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Enhancing The Education Of Paediatric Nurses: A Positive Step Towards Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, Aimable Nkurunziza, Godfrey Katende, Philomene Uwimana, Patricia J. Moreland

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Aim: The aim of this discursive paper was to describe and expound on how paediatric nurses will be able to address the needs of children and adolescents through the lens of selected Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Rwanda.

Design: A discursive analysis of SDGs relating to the roles of paediatric nurses in the context of Rwanda.

Methods: A discursive method using SDGs as a guiding framework is used in this paper. We drew on our own experiences and supported them with the available literature.

Results: A collection of contextually relevant examples of how paediatric nurses will …

Does Mass Drug Administration Of Azithromycin Reduce Child Mortality?, Samwel Gatimu, Rachel Kimani

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Child mortality remains prevalent in low-income and middle-income countries, with the sub-Saharan Africa region accounting for the largest under-5 mortality rates. Although under-5 mortality rates have significantly decreased, most countries in sub-Saharan Africa with high mortality rates are unlikely to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths by 2030.

Childhood Obesity In Asia: The Value Of Accurate Body Composition Methodology, Andrew P. Hills, Najat Mokhtar, Sharon Brownie, Nuala M. Byrne

School of Nursing & Midwifery, East Africa

Childhood obesity, a significant global public health problem, affects an increasing number of low- and middle-income countries, including in Asia. The obesity epidemic has been fuelled by the rapid nutrition and physical activity transition with the availability of more energy-dense nutrient-poor foods and lifestyles of many children dominated by physical inactivity. During the growing years the pace and quality of grow this best quantified by a combination of anthropometric and body composition measures. However, where normative data are available, this has typically been collected on Caucasian children. To better define and characterise overweight and obesity in Asian children, and to …