Felix Bundala

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ID7941542
NOMBREFelix Bundala
NOMBRESFelix
APELLIDOBundala
FIRMABUNDALA F
AFILIACIONESMinistry of Health, Child Development, Gender, the Elderly and Children, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS5
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR5
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2020
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Availability and functioning of neonatal care units and neonatal mortality across five regions in Tanzania

    Open AccessFelix Bundala, Felix Ambrose Bundala et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: The neonatal mortality rate in Tanzania has remained persistently high, at 24 deaths per 1000 live births. To halve the current death rate by 2030, the WHO recommends that by 2025, at least 80% of districts should have a neonatal care unit (NCU) and use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device for respiratory support, among small and sick newborns. This study describes the availability and functioning of NCUs and facility-b…

  • Facility newborn and stillbirth data use and enabling factors at different levels of the health system

    Open AccessFirehiwot Abathun, Paolo Dalena et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Improving data quality and use is a priority identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce stillbirths and newborn deaths; however, few studies have documented newborn and stillbirth data use in the African Region. To address this gap, we conducted a cross-sectional study from November 2022 to July 2024 in 12 regions and four city administrations across the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. …

  • Functionalities of electronic routine health information systems related to newborn data

    Open AccessMary Ayele, Ilaria Mariani et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2025

    Background: Adequate functionality of electronic routine health information systems (eRHISs) is crucial for data use, yet few studies explored it in relation to newborn and stillbirth data in Africa. Methods: We conducted this cross-sectional study between November 2022 and July 2024 in data offices at central and subnational levels in 12 regions and 4 city administrations in the Central African Republic (CAR), Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Uganda. Exc…

  • Safer Births Bundle of Care” Implementation and Perinatal Impact at 30 Hospitals in Tanzania—Halfway Evaluation

    Open AccessHege Ersdal, Paschal Mdoe et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    Safer Births Bundle of Care (SBBC) consists of innovative clinical and training tools for improved labour care and newborn resuscitation, integrated with new strategies for continuous quality improvement. After implementation, we hypothesised a reduction in 24-h newborn deaths, fresh stillbirths, and maternal deaths by 50%, 20%, and 10%, respectively. This is a 3-year stepped-wedged cluster randomised implementation study, including 30 facilities…

  • Scale-Up of Doppler to Improve Intrapartum Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring in Tanzania

    Open AccessMarya Plotkin, John George et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    High-quality intrapartum care, including intermittent monitoring of fetal heart rates (FHR) to detect and manage abnormalities, is recommended by WHO and the Government of Tanzania (GoT) and creates potential to save newborn lives in Tanzania. Handheld Doppler devices have been investigated in several low-resource countries as an alternative to Pinard stethoscope and are more sensitive to detecting accelerations and decelerations of the fetal hea…