4 results match your criteria: "Rumphi District Hospital[Affiliation]"
New WHO guidelines for treating rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis: expanded indications for fexinidazole and pentamidine.
Lancet Infect Dis
October 2024
Neglected Tropical Diseases Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Article Synopsis
- - Human African trypanosomiasis is a severe neglected tropical disease that can be fatal without treatment, and the WHO has updated its treatment guidelines after a thorough review.
- - Fexinidazole is now the preferred first-line treatment for patients aged 6 years and over who weigh at least 20 kg, eliminating the need for invasive lumbar punctures for staging the disease.
- - While fexinidazole improves treatment options and reduces the risk of severe side effects from previous medicines, it remains unavailable for children who don't meet the age or weight criteria, making interim use of pentamidine necessary in some cases.
Strategies for scaling up pre-ART advanced HIV disease screening at a secondary referral hospital-Malawi: a qualitative study.
BMC Health Serv Res
August 2024
Department of Public Health, School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Blantyre, Malawi.
Article Synopsis
- The study examines the low implementation of the WHO's recommended Advanced HIV Disease screening in resource-limited settings, noting that over 50% of newly diagnosed HIV clients are not screened due to various barriers.
- Researchers conducted focus group discussions with healthcare providers at a hospital in Malawi to identify strategies that could improve the uptake of this screening.
- They identified 6 primary strategies with high expert endorsement and 4 secondary strategies, focusing on improving resource availability, simplifying the intervention, enhancing access to information, and fostering better communication among healthcare stakeholders.
Nursing students' approaches to learning in selected Malawian nursing schools: a cross-sectional study.
BMC Med Educ
July 2024
School of Nursing, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS), Lilongwe, Malawi.
Background: Students' approaches to learning are of essence in nursing education. This is because nursing is a profession where classroom learning leads to clinical performance. Although the literature recognizes student's approaches to learning as a significant aspect affecting the quality of students' learning, studies suggest that quality of learning has not been highly achieved in Malawian nursing colleges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntibiotic use and resistance patterns at Rumphi District Hospital in Malawi: a cross-sectional study.
BMC Infect Dis
April 2024
Ministry of Health, Rumphi District Hospital, Rumphi, Malawi.
Background: Overuse of antibiotics is a key driver of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) world-wide. Malawi continues to report rising cases of AMR among both in-patients and out-patients. We investigated antibiotic use and resistance patterns among patients with suspected first line antibiotic treatment failure at Rumphi District Hospital, Malawi.
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