-based cross-sectional study with direct observation of healthcare workers' practices while caring for mother-newborn pairs during intrapartum and immediate postpartum periods.

Setting: Primary healthcare facilities and their corresponding referral hospitals in the Central-North region in Burkina Faso and the Agneby-Tiassa-Mé region in Côte d'Ivoire.

Seroprevalence and factors associated with IgG anti-DENV positivity in blood donors in Burkina Faso during the 2016 dengue outbreak and implications for blood supply.

Objectives: Our study aimed to update the seroprevalence and factors associated with anti-dengue virus (DENV) antibody positivity among blood donors and to discuss their implications for blood supply.

Background: Questions on the potential transmission of DENV by transfusion increased after the documentation of the risk of transmission of the West Nile virus. This risk was estimated after transfusion of DENV RNA-positive blood units of up to 37.

[Anxiety and depression during chronic renal failure before end stage at the University hospital center Yalgado Ouedraogo of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)].

Aim: We wanted to know the prevalence of depression and anxiety, as well as the associated factors in patients with chronic renal failure in Burkina Faso.

Patients And Methods: This was an analytical cross-sectional study conducted from February to May 2016. We included all adult patients with moderate or severe chronic renal failure.

Tobacco use and associated risk factors in Burkina Faso: results from a population-based cross-sectional survey.

Background: Tobacco is a leading preventable cause of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Studies characterizing the prevalence of tobacco use in low-income countries are lacking. This study describes the prevalence of tobacco use in Burkina Faso and its associated factors.

Task sharing for family planning services, Burkina Faso.

Problem: In Burkina Faso, the coverage of services for family planning is low due to shortage of qualified health staff and limited access to services.

Approach: Following the launch of the Ouagadougou Partnership, an alliance to catalyse the expansion of family planning services, the health ministry created a consortium of family planning stakeholders in 2011. The consortium adopted a collaborative framework to implement a pilot project for task sharing in family planning at community and primary health-care centre levels in two rural districts.