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Designing Public Health Supply Chains: Towards Improving Health Commodity Availability in Developing Countries
Karimi Amir
2020

In developing countries, significant resource constraints (e.g., funding and human resource limitations) hamper the effective delivery of health commodities from upstream suppliers to the last-mile, leading to supply chain failures …

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Extended families and perceived caregiver support to AIDS orphans in Rakai district of Uganda
Ssewamala FM, Ismayilova L, Karimli L
2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.03.015

Purpose: To understand the role of extended family in responding to problems of AID-orphaned children and adolescents in Uganda, the study examines who are the primary caregivers of AIDS-orphaned children …

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Financial asset accumulation by poor adolescents participating in child savings accounts in low resource communities in Uganda
Karimli Leyla
2014

This dissertation examined savings attitudes and financial asset accumulation of poor and vulnerable school-going AIDS-orphaned adolescents involved in a subsidized matched child savings program in Uganda and being cared for …

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Do savings mediate changes in adolescents' future orientation and health-related outcomes? findings from randomized experiment in Uganda
Karimli L, Ssewamala F M
2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.06.011

PurposeâThis present study tests the proposition that an economic strengthening interventionfor families caring for AIDS-orphaned adolescents would positively affect adolescent futureorientation and psychosocial outcomes through increased asset-accumulation (in this case, …

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Poverty, economic strengthening, and mental health among AIDS orphaned children in Uganda: Mediation model in a randomized clinical trial
Ssewamala FM, Neilands TB, Karimli L, Wells CR, Bermudez LG
2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.003

Some evidence points to the positive effects of asset accumulation programs on mental health of children living in low-resource contexts. However, no evidence exists as to why and how such …

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Electroencephalographic features of convulsive epilepsy in Africa: A multicentre study of prevalence, pattern and associated factors
Newton Charles R., Kakooza-Mwesige Angelina, Ngugi Anthony K., Wagner Ryan G., Masanja Honorati, Kariuki Symon M., White Steven, Chengo Eddie, Ae-Ngibise Kenneth A., Sander Josemir W., Neville Brian G.
2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.07.033

Objective: We investigated the prevalence and pattern of electroencephalographic (EEG) features of epilepsy and the associated factors in Africans with active convulsive epilepsy (ACE). Methods: We characterized electroencephalographic features and …

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Threatened child health through lack of immunization: Identification of risk groups in Uganda
Karlsen Klaus
1995

Despite the great success of the worldwide Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), there are still 2 million third world children who die every year from the vaccine-preventable diseases. While the …

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Evaluating the value proposition for improving vaccine thermostability to increase vaccine impact in low and middle-income countries
Karp C.L., Lans D., Esparza J., Edson E.B., Owen K.E., Wilson C.B., Heaton P.M., Levine O.S., Rao R.
2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2015.05.071
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'I am the master key that opens and locks': Presentation and application of a conceptual framework for women's and girls' empowerment in reproductive health
Makumbi F, Kibira SPS, Karp C, Wood SN, Galadanci H, Omoluabi E, Shiferaw S, Seme A, Tsui A, Moreau C
2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113086

Rationale: A renewed focus on women's and girls' empowerment in the era of Sustainable Development Goals reflects the belief that empowerment is central to health and development. Sexual and reproductive …

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Inclusion Toward Transformation: Psychosocial Disability Advocacy and Global Mental Health
Karter Justin M.
2021

The Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH) has been met with criticism for reifying Western conceptions of mental disorders and diverting resources from the investigation, intervention, and education regarding the …

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