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 …
Baganizi M,
Paccione GA,
Kahn C,
Iraguha M,
Kolenic GE,
Tejani N
2015
Journal,
Article
Health Research
The World Health Organization recommends four antenatal visits for pregnant women in developing countries. Cash transfers have been used to incentivize participation in health services. We examined whether modest cash …
Background: High attrition and irregular testing for HIV in cohort studies for high-riskpopulations can bias incidence estimates. We compare incidence trends for high-risk womenattending a dedicated HIV prevention and treatment …
Ake JA,
Polyak CS,
Crowell TA,
Bahemana E,
Maswai J,
Owuoth J,
Kibuuka H,
Esber A,
AFRICOS Study Grp,
Dear N
and others...
2022
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Objective: We determined the prevalence and identified predictors of food insecurity in four African countries. Design: Cross-sectional analyses at study enrolment. Setting: From January 2013 to March 2020, people living …
Goldstein S D,
Papandria D,
Linden A,
Azzie G,
Borgstein E,
Calland J F,
Finlayson S R.G,
Jani P,
Klingensmith M,
Labib M
and others...
2014
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Importance Surgical conditions are an important component of global disease burden, due in part to critical shortages of adequately trained surgical providers in low- and middle-income countries.Objectives To assess the …
There has been a general decrease in neuropsychological assessments at a time when medical diagnostic technology and treatments have expanded, leading to a faulty assumption that medical tests and healthcare …
Ondoa Pascale,
Rinke de Wit Tobias F.,
Inzaule Seth C.,
Hamers Raph L.,
Kityo Cissy M.,
Siwale Margaret,
Akanmu Alani Sulaimon,
Wellington Maureen,
de Jager Marleen,
Ive Prudence
and others...
2018
Journal,
Article
Health Research
MEDLINE Abstract: In ART programs in sub-Saharan Africa, a growing proportion of HIV-infected persons initiating first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) have a history of prior antiretroviral drug use (PAU). We assessed …
Kityo C,
Mugyenyi P,
Huibers M H.W,
Boerma R S,
Kaudha E,
Sigaloff K C.E,
Balinda S N,
Bertagnolio S,
Nakanjako R,
Calis J C.J
and others...
2019
Journal,
Article
Health Research
Objectives: To evaluate long-term virological failure (VF) and drug resistance among HIV-infected Ugandan chil-dren on first-line ART.Methods: In a multicentre prospective cohort study, viral load (VL) and drug resistance mutations …
Overview of the evidence for couples-basedHIV preventionNew evidence is challenging the conventional approach to HIV preventionthrough individual behavior change. First, epidemiological trends indicatethat half of new HIV infections in some …
Amanyire G,
Kwarisiima D,
Kabami J,
Chamie G,
Jain V,
Black D,
Kamya M R,
Clark T D,
Charlebois E D,
Havlir D V
and others...
2014
Journal,
Article
Health Research
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 …
