Julius Tumusiime

TL;DR: This first detailed malacological study of the crater lakes systems in western Uganda revealed presence of Bulinus species that are either not known or not regionally known to be hosts for S. haematobium, the causing agent of human urogenital schistosomiasis.

TL;DR: The ODYSSEY trial as mentioned in this paper evaluated the efficacy and safety of dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) in children weighing between 3 kg and less than 14 kg.

TL;DR: Uganda does not have a biomonitoring system for assessing the water quality of its rivers basing on benthic macroinvertebrates and an alternative system has been suggested in Tanzania as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Despite adequate knowledge of schistosomiasis and a positive attitude towards its prevention, existing myths and misconceptions still pose a challenge and a more robust community-based awareness intervention using bottom-up participatory approaches, accompanied by the provision of clean and safe water sources and increasing latrine coverage could provide lasting solutions to these barriers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the potential of citizen science to build these much-needed datasets through fine-grained, frequent snail sampling, and train a network of 25 citizen scientists to weekly report on snail host abundances in 77 predefined water contact sites.