Community-Based

Community-based misoprostol for the prevention of post-partum haemorrhage: A narrative review of the evidence base, challenges and scale-up

Karen Hobday
Jennifer Hulme
Suzanne Belton
Caroline SE Homer
Ndola Prata
Jennifer Hulme
2017

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal targets for 2030 will requirepersistent investment and creativity in improving access to quality healthservices, including skilled attendance at birth and access to emergencyobstetric care. Community-based misoprostol has been extensivelystudied and recently endorsed by the WHO for the prevention of post-partum haemorrhage. There remains little consolidated information aboutexperience with implementation and scale-up to date. This narrativereview of the literature aimed to identify the political processes leading toWHO endorsement of misoprostol for...

Partner Support for Family Planning and Modern Contraceptive Use in Luanda, Angola

Ndola Prata
Suzanne Bell
Ashley Fraser
Adelaide Carvalho
Isilda Neves
d Benjamin Nieto-Andrade
2017

Husband‘s/partner‘s support for family planning may influence a women‘s modern contraceptive use. Socio-demographic factors, couple communication about family planning, and fertility preferences are known to play a role in contraceptive use. We conducted logistic regression analysis to investigate the relationship between perceived husband‘s/partner‘s approval and husband‘s/partner‘s encouragement of modern contraceptive use, adjusting for socio-demographic factors and recent couple communication about family planning. We also examined mediating roles potentially played by perceived...

Bio-mechanical risk factors for uterine prolapse among women living in the hills of west Nepal: A case-control study.

Hridaya Raj Devkota
Tula Ram Sijali
Carisa Harris
Dirgha J Ghimire
Ndola Prata
Michael N Bates
2020

Objective: To investigate whether heavy load carrying, wearing a patuka, and body position at work are risk factors for uterine prolapse among Nepali women.

Methods: Community-based case-control study of 448 women (170 cases of uterine prolapse; 278 controls) aged 18-60 years in Kaski district, Nepal was conducted. Women diagnosed with uterine prolapse were cases. Two controls were recruited for each case, frequency-matched by residential area and age. Multivariate logistic regression was used to investigate associations between outcome and...

The association between perceived neighborhood social cohesion and intimate partner violence in a refugee camp in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia

Rebecca Hailu Astatke
Theodros Woldegiorgis
Jennifer Scott
Ndola Prata
Kim G Harley
Negussie Deyessa
Anne Bennett
Vandana Sharma
2025

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of gender-based violence affecting women and girls worldwide and is exacerbated in humanitarian settings. There is evidence that neighborhood social processes influence IPV. Perceived neighborhood social cohesion (P-NSC)-a measure of community trust, attachment, safety, and reciprocity-may be protective against women's experience of and men's perpetration of IPV and controlling behaviors.

Methods: A quantitative social network study, comprised of individual verbally-administered...

Revisiting community-based distribution programs: are they still needed?

Ndola Prataa
Farnaz Vahidniaa
Malcolm Pottsa
Ingrid Dries-Daffnerb
2005

Community-based distribution (CBD) programs are the optimum way of reaching people in rural areas of developing countries where conventional methods of delivery do not exist or fail. CBD programs are needed to meet the needs for contraception in rural communities and isolated city neighborhoods in developing countries.

Community-based distribution (CBD) programs are the optimum way of reaching people in rural areas of developing countries where conventional methods of delivery do not exist or fail. This paper reviews findings and experiences from over 30 years of efforts to...