This article explores the use of pattern language approach in bridging gap between formal and informal urban planning practices African context. study focuses on a case application within urbanised region encompassing Nakivubo wetland located Kampala, Uganda. As other cities Africa with colonial past, Kampala’s system signals profound technocratic, European paradigms-based type everyday citizen...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated knowledge, opinions and compliance related to Uganda's comprehensive smoke-free law among hospitality venues in Kampala Uganda. DESIGN This multi-method study presents cross-sectional findings of the extent of compliance in the early phase of Uganda's comprehensive smoke-free law (2 months postimplementation; pre-enforcement). SETTING Bars, pubs and restaurant...

INTRODUCTION High Tuberculosis treatment default rate (17%) and sub-optimal treatment completion rates (45%) has burdened Kampala. Nevertheless, there are observable increase in the number of patients on TB DOT; from 6% to 29% in two consecutive annual reports. The main objective was to determine the association of TB patient attitudes towards community-based observers on the TB drug adherence ...

30 www.thelancet.com/neurology Vol 15 January 2016 Northern Uganda, epicentre of the nodding syndrome epidemic. It is diffi cult to know how many children are aff ected: fi gures of 1700 to more than 3500 are reported, depending on the consensus case defi nitions used. In 2011, having asked WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for assistance in determining what they were...

There are few reports of alkaline phosphatase activity in the serum of children suffering from kwashiorkor. The values quoted are somewhat conflicting: Waterlow (1948) found an average level of 19.7 .King-Armstrong units in eight cases of "fatty liver disease " in Jamaica, and Jaya-sekera, de Mel, and Cullumbine (1951) reported an average value of 15.8 units in 40 children with kwashiorkor inve...

IN previous communications (Hutt and Burkitt, 1965; Burkitt and Hutt, 1966) we have stressed the importance of defining cancer patterns both for individual countries in Africa and for different areas within these countries. Williams (1966) has showed that local distribution patterns may be obtained by an upcountry mission hospital and some of the valuable information which can thus be obtained ...

The adaptation of European children to life in tropical climates is a subject fraught with emotional and political undercurrents. The literature on the subject can be divided into two main groups: that concerning children living in areas where the European immigrant population is becoming assured, such as tropical Australia and Central America where the favourable aspects are emphasized (Cilent...

detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis meningitis Nathan Bahr, MD; Grace Linder; Ryan Halupnick; Reuben Kiggundu MBChB; Henry Nabeta, MBChB; Darlisha Williams, MPH; David Meya, MMed; Joshua Rhein, MD; David Boulware, MD, MPH; Infectious Disease and International Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research, Universit...

Robert Colebunders head HIV/STD Unit, Clinical Sciences Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine 2000 Antwerp, Belgium [email protected] Ludwig Apers clinician Epidemiology Unit, Public Health Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine Greet Dieltiens epidemiologist William Worodria clinician HIV/STD Unit, Clinical Sciences Department, Infectious Diseases Institute, Kampala, Uganda Competing inte...

In Kampala, Uganda, in 2001, hepatitis C virus antibodies were found in 27 (4%) of 603 children and in 62 (12%) of 525 of their mothers. However, only approximately 10% of positive results were confirmed by reverse transcription-PCR, which suggests frequent false-positive results or viral clearance. All sequenced types were genotype 4.