Uganda

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Walking the Journey Together": Creating a unique learning module in provider-patient communication for the care of epilepsy in Uganda. 
  • "When you have no water, it means you have no peace": A mixed-methods, whole-population study of water insecurity and depression in rural Uganda. 
  • 'Impact hunters' catalyse cooperative hunting in two wild chimpanzee communities. 
  • A cost-effectiveness analysis of surgical care delivery in Eastern Uganda-a societal perspective. 
  • A prospective neurosurgical registry evaluating the clinical care of traumatic brain injury patients presenting to Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • A public health approach to cervical cancer screening in Africa through community-based self-administered HPV testing and mobile treatment provision. 
  • Access to essential cancer medicines for children: a comparative mixed-methods analysis of availability, price, and health-system determinants in east Africa. 
  • Access to pediatric surgery delivered by general surgeons and anesthesia providers in Uganda: Results from 2 rural regional hospitals. 
  • Action for Increasing Diversity, Market Access, and Capacity in Oncology Registration Trials-Is Africa the Answer? Report From a Satellite Session of the Accelerating Anti-Cancer Agent Development and Validation Workshop. 
  • Adverse childhood experiences, adult depression, and suicidal ideation in rural Uganda: A cross-sectional, population-based study. 
  • Africa's visionary editor. 
  • Alcohol-Related Physical Abuse of Children in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda. 
  • An Attitude Survey and Assessment of the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Usability of a Traumatic Brain Injury Decision Support Tool in Uganda. 
  • Assessing the effects of anti-homosexuality legislation in Uganda on HIV prevention, treatment, and care services. 
  • Author response: Influence of sodium consumption and associated knowledge on poststroke hypertension in Uganda. 
  • Availability of post-hospital services supporting community reintegration for children with identified surgical need in Uganda. 
  • B cell depletion in HIV-1 subtype A infected Ugandan adults: relationship to CD4 T cell count, viral load and humoral immune responses. 
  • Barriers to biomedical care for people with epilepsy in Uganda: A cross-sectional study. 
  • Beneath the Surface: A Comparison of Methods for Assessment of Quality of Care for Maternal and Neonatal Health Care in Rural Uganda. 
  • Biomaterials use in Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda: Access and affordability. 
  • Boda Bodas and Road Traffic Injuries in Uganda: An Overview of Traffic Safety Trends from 2009 to 2017. 
  • Bone mineral density, nutrient intake, and physical activity among young women from Uganda. 
  • Brief Report: Frequency of Monitoring Kidney Function in HIV-Uninfected Persons Using Daily Oral Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Pre-exposure Prophylaxis. 
  • Burden and Outcomes of Neonatal Surgery in Uganda: Results of a Five-Year Prospective Study. 
  • Burden of Surgical Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Burden of Surgical Infections in a Tertiary-Care Pediatric Surgery Service in Uganda. 
  • Causes, clinical presentation, management, and outcomes of chronic subdural hematoma at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 
  • Central Nervous System Tumors in Uganda: Outcomes of Surgical Treatment and Complications Assessed Through Telephone Survey. 
  • Central nervous system tumor distribution at a tertiary referral center in Uganda. 
  • Chimpanzees strategically manipulate what others can see. 
  • Commentary: cardiovascular risk factors--the next epidemic in Uganda: findings from the population-based HIV/AIDS rural surveillance cohort. 
  • Comparison of Ugandan and North American Pediatric Surgery Fellows' Operative Experience: Opportunities for Global Training Exchange. 
  • Contextualization of psychological treatments for government health systems in low-resource settings: group interpersonal psychotherapy for caregivers of children with nodding syndrome in Uganda. 
  • Correlates of attendance at community engagement meetings held in advance of bio-behavioral research studies: A longitudinal, sociocentric social network study in rural Uganda. 
  • Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Deep Learning to Predict Traumatic Brain Injury Outcomes in the Low-Resource Setting. 
  • Distribution and characteristics of severe traumatic brain injury at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Ease of marital communication and depressive symptom severity among men and women in rural Uganda: cross-sectional, whole-population study. 
  • Epidemiology and Characteristics of Neurosurgical Conditions at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 
  • Epidemiology of pediatric surgical needs in low-income countries. 
  • Epilepsy beliefs and misconceptions among patient and community samples in Uganda. 
  • Estimating prognosis for traumatic brain injury patients in a low-resource setting: how do providers compare to the CRASH risk calculator? 
  • Estimating the Cost of Neurosurgical Procedures in a Low-Income Setting: An Observational Economic Analysis. 
  • Evaluation of a large-scale donation of Lifebox pulse oximeters to non-physician anaesthetists in Uganda. 
  • Evaluation of a tailored epilepsy training program for healthcare providers in Uganda. 
  • Experiences of sexual coercion among adolescent women: qualitative findings from Rakai district, Uganda. 
  • Facial and genital lesions in baboons (Papio anubis) of Kibale National Park, Uganda. 
  • Foci of endemic simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). 
  • Gastroschisis in Uganda: Opportunities for improved survival. 
