Browsing by Author "Nakaggwa, Florence"

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    • Agony resulting from cultural practices of canine bud extraction among children under five years in selected slums of Makindye: 

      Atim, Fiona; Nagaddya, Teddy; Nakaggwa, Florence; Mboowa, Mary Gorrethy N; Kirabira, Peter; Okiria, John Charles (BMC Oral health, 2018)
      Background: Canine Bud Extraction (CBE) is a process of removing or gouging children’s healthy canine tooth buds embedded underneath the gum using traditional unsterilized tools. The practice of CBE commonly known as false ...

    • Circumstances of child deaths in Mali and Uganda: 

      Willcox, Merlin L; Kumbakumba, Elias; Diallo, Drissa; Mubangizi, Vincent; Kirabira, Peter; Nakaggwa, Florence; Mutahunga, Birungi; Diakité, Chiaka; Dembélé, Eugene; Traoré, Mamadou; Daou, Pierre; Bamba, Drissa; Traoré, Amadou; Berthé, Diafara; Wooding, Nick; Dinwoodie, Kieran; Capewell, Sarah; Foster, Hamish; Rowena, Neville; Ngonzi, Joseph; Kabakyenga, Jerome; Mant, David; Harnden, Anthony (Elsevier Ltd, 2018-06)
      Background Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved, causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a community enquiry into the circumstances of death could ...

    • Couples’ decision-making on post-partum family planning and antenatal counselling in Uganda: A qualitative study 

      Willcox, Merlin L.; Mubangizi, Vincent; Natukunda, Silvia; Owokuhaisa, Judith; Nahabwe, Haeven; Nakaggwa, Florence; Laughton, Matthew; Chambers, Isabella; Coates, Sabine; King, Emma; Fall, Emma; Muller, Ingrid; Goodhart, Clare; Graffy, Jonathan (Plos One, 2021-05-05)
      Background Although health workers have been trained to provide post-partum family planning (PPFP), uptake remains low in Uganda. An important reason is that women want the agreement of their partner, who is often absent ...

    • A Cross Sectional Study of the Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Utilization of Modern Contraception Among Women and Men of Namuwongo. 

      Nakaggwa, Florence (International Health Sciences University, 2011-09)
      The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) estimates that the world´s population will be 8 billion in 2050. This increase is attributed to the high population growth rate which is influenced by the world´s total fertility ...