Background: Best practices comprise recent, relevant, and helpful nursing practices, methods, interventions, procedures or techniques based on high-quality evidence. Best practices should be implemented to improve individual patientsâ health outcomes …
ZIKA virus (ZIKV) is a newly emerging arbovirus. Since its discovery 60 years ago in Uganda, it has spread throughout the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, emphasizing the capacity …
Kityo Cissy,
Hamers Raph,
Lange Joep M. A.,
Rinke de Wit Tobias F.,
Mugyenyi Peter
2012
The article reports on the rising rate of HIV drug resistance and its public health implications in sub-Saharan Africa. It shows that the development of drug resistance was worsened by …
Kityo C.,
Hamers R.L.,
Sigaloff K.C.E.,
Wensing A.M.,
Wallis C.L.,
Siwale M.,
Mandaliya K.,
Ive P.,
Botes M.E.,
Wellington M.,
Osibogun A.,
Stevens W.S.,
Rinke De Wit T.F.,
Schuurman R.
Background: The growing burden of Parkinson's disease (PD) in Africa necessitates the identification of available therapies and services to improve patient care. Objective: To investigate the availability, affordability, frequency of …
Bardosh KL,
Picozzi K,
Waiswa C,
Welburn SC,
Hamill L,
Fyfe J,
von Wissmann B,
Wastling S,
Wardrop N,
Selby R,
Acup CA,
Muhanguzi D,
Kabasa JD
2017
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-016-0224-8
Background: Uganda has suffered from a series of epidemics of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), a tsetse transmitted disease, also known as sleeping sickness. The area affected by acute Trypanosoma brucei …
Manabe Y C,
Parkes-Ratanshi R,
Nakku-Joloba E,
Hamill M M,
Mbazira K J,
Kiragga A N,
Gaydos C A,
Jett-Goheen M,
Rompalo A
2018
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000883
Background Syphilis is a cause of morbidity and mortality and is of particular concern in pregnancy in low-income countries because of the risks associated with maternal-fetal transmission. Ugandan national guidelines …
Hamill M,
Manabe Y,
Melendez J,
Kyambadde P,
Onzia A,
Atuheirwe M,
Wang T
2021
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2021-sti.323
BackgroundLaboratory infrastructure is limited in Uganda; syndromic case management is used to treat sexually transmitted infections (STI). Progress in addressing the HIV epidemic is threatened by uncontrolled STI transmission. We …
Manabe Y.,
Hamill M.,
Melendez J.,
Onzia A.,
Atuheirwe M.,
Kyambadde P.,
Wang T.
2021
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2021-sti.323
Background Laboratory infrastructure is limited in Uganda; syndromic case management is used to treat sexually transmitted infections (STI). Progress in addressing the HIV epidemic is threatened by uncontrolled STI transmission. …