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Gender analysis of health facility utilization in Uganda. Health Policy and Development
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2005-08)A gender analysis study of health facility utilization rates in Uganda over the period July 2003 to April 2004 was undertaken in four districts of Uganda. The key conclusions are that: (1) Collecting data to analyze for ... -
Gender Equality in the Staff Composition of Higher Learning Institutions in Uganda: Gaps and Possibilities with Specific Reference to Uganda Martyrs University
(Journal of Science & Sustainable Development, 2010)This paper analyses gender equality in the composition of Uganda Martyrs University (UMU) staff—as of the close of 2008. The analysis focuses on the University’s policy and its implications for gender equality; the ... -
Gender Equality, HIV/AIDS, and Marriage:
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2016)The overarching goal of this book is to increase our understanding of how marriage impacts the fight against women’s inequality and HIV/AIDS, and how the HIV/AIDS and gender equality discourse is taken up by married teachers ... -
Gender Representation in Learning Materials: International Perspectives
(Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2018)Gender Representation in Learning Materials: International Perspectives provides remarkable insight into research on gender and textbooks from an international perspective, illuminating diverse contexts, methodology, raising ... -
‘Gendering’ the text through implicit citations of gendered discourses: the construction of gender and teacher talk around children’s fiction
(Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019-04-08)This study departs from the overriding focus on textbooks, which disregards how readers take them up. Informed by feminist post-structural theory, I analyse the construction of gender in children's fiction texts used in a ... -
General Practice Patients Treated for Substance Use Problems: Acrossnational Observational Study in Belgium
(2016)General Practitioners (GPs) are well placed to care for patients with (chronic) substance use problems. This pilot was carried out to study the feasibility and usefulness of a continuous surveillance of substance use ... -
Giant single atrium
(Elsevier, 2014)A 20-year-old young Ugandan woman presented with progressive exertional dyspnea, labial cyanosis and severe digital clubbing. Visualization of the heart by standard transthoracic echocardiography was optimal from the apical ... -
Globalisation Dimensions and Community Development: the Case of Uganda
(Nkumba University, 2016)This paper addresses the contradictory trends in economic development programmes that are merging up the rich and poor countries of the world today into one global village. The development trends of the developed world ... -
Goal Models Vs Five Forces Models: A Comparative Study of Strategic Analyses
(University of Trent, 2015)The performance of an enterprise is determined by its strategic objectives, and the strategic plan it adopts through some form of strategic analysis in order to meet these objectives. However, strategic analysis is ... -
Government Policies and their Implementation: Teachers’ Attitudes towards Implementation of Universal Primary Education: A Case Study of Kitagata Sub-County, Bushenyi District
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2007)ARINAITWE MAXIMA (2007-MO53-10003) Government Policies and their Implementation: Teachers’ Attitudes towards Implementation of Universal Primary Education: A Case Study of Kitagata Sub-County, Bushenyi District The ... -
Government policy on science education in Uganda: A glass-ceiling for women’s access to higher education
(2013)The paper assesses the Ugandan policy on science education and its implications for girls‟ access to higher education. The rationale behind this policy was to build capacity in the field of science in Uganda. Consequently, ... -
Grand narratives of the Great Lakes Region of Africa and their contribution to the current conflicts
(Mtafiti Mwafrika (African Researcher), 2003)The strategy of this paper is to draw attention to the influence of narrative and group identities to the current conflicts of the Great Lakes Region. It argues that past memories, passed over to the present generation ... -
Health Inequalities Within a Nation: a Review of Two New Theories
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)What policies and values influence inequalities of health of individuals and populations? There are two main interpretations: a “materialist”, and “psycho-social” (Coburn D, 2000). It is suggested that the more a regime ... -
Health Literacy, HIV/AIDS, and Gender: a Ugandan Youth Lens
(The University of British Columbia, 2008)Youth, the World Bank argues, need to become a constituency for reform indeveloping countries. This case study responds to this challenge by investigatingadolescent students' understanding of the relationship between health ... -
Health Workers Demand for Better Pay
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)hough the recent health reforms which include decentralisation of health services and creation of ‘minihospitals’ at every sub-county indicate that Government is committed to improving the state of health services in this ... -
Heritability of drought resistance in Solanum aethiopicum Shum group and combining ability of genotypes for drought tolerance and recovery
(Elsevier, 2018-06)Drought tolerance is a complex trait whose inheritance had not been investigated in Solanum aethiopicum L. Shum group. This is partly because of perceived cross incompatibilities in the crop. This study relied on 24 ... -
High Prevalence and Long Duration of Nervous System and Psychiatric Adverse Drug Reactions in Ugandan Patients Taking Efavirenz 600mg Daily
(2018)Efavirenz-related nervous system or psychiatric adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are conventionally reported to resolve soon after initiation, with incidence of dizziness at 8.5% in large clinical trials. Patients of black ... -
History and Evolution of Public Procurement Reforms in Uganda
(2016)This chapter discusses the history and evolution of public procurement in Uganda and presents a thorough review of the laws and regulations, audit and investigation reports, as well as the opinions of the practitioners ... -
HIV/AIDS in an established market economy: the case of Italy
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2005-04)At the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Italy, needle sharing among Intravenous Drug Users (IVDUs) was the principal mechanism of transmission of HIV. After an initial burst of the epidemic, the incidence declined ... -
HIV/AIDS shaping people’s livelihoods promotion processes: the case of a village highly affected by HIV/AIDS in Bukoba rural district, Tanzania
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2009-12)Whereas HIV/AIDS has been largely explained and addressed based on the biomedical and African permissive sexuality thesis perspectives, they are not exhaustive. This paper argues that a meaningful life discourse complements ...
