Footnote 129 In addition, creating a strategic food reserve could facilitate a rapid government response to sudden shocks to food and nutrition security among vulnerable and marginalized households. During future disease outbreaks, if schools are closed again, alternative mechanisms would be helpful to ...
Background: The 2011 Uganda Nutrition Action Plan (UNAP) established 2016 maternal and child nutrition targets. However, there is a lack of routine district-level data collection to assess UNAP implementation.Agaba, EdgarPomeroy-Stevens, AmandaGhosh, ShibaniGriffiths, Jeffrey K....
Group Discussions (FGD) used the Participatory Action Research (PAR) Model [54,55]. TMPs such as professional herbalists, herbal farmers and herbal sellers participated in the FGD. Approximately eight to ten (8–10) participants in each FGD were involved [54,55]. FGD is where the researcher...
MakSPH also has several short courses aimed at enhancing knowledge and skills at various levels including in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene; Health Services Management; Advanced Qualitative Research Methods; Nutrition in Emergencies; and Public Health in Complex Emergencies. Initially, the partnership had...
Other comorbid diagnoses included co-infections (1,367, 23.46%), cardiovascular disease (975, 16.7%), severe mal- nutrition (807, 13.9%), anaemia (646, 11.1%) and kidney disease (514, 8.82%). (Table 2). In-Hospital mortality A total of 4,303 (73.85%) PLHIV were discharged from ...
This grounds the need to critically engage with multiple notions of quality when addressing food and nutrition security through PHL interventions. 3. Material and methods 3.1. Study area The importance of agriculture for the Ugandan economy is reflected in its 25% contribution to the National Gross...
These organisations rarely have a sustainability or continuity plan, so they leave when resources and funding for projects run out. An aspect of social networks that remained unexplored was the informal and often undocumented social relations that aid electricity access like phone charging at a ...
They would not have received training on HIV/AIDS, malaria, hygiene, clean drinking water and nutrition. They would not have had the opportunity for developing leadership skills and become Small Groups leaders regardless of gender, religion, education or general background. Likely changes in water,...
[15]. ANC also includes nutrition advice on iron-folic acid supplementation, deworming, and intermittent preventive treatment for presumptive malaria among others [26]. Studies have shown that low ANC utilization is attributed to inadequate social and financial support, long distances to healthcare ...
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