Faculty of Medicine: Recent submissions
Now showing items 1921-1940 of 1993
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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 ... -
Psychiatric morbidity among physically ill patients in a Ugandan Regional Referral Hospital
(2013-04-12)Background: Mental illness is a global health burden that remains poorly understood even by health care providers. It is important to get insight of the prevalence, clinical features and management of psychiatric morbidity ... -
Alcohol Consumption as a Barrier to Prior HIV Testing in a Population-Based Study in Rural Uganda
(AIDS Behav, 2013)Early receipt of HIV care and ART is essential for improving treatment outcomes, but is dependent first upon HIV testing. Heavy alcohol consumption is common in sub-Saharan Africa, a barrier to ART adherence, and a potential ... -
ABO and Rhesus (D) blood group distribution among blood donors in rural south western Uganda:
(BMC Res Notes, 2016)Background: In Uganda, geographical distribution of blood groups and Rhesus (D) factor varies across the country. The aim of this study was to examine the distribution of these groups among voluntary blood donors in rural ... -
Incidence and predictors of early loss to follow up among patients initiated on protease inhibitor-based second-line antiretroviral therapy in southwestern Uganda
(Springer Nature, 2021-03-20)Background: Good adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and retention in care are essential for the efectiveness of an HIV care program. With the current increase in numbers of people living with HIV taking second-line ... -
Timing of Antiretroviral Therapy after Diagnosis of Cryptococcal Meningitis
(2014-06-26)Background Cryptococcal meningitis accounts for 20 to 25% of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome–related deaths in Africa. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential for survival; however, the question of when ART should ... -
Alcohol Exposure Among Pregnant Women in sub-Saharan Africa- a Systematic Review
(Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics., 2013-10-18)The prevalence of general alcohol use in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is high.However, research examining alcohol use in among pregnant women within this population is limited. A review of the current status ... -
Dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum alleles in children with normal haemoglobin and with sickle cell trait in western Uganda
(El s e v i e r, 2008-07-31)We describe the diversity of Plasmodium falciparum populations in western Uganda and assess the role that asymptomatic malaria carriers with sickle cell trait (HbAS) may be playing on the Plasmodium population structure. ... -
The social network context of HIV stigma: Population-based, sociocentric network study in rural Uganda
(Social Science & Medicine, 2019)Rationale: HIV-related stigma profoundly affects the physical and social wellbeing of people living with HIV, as well as the community’s engagement with testing, treatment, and prevention. Based on theories of stigma ... -
Urban and rural prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes and risk factors associated with diabetes in Tanzania and Uganda
(Global Health Action., 2016)Background: The increase in prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa underlines the importance of understanding its magnitude and causes in different population groups. We analyzed data from the ... -
ADHERENCE TO A SIX-DOSE REGIMEN OF ARTEMETHER-LUMEFANTRINE FOR TREATMENT OF UNCOMPLICATED PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM MALARIA IN UGANDA
(The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene., 200)Measuring baseline levels of adherence and identifying risk factors for non-adherence are important steps beforetheintroductionofnewantimalarials.InMbararainsouthwesternUganda,weassessedadherencetoartemetherlumefantrine ... -
Evaluation of the SD Bioline TB Ag MPT64 test for identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from liquid cultures in Southwestern Uganda
(AOSIS, 2017)Background: To confirm presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, some tuberculosis culture laboratories still rely on para-nitrobenzoic acid (PNB), a traditional technique that requires sub-culturing of clinical ... -
Lowenstein-Jensen Selective Medium for Reducing Contamination in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Culture
(JCM, 214-07)We compared Mycobacterium tuberculosis sputum culture recovery and contamination rates between Lowenstein-Jensenmedium(LJ)containing the following decontaminants and LJalone:(i)PANTA(n 299),(ii) Selectatab-MB(n 299),and(iii) ... -
Surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum pfcrt haplotypes in southwestern Uganda by high resolution melt analysis.
(BMC Public Health, 2021)Background: Chloroquine (CQ) resistance is conferred by mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum CQ resistance transporter (pfcrt). Following CQ withdrawal for anti‑malarial treatment, studies across malaria‑endemic countries ... -
Understanding Patterns of Social Support and Their Relationship to an ART Adherence Intervention Among Adults in Rural Southwestern Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2016-09-26)Abstract SMS is a widely used technology globally and may also improve ART adherence, yet SMS notifications to social supporters following real-time detection of missed doses showed no clear benefit in a recent pilot trial. ... -
When Women Deliver at Home Without a Skilled Birth Attendant: A Qualitative Study on the Role of Health Care Systems in the Increasing Home Births Among Rural Women in Southwestern Uganda
(International Journal of Women's Health, 2020)Background: Uganda’s maternal mortality remains unacceptably high, with thousands of women and newborns still dying of preventable deaths from pregnancy and childbirth-related complications. Globally, Antenatal care (ANC) ... -
Health care workers' perceptions of point-of care testing in a low-income country -A qualitative study in Southwestern Uganda
(PLoS One, 2017-07-27)Background Point-of-care (POC) tests have become increasingly available and more widely used in recent years. They have been of particular importance to low-income settings, enabling them with clinical capacities that had ... -
A systematic review of the risk factors for suicidal ideation, suicidal attempt and completed suicide among children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa between 1986 and 2018: protocol for a systematic review of observational studies
(Systematic Reviews, 2018)Background: Suicide is one of the leading causes of death among children and adolescents. Most studies about the burden and risk factors for suicide have been conducted in high-income countries. However, there is a dearth ... -
Cost-effectiveness of malaria microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests versus presumptive diagnosis: implications for malaria control in Uganda
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2011)Current Uganda National Malaria treatment guidelines recommend parasitological confirmation either by microscopy or rapid diagnostic test (RDT) before treatment with artemether-lumefantrine (AL). However, the cost-effectiveness ... -
Antibiotic use among patients with febrile illness in a low malaria endemicity setting in Uganda.
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2011)Uganda embraced the World Health Organization guidelines that recommend a universal ‘test and treat’ strategy for malaria, mainly by use of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and microscopy. However, little is known how increased ...