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Sublingual Misoprostol versus Intramuscular Oxytocin for Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Uganda
(PLoS Med, 2014)
Background: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal death in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the World
Health Organization recommends use of oxytocin for prevention of PPH, misoprostol use is increasingly ...
Acute toxicity, antipyretic and antinociceptive study of the crude saponin from an edible vegetable
(Int. J. Biol. Chem. Sci., 2012)
Vernonia amygdalina is commonly used for food and health purposes. Processing of the leaf for food is
aimed at removing bitter tasting antinutritional principles like saponins. This study was designed to determine
the ...
Children’s Wellbeing in an Orphanage in Kole District, Uganda.
(UNICEF., 2014)
This study explored the views of orphaned children about how they perceived and described their wellbeing in an orphanage which is located in the rural area of Kole District in Northern Uganda, East Africa. Recent reports ...
Science-based health innovation in Rwanda:unlocking the potential of a late bloomer
(BMC, 2010-12-13)
This paper describes and analyses Rwanda’s science-based health product‘innovation system’,highlighting examples of indigenous innovation and good practice. We use an innovation systems framework,which takes into account ...
Mobile Money Services
(African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research, 2012)
The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) to establish whether the growth in mobile commerce in Uganda has disadvantaged commercial banks in way that their liquidity has been indirectly stolen (Pickens, 2009) and (ii)to ...
Burundi Refugees’ Influx: A Threat or a Blessing to Uganda’s Social Service Delivery.
(Mbarara University of Science and Technology Faculty Of Interdisciplinary Studies., 2018-09)
Back Ground: Social Service delivery to refugees is part of the human rights promotion interventions and in Uganda, it is enshrined1 in the Refugees Act 2006 and Refugees Regulations 2010, which are part of the global ...
Social capital
(International Journal of Commerce and Management, 2013)
Purpose – The paper examined the mediating effect of social capital in the relationship between
social intermediation and financial services in Ugandan micro finance industry. The purpose of this
paper is to establish ...
Reluctant to return?The primacy of social networks in the repatriation of Rwandan refugees in Uganda
(University of Oxford, 2014-08)
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) keeps watch over approximately 45.2 million people who have fled the world’s conflicts, 80 percent of whom arefound in developing countries (UNHCR 2012a; Zetter ...
A Survey on Algorithms for Limited Resources Optimization and Utilization by Games on Smartphones
(International Journal of Computer Applications, 2016)
Smartphones have been characterized by their limited
computational resources such as battery life, processor
performance and storage capacity. The above mentioned
limitations can be overcome by utilizing mobile ...
Obstructed labour and Birth preparedness: Community studies from Uganda
(Lund University, 2012-02-03)
Labour is said to be obstructed when the presenting part fails to descend through the birth canal despite strong uterine contractions. The condition is mostly prevalent in low-income countries where the main causes are ...