OBJECTIVE To identify potential barriers to patient safety (PS) interventions from the perspective of surgical team members working in an operating theatre in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). DESIGN In-depth interviews were conducted and analysed using qualitative content analysis. SETTING Governmental referral teaching hospital in Eastern DRC. PARTICIPANTS We purposively selec...

This paper examines men's lifetime physical intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration across eight low- and middle-income countries to better understand key risk factors that interventions can target in order to promote gender equality and reduce IPV. We use data from men (n = 7806) that were collected as part of the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) in Bosnia and Herzego...

In Lubumbashi, the capital of Haut Katanga in Democratic Republic Congo (DR Congo), diesel power plants are a common source electricity. The need to utilize local renewable energy sources DR has increased due unreliability state grid and rising cost running generators. Solar photovoltaic (PV) panels batteries, particular, have recently recorded significant price drops. It is important for opera...

A systematic and contextualized assessment of the interactions between Sustainable Development Goals health in Democratic Republic Congo is currently lacking. This study aimed to characterize classify linkages DRC with a focus on well-being. In this semi-qualitative participatory study, 35 experts assessed 240 16 17 SDGs during two-day workshop Kinshasa, Congo, using scale from +3 (strongly pro...

There are instances when simple technological fixes can have amajor public health impact. For example, investments by the U.S. government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (and others) to facilitate widespread use of effective vaccines have undoubtedly made an important contribution to reducing the burden of child deaths in low-income countries. But, more commonly in global health, the de...

BACKGROUND Measles is a significant contributor to child mortality in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), despite routine immunization programs and supplementary immunization activities (SIA). Further, national immunization coverage levels may hide disparities among certain groups of children, making effective measles control even more challenging. This study describes measles vaccinati...

OBJECTIVE To determine current data on HIV infection and to document changes and trends of HIV seroprevalence in selected populations over time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC; former Zaïre). METHODS In February 1997, a large serosurvey was conducted on selected population groups from Kinshasa (capital city), Mbuji-May (southeast) and Bwamanda (northwest). Samples obtained from p...

BACKGROUND In order to prevent outbreaks from wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus, maintenance of population immunity in non-endemic countries is critical. METHODS We estimated population seroprevalence using dried blood spots collected from 4893 children 6-59months olds in the 2013-2014 Demographic and Health Survey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). RESULTS Population immunity...

CONTEXT Despite the commitment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to expand the family planning method mix and increase access to services, awareness of emergency contraception is low among women, and the method remains underused and poorly integrated in family planning programming. METHODS Data from 15 focus group discussions conducted in 2016 among women aged 15-35 were used to e...

BACKGROUND Over half of displaced civilians in humanitarian emergencies are children, and these settings pose unique threats to children's safety with long-lasting consequences. Our study broadens the limited evidence on violence against adolescent girls in emergencies by estimating prevalence and predictors of violence among adolescent girls aged 13-14 in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the...