South Western Uganda
In vitro Antibacterial Efficacy of Bidens pilosa, Ageratum conyzoides and Ocimum suave Extracts against HIV/AIDS Patients’ Oral Bacteria in South Western Uganda
... in South-Western Uganda involving reference and pathological bacteria have demonstrated huge antibac- terial resistance burden amongst HIV/AIDS patients in relation to high level re- sistance of oral ...
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Yield Performance of Improved Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) Varieties under Pure Stand and Banana Intercrop Methods in Semi Arid Agroecological Zone of South Western Uganda
... The semi-arid areas of south-western Uganda often experience low crop yields mainly due to inadequate rains received and prolonged droughts [1]. Conven- tional legumes such as beans play a major role ...
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Gender, land and responses to health and environmental shocks in rural South Western Uganda
... We examine the gendered responses to shocks – including HIV-related illness and death, and environmental factors such as drought or too much rain – and how women in south western Uganda navigate ...
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Analysis for Organochlorine Pesticide Residues in Honey from Kabale District, South Western Uganda
... in Uganda for crop production and vector control [4] because their resi- dues have been found in various environmental matrices within the ...Edward, Uganda [5], OCPs in soils from ...
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Prevalence of dyslipidaemia and associated risk factors in a rural population in South-Western Uganda : a community based survey
... A cross sectional study was conducted from January to November 2011 in rural south-western Uganda as part of the annual surveys of the General Population Cohort (GPC). [16] In brief, the GPC is a ...
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Uptake of hormonal contraceptives and correlates of uptake in a phase III clinical trial in rural South Western Uganda
... and 2% PRO2000 candidate microbicide gels in prevent- ing vaginally acquired HIV-1 infection. The trial design and trial results have been reported elsewhere [15, 25, 26]. In summary, participants were enrolled at 13 ...
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DETERMINANTS OF FARMERS' INVESTMENTS IN SOIL FERTILITY MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION INNOVATIONS IN THE POTATO CROPPING SYSTEMS IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SOUTH-WESTERN UGANDA
... Use of hired labor and number of fields cultivated had significant influence on adoption of farmyard manure, mineral fertilizers, trenches, agro-forestry and fallows as means for improving soil fertility and conserving ...
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Longitudinal evaluation of aflatoxin exposure in two cohorts in south-western Uganda
... Compared with other African countries, the averaged AFB-Lys level found in this study was among those lower levels reported. Yard et al. (2013) suggested that the esti- mated AFB-Lys adduct values from the ELISA method ...
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Individual and health facility factors and the risk for obstructed labour and its adverse outcomes in south western Uganda
... Socio-demographic and health system factors are strongly associated with obstructed labour and its out- come in south-western Uganda. Our study provides base- line information on the individual ...
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A Study to Investigate Major Community Health Challenges and Their Predisposing Factors in Bushenyi District of South Western Uganda
... Poor health care systems have contributed to poor standard of living in Uganda. The aim of the study was to assess major health challenges to community health and identify major predisposing factors. This was a ...
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Diagnosis and treatment of malaria in peripheral health facilities in Uganda: findings from an area of low transmission in south western Uganda
... [7,8]. Uganda has uniform treatment guide- lines which stipulate that any patient with fever without evidence of other diseases should treated for malaria even with a negative blood smear for malaria parasites and ...
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Vulnerability of smallholder sorghum farmers to climate variability in a heterogeneous landscape of south-western Uganda
... Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are at a greater risk to the impacts of climate variability. We therefore sought to assess vulnerability of smallholder sorghum farmers to climate variability in Kigezi highlands ...
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Heterogeneous decrease in malaria prevalence in children over a six year period in south western Uganda
... This study presents the results of two cross-sectional surveys done at a six-year interval in a rural area of south-western Uganda. The first cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2004 to measure ...
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Dealing with disclosure: Perspectives from HIV-positive children and their older carers living in rural south-western Uganda
... in western Kenya found that 1 in 5 caretakers of orphans was over 55 years of age and that the older carers faced serious challenges in terms of accessing schooling, medical care and food for children they cared ...
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Malaria is an uncommon cause of adult sepsis in south western Uganda
... Despite these limitations, data from this study lend strong support to the notion that malaria is an uncom- mon cause of sepsis in adult inpatients in south-western Uganda. Based on the findings of ...
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Institutional Determinants to Climate Variability Adaptation by Smallholder Irish Potato Farmers in Rubanda District, South Western Uganda
... District, South Western Uganda with the objective of assessing the adaptation measures adopted by smallholder Irish potato farmers, determining the institutional factors that influence adoption of ...
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Perceptions and practices for preventing malaria in pregnancy in a peri urban setting in south western Uganda
... The study was conducted in Kabale District, in south- western Uganda. The district experiences low malaria transmission and occasionally gets malaria outbreaks with severe signs and symptoms of the ...
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Dealing with disclosure: Perspectives from HIV-positive children and their older carers living in rural south-western Uganda
... in Western Kenya found that 1 in 5 caretakers of orphans was over 55 years of age and that the older carers faced serious challenges in terms of accessing schooling, medical care and food for children they cared ...
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Resistance, Minimum Inhibitory and Bactericidal Concentration Profiles of Oral Bacteria from HIV/AIDS Patients in South Western Uganda
... In Uganda, no studies have been conducted to date comparing Minimum Inhibitory Concentrations (MICs) of series of antibacterials on microorganisms from HIV & AIDS ...
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Annual trends of human brucellosis in pastoralist communities of south-western Uganda: a retrospective ten-year study
... In Uganda, human brucellosis has been reported to be prevalent in both rural and urban settings [6, ...in Uganda, reporting a herd prevalence of ...in Uganda are commonly found living on the ...
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