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Agricultural practices in mid-western Uganda: Challenges and prospects for food security in rural areas
(Journal of Gender and Behaviour, 2019)
Globally, there is a concern that current food production and distribution systems are not developing at a rate that matches the growing human population. In Uganda, rural-urban drift, land grabs and population explosion ...
Contributions of the Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) to Youth Empowerment in Hoima District, Uganda
(International Journal of Business and Management Studies, 2019)
The Youth Livelihood Programme (YLP) of Uganda is a youth empowerment strategy based on the three pillars of skills development, livelihood support and institutional support. The programme targets and unemployed youths of ...
The Potential of a Power‑Sharing Government to Prevent Post‑election Violence in Uganda: Perspectives from Mid-Western Region
(Administratio Publica, 2019)
Studies have revealed that a number of countries in the East African region have faced challenges in preventing post-election violence. Therefore, this article examined the potential of a Power-Sharing Government (PSG) to ...
Emotional Intelligence as Predictor of Compassion Fatigue among Mental Health Practitioners
(Open Access Library Journal, 2019)
More than half of the professionals working with vulnerable population in
high-income countries suffer from compassion fatigue, which has detrimental
effects on mental health practitioners’ wellbeing. This study was aimed ...
Glycaemic, blood pressure and lowdensity lipoprotein-cholesterol control among patients with diabetes mellitus in a specialised clinic in Botswana: a cross-sectional study
(BMJ Open, 2019)
Objective Control of glycaemic, hypertension and lowdensity
lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C) among patients
with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is vital for the
prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The current study
was ...
Knowledge of alcohol-disease links and sociodemographic factors as predictors of support for alcohol-related policies among university students in Botswana
(Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 2019)
Background: Worldwide, harmful alcohol use is causally related to about 60 diseases and is linked to
about 3.3 million deaths annually. Yet, awareness of alcohol-disease links is low.
Objective: This study aims to assess ...
Autoimmune skin disease among dermatology outpatients in Botswana: a retrospective review
(International journal of dermatology, 2019)
Background There is a paucity of data describing autoimmune skin diseases in sub-
Saharan Africa and in HIV positive cohorts. We describe the incidence of autoimmune skin
diseases in public dermatology clinics in ...
Mothers’ perceptions of the practice of kangaroo mother care for preterm neonates in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative systematic review protocol
(JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, 2019)
Objective: The objective of this review is to explore the experiences of mothers with the practice of kangaroo
mother care (KMC) for preterm neonates at home in sub-Saharan Africa.
Introduction: About 7000 newborn babies ...
Anger and Bitter Hearts: The Spread of Suicide in Northern Ugandan Families
(Journal of Anthropology, 2019)
In many societies, the phenomenon of suicide provides a particularly powerful example of how something sinister might ‘run in the family’. In the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda, concerns about its capacity to spread ...
Development of sequence-based markers for seed protein content in pigeonpea
(Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 2019)
Pigeonpea is an important source of dietary protein to over a billion people globally, but genetic enhancement of seed protein
content (SPC) in the crop has received limited attention for a long time. Use of genomics-assisted ...