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Get PDFThis is a children's story book.This is a children's story narrating the love one of the man had for his own dog in his village
Lihaangilwe Lye Lwa Khasesaba Lutweela Lweesi Kumuumu Kwaaburukhila Naabi
Get PDFThis story book narrates if young children who would go for swimming everyday in the river near their homes.This story book narrates if young children who would go for swimming everyday in the river near their homes
Strengthening district-based health reporting through the district health management information software system: the Ugandan experience
Get PDFThe study documents Uganda’s experience in strengthening routine health data reporting through the roll-out of the District Health Management Information Software System version 2 (DHIS2).Background: Untimely, incomplete and inaccurate data are common challenges in planning, monitoring and evaluation of health sector performance, and health service delivery in many sub-Saharan African settings. We document Uganda’s experience in strengthening routine health data reporting through the roll-out of the District Health Management Information Software System version 2 (DHIS2).
Methods: DHIS2 was adopted at the national level in January 2011. The system was initially piloted in 4 districts, before it was rolled out to all the 112 districts by July 2012. As part of the roll-out process, 35 training workshops targeting 972 users were conducted throughout the country. Those trained included Records Assistants (168, 17.3%), District Health Officers (112, 11.5%), Health Management Information System Focal Persons (HMIS-FPs) (112, 11.5%), District Biostatisticians (107, 11%) and other health workers (473, 48.7%). To assess improvements in health reporting, we compared data on completeness and timeliness of outpatient and inpatient reporting for the period before (2011/12) and after (2012/13) the introduction of DHIS2. We reviewed data on the reporting of selected health service coverage indicators as a proxy for improved health reporting, and documented implementation challenges and lessons learned during the DHIS2 roll-out process.
Results: Completeness of outpatient reporting increased from 36.3% in 2011/12 to 85.3% in 2012/13 while timeliness of outpatient reporting increased from 22.4% to 77.6%. Similarly, completeness of inpatient reporting increased from 20.6% to 57.9% while timeliness of inpatient reporting increased from 22.5% to 75.6%. There was increased reporting on selected health coverage indicators (e.g. the reporting of one-year old children who were immunized with three doses of pentavelent vaccine increased from 57% in 2011/12 to 87% in 2012/13). Implementation challenges included limited access to computers and internet (34%), inadequate technical support (23%) and limited worker force (18%).
Conclusion: Implementation of DHIS2 resulted in improved timeliness and completeness in reporting of routine outpatient, inpatient and health service usage data from the district to the national level. Continued onsite support supervision and mentorship and additional system/infrastructure enhancements, including internet connectivity, are needed to further enhance the performance of DHIS2
Uwe Lukyesikyesi Ukhaanyalisa Khukhwiwonesa Umweene Ta
Get PDFThis is a story of a married couple who were worried in life because of the financial challenges they had.This is a story of a married couple who were worried in life because of the financial challenges they had
Namukwana (Lwembo Mu Lusoga)
Get PDFThe story is about a woman called Namukwana and her husband Ndooga who had six children & they were all girls. when the woman got pregnant she was promised a party if she gave birth to a baby boy or be divorced if it was a girl.The story is about a woman called Namukwana and her husband Ndooga who had six children & they were all girls. when the woman got pregnant she was promised a party if she gave birth to a baby boy or be divorced if it was a girl
Umukoosi Wasame Ni Umukoosi Wakurwe
Get PDFThis is a book narrating a story of insects which leave near the river banks.This is a book narrating a story of insects which leave near the river banks
Modelling of inter-stop minibus taxi movements: Using machine learning and network theory
Get PDFThis is a conference paper on Minibus taxis whether they can provide affordable alternative transport for the majority of the urban working population in Sub-Saharan Africa.Minibus taxis provide affordable alternative transport for the majority of urban working population in Sub-Saharan Africa. Often, these taxis do not follow predefined routes in their endeavours to look for passengers. Frequently, they stop by roadsides to pick up passengers and sometimes go off the main route in an attempt to fill the taxi with passengers to make the trip profitable. In addition, the destinations are changed from time to time depending on the driver. This uncoordinated movement creates a web of confusion to would-be passengers. The key aspects that are not clear to the passengers include; where to get a taxi, the waiting time and the travel time to the destination. These conditions leave taxi passengers at a very big disadvantage. In this research, we applied the concepts of machine learning and network theory to model the movements of taxis between stops. The model can be used to compute the waiting times at the stops and the travel times to a specified destination. Twelve minibus taxis were tracked for 6 months. Density-based clustering was used to discover the formal and informal taxi stops, which were modelled into a flow network with the significant stops as nodes and the frequency of departures between nodes as edges representing the strength of connectivity. A data driven model was developed. From the model, we can predict the time a passenger will have to wait at a stop in order to get a taxi and the trip duratio
Living with Obstetric Fistula: Perceived Causes, Challenges and Coping Strategies among Women Attending the Fistula Clinic at Mulago Hospital, Uganda
Get PDFThe study discuses the study to determine perceived causes, challenges and coping mechanisms of women living with obstetric fistula (OF) in Uganda.Aims: To determine perceived causes, challenges and coping mechanisms of women living with obstetric fistula (OF) in Uganda.
Study Design: Cross-sectional study.
Place and Duration of the Study: Mulago National Referral Hospital Uganda – January to July 2009.
Methodology: Thirty women with OF were interviewed on challenges, coping mechanisms and perceived causes of OF using semi-structured questionnaires. Two focus group discussions were held with 10 caretakers of the women with OF and key informant interviews with 10 health care providers.
Results: Majority of the women (21; 70%) were young (<25 years) had primary education (20; 67%) and had lived with OF for 2-9 years (20; 67%). The main perceived causes of OF were injury by surgeon (8; 27%), delivery of a big baby (7; 23%) and prolonged labor (4; 13%). Nearly all women with OF (27; 90%) reported that OF had detrimentally affected their health and well being; 26 women (87%) lost their children at birth or within the neonatal period. Families were affected by high cost of treatment (13; 43%); provision of basic items (10; 32%), and suffered stress (17; 55%). Women coped with OF by hiding from the general public (27; 90%), maintaining strict hygiene (25; 83%), ignoring people’s comments (23; 75%) or resorting to prayer (18; 57%).
Conclusion: Women with OF experienced physical, emotional and socio-economic challenges and coped with OF through non-effective social measures. There is need to strengthen strategies to prevent OF and enhance OF rehabilitation services for affected women and their families
Nseete Ayamba Kaghemba
Get PDFThis is a children's story book.This is a children's story narrated of a Termite insect which helped a bird called a Dove from danger of other insects
HIV/AIDS in Africa: Contradictions, Controversies, and Containment Now
Get PDFThis book chapter was published in the compendium 'Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries'Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach their development goals, their leaders must have a firm understanding of the impact of infectious diseases on their people and take prompt action to fix socioeconomic issues arising from the problems associated with poor health practices. Drawing on experiences from international health organizations such as the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), commissioned in poor countries to assist national governments in improving the wellbeing of their citizens, this volume analyzes maternal and child mortality and the spread of infectious diseases, and offers communication strategies for the management of malaria, HIV Aids, Polio, tuberculosis, and others in Somalia, Madagascar, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and India