Chronic Diseases in North-West Tanzania and Southern Uganda. Public Perceptions of Terminologies, Aetiologies, Symptoms and Preferred Management

Health seeking behaviour and challenges in utilising health facilities in Wakiso district, Uganda

(2015) D Musoke et al.   African Health Sciences

Persistent HIV-related stigma in rural Uganda during a period of increasing HIV incidence despite treatment expansion

(2015) Brian T. Chan et al.   AIDS

High prevalence of hypertension and of risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs): a population based cross-sectional survey of NCDS and HIV infection in Northwestern Tanzania and Southern Uganda

(2015) Bazil Kavishe et al.   BMC Medicine

Readiness of Ugandan health services for the management of outpatients with chronic diseases

(2015) David Katende et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

The health system burden of chronic disease care: an estimation of provider costs of selected chronic diseases in Uganda

(2015) Stella Nalukwago Settumba et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

Community awareness of stroke in Accra, Ghana

(2014) Eric S Donkor et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Current beliefs and attitudes regarding epilepsy in Mali

(2014) Youssoufa Maiga et al.   EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

The Ebola Outbreak, Fragile Health Systems, and Quality as a Cure

(2014) Andrew S. Boozary et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Preparedness of Tanzanian health facilities for outpatient primary care of hypertension and diabetes: a cross-sectional survey

(2014) Robert Peck et al.   Lancet Global Health

A lay carer's story about epilepsy in an urban South African context: They call it an illness of falling or an illness of fitting because a person shakes and eventually falls

(2013) Mpoe Johannah Keikelame et al.   EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

Myths, perceptions, and incorrect knowledge surrounding epilepsy in rural Zimbabwe: A study of the villagers in Buhera District

(2013) Jacob Mugumbate et al.   EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

Culture, ethnicity and chronic conditions: reframing concepts and methods for research, interventions and policy in low- and middle-income countries

(2013) Ama de-Graft Aikins et al.   ETHNICITY & HEALTH

A stroke of misfortune: Cultural interpretations of aphasia in South Africa

(2012) Carol Legg et al.   APHASIOLOGY

‘A chronic disease is a disease which keeps coming back … it is like the flu’: chronic disease risk perception and explanatory models among French- and Swahili-speaking African migrants

(2012) Maxwell Cooper et al.   ETHNICITY & HEALTH

HIV infection and stroke: current perspectives and future directions

(2012) Laura A Benjamin et al.   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Modifiable Socio-Behavioural Factors Associated with Overweight and Hypertension among Persons Aged 35 to 60 Years in Eastern Uganda

(2012) Roy William Mayega et al.   PLoS One

Tackling Africa's chronic disease burden: from the local to the global

(2012) Ama de-Graft Aikins et al.   Globalization and Health

Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in a self-selected sub-Saharan African urban population: a cross-sectional study

(2012) Anastase Dzudie et al.   BMJ Open

Lay perspectives on hypertension and drug adherence: systematic review of qualitative research

(2012) I. J. Marshall et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Chronic noncommunicable diseases and HIV-AIDS on a collision course: relevance for health care delivery, particularly in low-resource settings—insights from South Africa

(2011) Naomi S Levitt et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NUTRITION

Health and functional status among older people with HIV/AIDS in Uganda

(2011) Francien Scholten et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Social–cultural aspects of epilepsy in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania: Knowledge and experience among patients and carers

(2011) D. Mushi et al.   EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

Non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: what we know now

(2011) S. Dalal et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Stroke: a realistic approach to a growing problem in sub-Saharan Africa is urgently needed

(2011) Kehinde O. Kolapo et al.   TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH

The impact of asthma and COPD in sub-Saharan Africa

(2011) Frederik van Gemert et al.   Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Self-care Beliefs and Behaviors in Ugandan Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

(2010) Linda C. Baumann et al.   DIABETES EDUCATOR

Stigma in the HIV/AIDS epidemic: a review of the literature and recommendations for the way forward

(2009) Anish P Mahajan et al.   AIDS

A global framework for action to improve the primary care response to chronic non-communicable diseases: a solution to a neglected problem

(2009) Dermot Maher et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

General public awareness, perceptions, and attitudes with respect to epilepsy in the Akwaya Health District, South-West Region, Cameroon

(2009) Alfred K. Njamnshi et al.   EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR

Knowledge and perception of stroke amongst hospital workers in an African community

(2009) R. O. Akinyemi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

A review of co-morbidity between infectious and chronic disease in Sub Saharan Africa: TB and Diabetes Mellitus, HIV and Metabolic Syndrome, and the impact of globalization

(2009) Fiona Young et al.   Globalization and Health

The transition to living with HIV as a chronic condition in rural Uganda: Working to create order and control when on antiretroviral therapy

(2009) Steven Russell et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries

(2008) Rachel Nugent   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Beliefs about health and illness: a comparison between Ugandan men and women living with Diabetes Mellitus

(2008) K. Hjelm et al.   INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW

Health systems and the right to health: an assessment of 194 countries

(2008) Gunilla Backman et al.   LANCET

Comparison of risk perceptions and beliefs across common chronic diseases

(2008) Catharine Wang et al.   PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Access to and utilisation of health services for the poor in Uganda: a systematic review of available evidence

(2008) S.N. Kiwanuka et al.   TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE