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Women's experiences in the transition from the movement system to multiparty system of governance
No full textby Jacqueline Asiimwe-MwesigeElectronic ed.: Kampala : FES, ca. 2006 ; Bonn : FES Library, 2008. - Title only available onlin
Replication Data for: Establishing common bean traits preferred by consumers in Uganda
No full textThis dataset was collected in Uganda between November 2020 and February 2021. We collected data from over 1000 households across the major common bean-producing areas in Uganda. A discrete choice experiment approach was employed to elicit the preferences of common bean traits including cooking time and other attributes including grain swelling, taste, grain colour, climate resilience, and yield attributes of common beans. The data has been used to write and publish an article titled "Customer preference and demand for reduced cooking time and other traits in Ugandan bean markets: A choice experiment approach". The same data will be used to write and publish an article about perceptions of different common bean attributes and the role of gender in shaping these perceptions.
We attach coded data in Stata format and the programmed xlsx file that was used to collect the data using the surveyCTO platform
The role of health facilities in promoting male partner support in elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Mbale District
No full textA dissertation submitted to the Directorate of Research and Graduate Training in partial fulfillment of the award of Masters degree in Social Sector Planning & Management of Makerere UniversityInvolving men in Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission (EMTCT) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is now part of national and international policy guidelines. However, there is limited documentation of what constitutes the role of health facilities. The purpose of the study examine how the health delivery systems, health service providers, health infrastructure and resource utilization both financial and logistical influence male partner support in EMTCT of HIV.
A descriptive and analytical research design using qualitative approach was carried out among respondents in 9 Health Centre levels III and IV. The study population comprised of; health service providers, Health Centre in-charges, key informantsand men as secondary respondents. Data was collected using unstructured in-depth interviews, semi-structured with observation checklist. The study involved a sample of 36 health service provider respondents, 7 KIs, and 3 Focus group Discussions (FGDs) that were selected using purposive and convenience sampling methods respectively.Thematic and content analysis was adopted to categorize the qualitative data and to establish patterns along the study objectives.
From the findings, it is evident that health delivery systems are not ready for male partner support at HealthCenters. This is reflected by; understaffing which leads to workload, lack of funds to carry out EMTCT activities. More still there are no specific activities designed to directly involve men in EMTCT. Health workers also lack necessary and required skills and trainings in handling men. As a result, they are unable to educate and tactfully mobilize men to appreciate the initiative. Inadequate infrastructural facilities evidenced in aspects like; lack of adequate space and buildings with designated and equipped rooms for EMTCT. If men were to turn up in large numbers as expected with their expectant spouses, thehealth units would be heavily overwhelmed, and at a loss of what to do with them.Ante-natal care (ANC) points are still largely designed for women.
Government and other policy implementers should increase funding, improve the infrastructure and logistics at health units.In addition, arrangements should be made to train health workers in aspects of male partner support.The key lesson / conclusion from this study is that it is not enough to place focus on male partners, an implicit way of placing blame on clients for any failures of a program. Equal, if not more attention should instead be targeted towards the supply side of EMTCT services to make the services attractive to the male partners
Asiimwe Ivan Diaz's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
Asiimwe Ivan Diaz's Quick Files
No full textThe Quick Files feature was discontinued and it’s files were migrated into this Project on March 11, 2022. The file URL’s will still resolve properly, and the Quick Files logs are available in the Project’s Recent Activity
Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex from Kampala, Uganda
No full textUganda is one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Sub-Saharan Africa, ranked 16th among the 22 high-burden countries in the world. Poor peri-urban areas of developing countries with inadequate living conditions and a high prevalence of HIV infection have been implicated most in the increase of TB. Different species, strain families and lineages of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) are now known to have differences in virulence, clinical presentation as well as transmission potential. This study determined the predominant species as well as strain lineages that cause TB in Rubaga division, Kampala; analyzed TB transmission in HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative TB patients and the prevalence of resistance to key anti-tuberculosis drugs. Furthermore, the study characterized cattle-derived isolates of M. bovis from slaughter-cattle at a peri-urban city abattoir so as to set up a database of M. bovis strains for comparison with infections in humans in future studies.To achieve this, 386 consecutive newly presenting sputum smear positive patients resident in and attending TB clinics in Rubaga division were enrolled. Infecting species for 344 cultures were determined by a solely PCR-based typing panel that determined presence or absence of regions of difference (RDs) in the MTC; strain types and families were determined by spoligotyping, and dynamics of TB spread in HIV co-infected vis-à-vis HIV-seronegative TB patients by standard IS6110-RFLP fingerprinting methodology. All but one of the 344 isolates in the study were M. tuberculosis, the other being M. bovis. Spoligotyping revealed predominance of the T2 family, which was in turn predominated by a previously described Uganda genotype group of strains. Further characterization of 139 Uganda genotype strains revealed an internal deletion in the RD724 locus, a polymorphism that defines one of the major sub-lineages of M. tuberculosis commonly seen in the central African human host population. Resistance to isoniazid was found in 8.1% of 344 strains, while all 15 (4.4%) strains resistant to rifampicin were also multi-drug resistant.IS6110-RFLP analysis of isolates from 80 HIV-seropositive and 103 HIV-seronegative patients revealed no difference in the level of diversity of DNA fingerprints observed in the two sero-groups (P = 0.615), patients aged The study has shown that M. tuberculosis is the predominate species of the MTC in Kampala, and the spoligotype-specific and RD724-deleted Uganda genotype the predominant strain type. The TB epidemic in Kampala is localized, mainly caused by the closely knit T2 spoligotype family of strains, and strain types common in neighboring countries were minimal. Additionally, strain types were neither associated with drug resistance, nor HIV sero-status. The study further showed evidence of a high rate of recent transmission of TB in Rubaga with a high average cluster size, but infection with an isolate with a fingerprint found to be part of a cluster was not associated with any demographic or clinical characteristic, including HIV sero-status.List of scientific papersI. Asiimwe BB, Ghebremichael S, Kallenius G, Koivula T, Joloba ML (2008). Mycobacterium tuberculosis spoligotypes and drug susceptibility pattern of isolates from tuberculosis patients in peri-urban Kampala, Uganda. BMC Infect Dis. 8: 101. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18662405 II. Asiimwe BB, Koivula T, Källenius G, Huard RC, Ghebremichael S, Asiimwe J, Joloba ML (2008). Mycobacterium tuberculosis Uganda genotype is the predominant cause of TB in Kampala, Uganda. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 12(4): 386-91. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18371263 III. Asiimwe BB, Joloba ML, Ghebremichael S, Koivula T, Kateete DP, Katabazi FA, Pennhag A, Petersson R, Källenius G (2008). DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative patients in Kampala, Uganda. [Submitted]IV. Asiimwe BB, Asiimwe J, Källenius G, Ashaba FK, Ghebremichael S, Joloba ML, Koivula T (2008). Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium bovis isolates from cattle carcasses at a city slaughterhouse in Uganda. The Veterinary Record. [Accepted] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19465755 </p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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