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Nakosere shiwukulu shanje.
Get PDFThis book narrates a story of a young child who plays all over in the house and outside it.This book narrates a story of a young child who plays all over in the house and outside it
HIV counseling and testing practices among clients presenting at a market HIV clinic in Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional study.
Get PDFThis study discusses the HIV counseling and testing practices among clients and Uptake of HIV counseling and testing (HCT) among informal sector workers is not well documented.Background: Uptake of HIV counseling and testing (HCT) among informal sector workers is not well documented.
Objective: To assess HCT practices among clients presenting for HIV services at a market HIV clinic in Kampala, Uganda.
Methods: Between August 1 and September 15, 2009, clients presenting for HIV services at a market HIV clinic were invited to participate in the study. Socio-demographic and HCT data were collected from consenting adults aged 16+ years. Descriptive statistics were performed using STATA version 14.1.
Results: Of 224 individuals who consented to the interview, n=139 62 % were market vendors while n=85 38 % were engaged in other market-related activities. Majority of the respondents, n=165, 73.7 %, had ever tested for HIV; of these, n=148,89.7 % had ever tested for 2+ times. The main reasons for repeat testing were the need to confirm previous HIV test results, n=126,
85.1% and the belief that the previous HIV test results were false, n=35, 23.6 %. Uptake of couples’ HCT was low, n=63, 38.2 %, despite the fact that n=200, 89 % had ever heard of couples’ HCT.
Conclusion: These findings indicate high rates of repeat testing but low rates of couples’ HCT uptake in this population
Uganda Christian University’s collaboration with Story Weaver
Get PDFThis is a comprehensive data report from the Twelve 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
Facilitators and Barriers to Linkage to HIV Care among Female Sex Workers Receiving HIV Testing Services at a Community-Based Organization in Periurban Uganda: A Qualitative Study
Get PDFThis article explored the facilitators and barriers to linkage to HIV care among FSWs receiving HIV testing services at a community-based organization in periurban Uganda.While four in ten female sex workers (FSWs) in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, only a small proportion is enrolled in HIV care. We explored facilitators and barriers to linkage to HIV care among FSWs receiving HIV testing services at a community-based organization in periurban Uganda. Methods. The cross-sectional qualitative study was conducted among 28 HIV positive FSWs from May to July 2014. Key informant interviews were conducted with five project staff and eleven peer educators. Data were collected on facilitators for and barriers to linkage to HIV care and manually analyzed following a thematic framework approach. Results. Facilitators for linkage to HIV care included the perceived good quality of health services with same day results and immediate initiation of treatment, community peer support systems, individual’s need to remain healthy, and having alternative sources of income. Linkage barriers included perceived stigma, fear to be seen at outreach HIV clinics, fear and myths about antiretroviral therapy, lack of time to attend clinic, and financial constraints. Conclusion. Linkage to HIV care among FSWs is influenced by good quality friendly services and peer support. HIV service delivery programs for FSWs should focus on enhancing these and dealing with barriers stemming from stigma and misinformation
Okuvugania Kwa Afirika Okweyimba
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Availability of human immunodeficiency virus prevention services in secondary schools in Kabarole District, Uganda
Get PDFThis study was to assess the level of availability of HIV prevention strategies in secondary schools in Kabarole district, Uganda in order to inform the design of interventions to strengthen HIV Prevention and psychosocial support.The aim of this study was to assess the level of availability of HIV prevention strategies in secondary schools in Kabarole district, Uganda in order to inform the design of interventions to strengthen HIV Prevention and psychosocial support. Quantitative and qualitative research methods were used in eight secondary schools in Kabarole district to establish available HIV prevention and psychosocial support services.
Questionnaires were administered to 355 students
12-24 years old. In addition, 20 Key
Informant interviews were held with education service providers. Quantitative data was analyzed using Epi-data and qualitative data were analyzed by thematic content analysis. Seven of the eight schools had at least one HIV prevention strategy. Two teachers in each of the five schools had been trained in HIV prevention. No school had a nurse trained in HIV prevention, care and support. Education service providers had limited knowledge of HIV prevention support and care of students living with HIV. We found out that students had knowledge on how one can acquire HIV. HIV prevention services reported by students in schools included: talks from teachers and guests (19%), drama with HIV prevention related messages (16%), peer education clubs (15%), workshops and seminars on HIV (8%), sensitization about HIV/AIDS (7%), guidance and counseling (6%), talking compounds-
(5%), abstinence talks (6%), keeping students busy in sports (4%), straight talk (4%). Sixty three percent reported receiving HIV reading materials from various sources. Preventing HIV infection among students in schools is still demanding with limited interventions for students.
Efforts to support school interventions should focus on including HIV Prevention in the school curriculum, working with peer educators as well as education service providers who spend much of the time with the students while at school
War-Related Abduction and History of Incarceration Linked to High Burden of HIV among Female Sex Workers in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda.
Get PDFThis study documented a high rate of undiagnosed HIV infections and associations between war-related human rights violations, incarceration, and a heavy HIV burden among SWs in conflict-affected Northern Uganda.Objective: Sex workers (SWs) in sub-Saharan Africa face a disproportionate HIV burden and growing concerns of severe human rights violations. Given the dearth of evidence on the burden and correlates of HIV among SWs in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly within conflict-affected settings, we examined the relationship between structural determinants (eg, war-related abduction, incarceration) and HIV infection among conflict-affected SWs in Northern Uganda.
Design: Cross-sectional community-based research study among female SWs in conflict-affected Gulu, Northern Uganda.
Results: Of 400 SWs, 135 (33.75%) were HIV seropositive; of whom one-third were new/previously undiagnosed HIV infections. In multivariable analysis, after adjusting for age of sex work entry and education, lifetime incarceration (adjusted odds ratio: 1.93, 95% confidence interval: 1.17 to −3.20) was independently associated with HIV seroprevalence, and history of wartime abduction (adjusted odds ratio: 1.62, 95% confidence interval: 1.00 to 2.63) was marginally associated (P = 0.051).
Conclusions:
This study documented a high rate of undiagnosed HIV infections and associations between war-related human rights violations, incarceration, and a heavy HIV burden among SWs in conflict-affected Northern Uganda. These findings highlight the serious harms of conflict and criminalization of marginalized women in sub-Saharan African contexts. SW-led interventions that address conflict experiences and policy shifts to promote a rights-based approach to HIV prevention and care remain critically needed
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