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The Response Inventory for Stressful Life Events (RISLE) I. refinement of the 100-item Version
(African health sciences, 2005)
No indigenous screening instruments are available for the detection of depression and suicide risk relevant to the
context of patients in Uganda. The Response Inventory for Stressful Life Events (RISLE) may be an appropriate ...
An HIV/AIDS Model With Variable Force Of Infection And Its Application To The Epidemic In Uganda
(American Journal of Applied Sciences, 2005)
An HIV/AIDS model is formulated with variable force of infection for the adult population. Its actions are reduced to a prevalence equation that is a non-logistic equation whose explicit solution is derived. The implications ...
Contemporary Myths, Sexuality Misconceptions, Information Sources, and Risk Perceptions of Bodabodamen in Southwest Uganda
(Sex Roles, 2005)
This article reports findings from a study conducted among 212 private motorbike–taxi riders, locally called bodabodamen, from two study sites—a slum area and the urban center of Masaka town. Qualitative and quantitative ...
Periodicity of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in a Mathematical Model that Incorporates Complacency
(American Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2005)
An HIV/AIDS model incorporating complacency for the adult population is formulated. Complacency is assumed a function of the number of AIDS cases in a community with an inverse relation. A method to find the equilibrium ...
Helminth Infection During Pregnancy and Development of Infantile Eczema
(American Medical Association, 2005)
The burden of atopic and inflammatory disease is escalating in developed countries, in inverse relation to infectious diseases.1 Mechanisms by which exposure to infections may promote balanced immunological development are ...
Money, men and markets: Economic and sexual empowerment of market women in southwestern Uganda
(An International Journal for Research, Intervention and Care, 2005)
Market trading requires access to cash, independent decision-making, mobility and social interaction.
This study sought to explore whether market work empowers women with respect to spending
decisions and negotiation ...
Informal response to housing shortage in post-independent Uganda – any lessons for architects?
(2005)
Uganda’s urbanization process has followed more or less the same pattern as urbanization in the other countries of sub-Saharan Africa. However, some peculiarities exist in the way the common people who have emigrated from ...
Supervised Versus Unsupervised Intake Of Six-Dose Artemether-Lumefantrine For Treatment Of Acute, Uncomplicated Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria In Mbarara, Uganda: A Randomised Trial
(The Lancet, 2005)
The six-dose regimen of artemether-lumefantrine is effective and is among combination therapies prioritised to replace antimalarials that no longer work in Africa. However, its effectiveness has not been assessed in the ...
Digitization of theses and dissertations in universities in developing countries: strategies for Makerere University
(2005)
Digitisation of libraries is currently described as cost effective way that has the ability to organise, store, preserve, retrieve, and ensure effective usage of information. Digitization of theses and dissertations offers ...
Capacity Building For The Clinical Investigation Of AIDS Malignancy In East Africa
(Cancer Detection and Prevention, 2005)
To build capacity in the resource-poor setting to support the clinical investigation and treatment of AIDS-related malignancies in a region of the world hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic.An initial MEDLINE database search ...