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Can Changes in Service Delivery Models Improve Program Quality and Efficiency? A Closer Look at HIV Programs in Kenya and Uganda
Asiimwe S, Fakoya A, Kandasami S, Shobiye H, Inimah M, Etukoit M, Morrison L, Johnson M, Dybul M
2019
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002064

Background: With the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment, many health facilities in low- and middle-income countries have implemented innovative practices targeted at overcoming operational challenges and delivering efficient quality HIV services. …

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Novel Risk Factors Associated with Hepatitis E Virus Infection in a Large Outbreak in Northern Uganda Results from a Case-Control Study and Environmental Analysis
Howard CM, Handzel T, Hill VR, Grytdal SP, Blanton C, Kamili S, Drobeniuc J, Hu D, Teshale E
2010
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2010.10-0384

An outbreak of hepatitis E virus (HEV) began in October 2007 in northern Uganda To determine risk factors and sources for ongoing transmission we conducted both a case-control study and …

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Intermittent preventive treatment against malaria: an update
Gosling Roly D
2010
DOI: 10.1586/eri.10.36

Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) against malaria is a malaria control strategy aimed at reducing the burden of malaria in certain high-risk groups, namely pregnant women and children. Three strategies - …

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Inadequate evidence on stillbirths: rethinking public health
Kiguli J., Kirunda R., Nabaliisa J., Nalwadda C.K.
2021
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01639-1
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Gender, alcohol and intimate partner violence: Qualitative comparative study
Holmila M, Beccaria F, Ibanga A, Graham K, Hettige S, Magri R, Munne M, Plant M, Rolando S, Tumwesigye N
2014
DOI: 10.3109/09687637.2014.911245

Aims: The study compares young adults' cultural understandings of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its connections with alcohol use and gender roles.Data and analyses: Comparative focus group interview data were …

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Erratum to: Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power (EQUIP): Protocol for a quasi-experimental study to improve maternal and newborn health in Tanzania and Uganda [Implement Sci. 9, (2014) 41, DOI:10.1186/1748-5908-9-41]
Waiswa P., Hanson C., Marchant T., Marx M., Manzi F., Mbaruku G., Rowe A., Tomson G., Schellenberg J., Peterson S.
2015
DOI: 10.1186/s13012-015-0343-9
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ASSESSING THE VALUE FOR MONEY IN PUBLIC CONTRACTS AT LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Gilbert Sendugwa
2020

The second contracts monitoring process follows the first one that accessed contracts in the same sixdistricts for the FY 2018/19. The process was aimed at assessing the implementation of the …

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Past, Present, and Future of Neurosurgery in Uganda
Haglund MM, Kiryabwire J, Muhumuza M, Warf B, Fuller A, Freischlag K, Ssenyonjo H, Mukasa J, Mugamba J
2017
DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyw159

Neurosurgery in Uganda was virtually non-existent up until late 1960s. This changed when Dr. Jovan Kiryabwire spearheaded development of a neurosurgical unit at Mulago Hospital in Kampala. His work ethic …

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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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