Background and Methods We examined the influence of viral load in relation to other risk factors for the heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). In a community-based study of 15,127 ...

A study of the regeneration of an Afromontane forest was carried out in Mgahinga Gorilla National Park (MGNP), southwestern Uganda, following agricultural encroachment in the last 50 years. The landscape was changed by ...

Several studies have reported that women with coronary heart disease have a poorer prognosis than men. Psychosocial factors, including social isolation and depressive symptoms have been suggested as a possible cause. ...

There is widespread demand for the development of female controlled methods of protection against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV. The success of such methods will not only depend on their acceptability to ...

Natural killer (NK) cells are important innate effector cells controlled by an array of activating and inhibitory receptors. Some alleles of the inhibitory killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor KIR3DL1 in combination ...

Field surveys were done in 1997 and 1998 in Masaka district, Uganda, an area which is experiencing a decline in banana production, to assess level of damage caused by nematodes Radopholus similis and Helicotylenchus ...

The aim was to assess the validity and consequences of different methods of expressing severity of dental fluorosis in a subject. The analyses were based on Ugandan children (n = 481), aged 10-14 years, with life-long ...

In order to explore the socializing in¯uences which have shaped rural adolescent schoolgirls’ views and values about sex in a high HIV prevalence area of Uganda, detailed qualitative data was obtained over a one year ...

The molecular epidemiology of a population-based cohort in a cluster of 15 villages in southwestern Uganda was investigated by sequencing part of the p24 gag gene and performing heteroduplex mobility assays (HMAs) of the ...

The spatial distribution of nematode populations and damage in roots of Nabusa ( Musa AAAgroup ‘Matooke’), Pisang Awak ( Musa ABB) and Sukali Ndizi ( Musa AB) three banana cultivars widely grown in Uganda, was ...