Department of Community Health: Recent submissions
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Measles outbreak in Western Uganda: a case-control study
(BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021)Background: Measles outbreaks are prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa despite the preventive measures like vaccination that target under five-year-old children and health systems strengthening efforts like prioritizing ... -
Positive deviance for dual-method promotion among women in Uganda: study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial
(Trials, 2020)Background: Dual-method use is known as the most reliable protection against unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. However, it is not commonly used in sub-Sharan Africa, especially among ... -
Socio-cultural and Economic Antecedents of Adolescent Sexual Decision-Making and HIV-Risk in Rural Uganda
(AIDS Care, 2013-02)With more than half of new infections occurring among youth, HIV/AIDS remains a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in Uganda. Semi-structured interviews were performed with 48 adolescents and 15 adult key informants ... -
Should community health workers offer support healthcare services to survivors of sexual violence? a systematic review
(BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2017)Background: Sexual violence is widespread, yet relatively few survivors receive healthcare or complete treatment. In low and middle-income countries, community health workers (CHWs) have the potential to provide support ... -
Poor retention does not have to be the rule: retention of volunteer community health workers in Uganda
(Health policy and planning, 2014)Globally, health worker shortages continue to plague developing countries. Community health workers are increasingly being promoted to extend primary health care to underserved populations. Since 2004, Healthy Child Uganda ... -
Outcomes of patients with severe sepsis after the first 6 hours of resuscitation at a regional referral hospital in Uganda
(Journal of Critical Care, 2016)Introduction: The optimal resuscitation strategy for patients with severe sepsis in resource-limited settings is unknown. Therefore, we determined the association between intravenous fluids, changes in vital signs and ... -
Mothers perception of blood transfusion in children under 5 years in Kisoro hospital, Uganda
(International Journal of Advanced Research, 2017)Introduction: Blood transfusion is the main cornerstones of modern medical practice which started way back in 1818 by James Brundell (Virge et al, 2000) and is the main treatment for anaemia. Although it is an important ... -
HIV-infected Ugandan women on antiretroviral therapy maintain HIV-1 RNA suppression across periconception, pregnancy, and postpartum periods
(Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes, 2016)Background: HIV-infected women risk sexual and perinatal HIV transmission during conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. We compared HIV-1 RNA suppression and medication adherence across periconception, ... -
Evolving failures in the delivery of HIV care: Lessons from a Ugandan meningitis cohort 2006-2016
(In Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2017)Background: Investments in HIV care in sub-Saharan Africa have increased the number of people aware of their status and receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), yet HIV/AIDS mortality remains high. Methods: We performed ... -
Cyber-Senga: Ugandan youth preferences for content in an internet-delivered comprehensive sexuality education programme
(East African journal of public health, 2010-03)Globally more than 37 million people have been infected with the HIV virus. [1] Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region most heavily affected by HIV, accounting for 67% of all young people living with HIV and for 75% of AIDS ... -
Reuse of malaria rapid diagnostic tests for amplicon deep sequencing to estimate Plasmodium falciparum transmission intensity in western Uganda
(Scientific reports, 2018)Molecular techniques are not routinely employed for malaria surveillance, while cross-sectional, community-based parasite surveys require significant resources. Here, we describe a novel use of malaria rapid diagnostic ... -
Circumstances of child deaths in Mali and Uganda: a community-based confidential enquiry
(The Lancet Global Health, 2018)Background: Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved, causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a community enquiry into the circumstances of death ... -
Adolescents’ perceptions of sexual coercion in Uganda
(African Journal of AIDS Research, 2011)In Uganda, HIV prevalence remains high with young people at higher risk of infection than adults. Much is known about the sexual risk factors for HIV transmission among youths, including sexual encounters that are coerced. ... -
A combination SMS and transportation reimbursement intervention to improve HIV care following abnormal CD4 test results in rural Uganda: a prospective observational cohort study
(BMC medicine, 2015)Background: Up to 50 % of HIV-infected persons in sub-Saharan Africa are lost from care between HIV diagnosis and antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation. Structural barriers, including cost of transportation to clinic and ... -
Affordable medical technologies: bringing Value-Based Design into global health
(BMJ Innovations, 2016)The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has spurred a renewed focus on the concept of value, or health outcome per cost expended. Though interventions have generally centered around insurance reform and healthcare ... -
Treatment‑seeking and uptake of malaria prevention strategies among pregnant women and caregivers of children under‑five years during COVID‑19 pandemic in rural communities in South West Uganda: a qualitative study
(BMC Public Health, 2022)Background: Despite efforts to avert the negative effects of malaria, there remain barriers to the uptake of prevention measures, and these have hindered its eradication. This study explored the factors that influence ... -
Are rapid diagnostic tests more accurate in diagnosis of malaria compared to microscopy?
(Malaria Journal, 2010)Background Prompt, accurate diagnosis and treatment with artemisinin combination therapy remains vital to current malaria control. Blood film microscopy the current standard test for diagnosis of malaria has several ... -
Are rapid diagnostic tests more accurate in diagnosis of plasmodium falciparum malaria compared to microscopy at rural health centres?
(Malaria journal, 2010)Background: Prompt, accurate diagnosis and treatment with artemisinin combination therapy remains vital to current malaria control. Blood film microscopy the current standard test for diagnosis of malaria has several ... -
Widow inheritance and HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda
(Tropical doctor, 2007)Despite current efforts to combat HIV/AIDS through behavioural change, ingrained socio-cultural practices such as widow inheritance in south-western Uganda has not changed. Low education, unemployment, dowry, widows’ ... -
Permethrin‑treated baby wraps for the prevention of malaria: results of a randomized controlled pilot study in rural Uganda
(Malaria Journal, 2022)Background: Progress against malaria has stalled and may even be slipping backwards in high-burden countries. This is due to a range of factors including insecticide resistance and mosquito feeding behaviours that limit ...
