Parasite-based malaria diagnosis: are health systems in Uganda equipped enough to implement the policy?Daniel J Kyabayinze
Malaria Consortium, Upper Naguru East Road, P, O, Box 8045, Kampala, Uganda
BMC Public Health 12:695. 2012
..Effective coverage of parasite-based malaria diagnosis (PMD) remains limited in malaria endemic countries. This study assessed the health system's capacity to absorb PMD at primary health care facilities in Uganda...
- Programme level implementation of malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) use: outcomes and cost of training health workers at lower level health care facilities in Uganda
Daniel J Kyabayinze
Malaria Consortium, Upper Naguru East Road, Kampala, Uganda
BMC Public Health 12:291. 2012
..This study describes the process and cost of training to attain competence of lower level health workers to perform malaria RDTs in a public health system setting in eastern Uganda...
- Multiplicity of Plasmodium falciparum infection predicts antimalarial treatment outcome in Ugandan children
Daniel J Kyabayinze
College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Afr Health Sci 8:200-5. 2008
..This study assessed the effect of multiple infections on treatment response in Ugandan children with uncomplicated malaria...
- Placental Plasmodium falciparum malaria infection: operational accuracy of HRP2 rapid diagnostic tests in a malaria endemic setting
Daniel J Kyabayinze
Malaria Consortium, Upper Naguru East Road, P, O, Box 8045, Kampala, Uganda
Malar J 10:306. 2011
..Peripheral blood smear microscopy under-estimates sequestered placental infections, therefore malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) detecting histidine rich protein-2 antigen (HRP-2) in peripheral blood are a potential alternative...
- Use of RDTs to improve malaria diagnosis and fever case management at primary health care facilities in Uganda
Daniel J Kyabayinze
Malaria Consortium Africa, Plot 2, Sturrock Road, PO Box 8045, Kampala, Uganda
Malar J 9:200. 2010
..This study evaluated the effect of malaria RDTs on health workers' anti-malarial drug (AMD) prescriptions among outpatients at low level health care facilities (LLHCF) within different malaria epidemiological settings in Uganda...
- Early experiences on the feasibility, acceptability, and use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests at peripheral health centres in Uganda-insights into some barriers and facilitators
Caroline Asiimwe
Malaria Consortium Africa Regional Office, Plot 25 Upper Naguru East Road, Kampala, Uganda
Implement Sci 7:5. 2012
..These findings are important in informing implementation of new health technologies, plans, and budgets in low-resourced national disease control programmes...
- Low prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum antigenaemia among asymptomatic HAART-treated adults in an urban cohort in Uganda
Damalie Nakanjako
Department of Medicine, Makerere University School of Medicine, Kampala, Uganda
Malar J 10:66. 2011
..There is need to evaluate the use of RDTs among highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART)-treated people living with HIV (PLHIV)...
- Operational accuracy and comparative persistent antigenicity of HRP2 rapid diagnostic tests for Plasmodium falciparum malaria in a hyperendemic region of Uganda
Daniel J Kyabayinze
Malaria Consortium Africa, Plot 2, Sturrock Road, P O Box 8045, Kampala, Uganda
Malar J 7:221. 2008
..An assessment of the accuracy of Malaria Pf immuno-chromatographic test (ICT) and description of persistent antigenicity of HRP2 RDTs was undertaken in a hyperendemic area of Uganda...
- Eligibility for HIV/AIDS treatment among adults in a medical emergency setting at an urban hospital in Uganda
Damalie Nakanjako
Makerere University Kampala, Faculty of Medicine, PO Box 7072, Kampala
Afr Health Sci 7:124-8. 2007
..We determined the HIV prevalence and eligibility for ART in a medical emergency unit at Mulago hospital...
