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Levels of Hydroquinone, Selected Heavy Metals (Hg, Pb, As) and Chemical requirements in Some Skin Lightening Creams Sold in Mbarara Municipality
(European Journal of Physical Sciences, 2021)In this study, Skin-lightening creams commonly sold in Mbarara municipality were analyzed for chemical parameters (pH, thermal stability and fatty substance content), total hydroquinone, Lead, Mercury, and Arsenic contents. ... -
Leveraging Data Science for Global Health
(Springer Nature., 2020)Background Healthcare systems function as an important component and a contributing factor in global health. The application of information technology (IT) in healthcare systems function as a basis for the utilization of ... -
Leveraging tele-mentoring and remote learning to strengthen the emergency care capacity of health workers in Uganda
(African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2023)Background: A robust emergency care system is a cost-effective method of reducing preventable death and dis- ability, especially in low-and middle-income countries. To scale emergency care expertise across the country, the ... -
The lifeways of small-scale gold miners: Addressing sustainability transformations
(Global Environmental Change, 2023)Small-scale gold mining sustains millions of people’s lives and yet it stimulates environmental harms and social conflicts. Global environmental crises drive calls for fundamental change to how people live on the planet. ... -
Ligand-protein interactions of plant-isolated (9z,12z)-octadeca-9,12-dienoic acid with B-ketoacyl-Acp synthase (KasA) in potential anti-tubercular drug designing
(Scientific African, 2021)Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the world’s contributors to mortality. With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 coinfections, patients with TB are predisposed to being more heavily weighed down by COVID-19 disease and ... -
Ligand-protein interactions of plant-isolated (9z,12z)-octadeca-9,12-dienoic acid with B-ketoacyl-Acp synthase (KasA) in potential anti-tubercular drug designing
(Scientific African, 2020)Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the world’s contributors to mortality. With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 coinfections, patients with TB are predisposed to being more heavily weighed down by COVID-19 disease and ... -
Limited threat of Plasmodium falciparum pfhrp2 and pfhrp3 gene deletion to the utility of HRP2-based malaria RDTs in Northern Uganda
(Malaria Journal, 2024)Background: Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) that detect Plasmodium falciparum histidine-rich protein-2 (PfHRP2) are exclusively deployed in Uganda, but deletion of the pfhrp2/3 target gene threatens their usefulness as malaria ... -
Linkage to HIV Care Following HIV Self‑testing Among Men: Systematic Review of Quantitative and Qualitative Studies from Six Countries in Sub‑Saharan Africa
(AIDS and Behavior, 2023)Gender disparities are pervasive throughout the HIV care continuum in sub-Saharan Africa, with men testing, receiving treatment, and achieving viral suppression at lower rates, and experiencing mortality at higher rates, ... -
Linking Conservation to the Implementation of Revenue Sharing Policy and Livelihood Improvement of People Bordering Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(2015-11)Twinamatsiko, M. E. D. A. R. D. (2015). Linking Conservation to the implementation of Revenue Sharing Policy and Livelihood Improvement of people bordering Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (Doctoral dissertation, Institute ... -
Linking Conservation, Equity and Poverty Alleviation: Understanding profiles and motivations of resource users and local perceptions of governance at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(International Institute for Environment and Development, 2014-08)Biodiversity conservation that contributes towards poverty alleviation is a priority under the 2011–2020 Strategic Plan for the Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD). Protected areas are important for CBD signatories ... -
Linking Protected Area Conservation with Poverty Alleviation In Uganda: Integrated Conservation And Development at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(Nova Science Publishers, 2013)This chapter we seek to review the Ugandan context of conservation-poverty linkages and evaluate ICD at Bwindi as a tool for achieving conservation through poverty alleviation. By identifying lessons learnt from Uganda and ... -
Links between anthropogenic perturbations and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in Afromontane forest streams in Uganda
(Springer 2006, 2006-03)Relationships between environmental variables and benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages were investigated among several sites that varied in disturbance history in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an Afromontane site in ... -
Liquid biopsy: Exosomal microRNAs as novel diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in cancer
(Molecular Cancer, 2022)Background: Detecting cancer at an early stage before clinical manifestation could be an effective strategy to decrease cancer mortality. Thus, identifying liquid biopsy biomarkers with high efficacy could be a promising ... -
Liquidity Management and Financial Performance of SACCOs in Bushenyi District
(Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies, 2023)The main objective of this paper is to examine the association between elements of liquidity management and the financial performance of SACCOs in Bushenyi District. This research was conducted through a cross-sectional ... -
The Lived Experience of Patients with Leprosy at Kagando Hospital, Uganda
(World Journal of Public Health, 2017)Though the world health assembly passed a resolution to “eliminate leprosy as a public health problem” by 2000, the disease is still common in many countries worldwide. Leprosy deforms and disables but seldom kills so that ... -
Lived experiences of Ugandan women who had recovered from a clinical diagnosis of postpartum depression: a phenomenological study
(BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021-12-13)Background: Postpartum depression affects a significant proportion of women of childbearing age. The birth of a newborn baby is normally considered a joyful event, inhibiting mothers from expressing their depressive ... -
Loan Pricing, Savings Intermediation, Microfinance Deposit Taking Institutions (MDIs) and Loan Costs.
(2011)The paper examined individual contribution of loan pricing and financial intermediation to loan costs. Its purpose was to explore the extent to which predictor variables (loan pricing and ... -
Loan pricing, financial intermediation and Loan costs in Uganda’s deposit taking Institutions
(African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research, 2011)The paper examined individual contribution of loan pricing and financial intermediation to loan costs. Its purpose was to explore the extent to which predictor variables (loan pricing and financial intermediation) explain ... -
A local assessment of the impacts of fifteen years of BMCT interventions
(BWINDI MGAHINGA CONSERVATION TRUST, 2013)This Assessment Project was solicited by the Bwindi Mgahinga Conservation Trust (BMCT, hereafter referred to as the Trust) to examine impacts of Trust interventions in the Bwindi and Mgahinga Conservation Area (BMCA) and ... -
Local Integration as a Durable Solution?
(Institute of Development Policy, 2017-12)Despite multiple attempts over the last 15 years, Uganda has been unable to find a durable solution for a group of approximately 17,000 Rwandan refugees living on its soil. The cessation of their refugee status has been ...