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 …
Kallander K,
InSCALE Study Grp,
Thondoo M,
Strachan DL,
Nakirunda M,
Ndima S,
Muiambo A,
Hill Z
2015
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Community health workers are reemerging as an essential component of health systems in low-income countries. However, there are concerns that unless they are adequately supported, their motivation and performance …
Vassall A,
inSCALE Study Grp,
Kasteng F,
Kallander K,
Settumba S
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Community health worker (CHW) programmes are currently being scaled-up in sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to healthcare. CHWs are often volunteers; from an economic perspective, this raises considerations whether reliance …
Worodria W,
den Boon S,
Cattamanchi A,
Davis JL,
Yoo SD,
Huang L,
Int HIV-Associated Opportunistic,
Taylor SM,
Meshnick SR,
Andama A
and others...
2012
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Pneumocystis jirovecii is an important opportunistic infection in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected patients. In the developed world, P. jirovecii epidemiology is marked by frequent colonization in immunosuppressed patients, but …
Worodria W,
Cattamanchi A,
Davis JL,
Huang L,
Int HIV Assoc Opportunistic Pneumo,
Tokman S,
Barnett CF,
Jarlsberg LG,
Taub PR,
Den Boon S
and others...
2014
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background and objectiveIn low and middle-income countries where HIV infection is prevalent, identifying patients at high risk of dying from lower respiratory tract infections is challenging and validated prognostic models …
The new list includes a range of internationally recognized occupational diseases, from illnesses caused by chemical, physical and biological agents to respiratory and skin diseases, musculoskeletal disorders and occupational cancer. …
Children and youth form the bulk of the population globally. This is even more the case in developing countries including Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia as covered under this study. There …
Ondoa P.,
Hamers R. L.,
Inzaule S. C.,
Peter T.,
Mugyenyi P. N.,
Stevens W. S.,
de Wit T. F. R.
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Increased provision of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa has led to a growing number of patients with therapy failure and acquired drug-resistant HIV, driving the demand for more costly further …
Ondoa Pascale,
Rinke de Wit Tobias F.,
Inzaule Seth C.,
Hamers Raph L.,
Kityo Cissy M.,
Siwale Margaret,
Akanmu Alani Sulaimon,
Wellington Maureen,
de Jager Marleen,
Ive Prudence
and others...
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
MEDLINE Abstract: In ART programs in sub-Saharan Africa, a growing proportion of HIV-infected persons initiating first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) have a history of prior antiretroviral drug use (PAU). We assessed …
de Wit TFR,
Inzaule SC,
Hamers RL,
Noguera-Julian M,
Casadella M,
Parera M,
Paredes R
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Objectives: To investigate the prevalence and patterns of major and accessory resistance mutations associated with integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs), across diverse HIV-1 subtypes in sub-Saharan Africa.Methods: pol gene sequences …
