Thorkild Tylleskär

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ID2328647
NOMBREThorkild Tylleskär
NOMBRESThorkild
APELLIDOTylleskär
FIRMATYLLESKÄR T
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Bergen
ORCID0000-0003-4801-4324
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS51
TOTAL DE CITAS11
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1998
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Acceptability of alcohol-based hand rub during neonatal care in rural Ugandan households

    Open AccessHeidi H Thorsdalen, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene exacerbates the spread of infections among newborns. The BabyGel cluster randomised trial assessed the effectiveness of a community-level alcohol-based hand rub with a training component in reducing infection or death rates among newborns in Uganda. OBJECTIVE: Nested in the BabyGel trial, this study investigated the acceptability of the BabyGel intervention among mothers and household membe…

  • Overweight, obesity and physical inactivity among women of reproductive age in Eastern Nepal

    Open AccessPrabina Bhattarai, Abhinav Vaidya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Overweight, obesity, and physical inactivity have become more common in Nepal. The prevalence of overweight/obesity is higher among women than men, while the prevalence of physical activity is not well studied. This study aimed to understand the prevalence of overweight/obesity and physical inactivity among women of reproductive age in Eastern Nepal. We conducted a community-based cross-sectional study among women of reproductive age (18-49 years…

  • Term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda

    Open AccessMartin Chebet, Peter Olupot‐Olupot et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    BACKGROUND: Every year, 1.9 million stillbirths occur worldwide, of whom 1.5 million occur in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Southeast Asia. OBJECTIVES: This study aims to determine the incidence and risk factors and to describe underlying causes for term stillbirths in Eastern Uganda. METHODS: This was a cohort study of pregnant women enrolled at 34 weeks of gestation or more and followed to birth between January 2021 and January 2024. Enrolment a…

  • Facility capacity and provider knowledge for cholera surveillance and diarrhoea case management in cholera hotspots in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a mixed-methods study

    Open AccessMattias Schedwin, Aurélie Bisumba Furaha et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: Wider healthcare-strengthening interventions are recommended in cholera hotspots and could benefit other types of diarrhoeal diseases which contribute to greater mortality than cholera. OBJECTIVE: Describe facility capacity and provider knowledge for case management of diarrhoea and cholera surveillance in cholera hotspots in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among health facilities, drug shops, and traditional health practitione…

  • HIV Disclosure to Infected Children Involving Peers

    Open AccessFaustin Kitetele, Wenche Dageid et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    Appropriately informing HIV-infected children of their diagnosis is a real challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. Until now, there is no consensus on who ought to disclose and how to disclose. This paper describes the model for HIV status disclosure in which HIV-positive children/adolescents are informed about their diagnosis in a process conducted by young peers under healthcare worker (HCW) supervision in a hospital in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republ…

  • Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries: response

  • Questioning the ethics of international research on formula milk supplementation in low-income African countries

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    Over the past three decades, the increase \nin funding for priority public health issues \nlargely affecting low/middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to the growth in international research involving researchers \nor research sponsors from a high-income \ncountry (HIC) conducting research in \nLMICs. The ethical considerations in such \ninternational research were raised in the \n1990s and several ethical guidelines specifically addressing int…

  • Lessons Learned from the Impact of HIV Status Disclosure to Children after First-Line Antiretroviral Treatment Failure in Kinshasa, DR Congo

    Open AccessFaustin Kitetele, Gilbert M Lelo et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    HIV status disclosure to children remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. For sociocultural reasons, parents often delay disclosure with subsequent risks to treatment compliance and the child’s psychological well-being. This article assesses the effects of HIV disclosure on second-line ART compliance after first-line failure. We conducted a retrospective study of 52 HIV-positive children at Kalembelembe Pediatric Hospital in Kinshasa who were …

  • The Peer Educator Is the Game-Changer of My Life”

