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Agroforestry Practices In The Buffer Zone Area Of Mt Elgon National Park, Eastern Uganda
(African journal of ecology, 2007)
In this study, we investigated the attitude of local people towards the contribution of agroforestry practices to socio-economic development in the buffer zone area of Mt Elgon National Park, Uganda. Primary data were ...
Ethnography and PRA among Gambian traditional birth attendants: a methods discussion
(Qualitative Research, 2007)
Ethnographers are often sceptical of employing Participatory Rapid Appraisal (PRA) tools in their research, calling them ‘a quick and dirty’ approach. However, ethnography has limitations as a research method. We therefore ...
Knowledge, attitudes and prescribing pattern of emergency contraceptives by health care workers in Kampala, Uganda
(Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica, 2007)
Health care workers (HCWs) play an important role in making emergency contraceptives (ECs) available to clients. They can influence accessibility positively through counselling, prescribing or advocating the use of ECs. ...
A Cluster-Randomised Trial to Compare Home-Based with Health Facility- Based Antiretroviral Treatment in Uganda: Study Design and Baseline Findings
(Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., 2007)
The scale-up of antiretroviral therapy is progressing rapidly in Africa but with a limited evidence-base. We re-
port the baseline results from a large pragmatic cluster-randomised trial comparing different strategies of ...
Distinguishing Forest Tree Communities In Kibale National Park, Western Uganda Using Ordination And Classification Methods
(African Journal of Ecology, 2007)
A study of spatial variation in tree community structure and species composition in the Kibale National Park, western Uganda was conducted. Tree communities were compared at five sites namely K-14, K-15 and K-30 at Kanyawara ...
A Mathematical Model For The Dynamics Of Malaria In A Human Host And Mosquito Vector With Temporary Immunity
(Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2007)
In the paper, we propose a model that tracks the dynamics of malaria in the human host and mosquito vector. Our model incorporates some infected humans that recover from infection and immune humans after loss of immunity ...
Emphasizing the vitality of genomics related research in the area of infectious diseases
(Scientific Research and Essays, 2007)
Sequencing of the human and other species genomes has generated a downstream of sciences that have taken advantage of this knowledge to generate vital links between diseases and genetic variants. Sub-Saharan Africa and ...
Adherence To Antiretroviral Therapy In Children Attending Mulago Hospital, Kampala
(Annals of tropical paediatrics, 2007)
Non-adherence reduces the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy in children attending the paediatric HIV/AIDS clinic at Mulago Hospital, Kampala.To determine the levels of adherence to HAART and identify factors associated ...
Routine HIV testing: the right not to know versus the rights to care, treatment and prevention
(World Health Organization, 2007)
In their article “Desperately seeking targets: the ethics of routine HIV test- ing in low-income countries” published in the Bulletin in January 2006, Stuart Rennie & Frieda Behets explore some of the ethical challenges ...
Medicinal plant diversity and uses in the Sango bay area, Southern Uganda
(Journal of ethnopharmacology, 2007)
An inventory is presented for the medicinal plants of the Sango bay area in Southern Uganda. Fieldwork was conducted between March and
August 2004, using semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and participant observation ...