Counselorsâ acceptability of adherence counseling session recording, fidelity monitoring, and feedback in a multi-site HIV prevention study in four African countries

Biomedical HIV prevention trials increasingly include evidence-based adherence counseling to encourage product use. To retain effectiveness, interventions must contain key components. Monitoring counseling fidelity ensures inclusion of components but is …

2019 ANNUAL REPORT

Every year, 1 billion children experience some form of violence. The End Violence Partnership and Fund is a public-private partnership launched by the UN Secretary-General in 2016 to catalyse, support …

EQUINET Policy Brief number 22: Anti-counterfeiting laws and access to essential medicines in East and Southern Africa

The countries in eastern and southern Africa and the East African Community are atvarious stages of enacting laws to address counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is a problem forpublic health if counterfeit medicines …

Compassion practice by Ugandan nurses who provide HIV care.

A SNAPSHOT OF THE ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES TO MERCURY USE AMONG ARTISINAL SMALL SCALE GOLD MINERS (ASGM)

Dangers of Mercury use in Gold ExtractionAWARE that during gold amalgamation the metallic mercury evaporates.Some of the vapour is inhaled by people working in the vicinity and may overtime cause …

Outcome of tube thoracostomy in paediatric non-traumatic pleural fluid collections

Objective: Management of pleural fluid collection not due to trauma increases workload of the paediatric thoracic surgeons; while delay or inappropriate treatment worsens the prognosis of the disease. This study …

Research Summary Acceptability of Depo-subQ in Uniject, Now Called Sayana Press

Erratum: Correction: Cross-sectional study on the prevalence and predictors of pregnancy among women living in HIV discordant relationships in a rural Rakai cohort, Uganda (BMJ open (2018) 8 4 (e019818) PII: bmjopen-2017-019818corr1)

Healthcare providers' understanding of HIV serodiscordance in South Africa and Uganda: implications for HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa

HIV transmission within stable heterosexual HIV serodiscordant couples accounts for almost half the new incident infections in South Africa and Uganda. Advances in HIV prevention provide opportunities to reduce transmission …

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 …