  • Genetic variation of HIV type 1 in four World Health Organization-sponsored vaccine evaluation sites: generation of functional envelope (glycoprotein 160) clones representative of sequence subtypes A, B, C, and E. WHO Network for HIV Isolation and Characterization. 
  • Geographic differences in the prevalence of hypertension in Uganda: Results of a national epidemiological study. 
  • Geospatial Analysis of Unmet Surgical Need in Uganda: An Analysis of SOSAS Survey Data. 
  • Geospatial analysis of unmet pediatric surgical need in Uganda. 
  • HIV and transgender women in Kampala, Uganda - Double Jeopardy. 
  • Healthcare provider perspectives regarding epilepsy care in Uganda. 
  • Healthy baboon with no upper jaw or nose: an extreme case of adaptability in the Kibale National Park, Uganda. 
  • High prevalence of hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk factors among medical students at Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda. 
  • High prevalence of malaria parasitemia and anemia among hospitalized children in Rakai, Uganda. 
  • Hospital-based epilepsy care in Uganda: A prospective study of three major public referral hospitals. 
  • Household perceptions and subjective valuations of indoor residual spraying programmes to control malaria in northern Uganda. 
  • How competent are non-specialists trained to integrate mental health services in primary care? Global health perspectives from Uganda, Liberia, and Nepal. 
  • Humoral Immune Correlates for Prevention of Postnatal Cytomegalovirus Acquisition. 
  • Impact evaluation of a maternal and neonatal health training intervention in private Ugandan facilities. 
  • Infanticide and social organization in the redtail monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius schmidti) in the Kibale Forest, Uganda. 
  • Influence of Caretakers' Health Literacy on Delays to Traumatic Brain Injury Care in Uganda. 
  • Influence of Dietary Salt Knowledge, Perceptions, and Beliefs on Consumption Choices after Stroke in Uganda. 
  • Influence of sodium consumption and associated knowledge on poststroke hypertension in Uganda. 
  • Integrated vector management for malaria control in Uganda: knowledge, perceptions and policy development. 
  • Laparoscopic experience and attitudes toward a low-cost laparoscopic system among surgeons in East, Central, and Southern Africa: a survey study. 
  • Leveraging the lessons learned from studies on the cultural context of epilepsy care in Uganda: Opportunities and future directions. 
  • Life After the Neurosurgical Ward in Sub-Saharan Africa: Neurosurgical Treatment and Outpatient Outcomes in Uganda. 
  • Long-term declines in nutritional quality of tropical leaves. 
  • Long-term follow-up of neurosurgical outcomes for adult patients in Uganda with traumatic brain injury. 
  • Long-term follow-up of pediatric head trauma patients treated at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Low prevalence of Pneumocystis jirovecii lung colonization in Ugandan HIV-infected patients hospitalized with non-Pneumocystis pneumonia. 
  • Low prevalence of Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) but high prevalence of pneumocystis dihydropteroate synthase (dhps) gene mutations in HIV-infected persons in Uganda. 
  • Making cardiac surgery feasible in African countries: Experience from Namibia, Uganda, and Zambia. 
  • Malaria Diagnosis by U.S. Providers on Short-term Medical Mission Trips to Uganda. 
  • Maternal mental health priorities, help-seeking behaviors, and resources in post-conflict settings: a qualitative study in eastern Uganda. 
  • Mechanism of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury in Southwestern Uganda: A Prospective Cohort of 100 Patients. 
  • Medical record bias in documentation of obstetric and neonatal clinical quality of care indicators in Uganda. 
  • Met and Unmet Need for Pediatric Surgical Access in Uganda: A Country-Wide Prospective Analysis. 
  • Metabolomics in nutrition research: biomarkers predicting mortality in children with severe acute malnutrition. 
  • Multidisciplinary Development of a Low-Cost Gastroschisis Silo for Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
  • Multilocus microsatellite genotyping array for investigation of genetic epidemiology of Pneumocystis jirovecii. 
  • Neural tube defects in Uganda: follow-up outcomes from a national referral hospital. 
  • Okukkera Ng'omuzungu (lost in translation): understanding the social value of global health research for HIV/AIDS research participants in Uganda. 
  • Optimizing Care for Ugandans with Untreated Abdominal Surgical Conditions. 
  • Past, Present, and Future of Neurosurgery in Uganda. 
  • Pediatric Neurosurgical Outcomes Following a Neurosurgery Health System Intervention at Mulago National Referral Hospital in Uganda. 
  • Pediatric traumatic brain injury at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda. 
  • Perceived and misperceived norms about khat and/or cannabis use among adults in southwest Uganda. 
  • Perceived barriers and supports to accessing community-based services for Uganda's pediatric post-surgical population. 
  • Phenotypic characteristics and asthma severity in an East African cohort of adults and adolescents with asthma: findings from the African severe asthma project. 
  • Pilot Use of a Novel Tool to Assess Neurosurgical Capacity in Uganda. 
  • Pilot study of a population-based survey to assess the prevalence of surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • Pluralistic and singular causal attributions for epilepsy in Uganda. 
