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Lack of Family Planning is an Avoidable Cause of Maternal and Child Death in Uganda
(BMJ Glob Health, 2016)Reduction of maternal and child mortality is universally accepted as a desirable goal. However, the same is not true for family planning. In Uganda, a developing country with high maternal and child deaths, 12% of pregnancies ... -
The Lancet Global Health Commission on Global Eye Health: vision beyond 2020
(The Lancet Global Health Commission, 2021)Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, sustainable development, and the economy. Yet nowadays, many people, families, and populations continue to suffer the ... -
Land Grabbing and Oil Industry, Implications for Women’s Land Rights and Oil Industry in Uganda
(Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), 2018-12)The discovery of oil in any country is met with joy and jubilation for its prospective contribution to development. This is no different for Uganda. The need for land to pave way for oil exploitation and exploration as ... -
Land Grabbing in Albertine Graben, Implications for Women’s Land Rights and Oil Industry in Uganda
(Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD, 2018-12)The discovery of oil in any country is met with Joy and jubilation for its prospective contribution to development. This is no different for Uganda. The need for land to pave way for oil exploitation and exploration as ... -
Laparotomies under lumbar spinal Anaesthesia: a feasibility study
(Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2016-09)Background & Objectives: Laparotomies are normally performed under general anaesthesia (GA). Inadequate human resource, inconsistencies in drug supplies coupled with inadequacies in the available equipment in low resource ... -
Late Holocene Trends of Phytoplankton Productivity and Anoxia as Inferred From Diatom and Geochemical Proxies in Lake Victoria, Eastern Africa
(Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union., 2013-11-12)Lake Victoria ecosystem has undergone major ecological changes in the recent decades. Sedimentary diatom analysis and Fe/Mn determined by Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) have provided phytoplankton (diatom) ... -
Late-Holocene environmental variability at Munsa archaeological site, Uganda: a multicore, multiproxy approach
(ResearchGate, 2005-03-04)Abstract: Palaeoenvironmental data, in the form of 113 counts of pollen, fungal spores and charcoal abundances, 121 counts of phytoliths and 15 AMS 14C dates (11 macrofossil and 4 bulk sediment samples), have provided a ... -
Lay Health Workers in Community-Based Care and Management of Dementia: A Qualitative ‘Pre’ and ‘Post’ Intervention Study in Southwestern Uganda
(2021)Background. The global need for efficient and cost-effective use of healthcare resources in low-income countries has led to the introduction of lay health workers (LHWs) as a link of the community to healthcare services. ... -
Lay workers in directly observed treatment (DOT) programmes for tuberculosis in high burden settings: Should they be paid? A review of behavioural perspectives
(African Health Sciences, 2002-08)The current global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic has pressured health care managers, particularly in developing countries, to seek for alternative, innovative ways of delivering effective treatment to the large number of TB ... -
An LCMS method for the assay of melittin in cosmetic formulations containing bee venom
(Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2015)There is a growing interest in the potential of bee venom in cosmetics as a rejuvenating agent. Products currently on the market do not specify exactly their content of bee venom (BV). Therefore, we developed a method for ... -
Learning from People with HIV: Their Insights are Critical to Our Response to the Intersecting COVID‑19 and HIV Pandemics in Africa
(AIDS and Behavior, 2020-06-30)Nearly 70% of the global population of people with HIV (PWH) live in sub-Saharan Africa, in countries that are likely to be severely impacted by the rising third wave of COVID-19. The first case of COVID-19 in Sub Saharan ... -
Learning from People with HIV: Their Insights are Critical to Our Response to the Intersecting COVID‑19 and HIV Pandemics in Africa
(AIDS and Behavior, 2020)Nearly 70% of the global population of people with HIV (PWH) live in sub-Saharan Africa, in countries that are likely to be severely impacted by the rising third wave of COVID-19. The first case of COVID-19 in Sub Saharan ... -
The legal status of refugee protection and state obligations in Uganda
(Us-China Law Review, 2016)Uganda is a host country to refugees from neighboring countries affected by conflicts and war. According to UNHCR, by the end of 2015, Uganda was the 8th and 3rd top refugee hosting country in the world and Africa respectively. ... -
Length of stay of hospitalized patients at tertiary psychiatry facilities in Uganda: the role of caregiver’s presence
(Discover Mental Health, 2022-07-04)Background: Whether the presence of caregivers during the hospital stay of patients with mental illness affects the length of hospital stay (LoS) remains inconclusive. Aims (1) To determine the average LoS and the associated ... -
Less Noise, More Hacking: How to Deploy Principles from MIT’s Hacking Medicine to Accelerate Health Care
(International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2014)Medical technology offers enormous potential for scalable medicine to improve the quality and access in health care while simultaneously reducing cost. However, current medical device innovation within companies often only ... -
Lessons Learned From and Future Opportunities for Global Health Endeavors by 2 Academic Gastroenterology Units
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Let all know: insights from a digital storytelling facilitator training in Uganda
(Global health action, 2021)Background: Digital storytelling (DST) is a participatory, arts-based methodology that facilitates the creation of short films called digital stories. Both the DST process and resulting digital stories can be used for ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
