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Can Volunteer Community Health Workers Decrease Child Morbidity and Mortality in Southwestern Uganda? An Impact Evaluation
(PLoS ONE, 2011-12-14)Background: The potential for community health workers to improve child health in sub-Saharan Africa is not well understood. Healthy Child Uganda implemented a volunteer community health worker child health promotion model ... -
Career intentions of final year medical students in Uganda after graduating: the burden of brain drain
(BMC Medical Education, 2015)Background: Uganda has severe shortage of human resources for health despite the heavy disease burden. The country has one of the highest fertility, and population growth rates in the world and is in dire need of trained ... -
The cascade of HIV care among refugees and nationals in Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda
(HIV medicine, 2017)Objectives Refugees living in Uganda come from HIV-endemic countries, and many remain in refugee settlements for over a decade. Our objective was to evaluate the HIV care cascade in Nakivale Refugee Settlement and to ... -
CD4R cell count at antiretroviral therapy initiation and economic restoration in rural Uganda
(Aids, 2014)Objective: To determine whether earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with better economic outcomes. Design: Prospective cohort study of HIV-positive patients on ART in rural Uganda. Methods: ... -
Challenges and facilitators of public engagement with water, sanitation, hygiene and other environmental health issues in Ghana and Uganda:
(Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development, 2020)Despite many water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and other environmental health challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, little is known about interactions involving scientists, journalists and the public to aid public understanding ... -
Challenges to achieving low palatal fistula rates following primary cleft palate repair: experience of an institution in Uganda
(BMC research notes, 2018)Objective: To determine frequency of palatal fistula following primary cleft palate repair and the associated factors as a measure of cleft palate repair outcome and its challenges at a cleft centre in Uganda. Results: ... -
Challenges to implementation of artemisinin combination therapy policy in Uganda.
(Elsevier Ltd, 2010-08-07)Uganda launched an artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) policy in 2006, using artemether-lumefantrine (AL) as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria, but insufficient information is available regarding its ... -
Characterizing the Flow of Health Information in Rural Uganda: Is there a Role for Mobile Phones?
(Journal of Public Health in Developing Countries, 2015-07-01)Background: The United Nations’ post-2015 development agenda stresses need for a “data revolution.” In Uganda, capturing recent health data can be challenging. Capitalizing on the expansion of mobile phone access in ... -
Cigarette smoking and misperceived norms among adults in rural Uganda: a population-based study
(Tobacco Control, 2021)Background: Little is known about perceived norms about cigarette smoking in Uganda or the extent to which perceptions drive personal cigarette smoking behavior. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in 2016–2018 ... -
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 ... -
Client and provider experiences in Uganda suggest demand for and highlight the importance of addressing HIV stigma and gender norms within safer conception care
(AIDS and Behavior, 2022)Safer conception counseling supports HIV-serodifferent couples to meet reproductive goals while minimizing HIV transmission risk, but has not been integrated into routine HIV care. We piloted a novel safer conception program ... -
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 ... -
Community acceptability of use of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria by community health workers in Uganda.
(BioMed Central Ltd., 2010)Background: Many malarious countries plan to introduce artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) at community level using community health workers (CHWs) for treatment of uncomplicated malaria. Use of ACT with reliance ... -
Community Factors and Utilization of Monitoring and Evaluation Results: Evidence from Malaria Control Programs’ Implementation in Mukono District.
(International Journal of Technology and Management, 2018)The study aim was to investigate the community factors affecting utilization of monitoring and evaluation findings in implementation of malaria control programs in Mukono district, central Uganda. The study adopted a ... -
Community health workers trained to conduct verbal autopsies provide better mortality measures than existing surveillance:
(PLOS ONE, 2019)Background In much of sub-Saharan Africa, health facilities serve as the primary source of routine vital statistics. These passive surveillance systems, however, are plagued by infrequent and unreliable reporting and do ... -
Community perceptions and practices on quality and safety of drinking water in Mbarara city, south western Uganda
(PLOS Water, 2023-05-30)Availability of clean drinking water is a universal human right. The quality of water differs across communities. When the quality is good, community members are the primary beneficiaries but they are also the first ones ... -
Community-Based Education Programs in Africa: Faculty Experience Within the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Network
(Goals of Community-Based Education Programs in Participating MEPI Schools, 2014-08)Purpose This paper examines the various models, challenges, and evaluative efforts of community-based education (CBE) programs at Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) schools and makes recommendations to ... -
Comparative assessment of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus diagnostic assays for use in resource-limited settings
(BMC Microbiology, 2019-08-22)Background: The rise of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a global health concern. Paucity of data on MRSA carriage prevalence and diagnostic methods in resource-limited settings hampers efforts to ... -
Comparative feasibility of implementing rapid diagnostic test and microscopy for parasitological diagnosis of malaria in Uganda
(Malaria Journal, 2011)Background: In Uganda, parasite-based diagnosis is recommended for every patient suspected to have malaria before prescribing anti-malarials. However, the majority of patients are still treated presumptively especially in ... -
Comparing field‑collected versus remotely‑sensed variables to model malaria risk in the highlands of western Uganda
(Malaria Journal, 2023)Background: Malaria risk is not uniform across relatively small geographic areas, such as within a village. This heterogeneity in risk is associated with factors including demographic characteristics, individual behaviours, ...