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Limited health insurance coverage amidst upsurge of non-communicable diseases in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2019)This brief uses the 2016/17 Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) and the World Development Indicators (WDI) to show the extent of health insurance coverage for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, high ... -
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Microbiologic and Clinical Treatment Outcomes in a Randomized Trial of Immediate versus CD4+ -Initiated Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Adults with a High CD4+ Cell Count
(Clinical infectious diseases, 2010)In a prospective randomized, controlled trial in Uganda comparing the efficacy of antiretroviral therapy during tuberculosis therapy with the efficacy of tuberculosis therapy alone in HIV-infected patients with tuberculosis ... -
Transcriptional Activity, Chromosomal Distribution and Expression Effects of Transposable Elements in Coffea Genomes
(PLoS One, 2013)Plant genomes are massively invaded by transposable elements (TEs), many of which are located near host genes and can thus impact gene expression. In flowering plants, TE expression can be activated (de-repressed) under ... -
Prediction of Transposable Element Derived Enhancers Using Chromatin Modification Profiles
(PLoS ONE, 2011)Experimentally characterized enhancer regions have previously been shown to display specific patterns of enrichment for several different histone modifications. We modelled these enhancer chromatin profiles in the human ... -
Phylogenomic analysis of Uganda influenza type-A viruses to assess their relatedness to the vaccine strains and other Africa viruses: a molecular epidemiology study
(bioRxiv, 2021)Genetic characterisation of circulating influenza viruses is essential for vaccine selection and mitigation of viral transmission. The current scantiness of viral genomic data and underutilisation of advanced molecular ... -
On the presence and role of human gene-body DNA methylation
(Oncotarget, 2012)DNA methylation of promoter sequences is a repressive epigenetic mark that down-regulates gene expression. However, DNA methylation is more prevalent within gene-bodies than seen for promoters, and gene-body methylation ... -
Mammalian-wide interspersed repeat (MIR)-derived enhancers and the regulation of human gene expression
(Mobile DNA, 2014)Mammalian-wide interspersed repeats (MIRs) are the most ancient family of transposable elements (TEs) in the human genome. The deep conservation of MIRs initially suggested the possibility that they had been exapted to ... -
Genetic Diversity of Bundibugyo Ebolavirus from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(bioRxiv, 2021)The Ebolavirus is one of the deadliest viral pathogens which was first discovered in the year 1976 during two consecutive outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Six known strains have been documented. ... -
Effect of the Transposable Element Environment of Human Genes on Gene Length and Expression
(Genome biology and evolution, 2011)Independent lines of investigation have documented effects of both transposable elements (TEs) and gene length (GL) on gene expression. However, TE gene fractions are highly correlated with GL, suggesting that they cannot ... -
Health Spending in Uganda Implications on the National Minimum Health Care Package
(ACODE, 2016)This policy brief is part of Public Expenditure Governance (PEG) study of the health sector in Uganda. The overall objective of the research was to examine the links between public spending, governance, and outcomes in ... -
Building Effective Drinking Water Management Policies In Rural Africa: Lessons From Northern Uganda
(CIGI-Africa Initiative, 2012)The importance of providing clean, safe drinking water and sanitation to rural inhabitants of developing countries is widely recognized. The United Nations (UN) General Assembly, for instance, declared 2008 the International ... -
Universal Health Coverage in Uganda: The Critical Health Infrastructure, Healthcare Coverage and Equity
(SPEED Initiative, 2017)Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has gained popularity within the global health policy and academic circles as countries strive to meet the UHC target established under the Sustainable Development Goal agenda. To ... -
Overcoming Shortcoming in Monitoring Retention in Option B+
(SPEED Initiative, 2018)The retention in care is a serious pointer of achievement for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission(PMTCT) care program. The level of retention of women under PMTCT care program at the different time points of ... -
Expanding HIVAIDS prevention programmes through Safe Male Circumcision and Voluntary Counselling and Testing in Uganda
(2013)Although Uganda initially registered large reductions in HIV/AIDS prevalence rate during the 1990s, the rate of new HIV infection is on the rise across the country. At least 1.2 million Ugandans are infected with the ... -
Better nutrition for children in Uganda The policy makers role
(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2012)Uganda has made tremendous progress in improving welfare outcomes in the past 20 years, some key welfare outcomes especially regarding nutritional status have performed dismally. For instance, the proportion of poor ... -
Addressing the Poor Nutrition of Ugandan Children
(Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), 2012)One out of every three young children in Uganda are short for their age, according to the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS); and the incidence of poor nutritional status is highest in the relatively better ... -
Reclaiming public health services in Uganda
(Economic and Social Rights Advocacy (ESRA), 2021)The Covid-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of strong public health services to deliver equitable healthcare. The countries that most successfully navigated the pandemic tended, overwhelmingly, to have entrenched ... -
Getting it Right: Uganda’s Proposed National Health Insurance Scheme
(2015)Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been pushing for universal health coverage. According to WHO, the goal of universal health coverage is to ensure that all people obtain the health services they need ... -
A Looming Crisis? An analysis of the health sector budget performance for the financial year 2012/13 and allocations for 2013/14
(Initiative for Social and Economic Rights, 2013)Over the years, the government of Uganda has committed to improving the health sector service delivery through a number of interventions and policies. The health sector has been identified as one of the key priorities ... -
Addressing Inequity and Discrimination in the Delivery of Health Services in Uganda
(Economic and Social Rights Advocacy (ESRA), 2014)Health reports in Uganda are often characterized by aggregated statistical data showing progress on particular indicators such as maternal mortality, infant mortality, life expectancy, HIV/AIDS prevalence and so on. ...
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