Southwestern Uganda
Detection of Plasmodium Species by High Resolution Melt Analysis of DNA from Blood Smears Acquired in Southwestern Uganda
... northern Uganda in 2011 showed that, in samples collected from asymptomatic participants, ...in southwestern Uganda as our study, there were fewer ...
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Feasibility and acceptability of home based HIV testing among refugees: a pilot study in Nakivale refugee settlement in southwestern Uganda
... southwestern Uganda, and managed by the United Na- tions High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ugandan government ...the Uganda national guidelines ...the Uganda AIDS indicator survey ...
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Early biting and insecticide resistance in the malaria vector Anopheles might compromise the effectiveness of vector control intervention in Southwestern Uganda
... Southwest Uganda is classified as very high transmission setting ...in southwestern Uganda [3], as described in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa ...Eastern Uganda, des- pite 98% LLIN usage ...
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<p>Assessment of the quality of stored blood for transfusion at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Southwestern Uganda</p>
... Five units of whole blood (83.3%) were contaminated with bacteria, a fi nding that is in agreement with previous studies done in Ghana and Nigeria, 27 though it negates an earlier report in Southwestern ...
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Dementia assessment and diagnostic practices of healthcare workers in rural southwestern Uganda: a cross sectional qualitative study
... in southwestern Uganda are likely to go undiagnosed due to the fact that there is a small percentage of a healthcare workers with mental health training who have the knowledge and skills to use ...
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Household water treatment technologies for microbial removal in Kabale District, Southwestern Uganda
... This chapter presents the summary of the main findings, conclusion, recommendations of the study and areas for further research. The general objective of the study was to examine HWT and evaluate their ability to improve ...
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Male Gender is independently associated with pulmonary tuberculosis among sputum and non sputum producers people with presumptive tuberculosis in Southwestern Uganda
... In Southwestern Uganda, we found significantly higher odds of a diagnosis of TB among male people with pre- sumptive tuberculosis. This difference was independent of age, HIV-serostatus, and residence. The ...
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Soil and Nutrient Losses under Cultivated Bush and Climbing Beans on Terraced Humid Highland Slopes of Southwestern Uganda
... The soils in the study area had a moderate to rapid Ksat which allows an easy water movement within the soil. There were generally low soil runoff and nutrient losses from both climbing and bush beans compared with those ...
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Linking Soil Conservation in Potato Production Systems in the Highlands of Southwestern Uganda to Gender and Farmer Market Types
... Rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa develop different livelihood strate- gies driven by opportunities and constraints encountered in existing biophys- ical and socioeconomic environments. A study on gender effects ...
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Evaluation of the Deki Reader™, an automated RDT reader and data management device, in a household survey setting in low malaria endemic southwestern Uganda
... This sub-study was part of a cross sectional study aimed at assessing the prevalence of malaria parasitaemia among children 6–60 months of age across three districts of southwestern Uganda [12]. Sampling ...
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Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Neisseria gonorrhea among the Symptomatic Patients attending Outpatient Department in Lyatonde District Hospital Southwestern Uganda
... in Uganda is weak and besides, Uganda is not a participating member of WHO Global Gonococcal Antimicrobial Surveillance Program (GASP) which was launched in ...the Uganda Population Base HIV Impact ...
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Antenatal services for pregnant teenagers in Mbarara Municipality, Southwestern Uganda: health workers and community leaders’ views
... This study assessed stakeholders’ views concerning avail- ability, accessibility and utilization of teenager friendly ante- natal services in three divisions of Mbarara Municipality southwestern Uganda. The ...
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Functionality and acceptability of a wireless fetal heart rate monitoring device in term pregnant women in rural Southwestern Uganda
... compared immobile/wired CTGs and wireless technol- ogy prototype in a USA setting [15], our participants’ ex- periences compared the prototype with the routinely used Pinard stethoscope. Our study was also conducted ...
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Hepatitis B Infection and Immunity among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in Health Centers of Mbarara Municipality, Southwestern Uganda
... in Uganda where it started in 2012 [6] HepB vaccination in many developed countries has been a routine for decades, therefore most individuals have artificial immunity, taken together, these results imply that ...
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Prevalence of HIV-related thrombocytopenia among clients at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Mbarara, southwestern Uganda
... limits success of clinical interventions in an immunologi- cally compromised population. Although cytopenias have been widely reported in HIV infection, there is little data regarding prevalence, correlates, and ...
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Outbreak of yellow fever in central and southwestern Uganda, February–may 2016
... in Uganda occurred in 2010 ...of Uganda under the auspices of the Global Health Security Agenda has substantially enhanced the capacity for out- break response, the core components of which includes a Table ...
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Prevalence of antibodies to Brucella species in commercial raw bovine milk in Southwestern Uganda
... We observed a high prevalence of antibodies against Brucella spp. in raw milk collected from dairies in South- western Uganda, the biggest producers of milk in the country. These findings need further confirmation ...
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Climate Variability and Soil Nutrients Status along Altitudinal Gradient in Kigezi Highlands, Southwestern Uganda
... Uganda have pointed out that crop productivity is declining in highland areas due to the increasingly unpredict- able rains being experienced [24]. Root crops such as potatoes, however, have shown a positive ...
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Personal carbon monoxide exposure, respiratory symptoms, and the potentially modifying roles of sex and HIV infection in rural Uganda: a cohort study
... in southwestern Uganda and joins few other studies of ambulatory CO monitoring among mixed gender populations in sub-Sa- haran ...in Uganda, in which CO exposure concentrations were compared by sex ...
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‘Better medicines for children’ within the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness framework: a qualitative inquiry in Uganda
... According to the Health Sector Strategic and Investment Plan III, IMCI remains the main approach in the man- agement of childhood illnesses in Uganda [6]. In reality, IMCI is the most appropriate approach for the ...
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