ABSTRACT Intestinal parasites are amongst the common infections worldwide, it is estimated that 3.5 billion are affected and 450 million are ill as a result of these infections. At Alive medical services the prevalence estimates are not known. A cross sectional descriptive study was carried out at Alive Medical center between 3rd August 2014 and 10th October 2014 to determine the prevalence of gastro intestinal parasites in HIV positive patients, the age group and sex most affected and ident...
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Abstract Globally, an estimated 211 million pregnancies and 136 million births occur every year. While they are natural and usual processes, pregnancy and childbirth put every woman at risk of complications. Improving utilization of antenatal care is a critical strategy for reducing the high mortality rate and achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of decreasing the maternal mortality ratio (MMR). While overall utilization has increased recently in Uganda, disparity in access, pr...
ABSTRACT Background: Sickle Cell Disease is one of the most common inherited genetic blood disorders affecting humans world-wide. Sickle cell disease predominates in Africa including Uganda (WHO, 2011). Recent data in Uganda shows Northern Uganda is among the regions with the highest prevalence of 19.2% (MoH Uganda, 2014). Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study involving a total of 120 adult patients attending general OPD in Lira Regional Hospital between the Months of Februar...
Abstract A cross sectional retrospective study was conducted in Ishaka, Bushenyi municipality, Bushenyi district from January 2014 to June 2014 to determine knowledge and attitudes of mothers towards the utilization of antenatal care services in Ishaka Bushenyi municipality, district, western Uganda. The study found out that 38(60.3%) of the respondents have heard about comprehensive ANC services and 39.7% of the respondents have not heard about comprehensive ANC, that majority of the respon...
ABSTRACT Knowledge: is familiarity or understanding of something such as facts, information, description, or skills which are acquired by experience, education, perceiving discovering and learning. (Edward bliss 2013) Attitude: this is the positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, events, activities ideas or environment. (Richard, 2013) Immunization: is the cornerstone of diseases prevention worldwide, however, despite the advantages; immunization has still remained a major pro...
ABSTRACT. Maternal mortality ratio in Uganda has been declining over the past years but has remained unacceptably high at 438 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. This is majorly accounted for by the 5 direct obstetric complications; haemorrhage, sepsis, obstructed labour, complications of abortion and hypertensive disorders in pregnancy contributing over 85% of the deaths. In light of this fact, the researcher therefore assessed health facility readiness in Arua district to deal with the...
Abstract The research study was carried out in Tiriri Health Centre IV, Katine Sub County in Soroti District. The researcher opted to identify the factors contributing to severe malaria among children aged 0 – 5 years, in which interventions can be directed to alleviate these factors for a lasting solution. Soroti is one of the districts in Uganda surrounded by several wetlands and swamps, people therefore live around swampy areas most affected by moist land with water logs. This kind of vi...
Abstract It has been proven in several randomized clinical trials that safe male circumcision reduces the risk of HIV transmission from female to male by 60%.The national target for Uganda by 2015is to circumcise 4.2 million adults’ men. There is need for a pragmatic approach and effective model to achieve this target. The objective of the study was to determine the factors hindering the scaling up of circumcision numbers in men above 18 years in Buwoya village in Iganga district , Uga...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY The perspectives of Medical Students, who will later graduate to be Health Care Providers, will generally influence how often they will use/ recommend the use of the male pill to the society. The study was done in KIU-WC in 2013(September) to investigate the perspectives of Medical Students at KIU-WC on the proposed male contraceptive pill. BROAD OBJECTIVE To find out the perspective of Medical Students at KIU-WC towards the proposed male contraceptive ...
ABSTRACT Introduction Globally, abortion mortality accounts for at least 13% of all maternal mortality. Maternal mortality is 600,000 deaths per year due to pregnancy-related causes, and 99% of these deaths are in developing countries (WHO 2008). Abortions occur at a rate of 54 per 1,000 women aged 15–49 and account for one in five pregnancies. (Prada, E et al 2005). Methods It was a retrospective cross-sectional study conducted in Kampala international university teaching hospital and I...
ABSTRACT Prostate carcinoma (PCa) is the leading cancer among middle and elderly men worldwide. It accounts for 15% of all cancer cases and 6.6% of all cancer associated-deaths in men. PCa is a leading cause of cancer burden among men in Africa with Kenya reporting an incidence of 16.6/100,000. The exceedingly high burden of PCa is largely due to lack of population-based screening and delayed diagnosis in the background of genetic and environmental predisposing factors. Histopathological feat...
ABSTRACT Non-communicable diseases are on the rise globally. Hypertension is one of the most common non-communicable diseases. Globally, the prevalence of hypertension among adults was estimated to be 24.1% in men and 20.1% in women in 2015 and the global prevalence of raised cholesterol was found to be 39%. Across WHO regions, Africa was found to have the highest hypertension prevalence at 27%. Blood pressure control among hypertensive patients still continues to be a major challenge. Findi...
ABSTRACT Men who have sex with men experience a high burden of Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoea infections which remain largely undiagnosed in the context of syndromic and presumptive treatment. In Kenya, limited data is available to inform on occurrence and recurrence of rectal chlamydia and gonorrhoea and antibiotic sensitivity on Neisseria gonorrhoea among Men who have sex with men who report receptive anal intercourse. The aim of this study was to determine the occurrence, ...
ABSTRACT Background: Peritonitis is a common surgical condition which can occur either primarily or secondarily to other underlying pathologies including post-operation. Studies show that the major causes of peritonitis are bowels perforations, perforated appendix, volvulus and strangulated bowel. Objective: This study aimed at describing the patterns, and early treatment outcomes of patients with peritonitis at Dodoma Regional Referral Hospital. Methods: This was a prospective cross-section...