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A Randomized Controlled Safety and Acceptability Trial of Dextrin Sulphate Vaginal Microbicide Gel in Sexually Active Women in Uganda
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2005-06-27)Objective: To assess the safety of dextrin sulphate (DS) gel compared to placebo gel in terms of local and systemic adverse events, and to determine the acceptability of dextrin sulphate gel. Design: A 4-week randomized ... -
Rapid diagnostic tests versus clinical diagnosis for managing people with fever in malaria endemic settings (Review)
(JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd., 2014)In 2010, theWorld Health Organization recommended that all patients with suspected malaria are tested for malaria before treatment. In rural African settings light microscopy is often unavailable. Diagnosis has relied on ... -
Reduction of User Fees in the Private-Not-For-Profit Hospitals in Uganda: Implications for Equity and Sustainability
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-12)While the reduction of user fees was not seriously contested as a big step towards equity and evidence of faithfulness to their mission, many private-not-for-profit (PNFP) hospitals dragged their feet in implementing these ... -
Relationship Between Management Practices and Employee Absenteeism in Public General Hospitals of East-Central Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-11-17)Effective management practices play a pivotal role in influencing positive behavior among employees at the work place [1]-[2]. Absenteeism of employees signals organizational ill health. Studies indicate that management ... -
Rethinking the security-development nexus in the context of human security
(Everant Publishers Ltd, 2023-05-07)This paper sought to reshape the discourse on the security-development nexus. The paper indicts the former discourse that is based on the traditional conceptualization of security and development and demonstrates the extent ... -
A Review of Human Resource for Health in Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)The importance of human resources in health systems needs not to be over-emphasised. Expenditure on health workers forms a significant proportion of total health expenditure in many countries. In order to effectively ... -
Risk Factors for Helminth, Malaria, and HIV Infection in Pregnancy in Entebbe, Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2009)factors for infections informs planning of interventions and analysis of the impact of infections on health outcomes.To describe risk factors for helminths, malaria and HIV in pregnant Ugandan women before intervention in ... -
Risk Factors for Seropositivity to Kaposi Sarcoma–Associated Herpesvirus Among Children in Uganda
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013)Background: Determinants of Kaposi sarcoma–associated herpesvirus (KSHV) seropositivity among children living in sub-Saharan African populations where infection is endemic are not well understood. Local environmental ... -
Risk perception and usage of non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis among fisherfolk in Ggulwe parish on the shores of Lake Victoria in central Uganda
(Frontiers, 2023-11-08)The use of non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis (nPEP) to prevent HIV acquisition among those exposed as an approach to HIV prevention has expanded in Uganda. Although there are increased eorts to avail nPEP ... -
The Role of Governments in Ending and Preventing Armed Conflicts
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)The war in northern Uganda is ending, or is it? The official Government position is that the war is practically over. And they have evidence for it. Rebel soldiers are surrendering in droves, and the Lord’s Resistance Army ... -
Rural-urban differentials of utilization of ante-natal health-care services in Bangladesh
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2008-04)Bangladesh has achieved important health gains over the last decade but there is still an enormous gap between rural and urban areas with regard to utilization of reproductive health care services. The study utilizes ... -
Selective Salary Reward for Health Workers: Realistic or a Distortion?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003-12)Uganda’s civil service is perhaps one of those with some of the lowest salaries in the world. This has remained the case in spite of improvements in the pay package over the last decade. Staff working in the delivery of ... -
Skin Prick Test Reactivity to Common Allergens Among Women in Entebbe, Uganda
(2008)The objectives of this study were to estimate the prevalence of atopic sensitization,and to identify common aeroallergens associated with atopic sensitization among women inEntebbe, Uganda, and to determine risk factors ... -
The State of Mortuary and Mortuary Services in Public Health Facilities of South Western Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-11-10)Mortuaries and mortuary services are very crucial support services to healthcare delivery. Information on the status of mortuary services in Uganda is largely missing. This study therefore was carried out to assess the ... -
The status OF clinical diagnostic imaging services in Uganda’s regional referral hospitals.
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2011-04-01)Background: Clinical imaging is an essential component of health care which supports and improves the effectiveness of clinical decision-making. Quality care saves lives and resources of both the patient and the health ... -
Targeting IDPs with Food AID: WFP Assistance in Northern Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)The World Food Programme (WFP) is the United Nations (UN) agency responding to humanitarian emergencies by delivering food aid to vulnerable populations worldwide. The protracted insurgency in northern Uganda resulted in ... -
Technical efficiency in the presence of desirable and undesirable outputs: a case study of selected district referral hospitals in Uganda.
(Uganda Martyrs University Press, 2008-04)The general practice in technical efficiency measurement for health providers has been to ignore additional products of most transformation processes that can be classified as “undesirable outputs” — which are a subset of ... -
Third Delays in the Management of Obstetric Emergencies: A Qualitative Study of Arua Regional Referral Hospital - Uganda
(Texila International Journal of Medicine, 2018)The third delay is the delay in receiving adequate and appropriate treatment at the healthcare facility by mothers during and after pregnancy. Many factors attribute to this; shortage of staff, insufficient training, ... -
Treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Uganda
(Africa Health Journals, 2024-01)Tuberculosis (TB) disease is a disease in humans caused by mycobacteria tuberculosis complex which comprises eight distinct but closely related organisms – M. bovis, M. caprae, M. africanum, M. microti, M. pinnipedii, ... -
Treatment with anthelminthics during pregnancy: what gains and what risks for the mother and child?
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)In 1994 and 2002, respectively, theWorld Health Organisation proposed that treatment for hookworm and schistosomiasis could be provided during pregnancy. It was hoped that this might have benefits for maternal anaemia, ...