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: The inclusion of low and middle-income country (LMIC) hospitals in multicenter orthopaedic trials expands the pool of eligible patients and improves the external validity of the evidence. Furthermore, promoting …
This creative, reflection paper explores neoliberalism in academia and motherhood, and it speaks from my position as a thirty-three-year-old mother of two young children (aged six and four) and as …
MEDLINE Abstract: In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) initiated a process for validation of the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of HIV and syphilis by countries. For the first …
Mutebi E,
Sajatovic M,
Kaddumukasa M,
Katabira E,
Lhatoo S,
Kisozi T,
Kisekka M,
Nakwagala F N
2017
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Aims: To determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) among newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus patients in Mulago Hospital.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 248 …
Kissani N,
Nafia S,
El Khiat A,
Bengamara N,
Maiga Y,
Sogoba Y,
Ahmed A Ibrahim E,
Agbetou M,
Massi Daniel G,
Assogba K
and others...
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Objective: Epilepsy is an important public health problem representing 0.6% of the global burden of diseasethat particularly impacts people living in the lowest income countries where epilepsy incidence maybe 10 …
Hwang B.,
Kissoon T.,
Bbusinge S.,
Tagoola A.,
Suiyven E.,
Krepiakevich A.,
Ansermino J.,
Trawin J.
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
AIMS & OBJECTIVES: Mortality for children with sepsis visiting health care facilities in low and middle income countries is high. The objective of the study is to determine the adequacy …
Sustained motivation is essential for effective use of contraceptive methods by women in low- and 4 middle-income countries as many women are likely to abandon use of contraceptives especially when …
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, in partnership with the Centre for Development Innovation of Wageningen UR (CDI), the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and supported by the Swiss Agency for Development & …
Mpendo J,
Ssetaala A,
Nanvubya A,
Price MA,
Kiwanuka N,
Bagaya BS,
Kitandwe PK,
Muyanja E,
Nakaweesa T,
Okech B
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
IntroductionHepatitis B is a serious potentially fatal hepatocellular disease caused by the hepatitis B virus. In the fishing communities of Lake Victoria Uganda, the hepatitis B virus infection burden is …
