Background. Nearly 500 million people suffer a malaria episode every year and about 90% of all malaria deaths in the world today occur in sub-Sahara Africa. In Uganda, malaria accounts for about 30 - 50% of the outpatient ...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women, and second cause of cancer death in the world, with more than one million cases occurring worldwide annually. The chance of a woman having invasive ...

Introduction: Contaminated drinking water is a risk to diseases in developing and developed countries. A water quality survey done in two sub-counties in Rukungiri found a higher level of coliforms in the water at household ...

Background: Worldwide there approximately 40.3 million people with HIV of which 25.8million are in the sub Saharan region of Africa. In Uganda over 1million ( 100,000 children under 15years) people are infected with HIV(MOH ...

Background It is estimated that a global average of NMR is 30 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births. In 1995, 20.5million LBW were born and 16% of all new born in developing countries had LBW. Tanzania’s NMR is 32 deaths ...

Introduction: This is an intervention study entitled ‘Assessment of Health Workers and Volunteers Performance Levels in the Onchocerciasis Control Program in Mulanje District – Southern Malawi.’ Its aim was to identify ...

Introduction: HIV/AIDS is a global challenge which has been termed a development crisis as well as a health crisis. Risky sexual behavior in rural communities puts young adults into the risk of acquiring STIs/HIV. Hence, ...

Introduction and background. Health related causes contribute significantly to school dropout and absenteeism. Sixty percent of school dropouts are due to sickness (MOE, 2003). This has resulted into low primary school ...

BACKGROUND: According to the yellow star program, less than 60% of the health units in Arua district, Uganda, were adequately observing infection control measures inspite of the presence of guidelines on how to do ...

Introduction: HIV/AIDS is a major global health problem affecting both low and high- income countries. Oral manifestations of HIV infection further threaten the usually poor health of HIV- positive children and lower their ...