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Agricultural Biotechnology for Developing Countries
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in "The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-04", examines the potential of agricultural biotechnology to address the current and future needs of the world's poor ...
Continuing Medical Education: Lessons From Butambala Health Sub-District
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
Continuing medical education (CME) is one way of keeping health workers updated with the new developments and new insights in treatment and approaches to health issues. It also helps them remember what is forgotten. This ...
Integrating Service Delivery in IDP Camps: The Case of Northern Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
The mid-north and parts of eastern Uganda are under siege from the LRA and poor health. There are about 1.6 million people displaced by the LRA living in squalid camps. In these camps, the IDPs are cramped in huts built ...
The Northern Uganda War: The “Small Conflict” That Became the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
Acholi land was once known as the breadbasket of Uganda, but it is now the poorest part of the country. More than 900,000 people (over 80%) in the districts of Gulu, Kitgum and Pader are displaced, living in camps and ...
Planning Health Care For Internally Displaced Persons: Experiences in Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
A significant proportion of Ugandans have at one time or another been forced to flee their homes. In 1997 alone, point prevalence revealed that 2,000,000 persons were displaced and it is estimated that currently about 1.6 ...
Delivering Health Care to IDPs: Experiences and Challenges in Katakwi District
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
There are two broad categories of IDPs in Katakwi district by cause; those displaced by the Karamojong rustlers and those displaced by the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) incursion. Sporadic Karamajong raids started over 50 ...
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 ...
Malaria and DDT: Myths and Facts
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
Around the world, about 2,400 million people, in about 100 countries and territories, are still at risk of contracting Malaria. Between 300 and 500 million of them get the disease each year and between 1.1 and 2.7 million ...
Is DDT Safe? Considering Its Use For Malaria Control in Uganda
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-08)
The insecticide DDT has been very successfully used for many years in malaria control programmes around the world. We assess the validity of the allegations that DDT is harmful to human health and the environment and find ...
Defining Equity in Health
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-12)
For purposes of measurement and operationalisation, equity in health is the absence of systematic disparities in health (or in the major social determinants of health) between groups with different levels of underlying ...