Introduction and background. Health related causes contribute significantly to school dropout and absenteeism. Sixty percent of school dropouts are due to sickness (MOE, 2003). This has resulted into low primary school ...

Introduction: HIV/AIDS is a global challenge which has been termed a development crisis as well as a health crisis. Risky sexual behavior in rural communities puts young adults into the risk of acquiring STIs/HIV. Hence, ...

Background: Neonatal septicaemia is a common problem, which is associated with a mortality rate of more than 50% in some countries. However, its prevalence, causative organisms, and their sensitivity patterns have been ...

Malaria is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in Uganda. It is associated with a wide range of complications including severe anaemia especially in children. Anaemia impairs motor and cognitive development in ...

INTRODUCTION: Hand injuries are common worldwide. They account for 10-15% of admissions in emergency departments in the developed world. In USA, 18 million hand injuries are seen every year. This is attributed to ...

Introduction: Road traffic injuries (RTls) are the leading cause of injury-related deaths worldwide. The number of people killed in road traffic crashes each year is estimated at 1.2 million, while the number injured is ...

Background: Few studies have examined cognitive functioning of HIV positive patients in sub-Saharan Africa. It cannot be assumed that HIV positive patients in Africa exhibit the same declines as patients in high-resource ...

INTRODUCTION: Burkitt lymohoma is a B-cell lymphoma presenting in three main clinical variants: the endemic, the sporadic and the immunodeficiency-associated variants. In Uganda, Burkitt’s lymphoma represents 50-70% of ...

Antenatal care is care that is given to a pregnant woman in order to attain best possible health outcome for her and her baby Antenatal health services help to detect and treat pregnancy related complications which if ...

INTRODUCTION: Mental illness is a global health burden that remains poorly understood even by health care providers. It is important that all health care workers and stakeholders know about psychiatric disorders in terms ...