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Prescription patterns of antibiotics and associated factors among outpatients diagnosed with respiratory tract infections in Jinja city, Uganda, June 2022–May 2023
(BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2024)Background: Most respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are viral and do not require antibiotics, yet their inappropriate prescription is common in low-income settings due to factors like inadequate diagnostic facilities. ... -
“If you find that I am HIV positive, don’t tell me”: Exploring the barriers and recommendations for HIV prevention services utilization among youth in rural southwestern Uganda
(PLOS Global Public Health, 2024)Globally, the majority of new HIV infections are recorded in Eastern and Southern Africa, with the youth being disproportionately affected. HIV prevention is the cornerstone of controlling the spread of HIV and ending this ... -
Barriers and facilitators of retention in care after cervical cancer screening: patients’ and healthcare providers’ perspectives
(BMC Women's Health, 2024)Background: Cervical cancer continues to threaten women’s health, especially in low-resource settings. Regular follow-up after screening and treatment is an effective strategy for monitoring treatment outcomes. Consequently, ... -
Malnutrition is a risk factor for tuberculosis disease among household contacts: A case-control study in Uganda
(IJID regions, 2024)Objective: Household contacts (HHCs) of persons with tuberculosis (TB) including rifampicin-resistant or multi drug-resistant TB (RR/MDR-TB) are at risk for TB infection. We investigated whether index patient-level clinical ... -
Impact of supportive supervision visits on the availability of World Health Organization infection prevention and control core components in health facilities in Southwestern Uganda
(Infection Prevention in Practice, 2024)Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, the provision of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures are often limited by resource constraints. Aim: To determine the association of supportive supervision activities with the ... -
Malnutrition and unsuccessful tuberculosis treatment among people with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Uganda: A retrospective analysis
(Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2024)Rationale: Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) poses a significant public health challenge to the control and successful eradication of TB globally. Suboptimal treatment outcomes are common among persons with ... -
Evolution of Spatial Risk of Malaria Infection After a Pragmatic Chemoprevention Program in Response to Severe Flooding in Rural Western Uganda
(The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2024)Background: Malaria epidemics result from extreme precipitation and flooding, which are increasing with global climate change. Local adaptation and mitigation strategies will be essential to prevent excess morbidity and ... -
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 ...
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