1 Principal, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 3 Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 Department of Public Health Sciences, Global Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 5 Sch...

1 Department of Dentistry, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Kampala International University, Western Campus, P. O. Box 71, Bushenyi, Uganda. 2 Tropical Disease Research Unit, Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Kampala International University, Western Campus, P. O. Box 71, Bushenyi, Uganda. 3 Department of Soc...

1 Department of Dentistry, School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 2 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda 3 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda *Corresponding Author: Louis Muwazi, Department of Dentistry, School of Heal...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 3, March 2007 509 Jan H. Kolaczinski,*† Dagemlidet Tesfaye Worku,‡ François Chappuis,§¶ Richard Reithinger,† Narcis Kabatereine,# Ambrose Onapa,# and Simon Brooker† *Malaria Consortium Africa, Kampala, Uganda; †London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; ‡Médecins Sans Frontières, Kampala, Uganda; §Médecins ...

To address technology impact at the household level, farms were selected in two broad agro-ecological zones, Kampala and Highland. The Kampala zone was delineated as a “new” region with a substantial milkshed that was not delineated with the Kenya agro-ecological extrapolation. Since the “Horticultural” zone and Kenya dominated the landscape where dairying occurred outside of the Kampala milksh...

BACKGROUND Verbal autopsy (VA) procedures can be used to estimate cause of death in settings with inadequate vital registries. However, the sensitivity of VA for determining malaria-specific mortality may be low, and may vary with transmission intensity. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of VA procedures as compared to hospital medical records for determining cause of death in children under ...

The Academic Alliance for AIDS Care and Prevention is led by a group of physicians from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Kampala, Uganda-based Makerere University. The project began in June 2001 with an initial grant from Pfizer Inc. for the construction of the Infectious Diseases Institute, an HIV clinic, in Kampala. The alliance is primarily academic in nature, integr...

BACKGROUND Clinical laboratories are crucial in addressing the high rates of communicable and non-communicable diseases seen in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, the most basic information, such as the number and quality of clinical laboratories in SSA, is not available. The objective of this study was to create a practical method for obtaining this information in SSA towns and cities using an...

BACKGROUND In Kampala, Uganda, studies have shown a significant incidence of human brucellosis. A stochastic risk assessment involving two field surveys (cattle farms and milk shops) and a medical record survey was conducted to assess the risk of human brucellosis infection through consumption of informally marketed raw milk potentially infected with Brucella abortus in Kampala and to identify ...

National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO), Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) P. O. Box 7065 Kampala, Uganda. Department of Botany, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, 74 Lunnon Road, Hillcrest, Pretoria South Africa. Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Univer...