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 …
This study describes the fertility intentions and discusses the potential reproductive health needs of post-natal HIV-infected Ugandan women. HIV-infected mothers attending post-natal services in Kampala, Uganda participated in this cross-sectional …
Gutman J.R.,
Thwing J.,
Mwesigwa J.,
McElroy P.,
Robertson M.
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Most monitoring and evaluation tools for measuring malaria burden, intervention coverage, and impact of interventions use periodic nationally representative cross-sectional household surveys. These provide advantages in terms of selecting a …
Background and Purpose: The purpose of this article is to test the requirement of âlocal independenceâ in the newly developed âMaternal Health Literacyâ (MaHeLi) composite scale measuring health literacy in …
Background: Use of multivitamin supplements during the pre-HAART era has been found to reduce viral load, enhance immune response, and generally improve clinical outcomes among HIV-infected adults. However, immune reconstitution …
Guwatudde D,
Adebamowo C,
Adami HO,
Dalal S,
Bajunirwe F,
Njelekela M,
Nankya-Mutyoba J,
Chiwanga FS,
Volmink J,
Kalyesubula R
and others...
2015
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Hypertension, the leading single cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, is a growing public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Few studies have estimated and compared the burden of …
Manabe Y C,
Guwatudde D,
Bagenda D,
Kyeyune R,
Wamani H,
Wang M,
Ezeamama A E,
Fawzi W W
2015
Journal,
Article
Health Research
AbstractBackground: Efficacy trials investigating the effect of multivitamin (MV) supplementations among patients onHighly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) have so far been inconclusive. We conducted a randomized, doubleblind, placebo controlled trial …
BackgroundHypertension is an important contributor to global burden of disease and mortality, and is a growing public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. However, most sub-Saharan African countries lack detailed countrywide …
Background: Being physically active is associated with lower risk of many noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). We analyzed physical activity (PA) data collected as part of Uganda's countrywide NCD risk factor survey …
Guynn Isabella,
Simon Jessica,
Anderson Seri,
Klaman Stacey L.,
Mullenix Amy,
Cilenti Dorothy,
Hassmiller Lich Kristen
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
ObjectivesSystem Dynamics (SD) is a promising decision support modeling approach for growing shared understanding of complex maternal and child health (MCH) trends. We sought to inventory published applications of SD …
