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2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 46-57
Globally, around 269 million people used drugs worldwide in 2018, which was 30% more thanin 2009, while over 35 million people suffer from drug use disorders according to the latestworld drug report. In Uganda, a great percentage of the population had ever us...
2023 | IAA Journal of Scientific Research | Pp. 1-15
The study determined factors associated with alcohol use disorder among medical studentsat Kampala International University-Western Campus, Ishaka, Bushenyi District. The studyemployed a quantitative cross-sectional survey, where questionnaires were administe...
2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 60-69
Worldwide it is approximated that 536,000 mothers die from complications related to pregnancy and child births,with over 99% of which occur in Africa and Asia. Moreover, Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause ofmaternal mortality. However, few studies...
2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 19-29
About 14% of the global burden of disease is attributable to mental disorders and are projected to reach 15% by theyear 2020.Relapse has been one of the most important problems in the field of psychiatry for the last decades. Thestudy adopted a cross-sectiona...
2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 37-46
The study was done to assess the factors contributing to low birth weights among neonates born at JRRH. Afacility based retrospective descriptive cross-sectional study will be conducted at JRRH from October 2019 toJanuary 2020 among women delivering neonates...
2023 | INOSR APPLIED SCIENCES | Pp. 74-84
Malaria is an acute and chronic illness characterized by paroxysms of fever, chills, sweats,fatigue, anaemia, and splenomegaly and is caused by parasite protozoan of the genusPlasmodium. Malaria remains one of the most severe public health problems globally....
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES | Pp. 1-10
HIV/AIDS is a major concern in all countries and all races of the world and it is a bigger problem in developingcountries and especially in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Uganda. The prevalence of HIV among adults aged 15 to 64in Uganda was 6.2% according to Ugand...
2023 | NEWPORT INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES | Pp. 62-70
HIV serodiscordant refers to a situation where in a pair of long-term sexual partners, one is HIV positive andthe other is HIV negative. There is an increased risk of HIV transmission to the HIV-negative partner indiscordant couples which makes HIV sero- disc...
2023 | EURASIAN EXPERIMENT JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Pp. 83-89
Globally, anemia was estimated to affect about one-quarter of the entire population. Children below 5 years of agehave the highest estimated prevalence of anemia, with reports of 42% – 47% being affected in Africa. Despite variousinterventions by the Ugandan...
2023 | IAA Journal of Scientific Research | Pp. 36-45
Scabies is a neglected tropical parasitic disease caused by sarcoptes scabiei, and is still amajor public health problem worldwide, particularly in resource-limited regions. This workaims to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of scabies among i...