• Confidence of pre-registration nurse-midwife technicians to provide intrapartum care: A case study of Southern region nursing and midwifery colleges in Malawi 

  Maluwasa, Gloria (Makerere University, 2022-03-02)

  Introduction: Midwifery service provision is based on key skills which are usually acquired during training. These skills are based on guidelines set by the International Confederation of Midwives. Perceived self-efficacy ...

• Competency of Midwives in assisting vaginal breech births in lower-level health facilities of Hoima District 

  Nandawula, Prossy (Makerere University, 2022-11-01)

  Background: Globally, term breech delivery has attracted much debate as the presentation is associated with fetal morbidity and mortality. The policy to deliver all term breech presenting fetus by caesarian section is ...

• Reverse vaccinology and molecular docking as tools to identify potential vaccine candidates against drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis 

  Akurut, Eva (Makerere University, 2022-03-29)

  The emergence of multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) and Mycobacterium bovis (M.bovis), the causative agents of Tuberculosis (TB) and zoonotic TB respectively are of significant threat to public health. ...

• Prevalence and factors Associated with Obesity Among Children with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma Attending Mulago Hospital and Uganda Cancer Institute. 

  Kugonza, Lilian (Makerere University, 2022-12-24)

  Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common subtype of leukemia accounting for 80% of cases globally. Acute lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) is the second most common type of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) ...

• Prevalence And Factors Associated with Iron Deficiency Among Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia at Mulago Hospital Sickle Cell Clinic 

  Kisakye, Lynda Elizabeth (Makerere University, 2022-12-01)

  Background: Iron deficiency (ID) accounts for an estimated 42% of the global anemia burden. In Uganda alone national estimates of 53% have been reported. Equally Uganda has a significant sickle cell disease burden with ...

• Prevalence, factors associated and knowledge of dementia among older adults attending ROTOM Health Center-Mukono, Central Uganda 

  Awuol, Machuor Daniel Arok; Nyamwiza, Adrine (Makerere University, 2022-08-26)

  Introduction: Dementia is on the rise due to increasing proportion of old people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although dementia is misattributed to normal ageing or supernatural causes in SSA, it is a brain disease with ...

• Characterizing the composition of the airway microbiota of patients with COPD in a rural setting in Uganda using shotgun metagenomics, a case control study 

  Mbavu, Paul (Makerere university, 2022-10-25)

  Introduction: Diverse airway microbiota play an important role in the development and integrity of the immune system that limits growth of pathogenic microorganisms and clearing bacterial infections. Community shifts from ...

• Treatment outcomes and associated factors for patients with empyema thoracis managed at Mulago national referral hospital: a retrospective cohort study 

  mwesige, michael (Makerere University, 2022-11-24)

  Background: Worldwide, the treatment outcomes of empyema thoracis patients remain unacceptably poor despite advances in management techniques. Recent data from the Western population indicate rising incidence and worsening ...

• Missed Opportunities for Vaccination in children aged 0-23 months attending outpatient services in Wakiso Health Centre IV, Wakiso District 

  Mugele, Dorine Rebecca (Makerere University, 2022-11-30)

  ABSTRACT Background: Missed opportunities are a hurdle for achieving full immunization coverage and by reducing it we can increase coverage in a cost-effective manner, improve health service delivery and promote synergy ...

• Breast Cancer Molecular Subtype Prevalence and Commonly Mutated Genes in Triple Negative Breast Cancer in Uganda 

  NIYONZIMA, Nixon (Makerere University, 2022-11-25)

  Breast cancer is the second commonest cancer in women in Uganda, accounting for about 21% of all cancer related mortality in women in Uganda. An estimated 35-36% of all breast cancer patients in Uganda have triple negative ...

• Autopsy survey of histopathological features and immunohistochemical markers of dementia in medico-legal deaths at Mulago hospital and KCCA mortuaries, Uganda 

  Nyakato, Veronica (Makerere University, 2022-11-22)

  Background: Dementia is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by an irreversible cognitive decline. Although previously associated with old age, in people aged 65 and above, recent studies have reported early-onset ...

• Unravelling the genetic risk associated with major depressive disorder among an ethnically diverse African ancestry population 

  Tindi, Kester Bevin Bataringaya (Makerere University, 2022-03)

  Major depressive disorder (MDD), which is a significant contributor to the global health burden is characterised by a pervasive low mood and an inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities. Most MDD genetic ...

• Monitoring antibacterial use in children under five years in rural communities of Northern Uganda 

  Lanyero, Hindum (Makerere University, 2022)

  Background: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs) and diarrhea are leading causes of childhood morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), the burden is high among children under five years of ...

• Characterisation of Resistance Associated Variants (RAVs) to the newly approved anti-tuberculosis drugs Delamanid, Pretomanid, Bedaquiline, Clofazimine and Linezolid in isolates from a 2016/2017 Tanzanian Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Survey 

  Kabahita, Jupiter Marina (Makerere University, 2022)

  Background: Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB) undermines the effort to curb TB disease. It is associated with higher treatment costs, longer treatment periods and more adverse effects (Jeon, 2015). Recently, three new ...

• Methods to estimate baseline creatinine and define acute kidney injury in lean Ugandan children with severe malaria: A prospective cohort study 

  Batte, Anthony; Starr, Michelle C.; Schwaderer, Andrew L.; Opoka, Robert O.; Namazzi, Ruth; Nishiguchi, Erika S. Phelps; Ssenkusu, John M.; John, Chandy C.; Conroy, Andrea L. (BMC, 2020)

  Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasingly recognized as a consequential clinical complication in children with severe malaria. However, approaches to estimate baseline creatinine (bSCr) are not standardized in ...

• Factors associated with delay in receiving health care services at Luwero District Hospital HIV/AIDS Clinic, Uganda 

  Lwembawo, Joseph (Makerere University, 2012-05-01)

  Background: There is still high proportion of delays in accessing and receiving adequate HIV care and treatment which contributes to poor client satisfaction, retention, poor adherence to lifelong HAART that increases ...

• Association between introduction of Integrated Community Case Management and utilisation of selected facility-based health services among children one year of age in Amolataar district, Uganda 

  Tukei, Cathy (Makerere University, 2021-11-07)

  BACKGROUND: Scale-up of Integrated Community Case Management of common childhood illnesses (ICCM) is a growing focus to address health care access barriers. Assessment of ICCM programming has paid little attention to ...

• Prevalence of diarrhoea and associated factors among children under five years in Lubombo region, Eswatini 

  Ajuk, Tonny (Makerere University, 2022-06-22)

  Introduction Diarrhoea is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality among children under five years of age, with the highest number of deaths being reported in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The available ...

• Prevalence and Factors Associated with Opioid use Disorder Among Adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease in Mulago Hospital 

  kwagala, claire (Makerere University, 2022-11-01)

  Introduction: Opioid use disorder (OUD) among adolescents with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) increases their risk of complications such as infections and stroke. A past or current mental illness like depression and anxiety ...

• Stool-based xpert ultra testing for pulmonary tuberculosis in children in Kampala, Uganda 

  Nakabuye, Mariam (Makerere University, 2021-02-25)

  Background.. Globally, the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children is challenging principally because of the paucibacillary nature of TB in children and the difficulty in obtaining good quality sputum samples. More ...

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