This thesis is based on research on the epidemiology and prevention of HIV among adults in rural Masaka district, Uganda (1989-2010). Arising from this research are 10 published papers, which …
Objectives To describe HIV heterogeneity in rural Uganda using incidence data collected between January 2012 and December 2014 among fishing cohort (FC) and in an adjacent rural general population cohort …
Background:Transmetatarsal amputation (TMA) has a reputation for failure, centred around wound breakdown. No study has looked at the direct association between the patency of individual crural arteries and the healing …
Dyslipidaemia and hypertension in patients with diabetes increase the risk of macrovascular and microvascular complications.We took anthropometric measurements, lipids, blood pressure and fasting blood sugar of 150 diabetics and 151 …
Background: In 2006, 16.4% of children under 5 years were reported to be underweight in Uganda. In spite of this high prevalence, only 3.3% of children taken to the Allan …
Slum dweller youth in Kampala, Uganda, face social economic exclusion and a plethora of health risks, and their needs are poorly understood. The aim of the current study was to …
Objectives: To determine the cost effectiveness of free anti-hypertensive drug intervention on HIV patients with hypertension. 1.To determine the impact of increased access to free-anti-hypertensive on median blood pressure. 2.To …
Background: An ethnobotanical study was carried out in four parishes in the Ngai and Otwal Sub Counties in Oyam district, Northern Uganda, where insurgency has been prevalent for the past …
Background: Understanding the age patterns of disease is necessary to target interventions to maximise cost-effective impact. New malaria chemoprevention and vaccine initiatives target young children attending routine immunisation services. Here …