Department of Peadiatrics and Child Health: Recent submissions
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Needle-stick injuries in an Ugandan teaching hospital
(Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 2002)The on-going HIV epidemic has generally increased fear of needle-stick injuries (NSI) and renewed interest in the problem such injuries pose in Africa. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the frequency of NSI, ... -
Caregiver Perceptions and Motivation for Disclosing or Concealing the Diagnosis of HIV Infection to Children Receiving HIV Care in Mbarara, Uganda: A Qualitative Study
(2014-03-25)Background: Disclosure of the diagnosis of HIV to HIV-infected children is challenging for caregivers. Despite current recommendations, data suggest that levels of disclosure of HIV status to HIV-infected children receiving ... -
Cell phone usage among adolescents in Uganda: acceptability for relaying health information
(HEALTH EDUCATION RESEARCH, 2011-03-15)The increase in cell phone use has manifested a growing interest in using this technology for health promotion. The portability and ‘always on’ features of the cell phone, along with increasing capability for the devices ... -
Separating Putative Pathogens from Background Contamination with Principal Orthogonal Decomposition: Evidence for Leptospira in the Ugandan Neonatal Septisome
(Frontiers in Medicine, 2016-06-09)Neonatal sepsis (NS) is responsible for over a 1 million yearly deaths worldwide. In the developing world NS is often treated without an identified microbial pathogen. Amplicon sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene can ... -
The importance of how research participants think they are perceived
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018-11-29)Novel monitoring technologies in HIV research, such as electronic adherence monitors (EAMs), have changed the nature of researcher-participant interactions. Yet little is known about how EAMs and the resulting interaction ... -
Predictors of mortality in neonates and infants hospitalized with sepsis or serious infections in developing countries
(Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018-10)Background: Neonates and infants comprise the majority of the 6 million annual deaths under 5 years of age around the world. Most of these deaths occur in low/middle income countries (LMICs) and are preventable. However, ... -
Application of sepsis definitions to pediatric patients admitted with suspected infections in Uganda
(A journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2017-05)Objectives: Acute infectious diseases are the most common cause of under-5 mortality. However, the hospital burden of non-neonatal pediatric sepsis has not previously been described in the resource poor setting. The objective ... -
Pneumonia in HIV-Exposed and Infected Children and Association with Malnutrition
(Pediatr Infect Dis J, 2019-10)We evaluated the association between HIV exposed-uninfected (HEU) status, malnutrition, and risk of death in Ugandan children hospitalized with pneumonia. Both HIV exposure and infection were associated with lower ... -
Scheduled Follow-Up Referrals and Simple Prevention Kits Including Counseling to Improve Post-Discharge Outcomes Among Children in Uganda: A Proof-of-Concept Study
(Global Health: Science and Practice, 2016)Background: Recurrent illness following hospital discharge is a major contributor to childhood mortality in resource poor countries. Yet post-discharge care is largely ignored by health care workers and policy makers due ... -
Selecting candidate predictor variables for the modelling of post-discharge mortality from sepsis: a protocol development project
(African health sciences, 2016)Background: Post-discharge mortality is a frequent but poorly recognized contributor to child mortality in resource limited countries. The identification of children at high risk for post-discharge mortality is a critically ... -
Successful implementation of Helping Babies Survive and Helping Mothers Survive programsÐAn Utstein formula for newborn and maternal survival
(PloS one, 2017)Globally, the burden of deaths and illness is still unacceptably high at the day of birth. Annually, approximately 300.000 women die related to childbirth, 2.7 million babies die within their first month of life, and 2.6 ... -
Efforts towards the development of new pediatric sepsis definitions
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Pediatric sepsis in the developing world:Challenges in defining sepsis and issues in post-discharge mortality
(2012)Sepsis represents the progressive underlying inflammatory pathway secondary to any infectious illness, and ultimately is responsible for most infectious disease-related deaths. Addressing issues related to sepsis has ... -
Pediatric out-of-hospital deaths following hospital discharge
(African Health Sciences, 2016)Background: Out-of-hospital death among children living in resource poor settings occurs frequently. Little is known about the location and circumstances of child death following a hospital discharge. Objectives: This ... -
Digital Health Innovations, Tools, and Resources to Support Helping Babies Survive Programs
(Pediatrics, 2020-10)The Helping Babies Survive (HBS) initiative features a suite of evidence-based curricula and abstract simulation-based training programs designed to provide health workers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with ... -
Internet Use among Ugandan Adolescents: Implications for HIV Intervention
(PLoS Medicine, 2006-11-07)Background: The Internet is fast gaining recognition as a powerful, low-cost method to deliver health intervention and prevention programs to large numbers of young people across diverse geographic regions. The feasibility ... -
Development of a novel mobile application, HBB Prompt, with human factors and user‑centred design for Helping Babies Breathe skills retention in Uganda
(BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2021-02-04)Background: Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) is a life-saving program that has helped reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality, but knowledge and skills retention after training remains a significant challenge for sustainability ... -
Heterogeneous decrease in malaria prevalence in children over a six-year period in south-western Uganda
(Malaria Journal, 2011)Background: Malaria is a major public health problem, especially for children. However, recent reports suggest a decline in the malaria burden. The aim of this study was to assess the change in the prevalence of malaria ... -
Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding and Early Infant Male Circumcision in Africa
(Obstetrics and gynecology, 2013-08)Background: Early infant (1–60 days of life) male circumcision is being trialed in Africa as a human immuno-deficiency virus prevention strategy. Post circumcision bleeding is particularly concerning where most infants are ... -
Healthcare providers and caregivers’ perspectives on factors responsible for persistent malnutrition of under 5 children in Buhweju district, South Western Uganda; a phenomenological qualitative study
(BMC public health, 2021)Background: Unacceptably high levels of childhood malnutrition have been registered in all regions of Uganda over the years. Buhweju district alone contributed 46% prevalence of childhood malnutrition to the 47.8% estimated ...
