Group of Chemistry of Advanced Materials (GQMat) - Department of Analytical Chemistry and Physic-chemistry, Federal University of Ceará - UFC, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Departamento de Engenharia Química, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, Fortaleza, Brazil.
Instituto de Engenharias e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira, Campus das Auroras, Redenção, Brazil.
Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014 China.
Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014 China.
Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014 China.
Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Synthesis of Zhejiang Province, College of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014 China.
Globally, healthcare providers (HCPs), hospital administrators, patients and their caretakers are increasingly confronted with complex moral, social, cultural, ethical, and legal dilemmas during clini...
This phenomenological qualitative study utilized in-depth interviews (IDIs) and focus group discussions (FGDs) to collect data from Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) staff, patients, and caretakers who we...
The study revealed there was no formal committee or mechanism dedicated to resolving ethical dilemmas at the UCI. Instead, ethical dilemmas were addressed in six forums: individual consultations, tumo...
The fora employed at the UCI to address ethical dilemmas were implicit, involving decisions made through various structures without the guidance of personnel well-versed in medical or clinical ethics....
Uganda has made great strides in improving maternal and child health. However, little is known about how this improvement has been distributed across different socioeconomic categories, and how the he...
The indicators studied are acknowledged as critical for monitoring and evaluating maternal and child health status. These include infant and child mortality, underweight status, stunting, and prevalen...
The study found extraordinary, universal improvement in population averages in most of the indices, ranging from the poorest to the wealthiest groups, between rural and urban areas. However, significa...
Increased use of health services among the poor and rural populations leads to improved health status and, as a result, the elimination of disparities between the poor and the wealthy, rural and urban...
Intervention initiatives should prioritize the impoverished and rural communities while also considering the wealthier and urban groups....
The clinical features and outcomes of tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 coinfection are not well established. This short report describes 11 people with TB/COVID-19 coinfection in Uganda. The mean age wa...
We used qualitative and quantitative data to evaluate the differing experiences of adolescents and adult women in the contraceptive self-injection program in primary care settings in Uganda. From thes...
The Self-Injection Best Practices (2017-2019) project in four districts trained clinic-based providers and Village Health Teams to provide self-injection training in clinics, community settings, and s...
The study found no significant difference in self-injection proficiency or continuation between adolescents and adult women; 86.1% of adolescents self-injected independently when due for reinjection. ...
Self-injection is a promising method of contraception for adolescents in Uganda, given comparable proficiency and continuation relative to adult women. Policies and programs should ensure rights-based...
Scale up of proven malaria control interventions has not been sufficient to control malaria in Uganda, emphasizing the need to explore innovative new approaches. Improved housing is one such promising...
Between October and November 2021, a household survey was conducted in 1500 randomly selected households in Jinja and Luuka districts. Information on demographics, housing characteristics, use of mala...
Most (65.5%) of the households surveyed lived in traditional houses. Most of the houses had closed eaves (85.5%), however, the use of other protective features like window/vent screens and installed c...
The study found that even after adjusting for wealth, higher quality housing had a moderate protective effect against malaria, on top of the protection already afforded by recently distributed nets....
Timely communication from Research Ethics Committees (REC) to researchers is essential to meet deadlines. We conducted a capacity building program for REC members, REC and research administrators, and...
Azolla is an important aquatic fern whose agronomic potential has not been fully exploited in Uganda. This study aimed at determining the genetic variation in the Azolla species existing in Uganda and...
Four species of Azolla were identified in Uganda with 100, 93.36, 99.22 and 99.39% sequence identities to the reference database sequences of; Azolla mexicana, Azolla microphylla, Azolla filiculoides ...
Massive destruction coupled with prolonged disturbance of Azolla's habitat negatively affected its growth, survival and distribution in the country. Therefore, there is a need to develop standard meth...
To determine the feasibility of adapting Family Integrated Care to a neonatal hospital unit in a low-income country....
Single-centre, pre/post-pilot study of an adapted Family Integrated Care programme in Uganda (UFICare)....
Special Care Nursery at a Ugandan hospital....
Singleton, inborn neonates with birth weight ≥2 kg....
As part of UFICare, mothers weighed their infant daily, assessed for severe illness ('danger signs') twice daily and tracked feeds....
Feasibility outcomes included maternal proficiency and completion of monitoring tasks. Secondary outcomes included maternal stress, discharge readiness and post-discharge healthcare seeking....
Fifty-three mother-infant dyads and 51 mother-infant dyads were included in the baseline and intervention groups, respectively. Most mothers were proficient in the tasks 2-4 days after training (weigh...
Ugandan mothers can collaborate in the medical care of their hospitalised infant. By performing tasks identified as important for infant care, mothers felt more prepared to care for their infant at di...
Drowning is a serious worldwide and preventable injury problem, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The aim of this paper is to draw on the results of semi-structured interviews wi...
The findings presented in this study were based on data collected from study participants selected through purposive sampling comprising 324 individual face-to-face interviews with drowning witnesses,...
The study results reveal a range of circumstances under which drowning occurs in Uganda, poor record keeping of drowning incidents, fear of reporting drowning incidences to the authorities, challenges...
This study found that there is no specialized record keeping system for drowning cases in Uganda and where such records are kept, the system is entirely manual (in hard copy form) with no electronic s...
Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) lately referred to as inborn errors of immunity, are consequences of mutations that affect the immune integrity and function. Globally, severe PIDs are more common in...
It is now established that appropriate PID diagnosis leads to best treatment options for quality of life for the patients. However, there are still global disparities with these great milestones. PID ...
As awareness is a master key to appropriate PID diagnosis and management, there is a need to design multidisciplinary and sustainable strategies. Complete blood counts and immunoglobulin profile tests...
