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Know Your Audience: Predictors of Success for a Patient-Centered Texting App to Augment Linkage to HIV Care in Rural Uganda
(Journal of medical Internet research, 2015)Background: Despite investments in infrastructure and evidence for high acceptability, few mHealth interventions have been implemented in sub-Saharan Africa. Objective: We sought to (1) identify predictors of uptake of ... -
Knowledge and practices of women regarding prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in rural southwest Uganda
(International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2013)Worldwide, about 3.4 million children aged under 15 years are HIV-infected, with 90% living in Sub-Saharan Africa;1 150 000 of these children are in Uganda. Ninety-five percent of pediatric HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa results ... -
Less Noise, More Hacking: How to Deploy Principles from MIT’s Hacking Medicine to Accelerate Health Care
(International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, 2014)Medical technology offers enormous potential for scalable medicine to improve the quality and access in health care while simultaneously reducing cost. However, current medical device innovation within companies often only ... -
The level of antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among orphan children and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Plos one, 2024)Background: Many children and adolescents living with HIV have ended up as orphans. Due to HIV taking away their parents leaves them deprived of their most important social network and support, which predisposes them to ... -
Maternal Attitudes about Objectively Monitored Bednet Use in Rural Uganda
(Malaria Research and Treatment, 2016)Insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are a mainstay of malaria prevention, yet poor adherence poses a major barrier to effective prevention. Self-reports of bednet use suffer from recall and social desirability biases. We ... -
Metastatic Cardiac Tumor from Precursor B Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma with a Mediastinal Mass: A Case Report of a 12-Years-Old African Girl
(International Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases, 2019-04-15)Introduction: Cardiac involvement in metastatic tumors is not widely investigated. Commonest site of cardiac involvement is the pericardium. However, diffuse metastasis to the myocardium and endocardium is uncommon. Striated ... -
The Microbial Spectrum of Neonatal Sepsis in Uganda: Recovery of Culturable Bacteria in Mother-Infant Pairs
(PLoS One, 2013-08-27)Neonatal sepsis in the developing world is incompletely characterized. We seek to characterize the microbial spectrum involved in sepsis and determine the role of maternal transmission by comparing organisms that can be ... -
Modeling a BCG Birth Dose-based Vaccination Program for Improved Hepatitis B Control in Uganda: Mixed-methods study
(Research square, 2022)Background: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is mainly transmitted perinatally. Delaying the first dose of HBV vaccine to 6 weeks of age as is the current practice in Uganda may increase the risk of perinatal transmission. In this ... -
Money was the Problem”: Financial Difficulty is the Main Reason for Treatment Abandonment by Children with Cancer in South West Uganda
(2021)Introduction: Treatment abandonment contributes significantly to poor survival of children with cancer in low-middle-income countries (LMICs). In order to inform an approach to this problem at our Cancer Unit, we investigated ... -
Mortality after hospital discharge among children younger than 5 years admitted with suspected sepsis in Uganda: a prospective, multisite, observational cohort study
(The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2023)Background: Substantial mortality occurs after hospital discharge in children younger than 5 years with suspected sepsis, especially in low-income countries. A better understanding of its epidemiology is needed for effective ... -
Needle-stick injuries in an Ugandan teaching hospital
(Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 2002)The on-going HIV epidemic has generally increased fear of needle-stick injuries (NSI) and renewed interest in the problem such injuries pose in Africa. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the frequency of NSI, ... -
Objective monitoring of Insecticide-treated bednet use to improve malaria prevention: SmartNet development and validation
(PLoS ONE, 2017-02-03)Malaria is a serious health concern for three billion people worldwide, killing nearly 600,000 people a year. Insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) are an effective and valuable tool for preventing malaria and hundreds of ... -
Opportunities and barriers for implementation of integrated TB and HIV care in lower level health units: experiences from a rural western Ugandan district
(African Health Sciences, 2010-12-04)Background: As countries with a high burden of TB and HIV roll out integrated TB/HIV care, there is need to assess possibility of lower level health units treating TB to provide integrated TB/HIV care. Objective: To ... -
Out of pocket costs and time/productivity losses for pediatric sepsis in Uganda: a mixed-methods study
(BMC Health Services Research, 2021)Background: Sepsis disproportionately affects children from socioeconomically disadvantaged families in low-resource settings, where care seeking may consume scarce family resources and lead to financial hardships. Those ... -
Outcome of Children with Presumptive Tuberculosis in Mbarara, Rural Uganda
(The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2018)Background: Mortality among children with presumptive tuberculosis (TB) empiric TB treatment can be high. We describe the predictors of death among children with presumptive TB, and the relation between treatment and ... -
The PAediatric Risk Assessment (PARA) Mobile App to Reduce Postdischarge Child Mortality: Design, Usability, and Feasibility for Health Care Workers in Uganda
(JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2016)Background: Postdischarge death in children is increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to overall child mortality. The PAediatric Risk Assessment (PARA) app is an mHealth tool developed to aid health care ... -
Pediatric in-Hospital Death from Infectious Disease in Uganda: Derivation of Clinical Prediction Models
(PLoS ONE, 2016-03-10)Background: Pediatric hospital mortality from infectious diseases in resource constrained countries remains unacceptably high. Improved methods of risk-stratification can assist in referral decision making and resource ... -
Pediatric out-of-hospital deaths following hospital discharge
(African Health Sciences, 2016)Background: Out-of-hospital death among children living in resource poor settings occurs frequently. Little is known about the location and circumstances of child death following a hospital discharge. Objectives: This ... -
Pediatric Post-Discharge Mortality in Resource Poor Countries: A Systematic Review
(PLoS ONE, 2013-06-25)Objectives: Mortality following hospital discharge is an important and under-recognized contributor to overall child mortality in developing countries. The primary objective of this systematic review was to identify all ... -
Pediatric sepsis in the developing world:Challenges in defining sepsis and issues in post-discharge mortality
(2012)Sepsis represents the progressive underlying inflammatory pathway secondary to any infectious illness, and ultimately is responsible for most infectious disease-related deaths. Addressing issues related to sepsis has ...