A5042895676- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Parasitic Diseases Research and Treatment
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Hepatitis B Virus Studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
- Global Health Care Issues
- Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
- Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Healthcare Systems and Reforms
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Lysosomal Storage Disorders Research
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
Gulu University
2014-2025
Amref Health Africa
2024
Alliance for International Medical Action
2024
Makerere University
2021-2023
Ministry of Health
2023
Columbia University
2023
ICAP Global Health
2023
Harvard University
2020-2023
University of Sierra Leone
2021-2022
Harvard Global Health Institute
2020-2022
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) constitute one of the main occupational hazards among health care workers. However, few epidemiological studies on work related MSD nursing professionals have been carried out in Africa. The purpose this study was to assess musculoskeletal and associated risk factors Uganda.This a cross-sectional 880 from five selected hospitals Uganda. Data collected using questionnaire adapted Dutch Nordic questionnaires. Descriptive (mean, standard deviation percentages)...
Nodding Syndrome (NS) is an epileptic encephalopathy characterized by involuntary vertical head nodding, other types of seizures, and progressive neurological deficits. The etiology the east African NS epidemic unknown. In March 2014, we conducted a case-control study medical, nutritional risk factors associated with among children (aged 5-18years) Kitgum District, northern Uganda (Acholiland). Data on food availability, rainfall, prevalent disease temporally related to were also analyzed....
Nodding syndrome is an epidemic neurologic disorder of unknown cause that affects children in the subsistence-farming communities East Africa. We report neuropathologic findings five fatal cases (13–18 years age at death) nodding from Acholi people northern Uganda. Neuropathologic examination revealed tau-immunoreactive neuronal neurofibrillary tangles, pre-tangles, neuropil threads, and dot-like lesions involving cerebral cortex, subcortical nuclei brainstem. There was preferential...
Informed consent in medical practice is essential and a global standard that should be sought at all the times doctors interact with patients. Its intensity would vary depending on invasiveness risks associated anticipated treatment. To our knowledge there has not been any systematic review of practices to document best identify areas need improvement setting. The objective study was evaluate informed surgeons University teaching Hospitals low resource A cross-sectional conducted three...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage health care systems, economies, livelihoods, and cultures across world, responses countries have varied greatly. Uganda adopted its own model taking into consideration culture, values, environment, socio-economic activities, beliefs, previous successful epidemic experience, appears a hybrid policy Norwegian model. This of response is perhaps based on Uganda's long experience in control many epidemics which afflicted it neighboring countries, e.g,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centers for Disease Control Prevention (US CDC) documented wearing facemasks in public as one of most important prevention measures to limit COVID-19 spread. Considering this, WHO US CDC developed guidelines public. This study aimed determine prevalence correlates facemask during pandemic northern Uganda. We conducted a cross-sectional on 587 adults across nine districts Uganda, 24 high-volume health facilities offering free COVID-9...
Abstract Background Hospitals such as the Gulu Regional Referral Hospital (GRRH) in northern Uganda, like many other regions of sub-Saharan Africa, lack anaesthetists needed to provide adequate analgesia during surgical procedures. The GRRH has not employed any anaesthesiologist for years. Instead, anaesthesia is carried out by non-physician anaesthetic officers (AO) and healthcare workers (HWs). In this setting, peripheral regional (pRA) a safe resource-efficient alternative that HWs AOs...
Background The advent of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused millions deaths worldwide. As December 2021, there is inadequate data on outcome hospitalized patients suffering from COVID-19 in Africa. This study aimed at identifying factors associated with hospital mortality who suffered Gulu Regional Referral Hospital Northern Uganda March 2020 to October 2021. Methods was a single-center, retrospective cohort confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Uganda. Socio-demographic...
Abstract Nodding syndrome is an enigmatic recurrent epidemic neurologic disease that affects children in East Africa. The illness begins with vertical nodding of the head and can progress to grand mal seizures death after several years. most recent outbreak occurred northern Uganda. We now describe clinicopathologic spectrum neuropathologic findings 16 or young adults fatal were correlated onset, duration progression their neurological illness. affected individuals ranged age from 14 25...
Abstract Background Women are at higher risks of being underweight than men due to biological, socio-economic, and cultural factors. Underweight women have high poor obstetric outcomes. We aimed determine the prevalence factors associated with among reproductive age (15–49 years) in Sierra Leone. Methods used Leone Demographic Health Survey (2019-SLDHS) data 7,514 aged 15 49 years, excluding pregnant, post-natal, lactating, post-menopausal women. A multistage stratified sampling approach was...
