This chapter will provide a brief overview to illustrate the roles that the arts have held in traditional healing practices in the pre-colonial and colonial periods in Uganda, and will …
Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Uganda family is the predominant cause of tuberculosis in Uganda. Reasons for this are not clear but are likely to be due to the rampant person-to-person transmission …
Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) prophylaxis in HIV-uninfected, exposed (HUE) children variably reduces clinical malaria burden despite antifolate resistance, but data regarding achieved serum levels and adherence are lacking. Serum samples from 70 …
SUMMARY. The Mildmay Centre Kampala offers training and pallia-tive care to patients living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Within the clinic,there is an information resource centre which serves patients, carers, staff,participants, …
Background: Improving laboratory service delivery requires a functioning logistics and supply system. Uganda's Ministry of Health uses the credit-line approach to provide laboratory supplies including commodities for CD4 test equipment.Objectives: …
Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the diagnostic performance of the GenoQuick MTB test on heated sputum against the conventional Lowenstein-Jensen Mycobacterium tuberculosis culture as the reference …
It is noted that the traditional kinship system can be instrumental in involving both men and women in caring for vulnerable groups such as children, teenagers, the elderly, and the …
OBJECTIVES To assess and compare the effectiveness of ivermectin distributors in attaining 90% treatment coverage of the eligible population with each additional health activity they take up.METHODS Random sampling was …
The challenges of community-directed treatment with ivermectin (CDTI) for onchocerciasiscontrol in Africa have been: maintaining a desired treatment coverage, demand for mone-tary incentives, high attrition of community distributors and low …
The objective of the study was to determine whether annual ivermectin treatment in the Nyagak-Bondoonchocerciasis focus could safely be withdrawn. Baseline skin snip microfilariae (mf) and nodule prevalence data fromsix …