Afrinest Costing Paper Journal Mars 21
Mars 2021

Costs and cost-effectiveness of management of possible serious bacterial infections in young infants in outpatient settings when referral to a hospital was not possible: Results from randomized trials in Africa

Serious bacterial neonatal infections are a major cause of global neonatal mortality. While hospitalized treatment is recommended, families cannot access inpatient treatment in low resource settings. Two parallel randomized control trials were conducted at five sites in three countries (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Nigeria) to compare the effectiveness of treatment with experimental regimens requiring fewer injections with a reference regimen A (injection gentamicin plus injection procaine penicillin both once daily for 7 days) on the outpatient basis provided to young infants (0–59 days) with signs of possible serious bacterial infection (PSBI) when the referral was not feasible. Costs were estimated to quantify the financial implications of scaleup, and cost-effectiveness of these regimens.

Auteur(s) : Charu C. Garg et al.

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Plos One
Mars 2021

Follow-up of a historic cohort of children treated for severe acute malnutrition between 1988 and 2007 in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Cette publication aborde l’efficacité du traitement de la malnutrition sévère et aigüe chez les enfants mais de la méconnaissance sur les résultats à long terme.

Auteur (s) : Pacifique Mwene-Batu, Ghislain Bisimwa, Gaylord Ngaboyeka, Michelle Dramaix, Jean Macq, Daniel Lemogoum, Philippe Donnen

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