BACKGROUND Kenya, like many developing nations, continues to experience high childhood mortality in spite of the many efforts put in place by governments and international bodies to curb it. This study sought to investigate the barriers to accessing healthcare services for children aged less than five years in Butere District, a rural district experiencing high rates of mortality and morbidity ...

BACKGROUND Inequity in access to and use of child and maternal health interventions is impeding progress towards the maternal and child health Millennium Development Goals. This study explores the potential health gains and equity impact if a set of priority interventions for mothers and under fives were scaled up to reach national universal coverage targets for MDGs in Tanzania. METHODS We u...

An efficient, novel bifunctional C2-symmetric ionic liquid–supported (S)-proline organocatalyst 7 was developed for a one-pot, five-component reaction involving ?-keto esters 8, aryl aldehydes 9, and amines 10, affording highly functionalized tetrahydropyridines 11a–o by simultaneous generation of fives bonds two stereogenic centers with extraordinary diastereo- enantioselectivities (up to >...

BACKGROUND Otitis media (OM) is a leading cause of health care visits and drugs prescription. Its complications and sequelae are important causes of preventable hearing loss, particularly in developing countries. Within the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study, for the year 2005 we estimated the incidence of acute OM, chronic suppurative OM, and related hearing loss and m...

Stunting is currently a nutritional problem caused by multifactors and requires multisectoral treatment. The potential of posyandu cadres as drivers the health sector, especially monitoring growth toddlers to increase knowledge skills in helping prevent overcome problems (stunting). stunting partner village (Tawangsari village) shows that provision food (ASI MP-ASI) for infants under-fives not ...