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 …
IntroductionThe International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights(ICESCR) recognizes the right of everyone to the enjoyment of thehighest attainable standard of physical and mental health (Article 12).The Millennium Development …
For this study the narratives of 16 young women who had served as child soldiers with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda were collected. They had spent between …
Background The majority of the prognostic scoring tools for peritonitis are impractical in low resource settings because they are complex while others are quite costly. The quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure …
Katamba A,
Cattamanchi A,
Davis JL,
Hsiang E,
Little KM,
Hagurna P,
Hanrahan CF,
Vassall A,
Dowdy D
2016
Journal,
Article
Health Research
SETTING: Initial cost-effectiveness evaluations of Xpert (R) MTB/RIF for tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis have not fully accounted for the realities of implementation in peripheral settings.OBJECTIVE: To evaluate costs and diagnostic outcomes …
The last few years have brought many changes in daily habits and overall lifestyle of human population, which is accompanied by increased exposure to acidic substances and increased consumption of …
The Constitution of Uganda provides in Article 22(2) that âNo person has the rightto terminate the life of an unborn child except as may be authorized by lawâ. Twentyyears later, …
Children in northern Uganda who are the focus of this article were born and raised in the context of war. The research presented here is based on a one-year ethnographic …
Hirano S,
Itou T,
Shibuya H,
Kashiwazaki Y,
Sakai T
2010
Journal,
Article
Health Research
African field rabies virus isolates from domestic animals can be phylogenetically divided into three geographic lineages: Africa 1a (North and West Africa); Africa 1b (East and South Africa); Africa 2 …
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 …
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 …
