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 …
Ssebambulidde K,
Reynolds S J,
Joloba M,
Atuheirwe M,
Kajumbula H,
Orem J,
Niyonzima N,
Kalungi S,
Katongole P,
Sande O J
and others...
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: The possible clinical application of specific cytokines and chemokines contributing to tumorigenesis and the clinical outcome of several cancers has been reported. However, less invasive and easily applicable biomarkers …
Users' networks for people with mental health disorders have emerged in Africa over the past 5 years, notably in Zambia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, and South Africa. These organisations believe in …
Havlir D,
Kamya M,
Greenhouse B,
Dorsey G,
Kwarisiima D,
Ssemmondo E,
Katrak S,
Day N,
Midekisa A
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background. Malaria control strategies depend on identifying individuals with parasitemia, who may be asymptomatic but retain the ability to transmit disease. Population-level survey data on parasitemia are limited and traditionally …
Arinaitwe E.,
Rek J.,
Nayebare P.,
Katrak S.,
Nankabirwa J. I. et al,
University of California San Francisco U. S. A.
2017
Journal,
Article
Health Research
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT Abstract: Submicroscopic malaria parasitemia remains common in both high- and low-endemicity settings in Africa. Submicroscopic parasitemia impacts mosquito infectivity and disease transmission, but its clinical consequences are unclear. …
"In many ways, resistance is a silent problem because we don't have the abilities to measure it," says Adrienne Chan, medical coordinator at Dignitas International, a Canadian organization facilitating AIDS …
Kamya M,
Rosenthal PJ,
Arinaitwe E,
Greenhouse B,
Dorsey G,
Rek J,
Murphy M,
Nayebare P,
Nankabirwa JI,
Katrak S
and others...
2017
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Accurately identifying and targeting the human reservoir of malaria parasitemia is critical for malaria control, and requires a reliable and sensitive diagnostic method. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is increasingly used …
Kamya M,
Rosenthal PJ,
Arinaitwe E,
Greenhouse B,
Dorsey G,
Rek J,
Nayebare P,
Nankabirwa JI,
Katrak S
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Submicroscopic malaria parasitaemia is common in both high- and low-endemicity settings, but its clinical consequences are unclear.Methods: A cohort of 364 children (0.5-10 years of age) and 106 adults …
Rosenthal Philip J.,
Dorsey Grant,
Arinaitwe Emmanuel,
Greenhouse Bryan,
Nayebare Patience,
KatrakShereen,
Murphy Maxwell,
Rek John,
Smith Mary,
Nankabirwa Joaniter I.
and others...
2017
Journal,
Article
Health Research
MEDLINE Abstract: Accurately identifying and targeting the human reservoir of malaria parasitemia is critical for malaria control, and requires a reliable and sensitive diagnostic method. Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is …
Katrina Perehudoff S,
Alexandrov N V,
Hogerzeil H V
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Persistent barriers to universal access to medicines are limited social protection in the eventof illness, inadequate financing for essential medicines, frequent stock-outs in the publicsector, and high prices in the …
Southern Africa continues to shoulder a disproportionate burden of the HIV epidemic with the number of new infections outstripping treatment initiation two-to threefold. Current prevention strategies have had a limited …
