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    Perintal survival of infants weighing more thatn 500g whose mothers died in the puerperium before being discharged: a retrospective descriptive study at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg academic hospital from 2003 to 2012
    (2015) Blaise, Bucyibaruta Joy
    A growing body of evidence confirms a slow reduction in neonatal deaths, of which the majority occur in the early neonatal period. The burden of perinatal deaths is heavy in developing countries where the perinatal death rate is about five times higher than its rate in developed countries. Similarly, about 99% of maternal deaths occur in developing countries. However, to the best of our knowledge, little is known about perinatal outcomes of infants born to mothers who die from complications of childbirth. This gap in the existing literature motivated us to undertake the study, which aimed to investigate the perinatal outcomes of infants born to mothers who died from complications of childbirth at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. It consisted of a retrospective study, over a 10 year period, on infants weighing 500 g and more or with gestational age of 22 weeks and above born to mothers who died from complications of childbirth. A sample size of 122 mothers and 128 infants eligible were analysed through quantitative methods. Among these infants, 85 (66.4%) were born alive. The identified top four obstetrical causes of maternal deaths were: non-pregnancy related infections including HIV/AIDS, Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, pre-existing maternal diseases and postpartum haemorrhage. HIV and hypertension accounted for more than 50% of maternal deaths. The findings revealed that emergency caesarean section was high (70%) and the perinatal survival rate was 55%. Maternal parity, Apgar scores at one minute and mode of delivery were identified as the main predictors which were statistically associated with perinatal survival, with correlation coefficient of + 0.7 (P=0.030), + 0.4 (P=0.000) and + 0.1 (P=0.002) respectively. Concerning infants born alive, early neonatal survival rate was 84%. Apgar score at five minutes and maternal parity were the sole predictors that were statistically associated with neonatal outcomes, with correlation coefficient of +0.3 (P=0.000) and + 0.1 (P=0.019). These findings demonstrated that with appropriate labour monitoring, adequate neonatal resuscitation and good perinatal care, the majority of those infants would be born alive with four out of five surviving to hospital discharge.
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    Analysis of acceptability of HIV, TB, and material health services: a case study of a Johannesburg sub-district, South Africa
    (2016) Blaise, Bucyibaruta Joy
    Background: Access to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and maternal health (MH) services in developing countries, including South Africa, remains inadequate and inequitable as cited by some authors including Harris et al. (2011) as well as Silal et al. (2012). The concept of access to health services has evolved significantly over the past years to recognise three dimensions: availability, affordability and acceptability, as put forward by McIntyre et al. (2009). Nevertheless, most published studies on access to HIV, TB and maternal health services have focussed on availability and affordability, leaving acceptability neglected and poorly conceptualized. Objectives: This study aimed at developing an acceptability index to identify and explore factors influencing acceptability of health services using the experiences of patients attending public HIV, TB and Maternal Health care in a sub-district of Johannesburg between 2008 and 2010. Design: Mixed methods were used to analyse secondary data collected as part of the Researching Equity in Access to Health Care (REACH) study. The analysis was guided by a conceptual framework of acceptability comprising three elements - provider, service and community – as suggested by Lucy Gilson (2007). STATA was used for descriptive and inferential analysis of quantitative data. Unit weighted composite scores were used to develop acceptability indices. The p value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. The in-depth interview transcripts were analysed thematically using ‘acceptability themes’ obtained deductively and inductively. The quantitative and qualitative findings were triangulated during discussion of the results. Results: This study analysed 987 patients’ exit interviews, clinical records, self-reporting and 15 in-depth interviews. The results showed that only 23.4% of patients seeking HIV services experienced high overall acceptability. In contrast, overall acceptability was high for most users of the TB (97.3%) and MH (90.1%) tracers. Provider acceptability was consistently high across all the tracers at 97.6% (HIV) 96.6% (TB) and 96.4% (MH). Service acceptability was high only for TB (70.1%). Community acceptability was high for both TB (83.6%) and MH (96.8%) tracers. Patients aged over 40 years were 1.7 times more likely to have HIV-service high acceptability than those aged 40 years and below (p=0.026). The community acceptability decreased by 0.6 unit (p= 0. 003), while the MH-overall acceptability decrease by 0.1 units (p=0.045) when age increased by 1 unit. Male patients were 1.9 times more likely to have HIV-service high acceptability (p=0.023), but 2.5 times less likely to have high community acceptability than female patients (p = 0.029). The individuals from a middle socio-economic class were 26.4 times more likely to have HIV-provider high acceptability (p=0.024), and 7.4 times more likely to have MH-provider high acceptability (p= 0.034) than their poorer counterparts. Staying with three or more adults in the household was associated with high community acceptability for both HIV and MH tracers. Limitations: Lack of control over the questionnaire design, data collection process (secondary data analysis), missing values such as some patients did not have records like CD4 count, VL, ART-support group (for ART service), smear culture results, missing clinical visits, missing taking TB tablets (for TB service), HIV status, Type of delivery, booking status (for MH service) and out-dated data in view of rapid changing policies around HIV, TB and MH services were important barriers. Conclusion: Analysis of different elements of acceptability is necessary to gain better understanding of, and feed evidence into policy for, improving health service acceptability. Various demographic, socio-economic and clinical factors may affect different elements of acceptability. This study noted high overall acceptability of TB and MH services as opposed to low acceptability of ART. This low acceptability of ART could be explained partly by HIV stigma at the time of REACH data collection -though since then the stigma has significantly decreased Further studies integrating all elements of acceptability and recognising the multiple aspects of each element are needed to provide strong evidence to guide health policies and interventions to improve the acceptability of health services.