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2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 19-29
About 14% of the global burden of disease is attributable to mental disorders and are projected to reach 15% by theyear 2020.Relapse has been one of the most important problems in the field of psychiatry for the last decades. Thestudy adopted a cross-sectiona...
2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 37-46
The study was done to assess the factors contributing to low birth weights among neonates born at JRRH. Afacility based retrospective descriptive cross-sectional study will be conducted at JRRH from October 2019 toJanuary 2020 among women delivering neonates...
2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 74-84
Malaria is an acute and chronic illness characterized by paroxysms of fever, chills, sweats,fatigue, anaemia, and splenomegaly and is caused by parasite protozoan of the genusPlasmodium. Malaria remains one of the most severe public health problems globally....
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES | Pp. 1-10
HIV/AIDS is a major concern in all countries and all races of the world and it is a bigger problem in developingcountries and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Uganda. The prevalence of HIV among adults aged 15 to 64in Uganda was 6.2% according to Ugand...
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES | Pp. 62-70
HIV serodiscordant refers to a situation where in a pair of long-term sexual partners, one is HIV positive andthe other is HIV negative. There is an increased risk of HIV transmission to the HIV-negative partner indiscordant couples which makes HIV sero- disc...
2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 83-89
Globally, anemia was estimated to affect about one-quarter of the entire population. Children below 5 years of agehave the highest estimated prevalence of anemia, with reports of 42% – 47% being affected in Africa. Despite variousinterventions by the Ugandan...
2023 | IAA Journal of Scientific Research | Pp. 36-45
Scabies is a neglected tropical parasitic disease caused by sarcoptes scabiei, and is still amajor public health problem worldwide, particularly in resource-limited regions. This workaims to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of scabies among i...
2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 32-45
The number of malnourished children in Busoga is on the increase as shown by records atJinja Referral Hospital have shown. Four (4) out of the ten (10) children admitted to thehospital are severely malnourished. To combat the problem of protein-energy malnutr...
2023 | IAA Journal of Applied Sciences | Pp. 81-92
The aim of this study was to assess the socio-demographic characteristics of boda bodas,the level of awareness of helmet use and risk factors associated with boda bodaaccidents among riders in Fort Portal City. The study was limited only to boda-bodariders fr...
2023 | IAA Journal of Applied Sciences | Pp. 73-80
The general objective of the present study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, practice,and fear of monkeypox infection among Kampala International University Students. A crosssectionaldescriptive study was conducted anonymously among students of KampalaI...