    Open AccessFaustin Kitetele, Gilbert M Lelo et al.ARTICLEChildren2022

    Several approaches to the disclosure of HIV status to children and adolescents have been described. Each of these places particular emphasis on the role of parents and health care workers (HCWs) to mitigate the impact of disclosure on the adolescent without exploring the possible roles that other individuals might play in the process of disclosure. This article assesses the perceptions of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) about disclosure done …

  • Incidence and Risk Factors for Low Birthweight and Preterm Birth in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda

    Open AccessBeatrice Odongkara, Victoria Nankabirwa et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Background: Annually, an estimated 20 million (13%) low-birthweight (LBW) and 15 million (11.1%) preterm infants are born worldwide. A paucity of data and reliance on hospital-based studies from low-income countries make it difficult to quantify the true burden of LBW and PB, the leading cause of neonatal and under-five mortality. We aimed to determine the incidence and risk factors for LBW and preterm birth in Lira district of Northern Uganda. M…

  • Where Are the Newly Diagnosed HIV Positives in Kenya? Time to Consider Geo-Spatially Guided Targeting at a Finer Scale to Reach the “First 90”

    Open AccessAnthony Waruru, Joyce Wamicwe et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Background: The UNAIDS 90-90-90 Fast-Track targets provide a framework for assessing coverage of HIV testing services (HTS) and awareness of HIV status – the “first 90.” In Kenya, the bulk of HIV testing targets are aligned to the five highest HIV-burden counties. However, we do not know if most of the new HIV diagnoses are in these five highest-burden counties or elsewhere. Methods: We analyzed facility-level HTS data in Kenya from 1 October 201…

  • Perinatal death in Northern Uganda

    Open AccessAnna Agnes Ojok Arach, James Tumwine et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    The incidence of perinatal death in this region was higher than had previously been reported in Uganda. Risk factors for perinatal mortality were nulliparity and maternal age >30 years. Pregnant women in this region need improved access to care during pregnancy and childbirth

  • Longitudinal Follow-Up of Blood Telomere Length in HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children Having Received One Year of Lopinavir/Ritonavir or Lamivudine as Prophylaxis

    Open AccessAudrey Monnin, Amélie Vizeneux et al.ARTICLEChildren2021

    Telomere shortening can be enhanced upon human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and by antiretroviral (ARV) exposures. The aim of this study was to evaluate the acute and long-term effect on telomere shortening of two ARV prophylaxes, lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r) and lamivudine (3TC), administered to children who are HIV-exposed uninfected (CHEU) to prevent HIV acquisition through breastfeeding during the first year of life, and to investiga…

  • I am not only beneficial to the community but to the entire country, I am trained as a researcher now’

    Open AccessAnne Hatløy, Silondile Luthuli et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2021

    Partnerships between Higher Education Institutions in the global South and North have potential for building capacity in public health research in low-resource countries. We present experiences of partners involved in a North-South-South partnership between universities in Norway, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Africa. The partnership aimed to establish a postgraduate programme in nutritional epidemiology at the University of Ki…

  • Health care provided to recent asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking pediatric patients in 2016 and 2017 at a Swiss tertiary hospital - a retrospective study

    Open AccessJulia Brandenberger, Christian Pohl et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Hospital visits by asylum-seeking children represented a small proportion of all visits. The emergency department had the highest number of visits in all patients but was less frequently used by asylum-seeking children. Frequent care suggests that asylum-seeking patients also present with more complex diseases. Further studies are needed, focusing on asylum-seeking children with medical complexity

  • Adding video-debriefing to Helping-Babies-Breathe training enhanced retention of neonatal resuscitation knowledge and skills among health workers in Uganda

    Open AccessBeatrice Odongkara, Thorkild Tylleskär et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    BACKGROUND: Skilled birth attendants must be competent to provide prompt resuscitation to save newborn lives at birth. Both knowledge and skills (competence) decline with time after training but the optimal duration for refresher training among frontline-skilled birth attendants in low-resource settings is unknown. OBJECTIVES: We assessed the effect of an innovative Helping-Babies-Breathe simulation-based teaching method using video-debriefing co…

  • Exclusive breastfeeding among HIV exposed infants from birth to 14 weeks of life in Lira, Northern Uganda

