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Essential approaches to Christian religious education: Learning and teaching
Get PDFThis paper presents the essential approaches of teaching and learning Christian Religious EducationSince the 19th century, Christian religious education as it is known today has been part of the Ugandan panorama. It began in Uganda with the arrival of the Anglican and Catholic missionaries in 1877 and 1879 respectively. The missionaries emphasized that education should be regulated by the church. Reading Centers, which eventually were transformed into formal schools, were established in every place where a mission station was opened. The expansion of mission schools in Uganda was quite dramatic, and both Church Missionary Society (CMS) and Roman Catholic missionaries were at the center stage of this development. Although the missionaries were against the establishment of a Christian state in Uganda, they wanted Uganda to be a Christian nation
The Church as an Assembly on Mt. Zion: An Ecclesiology from Hebrews for African Christianity
No full textThis is chapter classifies ecclesiological studies, against African ecclesiological scholarship. This survey shows that, relative to ecclesiological studies elsewhere, there is a paucity of literature on ecclesiology within African scholarship.In this paper I classify ecclesiological studies, against which I briefly survey African ecclesiological scholarship. From this survey I show that, relative to ecclesiological studies elsewhere, there is a paucity of literature on ecclesiology within African scholarship. I argue that this paucity puts African Christianity at a disadvantage in the quest of African Christians to be simultaneously African and biblical, thereby embodying an African biblical Christianity. In an effort, therefore, to contribute to African ecclesiological scholarship, I offer a conceptual ecclesiology drawn from Hebrews in which the church is understood as a community approaching God, in Christ, in his heavenly dwelling (the heavenly Mt. Zion) to offer him, through the same Christ, prayers and immaterial sacrifices, and to live in obedience to him en route to partaking in the coming fullness of his presence and kingdom. This fullness will result in the realization of God’s purposes for creating the world.
I wish to propose from Hebrews a biblical theological ecclesiology that is at home in African Christianity. But since the subject of ecclesiology is vast I will begin my paper by classifying academic discourse on ecclesiology, and within that classification give an overview of ecclesiological studies in Africa. This overview will support the view that, although all types of ecclesiological study are found in Africa, more ecclesiological studies from Africa are needed, especially in the area of conceptual ecclesiologies, if the quest for an authentic but biblical African Christianity is to be achieved
Uganda Christian University’s collaboration with Story Weaver
Get PDFThis is a comprehensive data report from the Local Languages published stories in Story Weaver in Collaboration with Uganda Christian University.Uganda Christian University (UCU) aims to supplement early literacy initiatives by making quality multilingual children stories freely available to the local communities with this collaboration. Using Story Weaver’s repository of open source content, the students of the of the creative writing course at UCU in particular, and the students and staff in the Faculty of Education and Arts in general, will create, translate and publish the final reviewed stories on the Story Weaver with an aim to increase the corpus of children’s stories across multiple
Ugandan languages. The stories will be reviewed by respective native language users within the UCU community. This is a part of the UCU Community Service Project: ‘Creative Writing,
Translation and Publishing for Children’ in the Department of Languages and Literature. The project also seeks to print these stories and make them accessible to all children of the local communities in Uganda through the UCU campuses and colleges
Correlates of HIV status awareness among older adults in Uganda: results from a nationally representative survey
Get PDFThis paper is based on secondary analysis of existing data on persons aged between 45 and 59 years from a nationally representative Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey which was conducted between February and September 2011.Background
Recent evidence suggests that HIV prevalence is generally higher among older than younger persons. However, few studies have explored issues regarding HIV testing and awareness of HIV status among older persons. We explored the correlates of HIV status awareness among older adults (aged 45+ years) in Uganda.
Methods
This paper is based on secondary analysis of existing data on persons aged between 45 and 59 years from a nationally representative Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey which was conducted between February and September 2011. Records on the socio-demographics and HIV/AIDS-specific indicators for 2472 persons were extracted for analysis. Individuals were considered to be aware of their HIV status if they reported that they had tested and received their HIV test results within the past 12 months. Data analyses were done using the sample survey procedures to take into account the sampling structure of the data. Odds ratios were used to quantify the associations between receipt of HIV test results and potential factors.
Results
Of the 2472 respondents, 48% had ever tested and received their HIV test results while 23% tested and received their HIV results in the past 12 months or already knew that they are HIV positive. Individuals with the following characteristics had higher odds of being aware of their HIV status: being female (adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) = 1.26; 95% CI: (1.04, 1.53), having high comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS (AOR = 1.28; 95% CI: 1.04, 1.58), having attended secondary school education (AOR = 2.10; 95% CI: 1.47, 2.99) and engagement in high risk sexual behaviors (AOR = 1.53; 95% CI: (1.11, 2.10). A high level of stigma (holding at least three stigmatizing attitudes toward people living with HIV) was negatively correlated with awareness of HIV status (AOR=0.60; 95% CI: (0.45, 0.78).
