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Symptomatic Presentation With Cervical Cancer in Uganda: A Qualitative Study Assessing the Pathways to Diagnosis in a Low-Income Country
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2015-02-18)
Background
Symptomatic cervical cancer patients in low- and middle-income countries usually present with late stage disease and have poor survival. We explored the views of cervical cancer patients on their symptom appraisal ...
Doxycycline for the Treatment of Nodding Syndrome (DONS); The Study Protocol of a Phase II Randomised Controlled Trial
(Springer Nature, 2019-03-06)
Background
Nodding syndrome is a poorly understood neurological disorder of unknown aetiology, affecting several thousand children in Africa. There has been a consistent epidemiological association with infection by the ...
Social, Demographic and Healthcare Factors Associated With Stage at Diagnosis of Cervical Cancer: Cross-Sectional Study in a Tertiary Hospital in Northern Uganda
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2015-11-23)
Objective To examine patient and primary healthcare factors and stage at diagnosis in women with cervical cancer in Northern Uganda with the intention to identify factors that are associated with advanced stages in order ...
Is Nodding Syndrome an Onchocerca Volvulus-Induced Neuroinflammatory Disorder? Uganda’s Story of Research in Understanding the Disease
(Elsevier, 2016-04)
Nodding syndrome is a devastating neurological disorder, mostly affecting children in eastern Africa. An estimated 10 000 children are affected. Uganda, one of the most affected countries, set out to systematically investigate ...
The Enigmatic Nodding Syndrome Outbreak in Northern Uganda: An analysis of the Disease Burden and National Response Strategies
(Oxford University Press, 2015-06-27)
To date, the cause of nodding syndrome (NS) remains unknown; however, efforts continue to establish risk factors and optimal symptomatic treatments. We documented the burden and national response strategies including ...
Nodding Syndrome: Recent Insights into Etiology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment
(Dove press Ltd, 2018-05-24)
Nodding syndrome is an enigmatic neuropsychiatric and epileptiform disorder associated with psychomotor, mental, and physical growth retardation. The disorder affects otherwise previously normal children aged 3–18 years, ...
Perceptions and Beliefs of Lay People From Northern Uganda Regarding Surgery for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cervical Cancer
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018-05-02)
Objective
To explore perceptions and beliefs of people in a rural community in northern Uganda regarding surgery for the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer. The aim of the study was to inform interventions to ...
Cancer Care in Countries in Transition in Africa: The Case of Uganda
(Springer, Cham, 2016)
Uganda is a low-income country experiencing epidemiological transition with a double burden of communicable diseases including malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV as well as a rising incidence of noncommunicable diseases including ...
Turning a Blind Eye and a Deaf Ear to Traditional and Complementary Medicine Practice Does not Make it go Away: A Qualitative Study Exploring Perceptions and Attitudes of Stakeholders Towards the Integration of Traditional and Complementary Medicine into Medical School Curriculum in Uganda
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2018-12-18)
Background: A substantial proportion of healthcare professionals have inadequate understanding of traditional and complementary medicine and often consider their use inappropriate.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative study ...
"Those Who Died are the Ones That are Cured". Walking the Political Tightrope of Nodding Syndrome in Northern Uganda: Emerging Challenges for Research and Policy
(PLOS, 2019-06-20)
Background
Nodding Syndrome was first reported from Tanzania in the 1960s but appeared as an epi demic in Northern Uganda in the 1990s during the LRA civil war. It is characterized by repeti tive head nodding, often ...