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 …
Jedrzejko N.,
Margolick J.,
Nguyen J.H.,
Ding M.,
Kisa P.,
Ball-Banting E.,
Hameed M.,
Joos E.
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Building surgical capacity through global surgery partnerships (GSPs) between high and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a rising global health focus. Our aim was to conduct a systematic …
Liu BY,
Korir A,
Parkin DM,
Jedy-Agba E,
Joko WY,
Buziba NG,
Borok M,
Masamba L,
Manraj SS,
Finesse A
and others...
2020
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in women in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Methods Trends in the incidence of cervical cancer …
Ouma J,
Valadez JJ,
Jeffery C,
Beckworth C,
Hadden WC,
Lwanga SK
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Beginning in 2003, Uganda used Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) to assist district managers collect and use data to improve their human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/AIDS program. Uganda's LQAS-database (2003-2012) covers …
IntroductionThis case report discusses a 24-year-old woman from Uganda presenting with a severe febrile illness and shock, following the recent death of her husband from a similar illness. The case …
Ajayi IO,
Nsungwa-Sabiiti J,
Siribie M,
Falade CO,
Serme L,
Afonne C,
Sanou AK,
Oshiname FO,
Jegede AS
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background. The efficacy of artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and rectal artesunate for severe malaria in children is proven. However, acceptability of a package of interventions that included use of malaria …
Kutalek R,
Jeleff M,
Lehner L,
Giles-Vernick T,
Dückers M L.A,
Napier A D,
Jirovsky E
2019
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Introduction This protocol will guide and explain theworking process of a systematic scoping review onvulnerability assessment tools in the field of infectiousdisease outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance (AMR)crises. The scoping review …
This article synthesizes the views of participants in two roundtables that were convened in Nairobi (March 2007) and London (July 2008) to identify key challenges to the prioritization of mental …
More than ten million children suffer from severe acute malnutrition globally each year. In Uganda, longstanding efforts to understand, treat, and then prevent the condition initially served to medicalize it, …
Improving economic resources of impoverished youth may alter intentions to engage in sexual riskbehaviors by motivating positive future planning to avoid HIV risk and by altering economiccontexts contributing to HIV …
