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From Alma Ata to Millennium Development Goals: To What Extent Has Equity Been Achieved?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)Equity was a core value in the Alma Ata declaration on PHC. However, the interpretation of equity varied and its application became difficult. Equity goals and objectives have often been rhetoric rather than practical. ... -
From organic farming to agroecological farming, what challenges do organic farmers face in central Uganda?
(Ecological Organic Agriculture - Growing Sustainability, 2023-03-30)Introduction - Based on environmental protection and providing healthy and safe foods to the population, organic agricultural production is considered an opportunity to create new agri-food systems for agricultural ... -
From the classroom to the hospital ward: Dr Lydia Namatende-Sakwa on gender mainstreaming in Uganda
(THEFT, 2019-08)My interest in gender equity was largely shaped by my experience as a young English teacher in a co-educational secondary school in Uganda. I completed both my primary and secondary education in single-sex schools which ... -
Functionality of the Community Health Departments in Hospitals of Armed Force Institutions of Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2012)SIBOINTORE JACK (2012-M191-10024) Functionality of the Community Health Departments in Hospitals of Armed Force Institutions of Uganda The health indicators whose improvement requires good functionality of hospital ... -
Funding mechanisms for the 'private-not-for-profit' health training institutions in Uganda.
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2007-04-01)The Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP) aims to ensure access to basic health care by the Ugandan population through the delivery of the National Minimum Health Care Package (NMHCP). This requires availability of well-trained ... -
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 ... -
Genetic Diversity of Aflatoxin-producing Aspergillus Flavus Isolated from Selected Groundnut Growing Agro-ecological Zones of Uganda
(BMC Microbiology, 2020-08-14)Groundnut pre- and post-harvest contamination is commonly caused by fungi from the Genus Aspergillus. Aspergillus flavus is the most important of these fungi. It belongs to section Flavi; a group consisting of aflatoxigenic ... -
Gestational Diabetes (GDM) Does Not Predict Large Birthweight or Perinatal Death in a Relatively Untreated Population in Uganda: A Prospective Observational Cohort Study.
(Elsevier, 2021-05)BACKGROUND The association between overt hypertension and diabetes and adverse pregnancy outcomes is well documented. Recent evidence suggests that even moderate elevations in blood pressure or blood glucose may confer a ... -
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 ... -
Global Medical Education Partnerships to Expand Specialty Expertise: A Case Report on Building Neurology Clinical and Research Capacity
(BMC , CAMPUS, 4 CRINAN ST, LONDON, ENGLAND, N1 9XW, 2014-12-30)Background: Neurological disorders are a common cause of morbidity and mortality in sub-Saharan African, but resources for their management are scarce. Collaborations between training institutions in developed and ... -
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 ...