Rethinking how to promote maternity care-seeking: factors associated with institutional delivery in Guinea.

This article presents findings from a study on women's delivery care-seeking in two regions of Guinea. We explored exposure to interventions promoting birth preparedness and complication readiness among women with recent live births and stillbirths. Using multivariate regression models, we identified factors associated with women's knowledge and practices related to birth preparedness, as well as their use of health facilities during childbirth.

Health seeking behaviour, health system experience and tuberculosis case finding in Gambians with cough.

Background: Studies in Africa investigating health-seeking behaviour by interviewing tuberculosis patients have revealed patient knowledge issues and significant delays to diagnosis. We aimed to study health-seeking behaviour and experience of those with cough in The Gambia and to identify whether they had tuberculosis.

Methods: During a round of a population under 3-monthly demographic surveillance, we identified people >10 years old who had been coughing > or = 3 weeks.