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Exploring environmental impacts and responses in the conduit to sustainability accounting in an African country
(International Journal of Environment and Pollution Research, 2015)
The purpose of this study is to explore environmental impacts and responses in Uganda, an African country where a sustainability accounting approach is of growing significance and relevance. This is still a relatively new ...
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 ...
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 ...
A cross-sectional mixed-methods study of sexual and reproductive health knowledge, experiences and access to services among refugee adolescent girls in the Nakivale refugee settlement, Uganda
(Reproductive Health, 2019)
Background: Humanitarian crises and migration make girls and women more vulnerable to poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes. Nevertheless, there is still a dearth of information on SRH outcomes and access to ...
A Systematic Review of Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge, Experiences and Access to Services among Refugee, Migrant and Displaced Girls and Young Women in Africa
(International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018-07-26)
Adolescent girls and young women are an overlooked group within conflict- or disaster-affected populations, and their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs are often neglected. Existing evidence shows that forced ...
Burundi refugees’ influx: A threat or a blessing to Uganda’s social service delivery.
(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 ...
Monitoring iCCM referral systems:
(Malaria Journal, 2016)
Background: In Uganda, over half of under-five child mortality is attributed to three infectious diseases: malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea. Integrated community case management (iCCM) trains village health workers (VHWs) ...
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 ...
HIV Infection, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and COPD in Rural Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Lung, 2018)
Purpose HIV is associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in high resource settings. Similar relationships are less understood in low resource settings. We aimed to estimate the association between HIV ...
D-dimer levels and traditional risk factors are associated with incident hypertension among HIV-infected individuals initiating antiretroviral therapy in Uganda
(Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes, 2016)
Objectives-We sought to describe blood pressure changes after antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation and evaluate the association of markers of inflammation with incident hypertension in a cohort of HIV-individuals in ...