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Practical Implications of a Relationship between Health Management Information System and Community Cohort-Based Malaria Incidence Rates
Mpimbaza A, Kamya MR, Kigozi SP, Arinaitwe E, Dorsey G, Staedke SG, Bousema T, Nankabirwa JI, Kigozi RN, Pullan RL, Giorgi E, Sebuguzi CM
2020
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.19-0950

Global malaria burden is reducing with effective control interventions, and surveillance is vital to maintain progress. Health management information system (HMIS) data provide a powerful surveillance tool; however, its estimates …

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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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Tracking health commodity inventory and notifying stock levels via mobile devices: a mixed methods systematic review
Agarwal S, Glenton C, Henschke N, Tamrat T, Bergman H, Fonhus MS, Mehl GL, Lewin S
2020
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD012907.pub2

BackgroundHealth systems need timely and reliable access to essential medicines and health commodities, but problems with access are common in many settings. Mobile technologies offer potential low-cost solutions to the …

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Management and Outcomes of Acute Surgical Patients at a District Hospital in Uganda with Non-physician Emergency Clinicians
Global Emergency Care, Dresser C, Periyanayagam U, Dreifuss B, Wangoda R, Luyimbaazi J, Bisanzo M
2017
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-017-4014-7

Acute surgical care services in rural Sub-Saharan Africa suffer from human resource and systemic constraints. Developing emergency care systems and task sharing aspects of acute surgical care addresses many of …

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How equitable is social franchising? Case studies of three maternal healthcare franchises in Uganda and India
Goodman C, Benova L, Haemmerli M, Santos A, Penn-Kekana L, Lange I, Matovu F, Wong KLM
2018
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czx192

Substantial investments have been made in clinical social franchising to improve quality of care of private facilities in low-and middle-income countries but concerns have emerged that the benefits fail to …

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Performance of point-of-care diagnostics for glucose, lactate, and hemoglobin in the management of severe malaria in a resource-constrained hospital in Uganda
Hawkes Michael, Conroy Andrea L., Opoka Robert O., Namasopo Sophie, Liles W. Conrad, John Chandy C., Kain Kevin C.
2014

MEDLINE Abstract: Severe malaria is frequently managed without access to laboratory testing. We report on the performance of point-of-care tests used to guide the management of a cohort of 179 …

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An evaluation of the benefits to a UK Health Care Trust working in a partnership with a hospital in Northern Uganda: International partnership working in mental health
Hague B, Sills J, Thompson AR
2015
DOI: 10.1186/s12992-015-0134-8

Background: Despite the worthy intentions of international health partnerships between high-income countries and countries with developing economies, the tangible benefits are rarely evaluated, limiting the assessment of the achievements of …

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Apabetalone downregulates fibrotic, inflammatory and calcific processes in renal mesangial cells which may contribute to reduced cardiac events observed in ckd patients
Gilham D., Fu L., Rakai B., Wasiak S., Tsujikawa L., Halliday C., Sarsons C., Stotz S., Jahagirdar R., Johansson J., Sweeney M., Wong N., Kalantar-Zadeh K., Kulikowski E.
2021
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfab078.008

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) remain a leading cause of mortality in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Apabetalone is an orally available inhibitor of bromodomain & extraterminal (BET) …

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