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Viral Load Detection Using Dried Blood Spots in a Cohort of HIV-1- Infected Children in Uganda: Correlations with Clinical and Immunological Criteria for Treatment Failure
(American Society for Microbiology, 2014-04-22)
High rates of virological suppression were reported among
HIV-1-infected children of low- and middle-income countries
(LMIC) up to 5 to 6 years after receiving combined antiretroviral
treatment (cART) (1). In 2013, the ...
Cardiac surgery for patients with heart failure due to structural heart disease in Uganda: access to surgery and outcomes
(2014)
Objective: Few data are available on heart failure (HF) in
sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to provide a current picture
of HF aetiologies in urban Uganda, access to heart surgery,
and outcomes.
Methods: We prospectively ...
Privacy and Digital Technologies: E-Dossier
(Università degli Studi di Trento, 2014-06)
Privacy has been a key issue that needs to be addressed in the digital era. With development of digital technologies now information is shared so easily and fast. The rise of online giants like Google who collect personal ...
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 ...
Cardiac surgery for patients with heart failure due to structural heart disease in Uganda: access to surgery and outcomes: cardiovascular topic
(Sabinent, 2014-09)
Few data are available on heart failure (HF) in sub-Saharan Africa. We aimed to provide a current picture of HF aetiologies in urban Uganda, access to heart surgery, and outcomes. We prospectively collected clinical and ...
Prosthetic thrombosis and pregnancy on warfarin: Debate on mechanical mitral valve replacement in sub-Saharan Africa based on a case report
(Elsevier - International Journal of Cardiology, 2014)
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is the most common cardiovascular disease in children and young adults in the world. Echocardiographic screenings have documented a large prevalence of RHD in sub-Saharan Africa; there is, ...
Diversity in Security Environments: The Why and the Wherefore
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2014)
Information security is generally discussed in terms of preventing adversarial access to applications and to the data these applications handle. The authors note, however, that increasingly, creating information security ...
Ethnicity and political development in Uganda:The case of Kampala District
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2014)
The thrust of this study is hinged on the investigation of two major issues;
the Influence of ethnicity on the multiparty politics of Kampala district,
and the influence of ethnicity on the political ideologies of ...
Participation in Clinical Research Could Modify Background Risk for Trial Outcome Measures
(2014)
Data on HIV incidence and retention are needed to inform study design of efficacy trials. However, the selection criteria and interventions during an actual clinical trial could
reduce HIV incidence and thus affect the ...
The Implication of Ethnicity on the Formation of the East African Economic Federation: The Case of Uganda
(2014)
The design of economic policies in East Africa that promote inter-ethnic cooperation remains poorly understood by the East African legislators, and the architectures of the East African Federation. This paper examines how ...