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Provider perspectives on the acceptability and tolerability of dolutegravir‑based anti‑retroviral therapy after national roll‑out in Uganda: a qualitative study
(BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021)The World Health Organization recommends dolutegravir (DTG) as the for first-line and second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) worldwide. However, little is known about the acceptability and tolerability of DTG-based ART ... -
Patients’ and HIV Service Managers’ Perceptions of The Impact of Loss of PEPFAR Support on HIV Services in Transitioned Health Facilities in Uganda: A Qualitative Study
(Research Square, 2020)Although donor transitions from HIV programs are more frequent, little research exists seeking to understand the perceptions of patients and providers on this process. Between 2015 and 2016, PEPFAR implemented the ´geographic ... -
Patient experiences of sexual dysfunction after transition to dolutegravir‑based HIV treatment in mid‑Western Uganda: a qualitative study
(BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022)The literature on dolutegravir (DTG)-based HIV treatment has focused on assessing therapeutic efficacy particularly with regard to viral load suppression. However, little empirical attention has been devoted to ... -
Leveraging the lessons learned from financing HIV programs to advance the universal health coverage (UHC) agenda in the East African Community
(Global health research and policy, 2019)Although there is broad consensus around the need to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) in Sub-Saharan Africa, the financing strategies for achieving it are still unclear. We sought to leverage ... -
Implementation of a peer support intervention to promote the detection, reporting and management of adverse drug reactions in people living with HIV in Uganda: a protocol for a quasi-experimental study
(BMJ Open, 2022)Patients have contributed <1% of spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports in Uganda’s pharmacovigilance database. Peer support combined with mobile technologies could empower people living with HIV (PLHIV) to ... -
Quality of life and Associated Factors among Children aged 5 to 18 years with Diabetes Mellitus at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya and Mulago National Referral Hospital
(International Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 2019)This study aimed to determine the quality of life and describe associated factors among children aged 5-18 years with diabetes Mellitus at St. Francis Hospital Nsambya and Mulago National Referral Hospital. An explanatory ... -
Factors Influencing Uptake of IPTp3+ Among Pregnant Women Attending ANC in Mawokota North Health Sub District, Mpigi District, Uganda
(Cognizance Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2021)Annually, approximately 125 million pregnancies occur globally in malaria endemic areas. 25 million pregnant women are at risk for malaria which accounts for over 10,000 maternal and 200,000 neonatal deaths annually. WHO ... -
Human resources for health strategies adopted by providers in resource-limited settings to sustain long-term delivery of ART: a mixed-methods study from Uganda
(Human resources for health, 2016)Human resources for health (HRH) constraints are a major barrier to the sustainability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up programs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many prior approaches to HRH constraints have taken a top-down ... -
Exploring perceived effects from loss of PEPFAR support for outreach in Kenya and Uganda
(Globalization and health, 2021)In 2015, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief undertook policy shifts to increase efficiencies in its programming, including transitioning HIV/AIDS funding away from low burden areas. We examine the impact of ... -
Induction of opsonophagocytic killing activity with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in human immunodeficiency virus-infected Ugandan adults
(Vaccine, 2008)The levels of IgG determined by ELISA may have limited relevance in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected adults because of non-functional antibodies. 58 HIV-1-infected and 29 HIV-uninfected Ugandan adults were ... -
Knowledge and Attitudes of Ugandan Midwives Regarding HIV
(Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 2008)In Uganda, 60% of HIV-infected adults are women of childbearing age. Considering this, midwives in Uganda play a pivotal role in reducing HIV transmission and providing high quality care to the many women and families ... -
Dispensing Antiretrovirals During Covid-19 Lockdown: Pathways to Health System Resilience in Uganda
(Research Square, 2021)Although there is an emerging evidence base on the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on access to health services in low-and middle-income countries, the related notion of health system resilience has received little empirical ... -
Dispensing antiretrovirals during Covid-19 lockdown: re-discovering community-based ART delivery models in Uganda
(BMC health services research, 2021)The notion of health-system resilience has received little empirical attention in the current literature on the Covid-19 response. We set out to explore health-system resilience at the sub-national level in Uganda ... -
Containing COVID-19 and the social costs on human rights in African countries
(Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022)Multiple social interventions were introduced to contain the COVID-19 pandemic across Africa, limiting social engagement, school and workplace attendance, and travel. In anticipation of negative economic consequences and ... -
Community-funded integrated care outreach clinics as a capacity building strategy to expand access to health care in remote areas of Uganda
(Global Health Action, 2021)Most Ugandans live in rural, medically underserved communities where geography and poverty lead to reduced access to healthcare. We present a novel low-cost approach for supplemental primary care financing through 1) ... -
A mixed-methods evaluation of the uptake of novel differentiated ART delivery models in a national sample of health facilities in Uganda
(PloS one, 2021)Since 2017, Uganda has been implementing five differentiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) delivery models to improve the quality of HIV care and to achieve health-system efficiencies. Community-based models include ... -
Zoonotic Implications of Onchocerca Species on Human Health
(Pathogens, 2020)The genus Onchocerca includes several species associated with ungulates as hosts, although some have been identified in canids, felids, and humans. Onchocerca species have a wide geographical distribution, and the disease ... -
Prevalence and incidence of nodding syndrome and other forms of epilepsy in onchocerciasis-endemic areas in northern Uganda after the implementation of onchocerciasis control measures
(Infectious Diseases of Poverty, 2020)Around 2007, a nodding syndrome (NS) epidemic appeared in onchocerciasis-endemic districts of northern Uganda, where ivermectin mass distribution had never been implemented. This study evaluated the effect of community-directed ... -
Malaria Care in Infants Aged under Six Months in Uganda: An Area of Unmet Needs!
(PLoS One, 2015)Little information exists on malaria burden, artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) use, and malaria care provided to infants under six months of age. The perception that malaria may be rare in this age group has ... -
Impact of COVID-19 on the well-being of children with epilepsy including nodding syndrome in Uganda: A qualitative study
(Epilepsy & Behavior, 2023)To investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions on the access and use of health services by children with epilepsy including nodding syndrome in Uganda. Methods: Four focus group discussions ...
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