Background:The Ministry of Health is drafting a policy that aims at integrating health services delivery for people above 60 years within the existing delivery structures in Uganda. To inform their …
Hopkins H,
Oyibo W,
Luchavez J,
Mationg ML,
Asiimwe C,
Albertini A,
Gonzalez IJ,
Gatton ML,
Bell D
2011
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are increasingly used by remote health personnel with minimal training in laboratory techniques. RDTs must, therefore, be as simple, safe and reliable as possible. …
Hopkins H,
Asiimwe C,
Bell D,
González I J,
Polley S D,
Angutoko P,
Ategeka J,
Agaba B,
Kyabayinze D J,
Sutherland C J
and others...
2013
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background. Current malaria diagnostic tests, including microscopy and antigen-detecting rapid tests, cannotreliably detect low-density infections. Molecular methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) are highly sensitive but remain too complex …
OBJECTIVESTo examine the impact of use of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria on prescribing of antimicrobials, specifically antibiotics, for acute febrile illness in Africa and Asia.DESIGNAnalysis of nine preselected linked …
A correction to the article "Highly sensitive detection of malaria parasitemia in an endemic setting: Performance of a new LAMP kit in a remote clinic in Uganda" that was published …
Background: Drawing attention to home birth conditions and subsequent neonatal infections is a key starting point to reducing neonatal morbidity which are a main cause of mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.Objectives: …
With only four years left for the Millennium Development Goal's 2015 deadline for reducing poor maternal health outcomes; developing countries are still bearing a huge burden of maternal morbidity worldwide. …
Objectives. Based on our comparative fieldwork in two private fertility clinics in Accra (Ghana) and Kampala (Uganda), we explore the transnational mobility of providers involved in assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) …
The purpose of this article is to explore the concept and scope of public health and to argue that particularly in low income contexts; where social injustice and poverty often …
