Background Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing contributes to the generation of drug
resistance worldwide, and is particularly common in China. We assessed the effectiveness …

Background Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing causes widespread serious health
problems. To reduce prescribing of antibiotics in Chinese primary care to children with upper …

Background Achievement of improved maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes continues
to be an issue of international priority, particularly for sub-Saharan African countries such as …

Purpose: Hypospadias has no known single etiology but it has been linked to androgen
insensitivity caused by mutations of the androgen receptor gene. The purpose of this study …

Loss to follow-up (LFU) of≥ 2 consecutive months contributes to the poor levels of treatment
success in multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) reported by TB programmes. We …

Objective To evaluate the impact of the national essential medicines scheme and zero‐mark‐
up policy on antibiotic prescribing behaviour. Methods In rural Guangxi, a natural …

Objective This study aims to assess whether a standard intervention package of
cardiovascular disease (CVD) care was being delivered effectively, and if it was associated …

Background We developed a multifaceted intervention to reduce antibiotic prescription rate
for children with upper respiratory tract infections (URTI s) among primary care doctors in …

Objectives We conducted a qualitative process evaluation embedded in a cluster
randomized controlled trial in rural Guangxi China, which successfully reduced antibiotic …

We describe the frequency of Zika and malaria among patients presenting with fever to
secondary health facilities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Using a cross-sectional, stratified …