Conclusion
Less than a quarter of older Ugandans are aware of their current HIV status. High levels of stigma and low comprehensive knowledge of HIV/AIDS remained critical barriers to HIV testing and awareness of HIV status. These findings suggest a need for innovative HIV testing strategies to increase HIV status awareness among older adults in Uganda
Empowering Women through Self Help Saving Groups to Improve on their Household Income.
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Needs and Barriers of Teen Mothers in Rural Eastern Uganda: stakeholders’ perceptions regarding maternal/child nutrition and health
Get PDFThis article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).For adolescent mothers in rural Eastern Uganda, nutrition and health may be compromised
by many factors. Identifying individual and environmental needs and barriers at local levels is
important to inform community-based interventions. This qualitative study used interviews based
on constructs from social cognitive theory. 101 adolescent mothers, family members, health-related
personnel and community workers in Budondo sub-county (Jinja district), eastern Uganda were
interviewed. Young mothers had needs, related to going back to school, home-based small
businesses; social needs, care support and belonging to their families, employment, shelter, clothing,
personal land and animals, medical care and delivery materials. Barriers to meeting their needs
included: lack of skills in income generation and food preparation, harsh treatment, pregnancy
and childcare costs, lack of academic qualifications, lack of adequate shelter and land, lack of
foods to make complementary feeds for infants, insufficient access to medicines, tailored health
care and appropriate communications. Using the social cognitive framework, this study identified
myriad needs of young mothers and barriers to improving maternal/child nutrition and health.
Adolescent-mother-and-child-friendly environments are needed at local levels while continuing to
reduce broader socio-cultural and economic barriers to health equity. Findings may help direct future
interventions for improved adolescent maternal/child nutrition and health
Measles outbreak propagated by children congregating at water collection points in Mayuge District, eastern Uganda, July–October, 2016
Get PDFThe research article is about investigation of measles outbreak to determine its scope, identify risk factors for transmission, evaluate vaccination coverage and vaccine effectiveness, and recommend evidence-based control measures.Background
On 12 October, 2016 a measles outbreak was reported in Mayuge District, eastern Uganda. We investigated the outbreak to determine its scope, identify risk factors for transmission, evaluate vaccination coverage and vaccine effectiveness, and recommend evidence-based control measures.
Methods
We defined a probable case as onset of fever (≥3 days) and generalized rash, plus ≥1 of the following: conjunctivitis, cough, and/or runny nose in a Mayuge District resident. A confirmed case was a probable case with measles-specific IgM (+) not explained by vaccination. We reviewed medical records and conducted active community case-finding. In a case-control investigation involving probable case-persons and controls matched by age and village, we evaluated risk factors for transmission for both cases and controls during the case-person’s likely exposure period (i.e., 7–21 days prior to rash onset). We estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) using the formula: VE ≈ (1-ORprotective) × 100. We calculated vaccination coverage using the percentage of controls vaccinated.
Results
We identified 62 probable case-persons (attack rate [AR] = 4.0/10,000), including 3 confirmed. Of all age groups, children < 5 years were the most affected (AR = 14/10,000). The epidemic curve showed a propagated outbreak. Thirty-two percent (13/41) of case-persons and 13% (21/161) of control-persons visited water-collection sites (by themselves or with parents) during the case-persons’ likely exposure period (ORM-H = 5.0; 95% CI = 1.5–17). Among children aged 9–59 months, the effectiveness of the single-dose measles vaccine was 75% (95% CI = 25–92); vaccination coverage was 68% (95% CI = 61–76).
Conclusions
Low vaccine effectiveness, inadequate vaccination coverage and congregation at water collection points facilitated measles transmission in this outbreak. We recommended increasing measles vaccination coverage and restriction of children with signs and symptoms of measles from accessing public gatherings
Positioning Library and Information Services to Achieve Sustainable Development: Innovations and Partnerships.
Get PDFGulere, Cornelius Wambi. Positioning Library and Information Services to Achieve Sustainable Development: Innovations and Partnerships. April, 2018 Broadening LIS partnerships to Achieve SDGsAs Library Information Services providers we have the obligation to innovate, renovate and activate new and old partnerships. You have to reach out to individuals, communities, nations and corporations in the global village to harness their knowledge and information for the common good
The story of Advocacy for Better Health
Get PDFSave The Mother Conference and Reunion Presentations, 2018United States Agency International Development (USAID), Advocacy for Better Health (abh), PAT