Search

Reset

Searching in Uganda

Showing 1321-1330 of 1515 results

Pages

  • Document

    Catastrophe or controllable crisis? The impact of the AIDS epidemic on schooling in Africa

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    It is widely believed that children who are directly affected by AIDS are greatly disadvantaged at school and that teachers are a high risk group for HIV infection. Research in Botswana, Malawi and Uganda suggests that the situation is much more complex.
  • Document

    Including disabled children in regular schools: the Ugandan experience

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    In developing countries, it is often reported that around two per cent of children with disabilities attend school. Uganda is leading the way in its commitment to integrating children with disabilities into mainstream schooling as a step in the process towards 'inclusion'. But what are the practical implications of inclusive education? What do teachers think of integrated classes?
  • Document

    Good news at last – HIV rates fall in Uganda

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Uganda was one of the first African countries to face the AIDS epidemic. Prevention programmes began in the late 1980s with strong political commitment. A study by the Medical Research Council Programme on AIDS in Uganda suggests that these efforts have produced a fall in HIV prevalence (the total number of people infected) and incidence (the number of people newly infected each year).
  • Document

    Curbing mother to child transmission: testing pregnant women for HIV

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Testing and treating pregnant women for HIV reduces the likelihood of infecting the child. But do women want to know if they have HIV? Researchers with the Medical Research Council programme in Uganda investigated how rural women feel about counselling and testing for HIV during pregnancy.
  • Document

    Access to environmental justice: Tackling human vulnerability and environmental management

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    What is environmental justice? How can it tackle human vulnerability to environmental degradation? When is environmental justice accessible to the most vulnerable? What role does it play in environmental management?
  • Document

    Rethinking poverty assessment: the pros and cons of participatory methods

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Has rhetorical commitment to ‘listening to the voices of the poor’ led to a genuinely participatory process of engagement? Is the World Bank co-opting the participatory research agenda and using participatory poverty assessments (PPAs) for its own ends? Can we wed standard monetary poverty assessments with participatory techniques?
  • Document

    Fused in combat: gender relations and armed conflict

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Do gender relations change through conflict? How might conflict itself be fuelled by aspects of gender identity? How do people on the ground see the changes that conflict brings about?
  • Document

    Learning from experience - sex education for young women

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Knowledge about AIDS is dangerously low among rural Ugandan women and girls who have dropped out of school. The 'senga', the father’s sister, used to give sexual advice to young girls, but this tradition is dying out in central Uganda. Could it be revived and adapted to provide information about HIV?
  • Document

    Reaching the poorest of Uganda’s poor: is trickledown working?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Uganda has clawed its way back from chaos and achieved an impressive degree of macroeconomic stability, but how have the very poor fared? Is the government’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) set to succeed? What are the difficulties of measuring welfare in Uganda? Can the chronically poor be identified and helped to benefit from emerging economic opportunities?
  • Document

    Cryptococcal infection in Uganda - underdiagnosed but a leading cause of death

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
    Cryptococcal yeast infection became the leading cause of adult meningitis in sub- Saharan Africa during the 1990s, due to the spread of HIV. It is also a major cause of bloodstream infection in HIV-infected adults in many developing countries. A study by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, TASO, and the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) assessed the scale of the problem in Entebbe.

Pages