What risks may food vendors in urban areas expose the Ugandan population to; A Rapid Response Brief

Background: Street food vending is common in low and middle-income countries like Uganda, providing affordable and convenient food for the growing urban poor. However, it poses health and environmental risks.Rapid …

Living through the pandemic as an older person: Long-term psychological impacts inlow-and middle-income countries

Background: The pandemic has put a huge strain on people's mental health, with varying restrictionsaffecting people's lives. Little is known how the pandemic affects older adults' mental health,particularly those living …

Associations between social support, psychological well-being, decision making, empowerment, infant and young child feeding, and nutritional status in Ugandan children ages 0 to 24months

Maternal capabilitiesqualities of mothers that enable them to leverage skills and resources into child healthhold potential influence over mother's adoption of child caring practices, including infant and young child feeding. …

M044 RAPID PACLITAXEL DESENSITIZATION IN A PATIENT WITH GOOD RESPONSE TO STANDARD PROTOCOL

Characteristics, management, and outcomes of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma in Africa: a multicountry observational study from the Africa Liver Cancer Consortium

Background Hepatocellular carcinoma is a leading cause of cancer-related death in Africa, but there is still no comprehensive description of the current status of its epidemiology in Africa. We therefore …

ASSESSING THE VALUE FOR MONEY IN PUBLIC CONTRACTS AT LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The second contracts monitoring process follows the first one that accessed contracts in the same sixdistricts for the FY 2018/19. The process was aimed at assessing the implementation of the …

Cost-effectiveness of Preventive Therapy for Tuberculosis With Isoniazid and Rifapentine Versus Isoniazid Alone in High-Burden Settings

Background A short-course regimen of 3 months of weekly rifapentine and isoniazid (3HP) has recently been recommended by the World Health Organization as an alternative to at least 6 months …

Effect of an expansion in private sector provision of contraceptive supplies on horizontal inequity in modern contraceptive use: evidence from Africa and Asia

Background: One strategic approach available to policy makers to improve the availability of reproductive and child health care supplies and services as well as the sustainability of programs is to …

Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis

OBJECTIVE In addition to the rising burden of surgical disease globally, infrastructure and human resources for health remain a great challenge for low- and middle-income countries, especially in Uganda. In …

Successful antiretroviral therapy delivery and retention in care among asymptomatic individuals with high CD4+T-cell counts above 350 cells/ml in rural Uganda

Background: HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being rapidly scaled up in sub-Saharan Africa, including recently patients with CD4+ T-cell counts above 350 cells/μl. However, concerns persist about adherence and virologic …