Northern Uganda
Effects of demand side incentives in improving the utilisation of delivery services in Oyam District in northern Uganda: a quasi experimental study
... Doctors with Africa CUAMM, an Italian NGO, and hereafter, referred to as CUAMM, implemented the interventions in Oyam District in northern Uganda, from January to December 2014. CUAMM is the main ...
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PTSD, depression and anxiety among former abductees in Northern Uganda
... from Northern Uganda who have been inter- viewed in this study are suffering from severe mental health consequences of the trauma-spectrum disorders (49% diagnosed with PTSD, 71% with symptoms of ...
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Prevalence, morphological characterization, and associated factors of anemia among children below 5 years of age attending St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu District, Northern Uganda
... This study has demonstrated evidence of a high prevalence of childhood anemia at St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu District in Northern Uganda. Based on the WHO benchmarks, a popu- lation prevalence rate of ...
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Nodding Syndrome (NS) in Northern Uganda: A Probable Metabolic Disorder
... The socio-demographic of the participants were comparable to previous studies conducted in Southern Sudan and Northern Uganda respectively [3,9,11,12]. However, this case- control study had an advantage of ...
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A Survey for Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia in Agago and Otuke Districts in Northern Uganda
... in Uganda in 1995 in Karamoja ...in Uganda remain ...in Northern Uganda during the months of July and August 2011 to explore for the status of the ...of Uganda for effective preventive ...
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Modelling Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) Time to Resuming their Ancestral Homes after IDPs’ Camps in Northern Uganda Using Parametric Methods
... Abstract: In this paper the time that the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) took to return from IDPs Camps to their ancestral homes in Northern Uganda was modeled using parametric methods. A retrospective ...
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Accessibility and availability of health care services to internally displaced persons, in Kitgum and Pader districts, northern Uganda
... in northern Uganda were in en- campment for nearly 2 decades, and subjected to impov- erishment, destitution and above all ...the northern war affected districts com- pared to the other districts in ...
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Age at menarche in relation to nutritional status and critical life events among rural and urban secondary school girls in post-conflict Northern Uganda
... Background: Menarche age is an important indicator of reproductive health of a woman or a community. In industrial societies, age at menarche has been declining over the last 150 years with a secular trend, and similar ...
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Prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence against women in conflict affected northern Uganda: a cross-sectional study
... affected northern Uganda will require an ap- proach that recognises the influence of post-traumatic psychological issues, substance abuse, and gender power imbalances in sustaining ...
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Assessing the effect of indoor residual spraying (IRS) on malaria morbidity in Northern Uganda: a before and after study
... Background: Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is known to reduce malaria transmission. In northern Uganda, a high endemic area, IRS has been implemented since 2006. Limited data however, exists on the effect ...
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The reliability and validity of the SF-8 with a conflict-affected population in northern Uganda
... Methods: A cross-sectional multi-staged, random cluster survey was conducted with 1206 adults in camps for internally displaced persons in Gulu and Amuru districts of northern Uganda. Data quality was ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with use of herbal medicines during pregnancy among women attending postnatal clinics in Gulu district, Northern Uganda
... Despite the fact that knowledge of potential side ef- fects of many herbal medicines in pregnancy is limited [1, 20–22], and that some herbal products may be teratogenic [23–25], exposure to herbal products is fre- quent ...
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Ebola in the context of conflict affected states and health systems: case studies of Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone
... of Northern Uganda (2000-2001) and West Africa (2014-15) and other work in progress in the two countries with which the authors are associated, which is building an understanding of the specificities of the ...
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Prevalence and predictors of prior antibacterial use among patients presenting to hospitals in Northern Uganda
... Data collection for the study was carried out in 3 months from August-to-October 2013 in northern Uganda. Data on use of antibacterial agents at home prior to hospital visit was collected using a structured ...
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Age and geographic patterns of Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection in a representative sample of children living in Burkitt lymphoma endemic areas of northern Uganda
... In addition to the environmental factors noted above, the geographical variation in the weighted pfPR might be due to genetic variation in prevalent genetic mutations like the sickle cell disease polymorphism that has ...
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An exploration of caregiver burden for children with nodding syndrome (lucluc) in Northern Uganda
... In sum, there is no consensus on what constitutes bur- den and its measurement is limited. Different variables in subjective and objective burden might have different levels of impact on different caregivers, and the ...
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Traditional knowledge in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention program in northern Uganda
... in northern Uganda and the implications of such challenges on the ...in Uganda is currently rising, with the health care system struggling to provide care for the ballooning number of ...
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Prevalence and factors associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder seven years after the conflict in three districts in northern Uganda (The Wayo Nero Study)
... We studied the prevalence and risks factors of PTSD in a population based study in post conflict northern Uganda. Our major finding is that the prevalence rate of PTSD is high in the study area. These ...
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Teenage Marriage in Post Conflict Northern Uganda: A Case of Amuru District
... Abstract: Background: Teenage marriage eventually lead to teenage pregnancy with all it associated adverse consequences. Moreover, teenagers are less likely to utilize antenatal care and as well exhibit sub-optimal ...
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Challenges of implementing commercial forestry policy in africa: evidence from northern uganda
... In Uganda forestry provides a wide range of benefits to government, local communities and the private sector (MLWE, ...the Uganda Bureau of Statistics [UBOS] (2011), 95% of households in Uganda use ...
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