  • Portrayals of mental illness, treatment, and relapse and their effects on the stigma of mental illness: Population-based, randomized survey experiment in rural Uganda. 
  • Postoperative pain after cesarean section: assessment and management in a tertiary hospital in a low-income country. 
  • Poststroke hypertension in Africa. 
  • Predation by female chimpanzees: Toward an understanding of sex differences in meat acquisition in the last common ancestor of Pan and Homo. 
  • Predicting the Individual Treatment Effect of Neurosurgery for Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury in the Low-Resource Setting: A Machine Learning Approach in Uganda. 
  • Prevalence and correlates of proteinuria in Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional pilot study. 
  • Prevalence of Surgically Untreated Face, Head, and Neck Conditions in Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Nationwide Household Survey. 
  • Preventive Misconception and Risk Behaviors in a Multinational HIV Prevention Trial. 
  • Primate population dynamics over 32.9 years at Ngogo, Kibale National Park, Uganda. 
  • Prioritizing Surgical Care on National Health Agendas: A Qualitative Case Study of Papua New Guinea, Uganda, and Sierra Leone. 
  • Promoting HIV Testing by Men: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Elicit Preferences and Predict Uptake of Community-based Testing in Uganda. 
  • Psychological treatments delivered by community health workers in low-resource government health systems: effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy for caregivers of children affected by nodding syndrome in Uganda. 
  • Psychosocial challenges facing women living with HIV during the perinatal period in rural Uganda. 
  • Quantifying the pediatric surgical need in Uganda: results of a nationwide cross-sectional, household survey. 
  • Quantitative and qualitative differences in the T cell response to HIV in uninfected Ugandans exposed or unexposed to HIV-infected partners. 
  • Reconcilable differences? Human diversity, cultural relativity, and sense of community. 
  • Reinforcing locally led solutions for universal health coverage: a logic model with applications in Benin, Namibia and Uganda. 
  • Road traffic injuries: Cross-sectional cluster randomized countrywide population data from 4 low-income countries. 
  • Rural and urban differences in treatment status among children with surgical conditions in Uganda. 
  • SIVcpz in wild chimpanzees. 
  • Seasonal variation in the feeding ecology of the grey-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) in Cameroon. 
  • Severe acute malnutrition in childhood: hormonal and metabolic status at presentation, response to treatment, and predictors of mortality. 
  • Skeletal pathology in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in Kibale National Park, Uganda. 
  • Social and financial barriers may contribute to a "hidden mortality" in Uganda for children with congenital anomalies. 
  • Sociocultural determinants and patterns of healthcare utilization for epilepsy care in Uganda. 
  • Stakeholder views of the practical and cultural barriers to epilepsy care in Uganda. 
  • Stigma reduction interventions for epilepsy: A systematized literature review. 
  • Surgeons OverSeas Assessment of Surgical Need (SOSAS) Uganda: Update for Household Survey. 
  • Surgical candidacy and treatment initiation among women with cervical cancer at public referral hospitals in Kampala, Uganda: a descriptive cohort study. 
  • Surgical capacity building in Uganda through twinning, technology, and training camps. 
  • Surgical need among the ageing population of Uganda. 
  • Temporal Delays Along the Neurosurgical Care Continuum for Traumatic Brain Injury Patients at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Kampala, Uganda. 
  • The Challenge of Community Representation. 
  • The Influence of Social Networks on Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Therapy-Naive Youth in Rural Kenya and Uganda. 
  • The life of a naturalist. 
  • The medical management of central nervous system infections in Uganda and the potential impact of an algorithm-based approach to improve outcomes. 
  • The role of informational support from women's social networks on antenatal care initiation: qualitative evidence from pregnant women in Uganda. 
  • The role of medical equipment in the spread of nosocomial infections: a cross-sectional study in four tertiary public health facilities in Uganda. 
  • The role of viral introductions in sustaining community-based HIV epidemics in rural Uganda: evidence from spatial clustering, phylogenetics, and egocentric transmission models. 
  • The socioeconomic impact of a pediatric ostomy in Uganda: a pilot study. 
  • Three phylogenetic groups have driven the recent population expansion of Cryptococcus neoformans. 
  • Trends in neurosurgical care in Western Uganda: an interrupted time series analysis. 
  • Ugandan Medical Student Career Choices Relate to Foreign Funding Priorities. 
  • Understanding the cultural context of epilepsy care in Uganda: Introduction to this special issue. 
  • Unifying Children's Surgery and Anesthesia Stakeholders Across Institutions and Clinical Disciplines: Challenges and Solutions from Uganda. 
  • Utility of a brief computerized battery to assess HIV-associated neurocognitive impairment in a resource-limited setting. 
  • Validity of the Personal Impact of Epilepsy Scale (PIES) in patients with epilepsy in Uganda. 
  • Vulnerability of primitive human placental trophoblast to Zika virus. 
  • Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda (SSM-D-14-01580R1). 
  • World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Fuller, Anthony, Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • Ukachukwu, Alvan, Research Scholar, Neurosurgery