Department of Community Health: Recent submissions
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Area-Based Socio demographic Factors Associated with Latent Tuberculosis Infection in a Low-Prevalence Setting
(The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2023)More than 1 million children and adolescents in the United States are estimated to have latent tuberculosis (TB) infection.1 For the most part, efforts to identify pediatric TB infection in the United States rely upon ... -
Fertility awareness and teenage pregnancy in rural western Uganda: a community-based cross-sectional study
(African Health Sciences, 2023)Background: Teenage pregnancy (pregnancy among girls aged 13-19 years) is prevalent in Uganda but data about the associated factors are limited. Objective: To determine the prevalence and factors associated with teenage ... -
Coping strategies of school-going adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate vulnerable Manafwa watershed, Uganda
(BMC psychology, 2024)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted daily life, economies, and health, prompting strict government measures, including nationwide lockdowns and school closures in Uganda, resulting in significant academic setbacks ... -
Process evaluation of a parent-child communication intervention for adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Uganda
(BMC Public Health, 2024)Background: Previous initiatives concerning adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) education in Lowor-Middle Income Countries (LMICs) have been limited by cultural norms and misinformation perpetuated within ... -
When doing challenge-based learning, you need critical morality to contribute to societal challenges
(In 2024 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2024)With Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), universities aim to explicitly contribute to societal challenges, mostly involving moral dilemmas. As such, students, teachers, university management, and external stakeholders get ... -
Prevention and management of anaemia in pregnancy: Community perceptions and facility readiness in Ghana and Uganda
(PLOS Global Public Health, 2024)Anaemia is one of the most common conditions in low- and middle-income countries, with prevalence increasing during pregnancy. The highest burden is in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where the prevalence of anaemia in ... -
Experiences and lessons learned from a global research administration capacity building project to support and expand HIV/AIDS research in southwestern Uganda
(Discover Health Systems, 2024)International collaborative research projects conducted at academic research institutions, including complex basic science, clinical, and translational HIV/AIDS research, require intensive communication, coordination, and ... -
Water Treatment Practices and MisperceivedSocial Norms among WomenLiving with Young Children in Rural Uganda
(The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2024)Access to water safe for consumption is critical for health and well-being, yet substantial structural barriers often necessitate household action to make water safer. Social norms about water treatment practices are ... -
Traditional healer support to improve HIV viral suppression in rural Uganda (Omuyambi): study protocol for a cluster randomized hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial
(Trials, 2024)Background: Rural African people living with HIV face significant challenges in entering and remaining in HIV care. In rural Uganda, for example, there is a threefold higher prevalence of HIV compared to the national average ... -
Effect of Empiric Anti–Mycobacterium tuberculosis Therapy on Survival Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Infected Adults Admitted With Sepsis to a Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda
(In Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2019)Background: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is the leading cause of bloodstream infection among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–infected patients with sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa and is associated with high mortality ... -
Factors associated with HIV testing among traditional healers and their clients in rural Uganda: Results from a cross-sectional study
(International journal of STD & AIDS, 2021)Uptake of HIV testing is suboptimal in Uganda, particularly in rural communities. Reaching UNAIDS95-95-95 goals requires strategies to increase HIV testing among hard-to-reach populations. This cross-sectional study sought ... -
Early biting and insecticide resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles might compromise the effectiveness of vector control intervention in Southwestern Uganda
(Malaria journal, 2015)Background: Southwestern Uganda has high malaria heterogeneity despite moderate vector control and other interventions. Moreover, the early biting transmission and increased resistance to insecticides might compromise ... -
Carriage prevalence and serotype distribution of Streptococcus pneumoniae prior to 10-valent pneumococcal vaccine introduction- population-based cross-sectional study in South Western Uganda, 2014
(Vaccine, 2017)Background: Information on Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal (NP) carriage before the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) introduction is essential to monitor impact. The 10-valent PCV (PCV10) was officially introduced ... -
Predictors of delayed culture conversion among Ugandan patients
(BMC infectious diseases, 2017)Background: Estimates of month-2 culture conversion, a proxy indicator of tuberculosis (TB) treatment efficacy in phase-2 trials can vary by culture-type and geographically with lower rates reported among African sites. ... -
Inhaled Nitric Oxide and Cerebral Malaria: Basis of a Strategy for Buying Time for Pharmacotherapy
(The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2012)There are approximately 225–600 million new malaria infections worldwide annually, with severe and cerebral malaria representing major causes of death internationally. The role of nitric oxide (NO) in the host response in ... -
Male Gender is independently associated with pulmonary tuberculosis among sputum and non-sputum producers people with presumptive tuberculosis in Southwestern Uganda
(BMC infectious diseases, 2014)Background: Little is known about the association between gender and risk of TB infection. We sought to assess the impact of gender on TB prevalence among people with presumptive tuberculosis at a regional referral hospital ... -
Diagnostic Accuracy of the Small Membrane Filtration Method for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a High-HIV-Prevalence Setting
(Journal of clinical microbiology, 2016)Sputumacid-fastbacilli (AFB) smear microscopy has suboptimal sensitivity but remains the most commonly used laboratory test to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). We prospectively evaluated the small membrane filtration ... -
Characteristics of human encounters and social mixing patterns relevant to infectious diseases spread by close contact: a survey in Southwest Ugand
(BMC infectious diseases, 2018)Background: Quantification of human interactions relevant to infectious disease transmission through social contact is central to predict disease dynamics, yet data from low-resource settings remain scarce. Methods: We ... -
Sudan virus disease super-spreading, Uganda, 2022
(BMC Infectious Diseases, 2024)Background: On 20 September 2022, Uganda declared its fifth Sudan virus disease (SVD) outbreak, culminating in 142 confirmed and 22 probable cases. The reproductive rate (R) of this outbreak was 1.25. We described persons ... -
Knowledge, awareness and practices of healthcare workers regarding antimicrobial use, resistance and stewardship in Zambia: a multi-facility cross-sectional study
(JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2024)Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a threat to public health globally. Despite its consequences, there is little information about the knowledge, awareness, and practices towards AMR among healthcare workers ...
