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Uganda: UHMG Pushes for Smaller Families
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:09:05 +0100 | AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth
[EA Business] In a bid to mitigate this problem, Uganda Health Marketing Group (UHMG) in partnership with USAID last week launched a three day campaign -"Genext" to educate and "breed" a generation of young men and women to have small manageable families. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)

Earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy, increased tuberculosis case finding and reduced mortality in a setting of improved HIV care: a retrospective cohort study
Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 | HIV Medicine
ConclusionsBaseline CD4 cell counts have increased over time and are associated with decreased mortality. Additional reductions in mortality might be a result of a better standard of care and increased TB case finding. Further efforts to initiate ART earlier should be prioritized even in a setting of capped or reduced funding for ART programmes. (Source: HIV Medicine)

Uganda: How Abortion Happens Despite Law
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:34:18 +0100 | AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth
[RNW Africa] Mbale - In Uganda, it's a criminal offence for any woman to abort a pregnancy or for any person to assist in abortions. Still, illegal abortion is a widespread practice, which sometimes leads to maternal death. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)

Uganda: The Ongoing Perils of Child Birth
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:48:54 +0100 | AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth
[Independent] Fertility rates in Rwanda have been falling steadily over the past several years, but this year close to 400,000 Rwandan women will become pregnant and give birth. Next door in Uganda, four times as many women will become pregnant, approximately 1.5 million. If recent trends hold, nearly 10,000 of these women will lose their lives during or shortly after their pregnancy. Many of them will suffer from bleeding and infections that can be treated or prevented. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)

Into and out of Africa – taking over from Denis Burkitt
Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:00:00 +0100 | British Journal of Haematology
SummaryDenis Burkitt's description of the eponymous lymphoma in 1958 in Uganda, opened up a vast and important field of enquiry in haematology and oncology. His pioneering experiments with chemotherapy demonstrated the possibility of cure, often with a single dose. His geographical explorations showed the tumour to be delimited by climate, suggesting an infectious cause vectored by mosquitoes. His clinical observations furthered the field of cancer immunotherapy. And his collegial, inquisitive nature facilitated the development of an enduring cancer research centre in Kampala. Burkitt's legacy in Uganda has wide‐reaching effects that endure not only in Uganda but also throughout the haematology‐oncology community to this day. (Source: British Journal of Haematology)

Childhood and adolescent injuries in elementary schools in north-western Uganda: extent, risk and associated factors. - Mutto M, Lawoko S, Ovuga E, Svanström L.
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:32:08 +0100 | SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated)
The objective of this study was to determine the extent, nature and determinants of school-related childhood injury risk in north-western Uganda. A cohort of 1000 grade fives from 13 elementary schools was ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Uganda: Rwanda to Invest in Quality Chemicals
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:00:49 +0100 | AllAfrica News: Malaria
[Monitor] Rwanda's President, Paul Kagame, has said that this government will consider investing in a joint project with local drug manufacturer Quality Chemicals to set up a plant to process anti-malarial drugs raw materials. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)

Uganda: Rwanda to Buy Natiion's Drugs
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:50:59 +0100 | AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine
New Vision (Kampala)-President Paul Kagame has pledged that his Rwandan Government will soon start buying some of its antiretroviral and anti-malarial drugs from Quality Chemicals in Uganda. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Switch to lopinavir/ritonavir cost effective in Uganda and Kenya
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:13:30 +0100 | PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News
(Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News)