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Availability of child-friendly medicines and child caretaker knowledge on administering them among children below 5 years at lower public health facilities under Kampala Capital City Authority
(Makerere University, 2014-11)
Introduction
In 2011, an estimated 7.6 million children under the age of 5 years died globally (Lozano et al.,2011). In Uganda, 32% of childhood mortality is due to malaria (MoH, 2010) and another 17–26% attributed to ...
Health workers’ compliance to treatment guidelines for uncomplicated malaria under the artemether-lumefantrine drug policy in Hoima District.
(Makerere University, 2013-03)
Introduction: In June 2004, the Uganda Ministry of Health changed the antimalarial drug policy from chloroquine and fansidar to a fixed combination of artemether-lumefantrine. Consequently, new case management guidelines ...
Assessing the disparity between health workers’ salaries and expenditures, and coping mechanisms adopted in hard to reach health facilities: A case of Kanungu District
(Makerere University, 2016)
Background:
Globally, studies have shown that HWs suffer from low wages and poor working conditions, and therefore dissatisfied with their jobs. In Uganda, it is common for HWs to go unpaid for up to three months, and ...