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Factor Influencing the Health of Street Children in Kampala.
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Factors Affecting Access and Utilisation of PMTCT Services Among Antenatal Mothers in Referral Health Units in Mbale District
(International Health Sciences University, 2011-09)PMTCT was defined as prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV a program meant to prevent MTCT of HIV from HIV infected antenatal mothers to their unborn babies and infants either during pregnancy, labour and ... -
Factors Affecting Adherence to Anti-retroviral Therapy Among Adolescents (In or Out of School) Attending Nsambya Home Care and TASO Mulago Health Facilities.
(International Health Sciences University, 2012-09)Objective Whereas free ARVs are accessible to majority of HIV infected patients; adherence to ART is still a major challenge in public health especially among adolescents. Poor adherence can lead to increased viral load, ... -
Factors Associated With Adherence to First Line Antiretroviral Therapy Among Adults in Kalungu Uganda :
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Background Adherence is defined as taking medications correctly according to prescription. Poor adherence to ART has become a problemleading to poor viral suppression. Poor viral suppression is a major cause of treatment ... -
Factors Associated with Adherence to First Line Antiretroviral Therapy Among Adults in Kalungu Uganda:
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Introduction/background: Adherence is defined as taking medications correctly according to prescription. Poor adherence to ART has become a problem leading to poor viral suppression. Poor viral suppression is a major cause ... -
Factors Associated with Domestic Violence Among the 50 Years and Above Living with HIV-AIDS:
(International Health Sciences University, 2013-09)Domestic violence cuts cross all age groups and globally, between 10% and 69% of women report of having been physically assaulted by their sexual partner at least once in their life. Furthermore, between 6% and 47% of adult ... -
Factors Associated with HIV Infection Among Married People Attending Aids Information Centre Clinics in Kampala, Kalangala, Mukono and Wakiso Districts
(International Health Sciences University, 2011-09)Introduction; HIV/AIDS is still an over whelming health burden worldwide and worse so in Sub-Saharan Africa. Globally, 33.4 million people were estimated to be living with HIV and 22.4 million were in Sub-Saharan Africa ... -
Factors Associated with HIV- Related Risky Sexual Behaviour Among Ugandan Military Personnel.
(International Health Sciences University, 2014-11)Introduction and background: The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) epidemic has been fueled by poverty, multiple concurrent sexual partners, lack of adequate HIV knowledge, and unsafe sexual practices among others. Military ... -
Factors Associated with Low Back Pain Among Health care workers in Kibuli Muslim Hospital Kampala, Uganda.
(International Health Sciences University., 2015-12)Background: Low back pain has turn out to be an important public health issue as it has high prevalence rates in many countries and also it costs implications. It was also reported by Brennan et al, (2007) that low back ... -
Factors Associated with Non Adherence to Diabetic Treatment:
(International Health Sciences University, 2013-09)Introduction and Background. The study investigated the factors associated with non adherence to diabetic treatment basing on a case study of Jinja Regional Referral Hospital. 347 million people have diabetes all over the ... -
Factors Associated with the Street Children Phenomenon in Ngozi District, Northern Burundi
(International Health Sciences University., 2016-11)This study was about the „Factors associated with the street children phenomenon in Ngozi District, Northern Burundi.‟ It was guided by three specific objectives that were set to identify the demographic factors associated ... -
Factors Associated With Unintended Pregnancy Among Hiv Positive Women On Anti Retroviral Therapy In Gulu District
(CIU, 2018)Introduction: Unintended pregnancy among HIV positive women remains a significant public health and in particular reproductive health concern. The health effects and drug interaction among the women on ART could have ... -
Factors Associated With Unintended Pregnancy Among HIV Positive Women On Anti-Retroviral Therapy In Gulu, District
(CIU, 2018-11)ABSTRACT Introduction: Unintended pregnancy among HIV positive women remains a significant public health and in particular reproductive health concern. The health effects and drug interaction among the women on ART could ... -
Factors Associated with Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening among Women in Dadamu Sub-County, Arua District
(International Health Sciences University., 2016-11)Background: Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for 8.2 million deaths in 2012. More than half of all cancers (56.8%) and cervical cancer deaths (64.9%) occurred in low and middle income ... -
Factors Associated with viral non-suppression among Adolescents Living with HIV at Lira Regional Referral Hospital (LRRH): A cross sectional analytical studyFactors Associated with viral non-suppression among Adolescents Living with HIV at Lira Regional Referral Hospital (LRRH):
(Clarke International University., 2022)Purpose : WHO defines viral load non-suppression as viral load ≥1000 copies/ml. Within a year of attaining the “90- 90-90” target, current records show that 53% of people living with HIV (PLWH) have viral non-suppression ... -
Factors Contributing to "boda-boda" Accidents in Mbuya Parish, Nakawa Division, Kampala Capital City Authority.
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Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality, the Neglected Tragedy in the Post - Conflict Transition:
(International Health Sciences University, 2012-09)Despite the significant effort in reducing maternal mortality by improving maternal health, the effective implementation of the reproductive health services remains a challenge in South Sudan. Thousands of women are dying ... -
Factors Influencing Adherence to Safe Sex Practices Among HIV Discordant Couples Visiting TASO Mulago Clinic kampala District, Uganda.
(International Health Sciences University., 2015-12)The HIV and AIDS Status report of 2005 has shown that there is a significant increase in percentage of the new HIV infection in discordant relationships, where 124,261 new infections were seen in 2009 and among which 88% ... -
Factors Influencing Adherence to Safe Sexual Practices Among HIV-Positive Adolescents Attending Selected Health Facilities in Jinja Town.
(International Health Sciences University, 2013-09)Background: Individuals under ART are advised to engage in safe sexual practices because the purpose of ART is to control HIV, not only in terms of treatment but also of the infection rate. Failure to adhere to safe ... -
Factors Influencing Adherence to Safety and Preventive Measures Among Workers in Rice Factories:
(International Health Sciences University., 2014-11)Introduction/Background: Occupation safety and health risk factors vary depending on the specific industry and kind of sector. Statistics for Uganda alone on occupational safety and health cannot be easily established due ...