Despite having the National HIV and AIDS Strategy (2015 - 2020) with the 90-90-90 2020 target, almost 50% of ALWH do not adhere to their treatment in Malawi. It is evident that the ALWH’s perception towards treatment ...
Malnutrition is responsible for 35% of deaths among children under five years of age globally (Black et al., 2008). In 2013, an estimated 2.9 million children under-five were admitted globally for treatment of severe acute ...
about 93 million children have disabilities. Early identification of developmental disabilities (DDs) and application of measures to habilitate the affected can help such children reach their full prospective. Clinicians ...
Family involvement has been recognized as the standard of care in caring for children with chronic illnesses. Studies have suggested that family involvement in child’s care increases family understanding of the child’s ...
Malnutrition continues to be a major public health problem worldwide including Malawi as it leads to high morbidity and mortality rate in children less than five years. At Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), malnutrition ...
Child physical abuse is a serious public health problem because of its association with poor child health outcomes. Effective identification and reporting of child physical abuse is critical to break cycles of physical ...
Parental participation is regarded as an essential element of the quality of care for hospitalised children, and is the main element of Family Centered Care (FCC). Parental participation has been perceived significant in ...
Dehydration is a major cause of child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. In Zambia child mortality rate from diarrhoea is 68 deaths per 1,000 live births despite implementation of child survival interventions. A descriptive ...
Childhood anaemia is a major health burden which contributes to underfive morbidity and mortality in Malawi. It is estimated that 63% of children in Malawi have anaemia, however, anaemia is preventable. The purpose of this ...
Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV are growing up to adulthood. Data from the Rainbow Clinic in 2015 indicated that there were 94 adolescents growing up with perinatally acquired HIV accessing services at the hospital. ...
A child’s illness and admission in hospital is stressful and negatively affects the child, caregivers and the family. The stress is further exacerbated when a child is critically ill and has been admitted in an Intensive ...
Parental involvement in neonatal pain management is an area that is receiving attention under neonatal pain care worldwide because parents can provide non-pharmacological pain management interventions (NPPMI) like therapeutic ...
The impairment of cortical connectivity involving the afferent and efferent pathways in hydrocephalus usually leads to cortical pathway dysfunction. Consequently, in most of the affected children the dysfunction is permanent ...
Many HIV-infected infants and children die from HIV/AIDS without HIV diagnosis or treatment. All HIV-exposed infants at the age of 4-6 weeks should receive a diagnostic test for DNA-PCR and early initiation of ART among ...
Literature in the Sub Saharan Africa indicates that, delivery of quality care during follow up period for HIV exposed children is poor leading to high rates of loss to follow up. According to national statistics of 2015 ...
The advent of Anti-retrovirals (ARV), a life longing drug, has enabled more and more children with perinatally acquired Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to reach adolescence, a situation which was not anticipated. These ...
Background: Severe malaria, the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa and Asia causes imminent death in an under-five child if left unattended to. As such provision of timely, quality care to this age-group ...
In urban Malawi, road traffic injuries (RTIs) in children are on the increase, and yet there
are no studies that have been conducted to explore the risk and prevention strategies for childhood RTIs. This study explored ...
Mothers of children admitted in the paediatric general wards at Kamuzu Central Hospital are allowed to stay with their children in the ward and take part in caring for their children. When a child is very sick and requires ...
Pediatric pain is a neglected area in child health, particularly in low resource settings. All
health workers poorly manage pain in children generally. Since Nurses are the closest
health workers to the patient their ...