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Adolescent motherhood in Uganda: Dilemmas, health seeking behaviour and coping responses
(2008)Introduction: Maternal mortality remains one of the most daunting public health problems in resource limited settings. Maternal health services play a critical role in the improvement of sexual and reproductive health and ... -
Antimicrobial self medication in post conflict northern Uganda: Implications on chloroquine and artemisinin genotypic resistance in the community
(Makerere University, 2016-04)Background: Antimicrobial self-medication is a common medical action practiced globally. Its use though associated with risks, provides hope of improved access to healthcare for communities especially in resource limited ... -
Assessment of forage dynamics under variable climate in Karamoja sub-region of Uganda
(Makerere University., 2014-11)Livestock herding is an important undertaking in rangeland areas of East Africa. These regions are characterized by climate variability that affects the availability of key livestock production resources especially forage ... -
Community participation in decision making on access to forest resources under collaborative forest management framework in Bwindi (BINP): A gender perspective
(Makerere University, 2014)Forests resources contribute significantly to the livelihoods of females and males in forest edge communities. In Uganda, under the Collaborative Forest management Framework (CFM), community participation in decision making ... -
Demand-creation for couples’ HIV counselling and testing among married or cohabiting individuals in Rakai, Uganda: Trends, motivations, barriers and intervention outcomes
(Makerere University, 2017-01)Introduction: Couples’ HIV counselling and testing (couples’ HCT) can improve identification of undiagnosed HIV infections and promote timely linkage and retention into HIV care among HIV- discordant and concordant HIV ... -
Determinants of service quality for external quality assurance agencies in higher education: A case study of the Commission for University Education, Kenya
(Makerere University, 2014)This study sought to identify the determinants of service quality for external quality assurance agencies (EQAAs) in higher education through a case study of Commission for University Education (CUE), an EQAA in Kenya. It ... -
Determinants of value and challenges of older persons in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2015-05)Later life issues in Uganda are becoming an area of research and policy interest owing to the rising population of older persons. Although there is moderate information on old age benefits and constraints, less is known ... -
Developing selection criteria for improving grain yield of early maturing maize.
(Makerere University, 2014-04)Early maturing maize genotypes yield 15-30% less than medium-late maturing ones and improving the yield of early maturing maize is a great challenge. Grain-filling rate (GFR) and effective grain-filling duration (EGFD) ... -
Development of a pilot scale anaerobic and aerobic/anoxic sequencing batch reactors and a constructed wetland system to treat abattoir wastewater.
(Makerere University, 2014)Over the past 27 years, Kampala, the Capital City of Uganda has witnessed a very high rate of population growth, urbanization and industrialization. Due to these developments, most wetlands in the environs of Kampala, ... -
Development of a production process for sorghum based ice-cream cones
(Makerere University, 2014)In the development of the production process for sorghum ice-cream cones, wheat was completely substituted with whole white sorghum flour. Eight white sorghum varieties available in Uganda were evaluated for their suitability ... -
Education reform dynamics and quality of primary education in selected areas of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2017)The study explored the effect of education reform dynamics and the quality of primary education in selected areas of Uganda. Specifically, the study set out to establish the effect of: (a) attitudinal (b) structural, and ... -
Effect of repeated anthelminthic treatment on malaria in school children in Kenya: A randomized, open label, equivalence trial
(Makerere University, 2016)Background: In Africa, malaria and soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) occur in the same populations and sometimes in the same individuals, with school-age children being at the greatest risk of coinfection. It has been ... -
Elephant population ecology and conflict dynamics in Nimule National Park landscape
(Makerere University, 2015-10)This study focused on savanna elephant ecology represented by its abundance, distribution in space and time and impact on human livelihoods in the Nimule National Park landscape. Several direct and indirect methods were ... -
Epidemiology of African swine fever in wild and domestic swine: Factors for its persistence in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2014-12)The pig industry in Uganda has more than doubled in the last decade with national pig population put at approximately 3.6 million pigs by 2012 with most of this being kept by smallholder farmers. African swine fever (ASF), ... -
Epidemiology of brucellosis in urban and peri-urban cattle in Gulu and Soroti towns of Uganda
(Makerere University, 2015-03)Brucellosis is a zoonosis of major public health, animal welfare, and economic significance, and is endemic in livestock in Uganda. The transmission of this disease in cattle and humans involves a multitude of risk factors, ... -
Epidemiology of enterotoxigenic escherichia coli and salmonella diarrhea in piglets and weaners from northern and eastern Uganda
(Makerere University, 2015-11)Uganda is an emerging pig producer in Africa and enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), salmonellae and transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) infections could be of importance, particularly to farmers with low ... -
The epidemiology of foot-and-mouth disease virus in cattle at the livestock-wildlife interface of Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda
(Makerere University., 2017-10)Abstract Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an economically significant viral disease of cloven hoofed livestock and wildlife that occurs in Uganda, there is inadequate understanding of the disease and its occurrence is ... -
Ethnobotanical, phytochemical and antiplasmodial studies of Neoboutonia Macrocalyx L
(Makerere University, 2014)Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity due to resistance of the parasite to the cheap and available antimalarials. The need for effective new and cheap alternative antimalarials is therefore of ... -
Evaluation of process procedures of selected medicinal plants used for treating malaria fevers in Tororo district
(Makerere University, 2015-03)Background: Despite widespread utilization of medicinal plants globally, there is insufficient documentation regarding their efficacy and standard processing procedures (SPP)-leading to products with variable levels of ... -
Evaluation of rhizobial inoculants on the productivity of soybean varieties grown on an acidic soil in Rwanda
(Makerere University, 2014)Several high yielding soybean varieties have been introduced in Rwanda but yields have remained low and even declining especially in areas with acidic soils. Consequently a number of rhizobial inoculants were introduced ...