Uganda and HIV
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- A handbook for those working in the community who supporting HIV prevention, care, support and treatment
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2009
- Uganda like many other developing countries, suffers from inequitable distribution of health workers between rural and urban areas and between public and private sectors. To strengthen the referral systems, people living with HIV have...
- Examples of small technology that have a big impact
- Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2009
- This publication, based on AED’s experience, shows examples of the practical application of small technology that have a big impact around the developing world. The authors argue that technology has dramatically changed the worl...
- Using mobile phone technology, millions of people could be reached with HIV prevention messages
- IRIN PlusNews, 2008
- As Uganda's HIV prevalence is rising again, policy makers are on the look for innovative ways of educating people about the virus. This article, published by PlusNews, reports on a pilot project in western Uganda aimed at communicatin...
- The potential of mobile phones in improving global health
- The Economist, 2009
- This special report on health care and technology, published by The Economist, describes how developing countries are using mobile phones to provides personalised medicine. Drawing from experiences of various countries, the authors de...
- Donors address HIV epidemic for women and girls
- K. Ashburn; N. Oomman; D. Wendt / Center for Global Development, USA, 2009
- In the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV and AIDS epidemic, it was estimated that about a third of all people infected worldwide were women. After just one decade this had risen to more than half and now today in sub-Saharan Africa, ...
- The impact of global health initiatives on equity in financing Uganda's health sector
- Charlotte M Zikusooka; Mark Tumwine; Patrick Tutembe / EQUINET: Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa, 2009
- Global health initiatives (GHIs) are an emerging and global trend in health that focus on partnerships. The introduction of GHIs in Uganda has had significant impacts on the overall financing of the health system, though there has bee...
- A guide to ensuring occupational safety and health in the health services sector
- US Agency for International Development, 2008
- These guidelines, published by the Ministry of Health of Uganda, recognise that all types of work are hazardous and persons at work are exposed to situations that may result into injury, disease or even death. In Uganda, the authors a...
- How can antiretroviral treatment be delivered in Uganda?
- B. Amuron; A. Coutinho; H. Grosskurth / PubMed Central, 2007
- Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is being scaled up in Africa but the number of people receiving treatment remains far less than those needing it. In most countries, the scale up of ART is progressing rapidly but with a limited evidence-b...
- The ethics of pharmaceutical trials in developing countries
- E. Hagen / NorWatch, 2009
- In Norway there have been two Norwegian companies that have tested their products in developing countries. A-Viral tested AIDS medications in 300 HIV/AIDS-positive persons in Uganda in 1997-1998 and in 13 such persons in the Philippin...
- Coordination from new and existing donors needed to achieve global goals
- R. Brugha; M. Donoghue; M. Starling / The Lancet, 2004
- This paper published in the Lancet, tracks early implementation experiences of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in four African countries: Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Interim findings are based on ...
- Ministry of Education & Sports, Republic of Uganda (MoES)
- The Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) controls primary and other levels of education in Uganda. It trains, registers and supplies all required teachers, prescribes a national curriculum and provides textbooks, administrators and inspectors. It's mission is “to provide for, support, guide, coordinate, regulate and promote quality education and sports to all persons in...
- African Palliative Care Association (APCA)
Tanzanian organisation promoting affordable and culturally appropriate palliative care in Africa
