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Access to Health Care Services. Experiences of Persons Living with Disabilities in Eastern and Northern Uganda
(Budget Monitoring and Accountability Unit, 2019)Over the last two decades, the Government of Uganda (GoU) has increased access to health services through various programmes and projects including investment in health infrastructure, medicines and other health supplies; ... -
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. ... -
Addressing regional disparities in access to child and maternal health services
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2016)Ensuring healthy lives through access to essential, affordable, quality health care for ‘all’ is the cornerstone of sustainable development and is what proponents of Universal Health Care (UHC) advocate for. Although Uganda ... -
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 ... -
Adolescent motherhood and maternal deaths in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2020)Despite the reduction in the rate of maternal deaths during child birth over the past decade, Uganda’s maternal mortality ratio (MMR)remains high compared to other East African countries. At 375 deaths per 100,000 live ... -
Advocacy For Affordable Malaria Diagnosis In Uganda
(HEPS, 2018)Malaria is the biggest single cause of illness and death in Uganda. The country has the third highest number of malaria deaths and one of the highest reported malaria transmission rates in the world. Malaria accounts for ... -
An Agricultural Extension Program Reduces Malaria Infections in Uganda
(United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 2019)Despite the rapid decline in malaria worldwide over the last decade, Sub-Saharan Africa still accounts for about 90 percent of malaria-related deaths.1 A primary reason why families choose not to purchase bed nets or other ... -
Analysis of the Mental Health Bill, 2014: Submission to the Health Committee of the Parliament of Uganda on February 8, 2018
(Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER), 2018)The current legislation governing mental health in Uganda is the Mental Treatment Act, Cap 279 which was enacted in 1964. It has long been overtaken by key developments and interventions including, and most importantly, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Civil Soceity Asks For Mechanisms For Broader And Regular Monitoring Of Access To Essential Medicines In The Next Uganda Pharmaceutical Plan
(HEPS-Uganda, 2017)Uganda’s Constitution and National Drug Policy recognise access to medicines – a fundamental element of the right to health1 – as a goal of State health programmes and interventions. The Constitution requires the State to ... -
Community engagement and its implications for latrine Coverage and better hygiene and sanitation practices
(UNICEF, 2017)The International Decade for Action - Water for life 2005-2015 report states that sanitation remains a powerful indicator of the state of human development in any community. Access to sanitation bestows benefits at many ... -
Community involvement in MDP 301 microbicide trial in Masaka: Successes and failures
(HEPS-Uganda Policy Briefing Series, 2010)The MDP 301 microbicide trial used multiple approaches at the Masaka site to mobilise and sensitise the community, get feedback, share information, and communicate the final trial results. While this broad approach contributed ... -
Cost Effectiveness of Reproductive Health Interventions in Uganda: The Case for Family Planning services
(The African Economic Research Consortium, 2013)There seems to be a consensus among policymakers and politicians that innovative interventions have to be put in place to reduce the population growth rates in Uganda. The country’s population growth rate of 3.2% per annum ... -
Costs and effects of different ART scale-up options in Uganda
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Family Planning Commodity Financing And Supply Chain In Uganda
(HEPS, 2021)Uganda was represented at the 2012 London Family Planning (FP) Summit at the highest political level by President Yoweri Museveni who pledged to ensure an enabling policy environment to allow women to exercise their FP ... -
Fertility in African communities affected by HIV
(MRC/UVRI Research Unit on AIDS., 2011)Uganda is famous for its success in bringing down HIV levels, but has persistently high fertility: on average women have seven children by the time they finish childbearing. The resulting high rates of population growth ... -
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. ...
