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Understanding Factors That Support Community Health Worker Motivation, Job Satisfaction, and Performance in Three Ugandan Districts: Opportunities for Strengthening Uganda’s Community Health Worker Program [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2022
Background  Uganda’s community health worker (CHW) program experiences several challenges related to the appropriate motivation, job satisfaction, and performance of the CHW workforce.
Shivani Pandya, Mukesh Hamal, Timothy Abuya, Richard Kintu, Daniel Mwanga, Charlotte E. Warren, Smisha Agarwal   +6 more
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Morphological re-description and molecular identification of Tabanidae (Diptera) in East Africa [PDF]

, 2018
Biting flies of the family Tabanidae are important vectors of human and animal diseases across continents. However, records of Africa tabanids are fragmentary and mostly cursory.
Ciosi, Marc, Gitau, Joseph, Masiga, Daniel, Mugasa, Claire M., Ndungu, Nelly, Villinger, Jandouwe   +5 more
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Microbiological Contamination of Mobile Phones and Mobile Phone Hygiene of Final-Year Medical Students in Uganda: A Need for Educational Intervention

Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2021
Margaret Lubwama,1 David P Kateete,2 Kirabo Tess Ayazika,1 Winnie Nalwanga,1 Douglas Bruno Kagambo,1 Mayanja David Nsubuga,1 Arnold Kingston Arach,1 Leoson Junior Ssetaba,1 Joyce N Wamala,3 Leah Amaro Rwot,3 Henry Kajumbula1 1Department of Medical ...
Lubwama M, Kateete DP, Ayazika KT, Nalwanga W, Kagambo DB, Nsubuga MD, Arach AK, Ssetaba LJ, Wamala JN, Rwot LA, Kajumbula H   +10 more
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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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Lives turned upside down in COVID-19 times: exploring disabled people's experiences in 5 low-and-middle income countries using narrative interviews

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2021
This article explores COVID-19 related experiences of disabled people in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nigeria, Nepal and Uganda. Narrative interviews generated storied responses, focussing on respondents' priorities, which enabled us to hear what was most ...
Mary Wickenden, Jackie Shaw, Stephen Thompson, Brigitte Rohwerder   +3 more
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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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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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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
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