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 …
Malaria is mesoendemic in Uganda; with an entomological inoculation rate (EIR) estimated at 562 infective bites per person year (PPY), Tororo, a rural district located in Eastern Uganda, is one …
Background: Best practices comprise recent, relevant, and helpful nursing practices, methods, interventions, procedures or techniques based on high-quality evidence. Best practices should be implemented to improve individual patientsâ health outcomes …
ZIKA virus (ZIKV) is a newly emerging arbovirus. Since its discovery 60 years ago in Uganda, it has spread throughout the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing the capacity …
Kityo Cissy,
Hamers Raph,
Lange Joep M. A.,
Rinke de Wit Tobias F.,
Mugyenyi Peter
2012
Journal,
Article
Health Research
The article reports on the rising rate of HIV drug resistance and its public health implications in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the development of drug resistance was worsened by …
Hamid E.,
Ayele B.A.,
Massi D.G.,
Ben Sassi S.,
Tibar H.,
Djonga E.E.,
El-Sadig S.M.,
Amer El Khedoud W.,
Razafimahefa J.,
Kouame-Assouan A.E.
and others...
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: The growing burden of Parkinson's disease (PD) in Africa necessitates the identification of available therapies and services to improve patient care. Objective: To investigate the availability, affordability, frequency of …
Bardosh KL,
Picozzi K,
Waiswa C,
Welburn SC,
Hamill L,
Fyfe J,
von Wissmann B,
Wastling S,
Wardrop N,
Selby R
and others...
2017
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background: Uganda has suffered from a series of epidemics of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), a tsetse transmitted disease, also known as sleeping sickness. The area affected by acute Trypanosoma brucei …
Manabe Y C,
Parkes-Ratanshi R,
Nakku-Joloba E,
Hamill M M,
Mbazira K J,
Kiragga A N,
Gaydos C A,
Jett-Goheen M,
Rompalo A
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background Syphilis is a cause of morbidity and mortality and is of particular concern in pregnancy in low-income countries because of the risks associated with maternal-fetal transmission. Ugandan national guidelines …
Hamill M,
Manabe Y,
Melendez J,
Kyambadde P,
Onzia A,
Atuheirwe M,
Wang T
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
BackgroundLaboratory infrastructure is limited in Uganda; syndromic case management is used to treat sexually transmitted infections (STI). Progress in addressing the HIV epidemic is threatened by uncontrolled STI transmission. We …
Manabe Y.,
Hamill M.,
Melendez J.,
Onzia A.,
Atuheirwe M.,
Kyambadde P.,
Wang T.
2021
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Background Laboratory infrastructure is limited in Uganda; syndromic case management is used to treat sexually transmitted infections (STI). Progress in addressing the HIV epidemic is threatened by uncontrolled STI transmission. …