    Open AccessAgnes Napyo, James Tumwine et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2020

    BACKGROUND: Breastfeeding is important for growth, development and survival of HIV exposed infants. Exclusive breastfeeding reduces the risk of morbidity, mortality and increases HIV free survival of infants. Evidence on risk factors for inappropriate breastfeeding in Northern Uganda is limited. OBJECTIVE: This study determined the risk factors for non-exclusivity of breastfeeding in the first 14 weeks of life. METHODS: This prospective cohort st…

  • Preventable admissions and emergency-department-visits in pediatric asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients

    Open AccessJulia Brandenberger, Kayvan Bozorgmehr et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2020

    Admissions due to ambulatory-care-sensitive conditions are comparable in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking children, suggesting few delayed presentations to ambulatory care facilities. Strategies to prevent non-urgent visits at pediatric emergency department facilities are needed

  • A systematic literature review of reported challenges in health care delivery to migrants and refugees in high-income countries - the 3C model

    Open AccessJulia Brandenberger, Thorkild Tylleskär et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

  • Breastfeeding advice for reality

    Open AccessTanya Doherty, Christiane Horwood et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Breastfeeding education and support are critical health worker skills. Confusion surrounding infant feeding advice linked to the HIV epidemic has reduced the confidence of health workers to support breastfeeding. High antiretroviral therapy coverage of breastfeeding women living with HIV, and an Infant Feeding policy supportive of breastfeeding, now provides an opportunity to improve breastfeeding practices. Challenges remain in restoring health …

  • An educational intervention to update health workers about HIV and infant feeding

    Open AccessChristiane Horwood, Lyn Haskins et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Nutrition2019

    Clinical guidelines are used to translate research findings into evidence-based clinical practice but are frequently not comprehensively adopted by health workers (HWs). HIV and infant feeding guidelines were revised by the World Health Organization to align feeding advice for HIV-exposed and unexposed infants, and these were adopted in South Africa in 2017. We describe an innovative, team-based, mentoring programme developed to update HWs on the…

  • The Effect of Health Worker Training on Early Initiation of Breastfeeding in South Sudan

    Open AccessJustin Bruno Tongun, James K Tumwine et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Globally, suboptimal breastfeeding contributes to more than 800,000 child deaths annually. In South Sudan, few women breastfeed early. We assessed the effect of a Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative training on early initiation of breastfeeding at Juba Teaching Hospital in South Sudan. We carried out the training for health workers after a baseline survey. We recruited 806 mothers both before and four to six months after training. We used a modifie…

  • Key Decision Makers and Actors in Selected Newborn Care Practices

    Open AccessDavid Mukunya, Victoria Nankabirwa et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Knowledge of key decision makers and actors in newborn care is necessary to ensure that health interventions are targeted at the right people. This was a cross-sectional study carried out in Lira district, Northern Uganda. Multivariable logistic regression was used to determine factors associated with mothers being the key decision maker regarding where to give birth from and when to initiate breastfeeding. Fathers were the key decision makers on…

  • Determinants of Health Facility Utilization at Birth in South Sudan

    Open AccessJustin Bruno Tongun, David Mukunya et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    South Sudan has a high maternal mortality ratio estimated at 800 deaths per 100,000 live births. Birth in health facilities with skilled attendants can lower this mortality. In this cross-sectional study, we determined the level and determinants of health facility utilization and skilled birth attendance in Jubek State, South Sudan. Mothers of children aged less than two years were interviewed in their homes. Multivariable regression analysis was…

  • Prevalence and determinants of pre-lacteal feeding in South Sudan

    Open AccessJustin Bruno Tongun, Mohamedi Boy Sebit et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2018

    BACKGROUND: Pre-lacteal feeding (PLF) is a barrier to optimal breastfeeding and increases the risk of diarrhoea and acute respiratory tract infections in infants.The prevalence and predictors of PLF are not well studied in South Sudan. Understanding the predictors of PLF is crucial in designing interventions to increase exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rates. OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and factors associated with PLF in Jubek State, South S…