Fredrick Kateera

Biographic Data

ID7753957
NAMEFredrick Kateera
GIVEN NAMESFredrick
FAMILY NAMEKateera
SIGNATUREKATEERA F
AFFILIATIONSPartners In Health
ORCID0000-0002-6363-5180
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Perioperative outcomes at three rural Rwandan district hospitals

    Open AccessGrace Umutesi, Jocelyn Mizero et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: The paucity of data on perioperative outcomes in low- and middle-income countries complicates the design and implementation of targeted interventions to improve the delivery of safe, affordable, accessible and timely surgical and anaesthesia care services. We assessed perioperative outcomes of patients undergoing surgical care at three Rwandan rural hospitals-Butaro District Hospital, Kirehe District Hospital and Rwinkwavu District …

  • Image-based surgical site infection algorithms to support home-based post-cesarean monitoring

    Open AccessBarnabas Tobi Alayande, Siona Prasad et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

  • MHealth-community health worker telemedicine intervention for surgical site infection diagnosis

    Open AccessTheoneste Nkurunziza, Wendy R Williams et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) cause a significant global public health burden in low and middle-income countries. Most SSIs develop after patient discharge and may go undetected. We assessed the feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of an mHealth-community health worker (CHW) home-based telemedicine intervention to diagnose SSIs in women who delivered via caesarean section in rural Rwanda. METHODS: This prospective cohort study includ…

  • The true costs of cesarean delivery for patients in rural Rwanda

    Open AccessAnne Niyigena, Barnabas Tobi Alayande et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2022

    Introduction While it is recognized that there are costs associated with postoperative patient follow-up, risk assessments of catastrophic health expenditures (CHEs) due to surgery in sub-Saharan Africa rarely include expenses after discharge. We describe patient-level costs for cesarean section (c-section) and follow-up care up to postoperative day (POD) 30 and evaluate the contribution of follow-up to CHEs in rural Rwanda. Methods We interviewe…

  • One hundred thirty-three observed Covid-19 deaths in 10 months

    Open AccessClarisse Musanabaganwa, Vincent K Cubaka et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    The African region was predicted to have worse COVID-19 infection and death rates due to challenging health systems and social determinants of health. However, in the 10 months after its first case, Rwanda recorded 10316 cases and 133 COVID-19-related deaths translating to a case fatality rate (CFR) of 1.3%, which raised the question: why does Rwanda have a low COVID-19 CFR? Here we analysed COVID-19 data and explored possible explanations to bet…

  • Cancer care delivery innovations, experiences and challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessGrace Umutesi, Cyprien Shyirambere et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2021

    We would like to thank the Rwandan Ministry of Health, Ministry of Local Government and the Rwanda National Police that promptly responded to and supported the implementation of these different strategies.Additionally, we

  • Knowledge among patients with Hepatitis C initiating on direct-acting antiviral treatment in rural Rwanda

    Open AccessDale A Barnhart, Innocent Kamali et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    BACKGROUND: Curative direct-acting antiviral treatment (DAA) has made it plausible to implement hepatitis C elimination interventions. However, poor hepatitis C knowledge among patients could impede the effectiveness of screening and treatment programs. OBJECTIVE: We assessed knowledge on hepatitis C among rural Rwandans initiating DAA treatment for hepatitis C in a prospective cohort. METHODS: We administered 15 true-false statements before trea…

  • Willingness to Contribute to Bio-Larviciding in the Fight against Malaria

    Open AccessAlexis Rulisa, Luuk Van Kempen et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    There is broad consensus that successful and sustained larval source management (LSM) interventions, including bio-larviciding campaigns, require embeddedness in local community institutions. Ideally, these community structures should also be capable of mobilizing local resources to (co-)finance interventions. To date, farmer cooperatives, especially cooperatives of rice growers whose economic activity facilitates mosquito breeding, have remained…

  • Barriers and coping mechanisms to accessing healthcare during the Covid-19 lockdown

    Open AccessAlphonse Nshimyiryo, Dale A Barnhart et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    A large proportion of chronic care patients experienced barriers to accessing healthcare during the COVID-19 lockdown. However, many patients also independently identified positive coping mechanisms to ensure continuation of care - strategies that could be formally adopted by healthcare systems in Rwanda and similar settings to mitigate effects of future lockdowns on patients

  • Care seeking and treatment for hepatitis C infection in Rwanda

    Open AccessJennifer I Van Nuil, Fabienne Shumbusho et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    An estimated 71 million people live with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and without an effective vaccination, control efforts depend entirely on prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment with direct acting antiviral medication. The experiences of accessing care and treatment, as well as how HCV is locally perceived, are context specific and require an understanding of local epidemics. The objectives of this study were to explore the experiences and dem…

  • Risk factors for stunting among children under five years

    Open AccessAlphonse Nshimyiryo, Ziad El-Khatib et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Family-level factors are major drivers of children's growth stunting in Rwanda. Interventions to improve the nutrition of pregnant and lactating women so as to prevent low birth weight babies, reduce poverty, promote girls' education and intervene early in cases of malnutrition are needed