Uganda Health News

Local man died at age 78

In further analyses of this data Ron Gray of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues investigated factors associated with that reduction in risk. The specifically investigated whether infection with HSV-2, the virus that causes genital herpes,...

The study was done in rural Uganda, largely among subsistence farmers, by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Boston University and several Ugandan institutions...After a year, 11 percent of each group had died, but similar numbers...

However, this is effective only if the mother is willing to be screened for HIV. Anne Buve, a member of Faculty of 1000 Medicine, has discussed the recent and "worrying" findings of this study, which she describes as "quite sobering"....

Commission (UAC) is revamping its national HIV information campaign after HIV prevention messages were less successful than hoped. "We shall use basic facts in the messages to communicate effectively because we have realized that the level of knowledge about basic...

Even villagers who believe a disease is caused by malignant winds have traditions that help them survive epidemics. Vancouver anthropologist Barry Hewlett, who researches cultural practices in central Africa, has lent that perspective to the World Health Organization.

Local hospice partners with group in Uganda Eyes opened by visits to each other's countries. They came to the dying man's village in Uganda down a weaving, rutted dirt road...It reeked because of a lack of care — so much...