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 …
BackgroundThere is a growing body of literature on evidence-informed priority setting. However, the literature on the use of evidence when setting healthcare priorities in low-income countries (LICs), tends to treat …
Stakeholders play an important role in health priority setting, and their roles have been discussed in the literature, mainly in relationship to their power. An emerging body of literature is …
BackgroundThere is increasing acceptance of the importance of social values like equity and fairness in health care priority setting (PS). However, equity is difficult to define; it means different things …
Bwire G.,
Kapiriri L.,
Essue B.,
Nouvet E.,
Kiwanuka S.,
Sengooba F.,
Reeleder D.
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
The COVID-19 pandemic, where the need-resource gap has necessitated decision makers in some contexts to ration access to life-saving interventions, has demonstrated the critical need for systematic and fair priority …
Kapiriri L.,
Nouvet E.,
Kiwanuka S.,
Biemba G.,
Velez C.,
Razavi S.D.,
Abelson J.,
Essue B.M.,
Danis M.,
Goold S.
and others...
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Priority setting represents an even bigger challenge during public health emergencies than routine times. This is because such emergencies compete with routine programmes for the available health resources, strain health …
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Background: The burden of malaria remains high for children in parts of Africa despite the use of insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs). Chemoprevention has the potential of reducing the malaria burden; …
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Kakuru A.,
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Makerere University College of Health Sciences Kampala Uganda
2017
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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT Abstract: Malaria in pregnancy is associated with maternal morbidity, placental malaria, and adverse birth outcomes. However, data are limited on the relationships between longitudinal measure of malaria during …
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Clark T D,
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2017
Journal,
Article
Health Research
BackgroundMalaria in pregnancy has been associated with maternal morbidity, placental malaria, and adverse birth outcomes. However, data are limited on the relationships between longitudinal measures of malaria during pregnancy, measures …
Kamya Moses R.,
Kakuru Abel,
Jagannathan Prasanna,
Nakalembe Miriam,
Clark Tamara D.,
Dorsey Grant,
Muhindo Mary K.,
Havlir Diane V.,
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Natureeba Paul
and others...
2017
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Article
Health Research
MEDLINE Abstract: BACKGROUND:<BR>Malaria in pregnancy has been associated with maternal morbidity, placental malaria, and adverse birth outcomes. However, data are limited on the relationships between longitudinal measures of malaria during …
Dear Sirs,We thank Shailendra Kapoor for his commentary onour publication titled âSevere mental illness atantiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation is associated withworse retention in HIV care among Ugandan adultsâ(Nachega et al. …
