Health system and patient-level factors serving as facilitators and barriers to rheumatic heart disease care in Sudan

• Main Authors: Jeffrey G. Edwards (Author), Michele Barry (Author), Dary Essam (Author), Mohammed Elsayed (Author), Mohamed Abdulkarim (Author), Basamat M. A. Elhossein (Author), Zahia H. A. Mohammed (Author), Abdelmunim Elnogomi (Author), Amna S. E. Elfaki (Author), Ahmed Elsayed (Author), Andrew Y. Chang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa despite widely available preventive therapies such as prophylactic benzathine penicillin G (BPG). In this study, we sought to characterize facilitators and barriers to optimal R...