Eddy J. Walakira

TL;DR: The Good School Toolkit is an effective intervention to reduce violence against children from school staff in Ugandan primary schools and is referred to child protective services because of what they disclosed in the follow-up survey.

TL;DR: Despite a ban on corporal punishment in Ugandan schools since 1997, the use of violence against students is widespread and associated with poor mental health and educational performance.

TL;DR: Data from a longitudinal study of patients in HIV care at two sites in Uganda permit examination of the salience of this model in a high burden, low resource context struggling to achieve the promise of a manageable HIV epidemic.

TL;DR: In Uganda, disabled girls are at particular risk of violence, notably sexual violence, and schools may be a promising venue for intervention delivery.

TL;DR: This is the first study to rigorously investigate the effects of any intervention to prevent violence from school staff to children in primary school in a low-income setting and the results will be informative across the African region and in other settings.