background: lymphomas are a complex group of malignancies that require advanced technology for proper classification. unfortunately uganda, as with numerous other sub-saharan african countries, lacks these resources. as a result, lymphoma diagnoses do not follow who guidelines. methods: histopathology records at makerere university college of health sciences, department of pathology and the pop...

Background: Uganda is ranked 14th out of 54 countries in Africa with the highest levels of teenage pregnancies. The teenage pregnancy rate in Kibuku District in 2016 was 35.8%, high above the average rate in Uganda (25%). It was also above the average for rural areas in Uganda (27%). Unfortunately, there is limited information on the experiences of seeking antenatal care and delivery among teen...

background and aims. irrational prescription of antibiotics by clinicians might lead to drug resistance. clinicians do prescribe antibiotics for either prophylactic or therapeutic reasons. the decision of when and what to prescribe leaves room for misuse and therefore it is imperative to continuously monitor knowledge and pattern of prescription. the aim of the present study was to determine th...

considerable attention has been given to the identification of key forms of reward and its linkage to employee engagement. for this purpose following study aims to uncover the influence of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards on employee engagement in the public sector of uganda. a sample of 184 public sector employees was randomly selected and taken from gulu district. a quantitative approach based...

xanthomonas campestris pv.musacrearum causes banana wilt disease (bxw disease) which occurs at different epidemic phases in east and central africa (eca). in the endemic areas, there are many banana fields with over 80% bxw disease incidence. this study aimed at rehabilitating banana fields heavily infected with bxw disease in uganda, kenya and dr. congo. farmer managed trials were established ...

results of an evaluation of the impact of agricultural science and technology (as and t) policy system institutions on efficiency and technical change in kenyan and ugandan agriculture are presented here. data envelopment analysis was used to derive efficiency and technical change and logistic regression applied to delineate as and t institutions that induced efficiency and technical progress. ...

background pharmacovigilance (pv) data are crucial for ensuring safety and effectiveness of medicines after drugs have been granted marketing approval. this paper describes the pv systems of india, uganda and south africa based on literature and key informant (ki) interviews and compares them with the world health organization’s (who’s) minimum pv requirements for a functional national pv syste...

this study investigates the contributions of atlantic ocean to june-august rainfall over uganda and western kenya (ku). the study has utilized the datasets including precipitation from the global precipitation climatology centre, north atlantic oscillation index (naoi), south atlantic ocean dipole index (saodi), era-interim reanalysis, and the atlantic ocean sea surface temperature (sst). singu...

attending Antenatal clinics in Hospitals in Gulu District, Northern Uganda Pontius Bayo, MBChB, MMed(OBSGYN); Emmanuel Ochola, MBChB, MSc; Caroline Oleo, MBChB; Amos D Mwaka, MD, MMed(Medicine); Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda; HIV, Research and Documentation, St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda; Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Gulu Univesity Medical School, ...

1 Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 2 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda 3 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda *Corresponding Author: Louis Muwazi, Department of Dentistry, School of Heal...