BACKGROUND: Despite the efforts of Kumi district health team to provide continuous medical education (CME) to the health workers, rehabilitate, equip and provide supplies to the health facilities, infection control (IC) ...

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 ...

INTRODUCTION: Parent- child communication on issues of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is very important in improving the reproductive health status of a community and is of public concern. In Tororo district, a big ...

INTRODUCTION: Malaria in pregnancy is a long known problem in Uganda associated with maternal and child morbidity, mortality and disability. In Uganda, the MOH malaria control strategy mainly focuses on IPT, early diagnosis ...

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 ...