including UN organizations such as the WHO, UNDP, UNICEF, WFP, FAO, UN Women, as well as civil society organizations including Amref Health Africa, the Red Cross, World Vision, Save the Children, Akina Mama Wa Afrika, and the White Ribbon Alliance. ...
Non-communicable diseasesRuralLow- and middle-income countriesNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) are an increasing global concern, with morbidity and mortality largely occurring in low- and middle-income settings. We established the prospective Rural Uganda Non-Communicable Disease (RUNCD) cohort to ...
Since 2011 village health workers (VHWs) in Kisoro district, Uganda have been providing non-communicable disease (NCD) care as part of the Chronic Disease in the Community (CDCom) Program. The VHWs screen for hypertension and other NCDs as part of a door-to-door biannual health census, ...
Concurrently, there has also been an increase in BOD due to non-communicable diseases (NCD) in adults [1–7]. Little is know about the spectrum of clinical diagnoses encountered at primary care facilities in many SSA countries, including Uganda. Organizations such as the World Bank, the ...
As the world marks World Malaria Day, which falls on April 25 every year, Uganda is making preparations to use the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine to beef up efforts in the fight against the disease. Last September, the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization opened up a window...
The aim of the work is to contribute to reducing the prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases among the poorest communities in Uganda. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers a dual burden of disease with communicable diseases such as diarrhea, cholera, dysentery and malaria contributing 69 % of...
One might speculate, for example, that non-relative and alliance fostering, and the occurrences of “street children” who are either not fostered or have run away from their foster homes, might be more common in urban settings. The study, by design, had not catered for examination of ...
T cell responses to Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) are likely essential in the control of KSHV infection and protection from associated disease, but remain poorly characterised. KSHV prevalence in rural Uganda is high at >90%. Here we
Matthew Cummings is a senior at Siena College where he is studying biology and history. He spent the fall of 2007 at Makerere University in Uganda and worked with the Epidemiology and Surveillance Division at the Uganda Ministry of Health throughout the summer of 2008. During this time he ...
Sociodemographic dis- tribution of non-communicable disease risk factors in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional study. Int J Epidemiol 2013: 42: 1740-1753.Murphy GA, Asiki G, Ekoru K, et al. Sociodemographic distribution of non-communicable disease risk factors in rural Uganda: a cross-sectional...