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Improving healthcare: A guide to roll-out best practices
Ham-Baloyi W.T., Minnie K., van der Walt C.
2020
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v20i3.55

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 …

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African and Asian Zika virus strains differentially induce early antiviral responses in primary human astrocytes
Hamel R, Ferraris P, Wichit S, Diop F, Talignani L, Pompon J, Garcia D, Liegeois F, Sall AA, Yssel H, Misse D
2017
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2017.01.015

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 …

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Global threat from drug resistant HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
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 …

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Patterns of HIV-1 drug resistance after first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) failure in 6 sub-saharan african countries: Implications for second-line ART strategies
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.
2012
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis254
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Availability of Therapies and Services for Parkinson's Disease in Africa: A Continent-Wide Survey
Hamid E., Ayele B.A., Massi D.G., Ben Sassi S., Tibar H., Djonga E.E., El-Sadig S.M., Amer El Khedoud W., Razafimahefa J., Kouame-Assouan A.E., Ben-Adji D., Lengané Y.T.M., Musubire A.K., Mohamed M.H., Phiri T.E., Nestor N., Alwahchi W.A., Neshuku S.N., Ocampo C., Sakadi F., Maidal M.A., Ngwende G.W., Hooker J., Okeng'o K., Charway-Felli A., Atadzhanov M., Carr J., Okubadejo N.U., Shalash A.
2021
DOI: 10.1002/mds.28669

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 …

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Evaluating the impact of targeting livestock for the prevention of human and animal trypanosomiasis, at village level, in districts newly affected with T-b. rhodesiense in Uganda
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 …

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Challenges of rapid plasma reagin interpretation in syphilis screening in Uganda: Variability in nontreponemal results between different laboratories
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 …

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P241âUgandan men with urethritis, what can diagnostic certainty tell us?
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 …

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Ugandan men with urethritis, what can diagnostic certainty tell us?
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. …

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