Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda

Nabirye, Christine; Willis, Laurie; Nayiga, Susan; Kayendeke, Miriam; Staedke, Sarah G.; Chandler, Clare I R

doi:10.1080/09581596.2021.1994526

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“…The recognition of antibiotics as a “quick fix” for poor hygiene and other structural issues in systems that find the latter hard(er) to implement has been acknowledged in medical literature for the human health field [ 47 , 48 ] but on the results of our search is not yet as well represented within veterinary and animal management journals.…”

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Transdisciplinary approaches to addressing factors that influence antimicrobial use in dairy cattle: A scoping review

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Transdisciplinary approaches to addressing factors that influence antimicrobial use in dairy cattle: A scoping review

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“…Beyond the framing of the problem of irrational use of medicines among health workers as rooted in the lack of knowledge about optimal use of antimicrobials ( Kamuhabwa & Silumbe, 2013 ), what we observed was health workers tailoring their use of the clinical guidelines (or not) to accommodate their limited training and the lack of resources in their setting as has been observed elsewhere in the use of medicines and technologies ( Boonen et al, 2017 ; Tarrant et al, 2021 , 2020 ). Optimising antibiotic use calls for recognition that clinical guidelines are not received in a vacuum and as such clinical practice is shaped by patterns of resources, health worker training and patient expectations ( Broom et al, 2020 ; Nabirye et al, 2021 ; Yantzi et al, 2019 ) as much as the guidelines. In addition, understanding the logic behind health worker prescription decisions would be key in designing locally relevant stewardship intervention packages.…”

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“…Some elements of global AMR policies such as following a guideline and relying on laboratory diagnoses to guide antibiotic prescription have been shown to be ‘non-scalable’ in low resource-contexts where laboratories are very few ( Cañada, 2021 ). In a context of scarcity, clinical practice is tailored to accommodate deficiencies in the health care system ( MacPherson et al, 2021 ; Nabirye et al, 2021 ; Prince & Otieno, 2014 ), and so health worker practices need to be understood beyond a rubric of ‘noncompliance’. Disseminating clinical guidelines alone is not enough to see a reduction in antibiotic use in healthcare settings.…”

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Reconciling imperatives: Clinical guidelines, antibiotic prescribing and the enactment of good care in lower-level health facilities in Tororo, Uganda

Nayiga

Willis

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Faced with the threat of antimicrobial resistance, health workers are urged to reduce unnecessary prescription of antimicrobials. Clinical guidelines are expected to form the basis of prescribing decisions in practice. Emerging through evaluations of best practice – bundling clinical, technological and economic dimensions – guidelines also create benchmarks through which practice can be assessed with metrics. To understand the relationships between guidelines and practice in the prescribing and dispensing of antibiotics, ethnographic fieldwork was undertaken in lower-level health care facilities in rural Eastern Uganda for 10 months between January and October 2020, involving direct observations during and outside of clinics and interviews with staff. In a context of scarcity, where ‘care’ is characterised by delivery of medicines, and is constituted beyond algorithmic outputs, we observed that clinical practice was shaped by availability of resources, and professional and patient expectations, as much as by the clinical guidelines. For stewardship to care for patients as well as for medicines, a better understanding of clinical practice and expectations of care is required in relation to and beyond clinical guidelines.

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“…Furthermore, BBS had the potential to galvanize local action to improve infrastructure, and illuminated the value of informal options in service delivery. Faced by inequitable access to formal services, residents of these two SSA cities often have to fill the gap left by government and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) by developing "informal" options and practices to access water and sanitation (Maryati et al, 2018;Nabirye et al, 2023). "Formal" and "informal" infrastructure can be distinguished by defining formal as infrastructure linked to governmental and NGO initiatives, and "informal" as alternative infrastructure initiatives that emerge in the communities alongside the formal (Maryati et al, 2018;Nabirye et al, 2023).…”

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Urban Health and Planning in the 21st Century: Bridging Across the Formal and Informal Using an Eco-Social Lens

2024

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Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Transdisciplinary approaches to addressing factors that influence antimicrobial use in dairy cattle: A scoping review

Transdisciplinary approaches to addressing factors that influence antimicrobial use in dairy cattle: A scoping review

Reconciling imperatives: Clinical guidelines, antibiotic prescribing and the enactment of good care in lower-level health facilities in Tororo, Uganda

Urban Health and Planning in the 21st Century: Bridging Across the Formal and Informal Using an Eco-Social Lens

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