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Empowering farmers to learn and innovate through integration of video-mediated and face-to-face extension approaches: The case of rice farmers in Uganda

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2016
Agricultural extension is perceived as the primary mechanism through which farmers expand their ability to adopt and adapt new technologies and ideas.
Gabriel Karubanga, Paul Kibwika, Florent Okry, Haroon Sseguya   +3 more
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Uganda [PDF]

IMF Staff Country Reports, 2017
This Technical Assistance Report discusses the advice provided by the IMF staff to the authorities of Uganda regarding implementation of fiscal regimes for extractive industries. The report considers options on how to conduct future licensing rounds, including possible bid variables and bid evaluation methods. It provides detailed comments on the draft
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EFFICIENCY, EQUITY, AND EFFECTIVENESS OF MALARIA FUNDING IN UGANDA: MAKING THE CASE FOR REFORMING PUBLIC FINANCING FOR HEALTH

International Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2019
Decreasing external funding for malaria requires high burden countries such as Uganda to increase domestic public financing to control and eliminate malaria.
Vincent Okungu
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Retention-in-care and associated factors among adolescents living with sickle-cell disease in Kampala Uganda

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Worldwide sickle-cell disease has been identified as the most widespread genetic disorder highest in low-income countries. In Uganda, approximately 25,000 babies are born with sickle cell disease every year.
Patience Birungi, Francis Xavier Kasujja, Aggrey Mukose, Philip Kasirye, Angela Nakanwagi Kisakye, Juliet Kiguli   +5 more
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Thirty-Day Outcomes of Young and Middle-Aged Adults Admitted with Severe COVID-19 in Uganda: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Infection and Drug Resistance, 2023
Tonny Kyagambiddwa,1,* Timothy Mwanje Kintu,1,* Emmanuel Miiro,1,* Franchesca Nabalamba,1 Gloria Suubi Asiimwe,1 Anne Marion Namutebi,2 Fardous C Abeya,3 Boniface A Lumori,3 Isaac Ijuka,4 Rose K Muhindo,1,3 Andrew Mutekanga,1,3 Richard ...
Kyagambiddwa T, Kintu TM, Miiro E, Nabalamba F, Asiimwe GS, Namutebi AM, Abeya FC, Lumori BA, Ijuka I, Muhindo RK, Mutekanga A, Musinguzi R, Natuhwera F, Ngonzi J, Nuwagira E   +14 more
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Performance of community health workers and associated factors in responding to yellow fever and COVID-19 outbreaks: A case study of Masaka District, Uganda, 2022

Journal of Interventional Epidemiology and Public Health
Introduction: Community health workers (CHWs), also known as Village Health Teams (VHTs) in Uganda, play a crucial role in delivering healthcare to communities with limited access to formal health facilities.
Nicholas Muhumuza, Eric Segujja, Abel Wilson Walekhwa, Angela Kisakye, Brenda Nakazibwe, Prossy Nakito, Charity Mutesi, Carolyne Nyamar, Sarah Paige, Suzanne Kiwanuka   +9 more
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Pathways to sustainable intensification of the coffee-banana agroecosystems in the Mt. Elgon region

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2019
Despite the importance of coffee and banana as key income and food sources for millions of farmers inhabiting the densely populated East African highlands as well as and urban dwellers, there are declining yields.
Christopher Sebatta, Johnny Mugisha, Fredrick Bagamba, Ernst A. Nuppenau, Stephanie E. Domptail, Benjamin Kowalski, Matthias Hoeher, Anthony R. Ijala, Jeninah Karungi   +8 more
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Vaccination with Recombinant Subolesin Antigens Provides Cross-Tick Species Protection in Bos indicus and Crossbred Cattle in Uganda

Vaccines, 2020
Cattle tick infestations and transmitted pathogens affect animal health, production and welfare with an impact on cattle industry in tropical and subtropical countries.
Paul D. Kasaija, Marinela Contreras, Fredrick Kabi, Swidiq Mugerwa, José de la Fuente   +4 more
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Infant mortality rates and decentralisation in Uganda [PDF]

, 2015
Background Many countries in the developing world have embarked on the path of decentralisation over the last three decades to improve the provision of public goods such as healthcare services. It is hypothesised that devolving power to local governments
Aggrey Niringiye; Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda
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Integrating Ecology and Economics in Agent‐Based Models to Support Agricultural Policy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Agent‐based models are valuable tools for studying social‐ecological systems in agriculture. This review maps how existing agent‐based models represent the human and natural domains of agriculture, and discusses developments in economic and ecological agent‐based modeling.
Daniel Vedder, Judith Josephin Rakowski, Lea‐Deborah Kolb, Greta Sophie Theilen‐Loges, Sebastian Lakner, Guy Pe'er   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source