The device of air quality monitoring system designed by AirQo is seen at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, on May 31, 2022. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwadda/Xinhua) People work inside the AirQo workshop at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, on May 31, 2022. (Photo by Hajarah Nalwa...
The war in South Sudan has displaced more than four million people, with Uganda hosting the largest number of South Sudanese refugees. Research in Uganda has shown elevated levels of alcohol misuse and psychological distress among these refugees. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed a...
[25], the United States (US), and Uganda [26, 27] suggest that one-dose schedules would be cost-effective and would prevent almost as many cancers as two-dose or three-dose schedules if one dose confers at least 20 years of protection or has at least 80% efficacy against HPV 16/18...
MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Plot 51–59 Nakiwogo Road, PO Box 49, Entebbe, Uganda Eugene Kinyanda Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Bartholinsgade 4, Bg. 9, 1356 København K, CSS, Bg. 9, Building: 9.2.16, Cope...
Advancing spatial repellents for malaria control: effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a spatial repellent under operational use in Northern Uganda—study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial Esther Nakyaze, Suzanne Van Hulle, John Hembling, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Momar Mbodji, ...
Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) is marked for elimination of transmission by 2030, but the disease persists in several low-income countries. We couple transmission and health outcomes models to examine the cost-effectiveness of four gHAT elimination strategies in five settings – spanning...
Mpuga P (2002). Health Outcomes After the Abolition of Cost Sharing in Public Hospitals in Uganda. Johannes Kepler University, Linz. Available at http://www.wiiw.ac.at/e/sie_ mpuga.html [last accessed 23 October 2008].Mpuga, P., (2002). Health Outcomes after the Abolition of Cost ...
Funding Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, and Stanford University Department of Surgery.Previous article in issue Next article in issue Introduction Global health efforts, guided in part by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),1 have focused mainly on ...
in artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and the foundation of global guidelines for the treatment of malaria3. Formerly confined to the Greater Mekong Subregion4,5,6, genetic mutations associated with artemisinin resistance have recently been detected in Uganda7and Rwanda8, escalating the risk...
In 2009, the Makerere University Walter Reed Project began the first facility-based VMMC program in Uganda in a non-research setting. In addition, a mobile clinic began providing VMMC services to more remote, rural locations in 2011. The primary objective of this study was to estimate the ...