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"Every Newborn-INDEPTH" (EN-INDEPTH) study protocol for a randomised comparison of household survey modules for measuring stillbirths and neonatal deaths in five Health and Demographic Surveillance sites

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'As soon as the umbilical cord gets off, the child ceases to be called a newborn': sociocultural beliefs and newborn referral in rural Uganda

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'I never thought that this baby would survive; I thought that it would die any time': perceptions and care for preterm babies in eastern Uganda

scientific article published on 17 August 2010

A Novel Mobile Health Tool for Home-Based Identification of Neonatal Illness in Uganda: Formative Usability Study

scientific article published on 15 August 2019

A structural equation analysis on the relationship between maternal health services utilization and newborn health outcomes: a cross-sectional study in Eastern Uganda.

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Acceptability of evidence-based neonatal care practices in rural Uganda - implications for programming

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Access, acceptability and utilization of community health workers using diagnostics for case management of fever in Ugandan children: a cross-sectional study

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Adherence to standards of quality HIV/AIDS care and antiretroviral therapy in the West Nile Region of Uganda

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Antenatal corticosteroids for preterm births in resource-limited settings

scientific article published in The Lancet

Applying the model of diffusion of innovations to understand facilitators for the implementation of maternal and neonatal health programmes in rural Uganda.

scientific article published on 13 June 2019

Assessment of quality of primary care with facility surveys: a descriptive analysis in ten low-income and middle-income countries

Availability of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention Services in Secondary Schools in Kabarole District, Uganda

scientific article published on 17 August 2015

Bottlenecks in the implementation of essential screening tests in antenatal care: Syphilis, HIV, and anemia testing in rural Tanzania and Uganda

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Call for reviews on global health challenges

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Childbirth experiences and their derived meaning: a qualitative study among postnatal mothers in Mbale regional referral hospital, Uganda

scholarly article by Josephine Namujju et al published 3 November 2018 in Reproductive Health

Childhood diarrhoeal deaths in seven low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on 23 June 2014

Clinical cascades as a novel way to assess physical readiness of facilities for the care of small and sick neonates in Kenya and Uganda

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Community acceptability of use of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria by community health workers in Uganda

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Community and District Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES): a complex district-level management intervention to improve child survival in Uganda: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Community health workers - a resource for identification and referral of sick newborns in rural Uganda

scientific article published on 2 April 2013

Community knowledge and perceptions about indoor residual spraying for malaria prevention in Soroti district, Uganda: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 27 May 2013

Community-based approaches for neonatal survival: meta-analyses of randomized trial data

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Community-made mobile videos as a mechanism for maternal, newborn and child health education in rural Uganda; a qualitative evaluation.

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Comparing performance of methods used to identify pregnant women, pregnancy outcomes, and child mortality in the Iganga-Mayuge Health and Demographic Surveillance Site, Uganda

scientific article published on January 2017

Count every newborn; a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data

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Delayed care seeking for fatal pneumonia in children aged under five years in Uganda: a case-series study

scientific article published on May 2008

Designing for action: adapting and implementing a community-based newborn care package to affect national change in Uganda

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Determinants of facility based–deliveries among urban slum dwellers of Kampala, Uganda

scholarly article by Lestine Bitakwitse Atusiimire et al published 18 April 2019 in PLOS ONE

Differences in essential newborn care at birth between private and public health facilities in eastern Uganda

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Effect of a participatory multisectoral maternal and newborn intervention on birth preparedness and knowledge of maternal and newborn danger signs among women in Eastern Uganda: a quasi-experiment study

scientific article published on August 2017

Effect of a participatory multisectoral maternal and newborn intervention on maternal health service utilization and newborn care practices: a quasi-experimental study in three rural Ugandan districts

scientific article published on August 2017

Effect of the Uganda Newborn Study on care-seeking and care practices: a cluster-randomised controlled trial

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Effective coverage for antiretroviral therapy in a Ugandan district with a decentralized model of care

