BACKGROUND Correct diagnosis is key to appropriate treatment of cancer in children. However, diagnostic challenges are common in low-income and middle-income countries. The objective of the present study was to assess the agreement between a clinical diagnosis of childhood non- Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) assigned in Uganda, a pathological diagnosis assigned in Uganda, and a pathological diagnosis a...

Background To date, research on priority-setting for new vaccines has not adequately explored the influence of the global, national and sub-national levels of decision-making or contextual issues such as political pressure and stakeholder influence and power. Using Kapiriri and Martin’s conceptual framework, this paper evaluates priority setting for new vaccines in Uganda at national and sub-na...

The first documented cases of AIDS in Uganda were reported in October 1985. Early cases, however, were seen in 1982, in the Rakai district (Southwestern Uganda). Since then the AIDS epidemic has spread to all parts of Uganda. In 1988, a national serosurvey was conducted under WHO to establish the extent of HIV infection in Uganda. This survey revealed that about one million Ugandans were HIV po...

1 Principal, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 3 Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 Department of Public Health Sciences, Global Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 5 Sch...

BACKGROUND Schistosoma mansoni was observed and reported in Kuluva hospital Arua District in north western Uganda as early as 1902. S. mansoni is widely distributed in Uganda along permanent water bodies. OBJECTIVE To review the litreture on scistosomiasis in Uganda, since 1902. METHOD The core literature for this short review was searched from reports and publications by the British coloni...

BACKGROUND Tuberculous lymphadenitis is next to pulmonary tuberculosis as the most common cause of tuberculosis. Uganda genotype, one of the sub-lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is the most prevalent cause of pulmonary tuberculosis in Uganda. We here investigate the clinicopathological characteristics of patients with tuberculous lymphadenitis infected with M. tuberculosis Uganda genotyp...

income health care settings and can inform quality improvement interventions Emmanuel Ochola, MBChB, MSc; Tom R Okello, MBChB, MMed; Jackson Kansiime; Liliana Praticò MD; Donato Greco, MD, MSc; HIV, Research and Documentation, St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda; Surgery, St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda; Medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda; University of Pavia, Pavia, ...

iii CHAPTER 1: LITERATURE REVIEW AND THESIS OUTLINE 1 CHAPTER 2: SURVEY OF GRAIN AMARANTH PRODUCTION AND SOIL PROPERTIES IN KAMULI DISTRICT OF UGANDA 48 CHAPTER 3: ORGANIC GRAIN AMARANTH ON-STATION EXPERIMENTS IN UGANDA 76 CHAPTER 4: ORGANIC GRAIN AMARANTH ON-FARM EXPERIMENTS IN UGANDA 139 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 176 APPENDIX I: AMARANTH SURVEY 187 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 189

OBJECTIVE To determine, through the use of molecular diagnostic tools, whether the two species of parasite that cause human African trypanosomiasis have become sympatric. DESIGN Blood sampling of all available patients between June 2001 and June 2005 in central Uganda and between July and September 2003 in northwest Uganda and analysis of subcounty sleeping sickness records in Uganda between ...

BACKGROUND Mycobacterium tuberculosis Uganda family is the predominant cause of tuberculosis in Uganda. Reasons for this are not clear but are likely to be due to the rampant person-to-person transmission or delayed susceptibility of the organism to drugs during treatment, which may lead to continuous shedding of infectious bacilli, among others. The objective of this study was to determine in ...