Serebe, John Bosco(Makerere University, 2017-11-27)
Introduction:
Worldwide, sharp injuries are the most common source of occupational exposures to blood-borne infections among health workers. WHO estimates that the factors responsible for occupational exposures to ...
Background:
Wilms’ tumour is one of the common solid tumours of childhood with an incidence of
approximately 1 in 10,000 children. It is highly responsive to chemotherapy and carries overall good prognosis. However, 10 ...
Introduction:
The immediate post-abortion period is challenging as the woman can get pregnant as early as the 8th day. Therefore, providing an effective long acting method of contraception during this period reduces the ...
Background:
Virtual Patient is an ―interactive computer simulation of real-life clinical scenarios for the purpose of medical training, education, or assessment‖. The technology has been used since 1971when the first ...
Background/Introduction:
Approximately 60% to 70% of women experience some degree of breast pain at some stage of their lives. In Mulago Hospital, a cross sectional study conducted in 2005 on patients attending the breast ...
Introduction:
Dry eye syndrome is a disease of tears and ocular surface that results in symptoms of ocular discomfort and visual disturbance with potential to damage to the ocular surface. There is limited published ...
Background: A stillbirth often results in increased anxiety in subsequent pregnancies and feelings of guilt. In Uganda, an estimated 41,500 still births occur annually. Approximately 2,365 stillbirths were registered in ...
Introduction:
Breastfeeding practice significantly reduces the risk of malnutrition and infectious diseases especially in the first year of life. Although the HIV pandemic has hindered breastfeeding, WHO recommends it ...
Background: Village Health Teams (VHTs) are community based structures whose members promote health and wellbeing of people in the community on a voluntary basis. The performance of the VHT members in Bukwo district was ...
Introduction and background: Malaria is still a complex public health problem in the African region, where most cases and deaths are due to the disease occurrence (UNICEF, 2007). The study main objective was to assess the ...
Introduction: World over, there are antiretroviral therapy naïve individuals infected with HIV who maintain their CD4+T cell count above 500 cells/μl over 7-10 years (termed as Long Term Non-progressors, LTNP). A subset ...
Background:
Health workers move between public and private organizations in both urban and rural areas during the course of their career. Depending on the proportion of the population served by public or private organizations ...