The Lango District, Uganda Protectorate

District Health Officer Perceptions of PEPFAR’s Influence on the Health System in Uganda, 2005-2011

Background Vertically oriented global health initiatives (GHIs) addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), have successfully contributed to reducing HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality. However, there is still debate about whether these disease-specific programs have improved or harmed health systems overall, especially with respect...

Intestinal helminths in Luweero district, Uganda.

BACKGROUND Intestinal helminthiasis is a debilitating parasitic disease found in many parts of Uganda including Luweero district. In the district, the disease causes as high as 9% morbidity in children below five years. There was very scanty district information on the disease based mainly on hospital records despite this figure. The current study was carried out to provide data to plan for its...

The Nature of Iterativity: Evidence from Lango

Hepatoma and groundnuts in the West Nile district of Uganda.

Primary carcinoma of the liver or hepatoma, is a disease with a striking geographic distribution. It appears to be most uncommon in the United States' and Scandinavia,2 while its incidence reported to date is greatest in Africa south of the Sahara.23 Of particular interest is the fact that Negroes in the United States have an incidence of hepatoma almost identical to the white population, and t...

Experiences from the district health system in Uganda

Henriksson, D. K. 2017. Health systems bottlenecks and evidence-based district health planning. Experiences from the district health system in Uganda. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1371. 71 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0066-5. In low-income countries where maternal and child mortality remains high, there is ...