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2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 85-95
Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are frequent among young people. This study assessesthe Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice (KAP) of the Prevention of Sexually TransmittedInfections among adolescents in Bushenyi –Ishaka Municipality, Bushenyi District, W...
2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 96-104
This study assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice of contraception among women ofreproductive age in Bugembe Health Centre IV, Jinja district eastern Uganda. This was a crosssectionalstudy. Quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were u...
2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 105-127
Exclusive breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of age by the World HealthOrganization. Mothers’ good knowledge and positive attitude play key roles in the processof exclusive breastfeeding practices. This study aimed at assessing the knowledg...
2023 | IAA Journal of Applied Sciences | Pp. 62-72
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) continue to be the global leading infection among primigravidaswith over 50% of them suffering at least one incidence of UTI during their course of pregnancy.In Arua at Oli Hospital, there is no study that has been done to dete...
2023 | INOSR Scientific Research | Pp. 14-24
This study determined the incidence and factors associated with anemia in children 6 monthsto five years presenting at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital (FRRH), Western Uganda. Thiswas a hospital-based cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study determi...
2023 | IAA Journal of Applied Sciences | Pp. 21-32
Family Planning services are preventive health services that provide quality, low cost andeasily accessible reproductive health care to women and men during their reproductiveyears. Family planning is often limited to the use of contraception. However, family...
2023 | IAA Journal of Applied Sciences | Pp. 11-20
Despite the enormous benefits of family planning services, the utilization of the servicesstill remains low in sub-Saharan. Africa Researchers have identified a number of factors thatare related to unmet needs and nonuse of contraception. Higher levels of edu...
2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 21-31
Postnatal care can help identify common life-threatening complications and reduce infectionafter child mortality. Despite the significant role postnatal care services play in improvingmaternal health, services are underutilized in most developing countries in...
2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 70-82
World Health Organization (WHO) defines malaria as a life-threatening parasitic disease caused by a bite of an infectedAnopheles mosquito. Malaria can kill within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms and whereas it affects all the people,most affected are childr...
2023 | IAA Journal of Applied Sciences | Pp. 48-61
The study was conducted at Kalagala Health Centre IV and aimed at establishing the level ofeffectiveness of contraceptive use by men, factors influencing their access and use of familyplanning and the strategies that can be used to increase their level of par...