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An Overview of Data Science Innovations, Challenges and Limitations Towards Real-World Implementations in Global Health
(Springer, Cham., 2020)Health institutions are increasingly collecting vast amounts of patient data. However, mining data from those different institutions is not possible for various challenges. In this chapter, we will report on our experience ... -
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 ... -
Deploying Educational Roaming (eduroam) in a Rural Research Institution in Rakai, Uganda; Challenges and Lessons Learned
(UbuntuNet Alliance, 2016)The NIAID International Center for Excellence in Research (ICER) in Uganda, RHSP (Rakai Health Sciences Program) recently deployed the eduroam service at the laboratories and offices in the village of Kalisizo and the main ... -
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 ... -
A Concept of Dynamic Pricing for Rural Hybrid Electric Power Mini-Grid Systems for Sub-Saharan Africa
(IEEE., 2012)This paper presents a dynamic pricing concept that can be applied to hybrid electric power mini-grid systems to enable affordability of energy in these systems setup for the supply of energy to rural consumers. A location ... -
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 ... -
Impact Of EU Sugar Trade on Developing Countries A Study with Focus on East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda)
(Germanwatch eV Bonn, 2003)The aims of the study presented here are to assess the impact of the European Union sugar trade (with an emphasis on dumping) in developing countries. In particular, the focus was on small farm holders and markets. The ... -
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 ... -
Building a Parallel Corpus and Training Translation Models Between Luganda and English
(arXiv preprint arXiv, 2023)Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved great successes with large datasets, so NMT is more premised on high-resource languages. This continuously underpins the low resource languages such as Luganda due to the lack ... -
Luganda and the Strict Layer Hypothesis
(Phonology, 1987)The ability of a language's syntax to determine the application vs. non-application of postlexical phonological rules has by now been firmly established in a number of languages. Such rules, which apply above the word ... -
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 ... -
Experiences of doctoral students enrolled in a research fellowship program to support doctoral training in Africa (2014 to 2018): The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa odyssey
(PLoS ONE, 2021)The Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA) aims to transform higher education in Africa. One of its main thrusts is supporting promising university faculty (fellows) to obtain high quality doctoral ... -
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 ... -
In-vitro Antibacterial Activity of Allium sativum on Common Food Poisoning Bacteria
(Journal of Advances in Microbiology, 2022)The use of herbal medicines for food poisoning in inadequate resource countries has greatly increased with the limited establishment of antibacterial activity. This study aimed at establishing the antibacterial activity ... -
Drivers of retention of the HIV workforce transitioned from PEPFAR support to the Uganda government payroll
(Research Square, 2022)Health worker (HW) retention in the public health sector in Uganda is an enduring health system constraint. Although previous studies have examined the retention of in-service HWs, there is little research focusing on ...
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