Abdullah Ali Halage

TL;DR: Assessment of occupational health hazards faced by healthcare workers in Kampala found that PPE supply gaps, job related pressures, and complacence in adhering to mitigation measures should be addressed.

TL;DR: Although general knowledge about cervical cancer prevention was relatively high among women, and attitudes mostly encouraging, specific knowledge about screening was low and there is need for more education campaigns to bridge identified knowledge gaps, and scale up of cervical cancer screening services to all women to increase service uptake.

TL;DR: There is considerable environmental pollution in the Nakivubo wetland and the Lake Victoria ecosystem in Kampala, Uganda, and it is suggested that a system of sentinel surveillance is being implemented that can guide adequate responses.

TL;DR: The use of herbal medicines during pregnancy among women in Gulu district is common, which may be an indicator for poor access to conventional western healthcare and calls for community sensitization drives on the dangers of indiscriminate use of herbals medicine in pregnancy.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the exposure to wastewater is associated with public health problems, particularly children and adults living and working along the major wastewater and reuse system in Kampala and call for specific interventions to reduce the disease burden due to exposure to Wastewater.