Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies: Recent submissions
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The Potential of Deep Learning Object Detection in Citizen-Driven Snail Host Monitoring to Map Putative Disease Transmission Sites
(Citizen Science: Theory and Practice., 2024)Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic flukes transmitted by freshwater snails. Despite increasing efforts of mass drug administration, schistosomiasis remains a public health concern and the ... -
Perspectives on health, illness, disease and management approaches among Baganda traditional spiritual healers in Central Uganda
(PLOS Global Public Health, 2024)In Uganda, spirituality is closely associated with traditional healthcare; however, though prevalent, it is considered controversial, mystical, less documented and often misunderstood. There is a paucity of literature on ... -
Does Equity Matter in Natural Resource and Livelihood Benefits? Revenue Sharing Policy Implementation at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024)This paper presents and interprets key parameters within Revenue Sharing policy implementation framework and links them to people’s livelihood improvement and conservation. This study creates a linkage between equitable ... -
First evidence on the occurrence of multi‑mycotoxins and dietary risk exposure to AFB1 along the cassava value chain in Uganda
(Mycotoxin Research, 2024)This study investigated the occurrence and distribution of multiple mycotoxins (aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, G2, fumonisins B1, B2, ochratoxin A (OTA), deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone (ZEN), and citrinin (CIT)) in cassava ... -
Land Tenure Regimes and Women’s Land Rights in Uganda; Legality and the Land Legal Framework.
(Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 2021)A review on the implications of land tenure regimes on women’s land rights is relevant in the Ugandan context and other countries in Africa due to the fact that land is in many ways the most important productive resource ... -
Vulnerability, resilience, and integration of elderly South Sudanese refugees in Uganda: A Case study of Pagirinya settlement in Adjumani district.
(Universiteit Antwerpen, Institute of Development Policy, 2024)This policy brief is based on the research project financed as part of a grant from the Flemish Interuniversity council (VLIRUOS) under the broad theme: “Making Refugee Integration Sustainable: In Search of Durable Relations ... -
The Nexus between Gendered Power Relations and Socioeconomic Livelihoods of Female-Headed Households: Evidence from Uganda
(American Research Journal of Humanities & Social Science (ARJHSS), 2024-07)Managing a home is traditionally appreciated as the role-sharing phenomenon between a man and woman with their children at some point. Over time, there has been an evolution of family structure not only here in Uganda but ... -
Women Productive Resource Ownership and their Contribution to the Changing Family Patterns in Ankole Sub-Region, Uganda
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024)This study explores how changes in family dynamics, particularly marriage and gender roles, in the Ankole Sub-region are influenced by women’s economic empowerment, specifically through their access and control over ... -
Does Equity Matter in Natural Resource and Livelihood Benefits? Revenue Sharing Policy Implementation at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2024)This paper presents and interprets key parameters within Revenue Sharing policy implementation framework and links them to people’s livelihood improvement and conservation. This study creates a linkage between equitable ... -
Assessment of the Efficiency of Problematic Animal Interventions in Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflicts in Uganda: A Case Study of Lake Mburo National Park
(International Journal of Advanced Research, 2024)Human-wildlife conflict is a significant challenge in Uganda, particularly in areas where human populations and wildlife habitats overlap. This study examines the efficiency of various interventions aimed at mitigating ... -
The scale, forms and distribution of volunteering amongst refugee youth populations in Uganda
(Population, Space and Place, 2024)Geographies of volunteering have examined the relationships between people, places and forms of voluntary action, but there has been limited geographical scholarship on the scales, forms and distribution of volunteering ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and practices toward female genital schistosomiasis among community women and healthcare professionals in Kimpese region, Democratic Republic of Congo
(PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2024)Background: Chronic infection with Schistosoma haematobium causes female genital schistosomiasis (FGS), which leads to diverse lesions in the female genital tract and several complications, including infertility and a ... -
Correction: Induced abortion: a crosssectional study on knowledge of and attitudes toward the new abortion law in Maputo and Quelimane cities, Mozambique
(BMC Women's Health, 2024)Following publication of the original article [1], the author noticed the errors in Table 4, and the text part in the Results section. In Table 4, under Benefit (Bivariate and Multiple logistic regression) column, the ... -
Protracted refugee situations and the shrinking durable solutions: could there be a ray of hope in local solutions.
(Cogent Social Sciences, 2024)The phenomenon of protracted refugee situations and the conditions of refugees living in the same situation have renewed debates on durable refugee solutions. despite the international provision for durable refugee solutions, ... -
Greed or Grievance? Linking Revenue Sharing Implementation to Unauthorised Resource Use and Conservation Support at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
(International Journal of Advanced Research, 2024)Revenue sharing is considered a major incentive to promote Community Based Approaches to conservation of protected areas. The sharing of revenue from Protected Area resources is supported by conservationists to promote ... -
Effect of women’s intra-household bargaining power on postnatal and infant healthcare in rural Uganda–Results from a cross sectional survey in Kyenjojo district
(Midwifery, 2020)Global estimates by the United Nations inter-agency group for child mortality show that as of 2017, under-five mortality rate had decreased by 58%, from an estimated rate of 93 deaths per 1000 liv births in 1990 to 39 deaths ... -
Very young adolescent perceptions of growing up in rural southwest Uganda: Influences on sexual development and behavior
(African Journal of Reproductive Health, 2021)Very young adolescents (VYAs) are at the beginning of major physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that will set the course for a lifetime of health risks or resilience and yet, they have been largely an invisible ... -
Integrating Adolescent Mental Health into HIV Prevention and Treatment Programs: Can Implementation Science Pave the Path Forward?
(AIDS and Behavior, 2023)Adolescent mental health (AMH) is a critical driver of HIV outcomes, but is often overlooked in HIV research and programming. The implementation science Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, Sustainment (EPIS) framework ... -
Experiences of Sexuality Education Educators in Secondary Schools of Mbarara Municipality, Uganda
(Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2024)While schools in Uganda have sexuality education implementation programs in place, adolescents enrolled in school continue to have considerable concerns about sexuality. This indicates that there is still a gap in the ... -
Collaboration or Contravention? Ramifications For Effective Participatory Decision-Making in Collaborative Forest Management at Echuya Central Forest Reserve, South Western Uganda
(East African Journal of Forestry & Agroforestry, 2024)Participatory decision-making has been extensively adopted worldwide as an essential mechanism and a good governance principle to reach a consensus in natural resource management. However, in most communities, local people ...
