Effectiveness of a Home-Based Counselling Strategy on Neonatal Care and Survival: A Cluster-Randomised Trial in Six Districts of Rural Southern Tanzania.

We report a cluster-randomised trial of a home-based counselling strategy, designed for large-scale implementation, in a population of 1.2 million people in rural southern Tanzania. We hypothesised that the strategy would improve neonatal survival by around 15%.In 2010 we trained 824 female voluntee...

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Main Authors: Claudia Hanson, Fatuma Manzi, Elibariki Mkumbo, Kizito Shirima, Suzanne Penfold, Zelee Hill, Donat Shamba, Jennie Jaribu, Yuna Hamisi, Seyi Soremekun, Simon Cousens, Tanya Marchant, Hassan Mshinda, David Schellenberg, Marcel Tanner, Joanna Schellenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-09-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4587813?pdf=render