Moral distress among Ugandan nurses providing HIV care: A critical ethnography

Background The phenomenon of moral distress among nurses has been described in a variety of high-income countries and practice settings Defined as the biopsychosocial, cognitive, and behavioural effects experienced by …

How are countries in sub-Saharan African monitoring the impact of programmes to prevent vertical transmission of HIV?

Asymptomatic School-Aged Children Are Important Drivers of Malaria Transmission in a High Endemicity Setting in Uganda

In an area of intense malaria transmission in Uganda, school-aged children (5-15 years old) and asymptomatic infections were identified as major contributors to the malaria human infectious reservoir and could …

Attitudes and perceptions about the Research and Ethics Committee in Kampala, Uganda

Correction to: âThere is violence across, in all arenasâ: listening to stories of violence amongst sexual minority refugees in Uganda (The International Journal of Human Rights, (2017), (1-22), 10.1080/13642987.2017.1347342)

Morphometric study of suprascapular notch and scapular dimensions in Ugandan dry scapulae with specific reference to the incidence of completely ossified superior transverse scapular ligament

Background: Understanding of suprascapular notch (SSN) anatomy and relationship with scapular dimensions arevital in diagnosis, prevention, and assessment of suprascapular nerve entrapment syndrome. The study aimed toassess morphometry of suprascapular …

When We Know Nothing Recommendations for Ethical Research and Learning with and for LGBTQI People in Humanitarian Settings

There is a dearth of rigorous and ethical research to inform the policies and programs of humanitarian actors, and significant gaps remain in evidence on how to safely, ethically, and …

An extensive burden of giardiasis associated with intestinal schistosomiasis and anaemia in school children on the shoreline of Lake Albert, Uganda

Background: Water-borne parasitic diseases associated with poverty still blight the lives of African school children. In Uganda, intestinal schistosomiasis is still common along the shoreline of Lake Albert, despite ongoing …

Expression and function of fibroblast growth factor 1 in the hypertrophied ligamentum flavum of lumbar spinal stenosis

Background: Fibrosis is one of the main pathologies caused by hypertrophy of the ligamentum flavum (LF), which leads to lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). The fibroblast growth factor (FGF) family is …

Successful antiretroviral therapy delivery and retention in care among asymptomatic individuals with high CD4+T-cell counts above 350 cells/ml in rural Uganda

Background: HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being rapidly scaled up in sub-Saharan Africa, including recently patients with CD4+ T-cell counts above 350 cells/μl. However, concerns persist about adherence and virologic …