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ADHERENCE TO A SIX-DOSE REGIMEN OF ARTEMETHER-LUMEFANTRINE FOR TREATMENT OF UNCOMPLICATED PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA IN UGANDA
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene., 200)Measuring baseline levels of adherence and identifying risk factors for non-adherence are important steps beforetheintroductionofnewantimalarials.InMbararainsouthwesternUganda,weassessedadherencetoartemetherlumefantrine ... -
Lowenstein-Jensen Selective Medium for Reducing Contamination in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Culture
(JCM, 214-07)We compared Mycobacterium tuberculosis sputum culture recovery and contamination rates between Lowenstein-Jensenmedium(LJ)containing the following decontaminants and LJalone:(i)PANTA(n 299),(ii) Selectatab-MB(n 299),and(iii) ... -
Blindness in Africa: Zimbabwe schools for the blind survey
(Br J Ophthalmol, 1993-07-01)An ophthalmic assessment survey of 430 students in Zimbabwe's two schools for the blind was conducted in 1988. Bilateral corneal opacity was found to be responsible for 75% of all blindness among institutionalised blind ... -
Regeneration of indigenous trees inMgahinga Gorilla National Park, Uganda
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Malaria morbidity and mortality in Uganda
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Ecological recovery of an afromontane forest in southwestern Uganda
(African Journal of Ecology, 2004)A study of the regeneration of an Afromontane forest was carried out in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP), south-western Uganda. The area landscape has been subjected to agricultural encroachment for the last 50 years. ... -
Crop raiding around Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
(African Journal of Ecology, 2004)In areas around lake mburo national park, large wild animals wander in close proximity t human settlements. This poses serious conflicts in terms of crop damage. This integration of conservation with other land uses is ... -
Gap characteristics and regeneration in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(African Journal of Ecology, 2004)Before Bwindi Impenetrable forest, Uganda, became a national park in 1991, there was a high level of human activity in much of the forest, especially cutting of large trees for timber by pit sawyers. This created extensive ... -
Differential Effects of Chronic Ethanol Administration and Withdrawal on -Aminobutyric Acid Type A and NMDA Receptor Subunit Proteins in Male and Female Rat Brain
(2004-06)Background: Investigations have shown that chronic ethanol exposure results in selective alterations in levels of -aminobutyric acid (GABA)A and NMDA receptor subunits. We previously reported significant sex differences ... -
Building Social Capital in Uganda: The Role of NGOs in Mitigating HIV/AIDS Challenges
(ISTR (International Society for third Sector Rearch), 2004-07-11)Social Capital is an important explanatory variable for performance of different nation states as well as improved livelihoods of people in different countries. The paper explores the process by which social capital is ... -
Local People’s Attitudes And New Demands Since Inception Of Multiple Use Programme In Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S. W. Uganda
(publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication, 2004-08)Since the inception of multiple use programme in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) in 1994, many changes have taken place. Local community demands for resources from the park have changed and evidently the programme ... -
Indigenous techniques for assessing and monitoring range resources in East Africa
(World Agroforestry Centre, 2005)Local knowledge, which refers to a social activity that has been set up primarily as a result of local initiative, or techniques that are endogenously generated, enforced and maintained has not been mainstreamed in ... -
Can Governance in Revenue Sharing Be a Pathway for a Win-win Situation between People’s Livelihood Improvement and Conservation?
(Journal of social science research, 2005)This paper establishes the importance of good governance in improving local livelihoods and support for conservation The study uses empirical realities from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an Afromontane Gorilla sanctuary ... -
Abundance, Distribution, Utilisation and Conservation of Sinarundinaria alpinain Bwindi and Mgahinga Forest National Parks, South West Uganda
(.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol3/, 2005)Sinarundinaria alpina (Schumann) C.S. Chao & Renvoise, a tropical African montane bamboo, is heavily used by lo-cal communities for household items such as granaries, baskets, ropes and trays. This article presents ... -
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 ... -
Africa’s earliest bananas?
(Journal of Archaeological Science, 2005-06-28)The recent discovery of banana phytoliths dating to the first millennium BC in Cameroon has ignited debate about the timing ofthe introduction of this important food crop to Africa. This paper presents new phytolith evidence ... -
Paint on their lips Paint-sniffers, good citizens and public space in Brisbane
(The Australian Sociological Association, 2006)This article describes structured responses to young Indigenous people whose paint-sniffing in Brisbane attracts public attention. It gives an emic account of the sniffers’ responses to these processes and argues that ... -
Causes of Small Business Failure in Uganda: A Case Study from Bushenyi and Mbarara Towns 1
(African Studies Quarterly, 2006)Abstract: The privatization drive and the Civil and Public Service reforms that began in the early 1990s in Uganda laid a foundation for an increased number of small business enterprises. By 2002, small scale enterprises ... -
Causes of Small Business Failure in Uganda: A Case Study from Bushenyi and Mbarara Towns
(African Studies Quarterly, 2006)The privatization drive and the Civil and Public Service reforms that began in the early 1990s in Uganda laid a foundation for an increased number of small business enterprises. By 2002, small scale enterprises were ... -
Plant harvest impacts and sustainability in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, S.W. Uganda
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2006)Sustainable utilization of forest resources has been widely adopted as a conservation strategy, but that sustainability has rarely been empirically tested. Plant resource extraction from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park ...
