1 Makerere University College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda 2 Laboratoire des Méthodes et Techniques d’Analyse (LMTA), Institut National de Recherche et d’Analyse Physico-Chimique (INRAP), Biotechpole de Sidi Thabet, 2020 Sidi Thabet, Tunisia 3 Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ahmadu Bello Univ...

2302 Cranberry Terrace, Silver Spring, MD, USA (S M Mbulaiteye MD); Uganda Malaria Surveillance Programme, Kampala, Uganda (A O Talisuna PhD); Department of Surgery, St Mary’s Hospital, Lacor, Gulu, Uganda (M D Ogwang MMed); Fogarty International Center, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA (F E McKenzie PhD); Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA (Prof J L Zi...

Cryptococcal Meningitis Joshua Rhein, MD; Nathan Bahr, MD; Bozena Morawski, MPH; Charlotte Schutz; Malcolm Finkelman, PhD; David Meya, MMed; Graeme Meintjes, MD; David Boulware, MD, MPH; Infectious Disease and International Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Infectious Disease Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minn...

Godfrey Kigozi, Stephen Watya*, Chelsea B. Polis†, Denis Buwembo, Valerian Kiggundu, Maria J. Wawer†, David Serwadda‡, Fred Nalugoda, Noah Kiwanuka, Melanie C. Bacon§, Victor Ssempijja, Frederick Makumbi‡ and Ronald H. Gray† Rakai Health Sciences Program, Entebbe, ‡Institute of Public Health, *Department of Surgery, Urology Unit, Mulago Hospital, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, †Johns Hop...

Pregnant women are increasingly being initiated on antiretroviral therapy either as part of prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV or as purely highly active antiretroviral therapy.In this case report, we describe a 26 year old woman who was 28 weeks pregnant and who presented after 4 weeks of initiation of antiretroviral therapy with a herpes zoster eruption and how the case was man...

Sub-acute Toxicity of Aqueous Extracts of Tephrosia vogelii, Vernonia amygdalina and Senna occidentalis in Rats Immaculate Nabukenya1*, Chris Rubaire-Akiiki1, Denis Mugizi1, John Kateregga1, Deogracious Olila1 and Johan Höglund2 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda 2Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary...

Simulating high-intensity rainfall events that trigger local floods using a Numerical Weather Prediction model is challenging as rain-bearing systems are highly complex and localized. In this study, we analyze the performance of Research Forecasting (WRF) model’s capability in simulating event variety parameterization combinations over Kampala catchment, Uganda. The study uses caused flood haza...

attending Antenatal clinics in Hospitals in Gulu District, Northern Uganda Pontius Bayo, MBChB, MMed(OBSGYN); Emmanuel Ochola, MBChB, MSc; Caroline Oleo, MBChB; Amos D Mwaka, MD, MMed(Medicine); Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda; HIV, Research and Documentation, St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu, Uganda; Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Gulu Univesity Medical School, ...

About the authors: R Kamadjeu is a managing editor of the Pan African Medical Journal; he works with the US Centers for Disease Control and is based in Atlanta (USA). David Mukanga is the Executive director of AFENET and is based in Kampala (Uganda). L Tsague is a managing editor of the Pan African Medical Journal; he works with the International Center for Aids Care and Treatment Programs and ...

In several countries of sub-Saharan Africa more than 10% of the adult population are infected with HIV, while in large towns such as Kampala, Lusaka, Blantyre, Kigali and Harare this proportion exceeds 25%. One of the most obvious consequences is the increased occupancy of hospital beds by patients with HIV infection, perhaps to the exclusion of patients with other ailments. This paper gives an...