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    The impacts of decentralization on health care seeking behaviors in Uganda 

    Hutchinson, Paul; Akin, John; Ssengooba, Freddie (The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2006)
    This paper examines the impacts of a public sector decentralization program on health care seeking behaviors in Uganda in the 1990s. Shifting priorities by local governments in Uganda’s decentralized health system away ...
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    Epidemiology of HIV and AIDS among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States 

    Fowler, G. Mary (Journal of Adolescent Health, 2006)
    Purpose: To describe the current status of the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic among adolescents and young adults in the United States. Despite reported declines in ...
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    Negotiating improved case management of childhood illness with formal and informal private practitioners in Uganda 

    Tawfik, Youssef; Nsungwa-Sabiti, Jesca; Greer, George; Owor, Joseph; Kesande, Rosette; Prysor-Jones, Suzanne (Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2006)
    In Uganda, formal and informal private practitioners (PPs) provide most case management for childhood illness. This paper describes the impact of negotiation sessions, an intervention to improve the quality of PPs’ case ...
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    The uses, local perceptions and ecological status of 16 woody species of Gadumire Sub-county, Uganda 

    Tabuti, John R. S. (In Plant Conservation and Biodiversity, 2006)
    Populations of naturally growing woody species valued for their contribution to human livelihoods are threatened with extinction. Most at risk are those existing in human inhabited areas outside protected areas that are ...
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    Rehabilitation for cognitive impairments after cerebral malaria in African children: strategies and limitations 

    Bangirana, Paul; Idro, Richard; John, Chandy C.; Boivin, Michael J. (Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2006)
    Cerebral malaria results in short- to long-term cognitive impairments in many of its child survivors. Although some of the risk factors for impairments have been identified, no attempts have been made to address the plight ...
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    How Uganda Reversed Its HIV Epidemic 

    Slutkin, Gary; Okware, Sam; Naamara, Warren; Sutherland, Don; Flanagan, Donna; Carael, Michel; Blas, Erik; Delay, Paul; Tarantola, Daniel (AIDS and Behavior, 2006)
    Uganda is one of only two countries in the world that has successfully reversed the course of its HIV epidemic. There remains much controversy about how Uganda’s HIV prevalence declined in the 1990s. This article describes ...
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    Measles vaccination effectiveness among children under 5 years of age in Kampala, Uganda 

    Mupere, Ezekiel; Karamagi, Charles; Zirembuzi, George; Grabowsky, Mark; de Swart, Rik L.; Nanyunja, Miriam; Mayanja, Harriet (Vaccine, 2006)
    Measles control remains a great challenge in Uganda. We conducted a prospective study among household contacts aged 9–59 months to assess measles vaccination effectiveness. Index cases were measles patients seen in Kampala ...
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    Killing of a Pearl-Spotted Owlet (Glaucidium perlatum) by Male Red Colobus Monkeys (Procolobus tephrosceles) in a Forest Fragment Near Kibale National Park, Uganda 

    Goldberg, Tony L.; Gillespie, Thomas R.; Rwego, Innocent B.; Kaganzi, Clovis (Official Journal of the American Society of Primatologists, 2006)
    Adult male red colobus (Procolobus tephrosceles) were observed capturing and killing an owl (Glaucidium perlatum) in the Rurama forest fragment near Kibale National Park in western Uganda. The owl was not subsequently eaten ...
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    Three genetically divergent lineages of the Oryx in eastern Africa: Evidence for an ancient introgressive hybridization 

    Masembe, Charles; Muwanika, Vincent B.; Nyakaana, Silvester; Arctander, Peter; Siegismund, Hans R. (Conservation Genetics, 2006)
    Phylogeographic and population genetic studies using sequence information are frequently used to infer species boundaries and history; and to assess hybridization and population level processes. In this study, partial ...
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    Alcohol use before sex and HIV acquisition: a longitudinal study in Rakai, Uganda 

    Zablotska, Iryna B.; Gray, Ronald H.; Serwadda, David; Nalugoda, Fred; Kigozi, Godfrey; Sewankambo, Nelson; Lutalo, Tom; Wabwire-Mangen, Fred; Wawer, Maria (Aids, 2006)
    Alcohol abuse is a major public health problem and is associated with sexually transmitted infections, but the association with HIV is unclear [2]. Alcohol use is common, and disinhibition as a result of alcohol may ...
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