Tracing Makerere Universityâs 100 yearsâ contribution to lung science/medicine

Dear Editor, African Health Sciences Journal, This year, 2022, Makerere University will be celebrating 100 years of existence. As current lung science/medicine experts, we felt it as important to trace …

National health research systems in the WHO African Region: current status and the way forward

MEDLINE Abstract: BACKGROUND:<BR>A number of resolutions of the World Health Assembly and the WHO Regional Committee for Africa call upon African countries and their development partners to make the required …

The in vitro antimycobacterial activity of medicinal plants used by traditional medicine practitioners (TMPs) to treat tuberculosis in the Lake Victoria basin in Uganda

Using Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Complex Whole Genomes and Blood Biomarkers to Study Tuberculosis Transmission

Background: There were over 10.0 million cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the world in 2018, a number that has been relatively stable in recent years. The burden of the disease …

Variation in the Human Leukocyte Antigen system and risk for endemic Burkitt lymphoma in northern Uganda

Endemic Burkitt lymphoma (eBL) is an aggressive childhood B-cell lymphoma associated with Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infections. Variation in the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) system is …

Prevalence, short term outcome and factors associated with survival in patients suffering from upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a resource limited-setting, the case of Mulago hospital in Kampala, Uganda

Background: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB) is a common cause of admission and death in the gastroenterology service. The prevalence, risk factors and the case fatality rate of UGIB may differ …

Response to anti-tuberculosis treatment by people over age 60 in Kampala, Uganda

While old age is a known risk factor for developing active tuberculosis (TB), studies on TB in the population aged 60 years and older (considered elderly in this study) are …

A four-year trend in pulmonary bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis case detection in Kampala-Uganda

BackgroundThe management and control of pulmonary bacteriologically confirmed (PBC) tuberculosis (TB) also known as infectious TB is important not only to monitor for resistance but also to check for severity, …

Health, Human Capital, and Behavior Change: Essays in Development Microeconomics

This dissertation combines three empirical studies of household behaviors as they relate to investment in health and human capital in developing countries. The first explores how changes in children's nutrition …

Composition of Household Income and Child Nutrition Outcomes Evidence from Uganda

This study targets the empirical space between cross-country analyses exploring links between income and nutrition without insights on micro-level determinants, and relevant microeconomic studies hindered by small sample size and/or …