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Effects of the EQUIP quasi-experimental study testing a collaborative quality improvement approach for maternal and newborn health care in Tanzania and Uganda

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Enablers and barriers to evidence based planning in the district health system in Uganda; perceptions of district health managers

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Enabling dynamic partnerships through joint degrees between low- and high-income countries for capacity development in global health research: experience from the Karolinska Institutet/Makerere University partnership

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Engaging community health workers in maternal and newborn care in eastern Uganda

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Erratum to: Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power (EQUIP): protocol for a quasi-experimental study to improve maternal and newborn health in Tanzania and Uganda

scientific article published on 29 October 2015

Evaluating Global Health Partnerships: A Case Study of a Gavi HPV Vaccine Application Process in Uganda

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Every Newborn: progress, priorities, and potential beyond survival

scientific article published on 19 May 2014

Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power (EQUIP): protocol for a quasi-experimental study to improve maternal and newborn health in Tanzania and Uganda

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Experience of perceived barriers and enablers of safe uninterrupted skin-to-skin contact during the first hour after birth in Uganda

scientific article published on 11 September 2018

Facility readiness in low and middle-income countries to address care of high risk/ small and sick newborns.

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Factors associated with adoption of beneficial newborn care practices in rural Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study

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Factors associated with obstetric fistulae occurrence among patients attending selected hospitals in Kenya, 2010: a case control study

scientific article published on 28 February 2013

Feasibility of a Mobile Health Tool for Mothers to Identify Neonatal Illness in Rural Uganda: Acceptability Study

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

From MDGs to SDGs: Implications for Maternal Newborn Health in Africa

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Health system context and implementation of evidence-based practices-development and validation of the Context Assessment for Community Health (COACH) tool for low- and middle-income settings

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Health system preparedness for newborn care: a health facility assessment in rural Uganda.

scientific article published on 7 July 2014

High compliance with newborn community-to-facility referral in eastern Uganda:.an opportunity to improve newborn survival

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Home visits: a strategy to improve newborn survival

scientific article published in November 2013

How do Ethiopia's health extension workers spend their time?

scientific article published in October 2014

Identifying high‐risk babies born in the community using foot length measurement at birth in Uganda ⬇️

scientific article published on June 11, 2012

Illness recognition and care-seeking for maternal and newborn complications in rural eastern Uganda

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Improving child survival through a district management strengthening and community empowerment intervention: early implementation experiences from Uganda

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Improving newborn care practices through home visits: lessons from Malawi, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Uganda

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Increased use of social autopsy is needed to improve maternal, neonatal and child health programmes in low-income countries

scientific article published in June 2012

Increasing access to institutional deliveries using demand and supply side incentives: early results from a quasi-experimental study

scientific article published in 2011

Introduction of newborn care within integrated community case management in Uganda

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Kangaroo mother care for clinically unstable neonates weighing ≤2000 g: Is it feasible at a hospital in Uganda?

scientific article published in June 2018

Knowledge and care seeking practices for ear infections among parents of under five children in Kigali, Rwanda: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

Knowledge translation in Uganda: a qualitative study of Ugandan midwives' and managers' perceived relevance of the sub-elements of the context cornerstone in the PARIHS framework

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Linking data sources for measurement of effective coverage in maternal and newborn health: what do we learn from individual- vs ecological-linking methods?

scientific article published in June 2018

Low uptake of HIV testing during antenatal care: a population-based study from eastern Uganda

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Maternal and neonatal implementation for equitable systems. A study design paper.

scientific article published on August 2017

Maternal, newborn, and child health and the Sustainable Development Goals--a call for sustained and improved measurement

scientific article published in October 2015

Missed Opportunities: barriers to HIV testing during pregnancy from a population based cohort study in rural Uganda

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Multisectoral approaches to addressing global urban maternal and perinatal health inequities

scientific article published on 3 August 2022

National policies and care provision in pregnancy and childbirth for twins in Eastern and Southern Africa: A mixed-methods multi-country study

Neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm babies during infancy in Eastern Uganda: a prospective cohort study

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Newborn Care Practices among Adolescent Mothers in Hoima District, Western Uganda

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Newborn survival in Uganda: a decade of change and future implications

scientific article published on July 2012

Observation study showed that the continuity of skin-to-skin contact with low-birthweight infants in Uganda was suboptimal

scholarly article by Heather C Watkins et al published 30 March 2018 in Acta Paediatrica

Operationalising the Global Financing Facility (GFF) model: the devil is in the detail

Overview, methods and results of multi-country community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis

scientific article published in October 2017

Perinatal mortality audit: counting, accountability, and overcoming challenges in scaling up in low- and middle-income countries

scientific article published on October 2009

Persisting demand and supply gap for maternal and newborn care in eastern Uganda: a mixed-method cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Poor newborn care practices - a population based survey in eastern Uganda

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Prevalence of Middle Ear Infections and Associated Risk Factors in Children under 5 Years in Gasabo District of Kigali City, Rwanda

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Productive global health research from Africa: it takes more

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Quality of Antenatal care services in eastern Uganda: implications for interventions

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Scaling up antiretroviral therapy in Uganda: using supply chain management to appraise health systems strengthening

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Setting research priorities to improve global newborn health and prevent stillbirths by 2025.

scientific article published on June 2016

Social autopsy: INDEPTH Network experiences of utility, process, practices, and challenges in investigating causes and contributors to mortality

scientific article published on 5 August 2011

Special issue: newborn health in Uganda

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Status of birth and pregnancy outcome capture in Health Demographic Surveillance Sites in 13 countries

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030.

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Strategies for helping families prepare for birth: experiences from eastern central Uganda

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Strengthening health facilities for maternal and newborn care: experiences from rural eastern Uganda

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Strengthening intrapartum and immediate newborn care to reduce morbidity and mortality of preterm infants born in health facilities in Migori County, Kenya and Busoga Region, Uganda: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

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The Context Assessment for Community Health tool - investigating why what works where in low- and middle-income settings.

scientific article published on 7 July 2014

The Uganda Newborn Study (UNEST): an effectiveness study on improving newborn health and survival in rural Uganda through a community-based intervention linked to health facilities - study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 15 November 2012

The conduct of maternal and perinatal death reviews in Oyam District, Uganda: a descriptive cross-sectional study

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The effect of distance to formal health facility on childhood mortality in rural Tanzania, 2005-2007.

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The neonatal mortality and its determinants in rural communities of Eastern Uganda.

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The performance of community health workers in the management of multiple childhood infectious diseases in Lira, northern Uganda - a mixed methods cross-sectional study

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The use of continuous surveys to generate and continuously report high quality timely maternal and newborn health data at the district level in Tanzania and Uganda

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Trends and risk factors of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in Eastern Uganda (1982-2011): a cross-sectional, population-based study

scientific article published on 5 November 2016

Two decades of antenatal and delivery care in Uganda: a cross-sectional study using Demographic and Health Surveys

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Uganda Newborn Study (UNEST) trial: Community-based maternal and newborn care economic analysis

scientific article published on October 2017

Unlocking community capabilities for improving maternal and newborn health: participatory action research to improve birth preparedness, health facility access, and newborn care in rural Uganda

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Using clinical cascades to measure health facilities’ obstetric emergency readiness: testing the cascade model using cross-sectional facility data in East Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Using research priority-setting to guide bridging the implementation gap in countries - a case study of the Uganda newborn research priorities in the SDG era

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Using the three delays model to understand why newborn babies die in eastern Uganda

scientific article published on August 2010

Weeping in silence: community experiences of stillbirths in rural eastern Uganda

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Working with community health workers to improve maternal and newborn health outcomes: implementation and scale-up lessons from eastern Uganda

scientific article published on August 2017

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