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An assessment of the sustainability of the onchocerciasis programme in Kanungu District.
(2004-09)
Background: Onchocerciasis in Kanungu District is at meso endemic level. The disease poses significant social and economic challenges to the communities. It afflicts 20% of the district population. Community directed ...
Histopathologic study of papular pruritic eruption in people living with HIV-AIDS as seen in Mulago Hospital.
(2004)
Background: Pruritic popular eruption is a generalised pruritic eruption of unclear aetiology. Many PLHA in Uganda suffer from it. This rash appears at all stages of the disease and it has been assumed that there are ...
Risk factors for and types of oesophageal cancer
(Elsevier, 2004-12-04)
In his Comment, Alastair Munro (Aug 14, p 566) mentions that the potential influence of histology has been largely ignored in clinical trials of oesophageal cancer. He notes that the frequency of adenocarcinoma is rising, ...
Histopathological Patterns and p53 Protein Expression of Carcinoma of the Oesophagus as seen at the Department of Pathology, Makerere University
(2004)
Oesophageal cancer is a global health problem being the eighth commonest cancer. Carcinomas are the predominant histological type and the aetiological associations are varied. Mutation of p53 protein and consequent over ...
Comparative studies on orphans and non-orphans in Uganda
(Center for International Health and Development, 2004-10)
There are now in Uganda more than two million orphans, i.e. children under 18 years old who have lost one or both of their parents. Roughly one in every five children is an orphan and one in every four households in the ...
Local fever illness classifications: implications for home management of malaria strategies
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004-11)
Background: The Ugandan Ministry of Health has adopted the WHO Home Based Fever Management strategy (HBM) to improve access to antimalarial drugs for prompt (<24 h) presumptive treatment of all fevers in children under 5 ...
Etiology of pruritic papular eruption with HIV infection in Uganda.
(American Medical Association, 2004-12-01)
Context A frequent cause of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–related morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa is a commonly occurring, intensely pruritic skin rash. The resulting scars are disfiguring and stigmatizing. Despite ...
Prevalence and factors associated with couple testing among voluntary HIV/AIDS counselling and testing seekers in Kampala District
(Makerere University, 2004)
World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Programmes on AIDS (UNAIDS) have consistently promoted HIV counselling as a routine part of HIV testing especially in high prevalence countries. Voluntary HIV/ AIDS ...
Peripheral arterial disease and its risk factors in patients with Diabetes Mellitus attending Mulago Hospital Diabetic Clinic
(Makerere University, 2004)
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common but under-recognised problem affecting older patients. Diabetes is one of the most powerful risk factor for PAD. Intermittent claudication is the most frequent symptom of PAD, ...
Evaluation of the sleeping sickness control program in Mukono District, Uganda
(2004)
Introduction Although Sleeping sickness was eliminated from Africa in the 1960's, it has re-emerged as a disease of public health importance (WHO, 2000). In Uganda, the control target of reducing cases of sleeping sickness ...