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Jan 13, 2025 | 
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Makerere College
This was a mixed methods explanatory sequential design [15], where we used retrospective cohort study research design to collect and analyse quantitative data on the social demographic characteristics and follow up outcomes of FSWs initiated on PrEP first and later collected qualitative data to contextualise findings of the quantitative data.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com | Makerere College |Johns Hopkins
Here we present a secondary analysis of data collected during the Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) cohort study. The CHAIN study enrolled children 2 to 23 months old at the time of admission to hospital for any acute illness (excluding trauma, poisoning, and complications of congenital defects), at nine sites across sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia, between November 2016 and January 2019 [22].
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Jul 1, 2024 | 
bmccancer.biomedcentral.com | Makerere College
Fifteen districts (five districts from each region) were included in the study, providing a total study population (denominator) of 5,348,308 people. The majority of the study population and registered cancer cases were from Central region, followed by Western region and Eastern region respectively (see Table 1).
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May 20, 2024 | 
link.springer.com | Makerere College
AbstractAdolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa face a disproportionately higher HIV/AIDS burden despite the global decline in incidence. Existing interventions often fail to adequately address their unique social, economic, and cultural challenges, limiting access to essential HIV/AIDS services, including HIV testing.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com | Anna Maria |Makerere College
Quantitative data from 434 respondents was analyzed and the median age of participants was 33 (IQR: 25–50) years. More than half of them were females; 246(56.7%), and the majority lived in urban areas; 279 (64.3%). Only 119(27.4%) of the individuals were considered knowledgeable about Hepatitis B(HepB). A little over half of the individuals believed they were at risk of getting Hepatitis B; 233(53%), and most knew about the mass vaccination campaign; 326 (75.1%).
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Chandy C John |Ruth Namazzi |Makerere College |Jack Schneider
Azithromycin for Prevention of Mortality in African Children: More Data, More Questions Mass Azithromycin Distribution to Prevent Child Mortality Catherine E. Oldenburg, ScD; Mamadou Ouattara, MD; Mamadou Bountogo, MD; Valentin Boudo, MS; Thierry Ouedraogo, PhD; Guillaume Compaoré, MD; Clarisse Dah, MD; Alphonse Zakane, MS; Boubacar Coulibaly, PhD; Cheik Bagagnan, MS; Huiyu Hu, MSPH; Kieran S. O’Brien, PhD; Fanice Nyatigo, BS; Jeremy D.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
academic.oup.com | Makerere College
Malaria is an important cause of mortality in African children. Identification of biomarkers to identify children at risk of mortality has the potential to improve outcomes. We evaluated eleven biomarkers of host response in 592 children with severe malaria. The primary outcome was biomarker performance for predicting mortality. Biomarkers were evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis comparing the area under the ROC curve (AUROC).
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com | Makerere College
We conducted a cross sectional study for children born with LBW at the follow-up clinic at Mulago hospital, Kampala. Mulago hospital is also the training institution for Makerere University, College of Health Sciences. It serves mainly the urban and peri-urban population of Kampala the capital city and those referred from other facilities around the country.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com | Makerere College |Cape Town
A detailed description of the MVP cohort has been described elsewhere [24]. Briefly, the MVP cohort recruited fully consented participants from 63 Veteran American (VA) medical facilities. Out of the several phenotypes recorded, 280722 participants have eGFR analysis available. Of these, 57336 are individuals of African ancestry. Most participants with eGFR analysis are non-diabetics, with just ~ 33% being diabetics. The participants are further stratified into hypertensives and non-hypertensives.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
bmccancer.biomedcentral.com | Makerere College
A retrospective population study based on a “catchment population approach” was conducted in October 2018 –January 2019. A “catchment population approach” involves counting the number of newly diagnosed cases (based on routine clinical care and diagnosis) in all the health facilities serving a defined population [11]. Hence, this study registered all newly diagnosed cancer cases, in the period of 2013 to 2017, in Mbarara district.
