2 Director, Forestry and Land Use programme, International Institute for Environment and Development, Edinburgh, UK 3 Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique 4 Coordinator Planning, National Forestry Authority, Kampala, Uganda 5 Coordinator, Civic Response, Accra, Ghana 6 Assistant Director of Forestry, Department of...

TONY L. GOLDBERG 5 , THOMAS R. GILLESPIE , INNOCENT B. RWEGO, AND CLOVIS KAGANZI Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Kibale EcoHealth Project, Fort Portal, Uganda Department of ...

Field Epidemiology in Africa Sheba Nakacubo Gitta, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Mufuta Tshimanga African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), Makerere University School of Public Health, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Zimbabwe Field Epidemiology Training Program, Department of Community Medicine, Harare, Zimbabwe Corresponding author: Sheba Nakacubo Gitta, African Field ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the emergence of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance (TDR) in Kampala, Uganda, 10 years after the scale-up of antiretroviral treatment (ART) and to compare with a previous survey among antenatal clinic attendees in 2007 (reporting 0% TDR). DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was conducted among newly HIV-1 diagnosed, antiretroviral-naive young adults attending two large voluntar...

BACKGROUND A retrospective case-control study was undertaken to examine the spatial risk factors for human brucellosis in Kampala, Uganda. METHODS Information on age, sex and month of diagnosis was derived from records from plate agglutination tests undertaken at Mulago Hospital, Kampala. Information on Parishes (LC2s) where patients reside was sourced from the outpatient registration book. I...

BACKGROUND Urban/peri-urban dairy production and sales has evolved as an adjustment to cope with food security and economic needs for urban dwellers in low-income countries and created an opportunity to transform from subsistence rural lifestyles of dairy farming to commercial engagement in towns. However, urban/peri-urban dairy farms differ in challenges from rural dairy farms and reproduction...

Technical Appendix Table 1. Demographic data for persons with cryptococcal meningitis by nosocomial bacteremia status, Kampala, Uganda and Cape Town, South Africa* Study site, baseline demographics Without bacteremia With bacteremia Univariate p value Kampala, Uganda No. 94 21 NA Age, y 35 (30–40) 36 (31–43) 0.37 Male sex 43 (46) 15 (71) 0.052 CD4 count, cells/μL 16 (7–70) 17 (6–60) 0.71 HIV vi...

BACKGROUND In the sub-urban areas of Kampala city, springs are a major source of water for domestic use. Though spring water is considered to be aesthetically acceptable for domestic use, presence of poorly designed pit latrines, poor solid waste management as well as poor and inadequate spring protection, may lead to contamination of spring water with pathogenic bacteria. OBJECTIVES The obje...

HIV prevalence has decreased in Uganda since the 1990s, but remains substantial within high-risk groups. Here, we reconstruct the history and spread of HIV subtypes A1 and D in Uganda and explore the transmission dynamics in high-risk populations. We analysed HIV pol sequences from female sex workers in Kampala (n = 42), Lake Victoria fisher-folk (n = 46) and a rural clinical cohort (n = 74), t...

BACKGROUND Uganda's generalized HIV epidemic is well described, including an estimated adult male HIV prevalence in Kampala of 4.5%, but no data are available on the prevalence of and risk factors for HIV infection among men who have sex with men (MSM). METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS From May 2008 to February 2009, we used respondent-driven sampling to recruit MSM ≥18 years old in Kampala who...