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Feasibility and Operational Performance of Tuberculosis Detection by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Platform in Decentralized Settings: Results from a Multicenter Study
Joloba M, Katamba A, Gray CM, Narang P, Giraldo J, Zamudio C, Narang R, Paramasivan CN, Hillemann D, Nabeta P, Amisano D, Alland D, Cobelens F, Boehme CC
2016
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03036-15

Currently available nucleic acid amplification platforms for tuberculosis (TB) detection are not designed to be simple or inexpensive enough to implement in decentralized settings in countries with a high burden …

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"Milk Has Gone": Dietary Change and Human Adaptability in Karamoja, Uganda
Gray S, Sundal MB
2017
DOI: 10.1111/aman.12949

This article examines changes in dietary strategies among Karimojong agropastoralists in northeast Uganda. We recorded food selection, procurement, processing, and consumption in twenty-eight female-headed Karimojong households during a four-month period …

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Torture and sexual violence in war and conflict: The unmaking and remaking of subjects of violence
Gray H, Dolan C, Stern M
2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0260210519000391

Despite the wide repository of knowledge about conflict-related sexual violence that now exists, there remains a lack of understanding about how victims/survivors of such violence themselves make sense of and …

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Understanding Sars-CoV-2 Antigenic Evolution Using Complete Genotype-To-Phenotype Maps of the Effects of Mutations on Antibody Binding
Greaney Allison Jean
2021

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, global sequencing efforts have allowed scientists to follow the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in real time. The consequences of that evolution, however, are less …

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The ambiguities of the 'partnership' between civil society and the state in Uganda's AIDS response during the 1990s and 2000s as demonstrated in the development of TASO
Grebe E
2016
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1062121

This article critically investigates state-civil society relations in the Ugandan AIDS response by tracing the history of Uganda's multisectoral' and partnership' approaches, particularly as it pertains to The AIDS Support …

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Hospital acquired infections in a large north Ugandan hospital
Greco D, Magombe I
2011

Introduction. Hospital care is a precious gift in Uganda, there- fore little concern is given to hospital safety and very seldom Hos- pital Acquired Infection (HAI) risk is evaluated. Within …

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Anaemia in Ugandan preschool-aged children: the relative contribution of intestinal parasites and malaria
Stothard JR, Kabatereine NB, Green HK, Sousa-Figueiredo JC, Basanez MG, Betson M, Fenwick A
2011
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001016

Anaemia is a severe public health issue among African preschool-aged children, yet little effective progress has been made towards its amelioration, in part due to difficulties in unravelling its complex, …

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Social Networks of PLHA in Uganda: Implications for Mobilizing PLHA as Agents for Prevention
Wagner GJ, Green HD, Atuyambe L, Ssali S, Ryan GW
2011
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-010-9707-y

The objective of this study was to describe the social networks of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) and explore the implications social network characteristics might have for mobilizing PLHA as …

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AIDS Policy in Uganda: Evidence, Ideology and the Making of an African Success Story John Kinsman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 240 pp
Green Edward C.
2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2012.01439_7.x

The article reviews the book "AIDS Policy in Uganda: Evidence, Ideology and the Making of an African Success Story," by John Kinsman.

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"The ""Ten Commandments"" of Treating Preschool Children who Wheeze"
Green Robin J, Halkas Andrew, Weinberg Eugene
2012

"Wheezing in young children is problematic for most practitioners. Difficulties arise in both the diagnosis and management of this clinical phenotype. Not all preschool children who wheeze have asthma. Therefore; …

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