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 …
Background. There is controversy on the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and HIV infection. Some evidence claims higher SES is negatively associated with HIV infection while others report the reverse. …
Igumbor J.O.,
Bosire E.N.,
Karimi F.,
Katahoire A.,
Allison J.,
Muula A.S.,
Peixoto A.,
Otwombe K.,
Gitau E.,
Bondjers G.
and others...
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
The quality and success of postgraduate education largely rely on effective supervision. Since its inception in 2008, the Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) has been at the …
Igwegbe A. O,
Monago E. N,
Nwosu B. O,
Ugboaja J. O
2010
Journal,
Article
Health Research
The standard teaching is to avoid caesarean myomectomy as much as possible for the fear of the attendant severe haemorrhage. Classical caesarean section in spite of its risk of uterine …
IHACC Res Team,
Berrang-Ford L,
Lwasa S,
Namanya DB,
Clark S,
Edge VL,
Harper S
2015
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) is an important public health priority worldwide. Few studies have captured the burden of AGI in developing countries, and even fewer have focused on Indigenous populations. …
IHACC Res Team,
Berrang-Ford L,
Lwasa S,
Namanya DB,
Harper SL,
Labbe J,
Ford JD,
Donnelly B,
Twesigomwe S
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Vulnerability to the health impacts of climate change will be shaped by the existing burden of ill- health and is expected to be highest in poor and socio-economically marginalized populations. …
IHACC Res Team,
Berrang-Ford L,
Lwasa S,
Harper S,
Twesigomwe S,
MacVicar S,
Steele V,
Bambaiha DN,
Asaasira G,
Ross N
2017
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Maternal and newborn health disparities and the health impacts of climate change present grand challenges for global health equity, and there remain knowledge gaps in our understanding of how these …
Patterson K,
Berrang-Ford L,
Lwasa S,
Ford J,
Harper SL,
Clark S,
Donnelly B,
IHACC Team,
Busch J,
Windfeld E
and others...
2019
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Acute gastrointestinal illness (AGI) is a global public health priority that often disproportionately effects Indigenous populations. While previous research examines the association between meteorological conditions and AGI, little is known …
Berrang-Ford L,
Lwasa S,
Namanya DB,
IHACC Res Grp,
Helwig JE,
Bishop-Williams KE
2020
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Health information systems (HIS) are used to manage information related to population health. The goal of this research was to conduct an evaluation of a HIS used at a hospital …
Berrang-Ford L,
Lwasa S,
Namanya DB,
Twesigomwe S,
IHACC Team,
Scarpa G,
Bawajeeh AO,
Kakwangire P,
Peters R,
Beer S
and others...
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Objective:To develop an online food composition database of locally consumed foods among an Indigenous population in south-western Uganda.Design:Using a community-based approach and collaboration with local nutritionists, we collected a list …
IHACC Res Team,
Patterson K,
Berrang-Ford L,
Lwasa S,
Namanya DB,
Harper SL,
Clark S,
Twesigomwe S,
Brubacher LJ
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
The Batwa (Twa), an Indigenous People of southwest Uganda, were evicted from their ancestral forest lands in 1991 due to establishment of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. This land dispossession forced …
