Browsing Medical and Health Sciences by Issue Date
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Integrating mental health into primary health care: local initiatives from Uganda
(World Psychiatry, 2007)Uganda has passed through political and bloody civil strife stretching over 40 years. Since 1987 the HIV/AIDS pandemic has compounded the problems of the country. The present paper describes some initiatives to develop ... -
Improving the Availability and Management of Essential AIDS and TB Medicines and Diagnostics in Uganda
(HEPS-Uganda, 2008)A free ARV programme implemented with support from external donors has over the past few years led to a significant increase in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART). By ... -
Global Fund: Making Uganda’s CCM Work Through Full Engagement of Civil Society
(HEPS, 2008)HIV/AIDS have over the recent years been receiving increasing funding, especially from the donor community. However, due to the absence of a mechanism to monitor and aggregate the contributions from the wide range of ... -
Ill-health and labour market outcomes in Uganda
(The African Economic Research Consortium, 2009)The role health plays in reducing poverty and economic development particularly in developing countries is undisputable in the economic literature (Audibert, 2009) Health of the population is a key factor for labor ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Reducing the Burden of Diarrhoea among Urban Households in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2012)Diarrhoea remains a big challenge to attainment of water related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Uganda. This brief examines the cost effectiveness of two water technologies in preventing Diarrhoea illness among ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) Evaluation: Insights from Uganda
(MeTA, 2015)MeTA Uganda provided a platform for honest and open multi-stakeholder dialogue on medicines policy issues. The MeTA platform is credited with building the capacity of civil society to engage in policy dialogue and has ...
