Background Human Immune Deficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a growing epidemic among adolescents, especially in low and middle income countries including Uganda. Adolescents are now a ...

Introduction: Vertical HIV transmission continues to be a big challenge and the target of virtually eliminating it by the year 2015 was not achieved. Though considerable progress has been achieved via adoption of Option B ...

Introduction and Background: An estimated 35 million people were living with HIV worldwide in 2012. Almost 40% of the 6,800 new HIV infections each day are among adolescents. HIV counseling and testing remains low as only ...

ABSTRACT Scrotal filariasis is a devastating and disfiguring disease that is a major public health problem with socioeconomic impacts. It is a disease condition resulting from infestation with the mosquito borne parasitic ...

The study investigated the ways in which tapestry expression can be inspired by three selected bird species in Uganda. The researcher focussed on three species, namely: the egret (Bulucus ibis), the crested crane (Balearica ...

We consider an m-th order constant coefficient locally Fuchsian ordinary differential equation at the origin ( ( ) ( ) ( )) ( ) 0 0 0 0, 1 0 1 ∇ + 1 ∇ + + ∇ + = − r − r r y x m m m … where dx d x ∈ R, ∇ = x and prove ...

A cross sectional study on the viability of dairy farm enterprises was conducted in Ntungamo district. A total of 174 farmers whose dairy enterprises had existed for at least one year, were interviewed by use of a ...

Mothers play a crucial role in caring for the neonates especially during the first weeks of life since it is the time of adaptation to the new environment. Since most of the deaths occur during this period it is important ...