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Plasma n-6 Fatty Acid Levels Are Associated With CD4 Cell Counts, Hospitalization, and Mortality in HIV-Infected Patients
Guwatudde D, Ezeamama AE, Fawzi WW, Kabagambe EK, Campos H
2016
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001149

Background: Fatty acids, including n-6 series, modulate immune function, but their effect on CD4 cell counts, death, or hospitalization in HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy is unknown.Methods: In a randomized …

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Barriers to male involvement in contraceptive uptake and reproductive health services: a qualitative study of men and women's perceptions in two rural districts in Uganda
Atuyambe L, Jennings L, Kabagenyi A, Reid A, Nalwadda G, Ntozi J
2014
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-11-21

Background: Spousal communication can improve family planning use and continuation. Yet, in countries with high fertility rates and unmet need, men have often been regarded as unsupportive of their partner's …

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Modern contraceptive use among sexually active men in Uganda: does discussion with a health worker matter?
Wandera SO, Kabagenyi A, Ndugga P, Kwagala B
2014
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-286

Background: Family planning programs have recently undergone a fundamental shift from being focused on women only to focusing on men individually, or on both partners. However, contraceptive use among married …

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Socio-cultural inhibitors to use of modern contraceptive techniques in rural Uganda: a qualitative study
Reid A., Kabagenyi A., Ntozi J., Atuyambe L.
2016
DOI: 10.11604/PAMJ.2016.25.78.6613
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A descriptive study of human papilloma virus in upper aero-digestive squamous cell carcinoma at Uganda cancer institute assessed by P16 immunohistochemistry
Kabagenyi F., Otiti J., Namwagala J., Kamulegeya A., Kalungi S.
2020
DOI: 10.1186/s41199-020-00057-3

Background: Cancer burden in sub-Saharan Africa is on the rise with one-third of cancers estimated to be caused by infectious agents. Head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) is the …

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Urban-rural differences in immune responses to mycobacterial and tetanus vaccine antigens in a tropical setting: A role for helminths?
Elliott A M, Kabagenyi J, Natukunda A, Nassuuna J, Sanya R E, Nampijja M, Webb E L, Nkurunungi G
2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2020.102132

Several vaccines elicit lower efficacy or impaired immune responses in rural compared to urban settings, and intropical low-income countries compared to high-income countries. An unresolved hypothesis is that im-munomodulation by …

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Nutrition education to improve dietary intake and micronutrient nutriture among children in less-resourced areas: a randomised controlled intervention in Kabarole district, western Uganda: original research
et al, Kabahenda M., Mullis R. M., Erhardt J. G.
2011

Determined whether nutrition education targeting the child-feeding practices of low-income rural caregivers in rural Uganda will reduce anaemia and improve vitamin A nutriture of the young children in their care. …

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Nutrition education to improve dietary intake and micronutrient nutriture among children in less-resourced areas: A randomized controlled intervention in Kabarole district, Western Uganda
Kabahenda M, Mullis R M, Erhardt J G, Northrop-Clewes C, Nickols S Y
2011
DOI: 10.1080/16070658.2011.11734355

Objective: To determine whether nutrition education targeting the child-feeding practices of low-income rural caregivers will reduce anaemia and improve vitamin A nutriture of the young children in their care.Design: A …

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Promoting dietary diversity to improve child growth in less-resourced rural settings in Uganda
Mullis R M, Nickols S Y, Kabahenda M K, Andress E L, Kabonesa C
2014
DOI: 10.1111/jhn.12056

BackgroundAnalyses of global trends indicate that childhood undernutrition is more prevalent in rural areas, and also that maternal education and decision-making power are among the key factors significantly associated with …

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First report of whole-genome analysis of an extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolate with bedaquiline, linezolid and clofazimine resistance from Uganda
Joloba ML, Nakato H, Kakooza F, Kabahita JM, Kabugo J, Adam I, Guido O, Byabajungu H, Namutebi J, Namaganda MM, Lutaaya P, Otim J, Kakembo FE, Kanyerezi S, Nabisubi P, Sserwadda I, Kasule GW, Musisi K, Oola D, Mboowa G
2022
DOI: 10.1186/s13756-022-01101-2

Background Uganda remains one of the countries with the highest burden of TB/HIV. Drug-resistant TB remains a substantial challenge to TB control globally and requires new strategic effective control approaches. …

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