Introduction: Low and middle income countries have severe nursing staff shortages which is associated with risk of poor quality patient care increased exposure to adverse events. This accompanied musculoskeletal disorders the staff. paper sets out identify compare factors among in 5 different hospitals Uganda.
Nodding syndrome is a pediatric epileptic encephalopathy of apparent environmental origin that was first described in Tanzania, with recent epidemics South Sudan and Uganda. Following brief description the medical geography, setting case definition this progressive brain disorder, we report advances relating to etiology, diagnosis treatment papers given at 2nd International Conference on Syndrome held July 2015 Gulu, The target audience for includes: anthropologists, entomologists,...
As SARS-CoV-2 rapidly spread across the globe, short-term modeling forecasts provided time-critical information for containment and mitigation strategies. Global projections had so far incorrectly predicted large numbers of COVID-19 cases in Africa that its health systems would be overwhelmed. Significantly higher COVID-19-related mortality were expected mainly because poor socio-economic determinants make it vulnerable to public threats, including diseases epidemic potential. Surprisingly...
Nodding syndrome is a neurological disease of children in northern Uganda. Infection with the nematode parasite Onchocerca volvulus has been epidemiologically implicated as cause disease. It proposed that an autoantibody directed against human protein leiomodin-1 cross reacts tropomyosin-like protein, thus suggesting nodding autoimmune brain due to extra-cerebral parasitism. This hypothesis dependent on constitutive neuronal expression leiomodin-1. We tested this by studying distribution...
Background Disease surveillance in rural regions of many countries is poor, such that prolonged delays (months) may intervene between appearance disease and its recognition by public health authorities. For infectious disorders, delayed intervention enables uncontrolled spread. We tested the feasibility northern Uganda developing real-time, village-based an epidemic Nodding syndrome (NS) using software-programmed smartphones operated minimally trained lay mHealth reporters. Methodology...
As of March 11, 2021, 3,992,044 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases and 106,615 deaths (case fatality rate 2.67%) have been reported on the African continent. In 2020, even before first case COVID-19 was registered, some countries implemented total lockdown measures, which limited movement people, banned mass gatherings, closed schools borders. However, these control affect individuals society's well-being, cannot be for a long time. There is an urgent need robust framework to guide...
Abstract Background When the COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Uganda early March of 2021, there was a lack information on vaccine acceptance population due to many factors, mainly misinformation and disinformation circulating Ugandan social mainstream media. This study aimed determine factors associated with among adult northern Uganda. Methods We conducted cross-sectional 723-adult Participants were selected randomly from nine districts Acholi sub-region. Ethical approval obtained local IRB,...
Introduction: Recent studies have shown that circumcision reduces HIV/AIDS infection rates by 60% among heterosexual African men. Public health officials are arguing of men should be a key weapon in the fight Africa. Experts estimate more than 3 million lives could saved sub-Saharan Africa alone if procedure becomes widely used. Some communities Uganda misconceptions to MMC and resist practice.
Nodding Syndrome (NS) is a neurological disorder affecting children 5-15 years at onset in East Africa. A major criterion for diagnosis atonic seizure with dorso-ventral "nodding" of the head. Comorbidities include psychological and behavioral abnormalities, malnutrition, cognitive decline, school dropout other types. We aimed to describe presentations rehabilitation outcomes NS Hope HumaNs (HfH) centre Gulu from September 2012 October 2013.Data was obtained retrospective review 32...
Background At the time when COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, its spread African continent slow. However, confirmed cases of virus have since risen steadily over years for many reasons. This study aimed to determine factors associated with perceptions vaccines among adult age-group populations northern Uganda. Methods We conducted this as part larger vaccine hesitancy/acceptance 723 selected by stratified and systematic sampling approaches from used questionnaire an internal...
The double burden of malnutrition (DBM) is rising globally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. In Sierra Leone, the incidence overweight, obesity (OWOB), and overnutrition among women has sharply increased. This finding accompanies high undernutrition, which been prevalent for decades. study aimed to determine prevalence different categories (underweight, obesity, overnutrition) associated factors reproductive age (15-49 years) Leone using secondary data analysis Demographic Health Survey...