Background and Aim: Sexual violence is a serious global health problem with short and long-term physical, mental, and reproductive adverse-effects. We aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with sexual ...

Introduction: Teenage pregnancies are associated with adverse health, social and economic outcomes A rapid repeat pregnancy may therefore compound onto these poor outcomes. Postpartum Contraceptive uptake is a key ...

Background: Concurrent use of Herbal (HM) and Conventional Medicine (CM) poses a huge risk of drug-herbal interactions that can result in therapeutic failure or toxicity. However, little is known about the prevalence of ...

In the year 2015, WHO estimated that there were one million incident cases and more than 240,000 deaths caused by TB; including children with HIV/TB co-infection. Children can get TB at any age, but usually, the infection ...

The prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum and Intestinal Parasitic Infections (IPIs) - with the corresponding disease characteristics among children remain uncertain. This study aimed at determining the prevalence and ...

Introduction: Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) remains one of the neglected tropical diseases (NTD) of public health importance. The condition remains poorly studied for instance, the contribution of admissions from Moroto ...

Retirement is often a taboo subject amongst medical professionals. Many have dedicated a major part of their lives to the practice of medicine to the exclusion of anything else. The thought of empty days or lack of externally ...

Background: Risky sexual behaviours refer to an individual’s conduct in early sexual intercourse, unprotected sex, multiple sexual partners that increase the susceptibility of the person to sexually transmitted infections ...

Background: Gluteal fibrosis (GF) is a fibrotic infiltration of the gluteal muscles resulting in functionally limiting contracture of the hips and is associated with injections of medications into the gluteal muscles. It ...

Background: ART failure is a growing public health problem and a major threat to the progress of HIV/AIDS control. In Uganda however, little is documented on treatment outcomes and their associated factors among individuals ...