Publications by authors named "Hildah Tendo Nansikombi"
Understanding the delay in identifying Sudan Virus Disease: gaps in integrated disease surveillance and response and community-based surveillance to detect viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Uganda, September 2022.
BMC Infect Dis
July 2024
Article Synopsis
- Uganda's Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) system aims for early outbreak detection, but the Sudan virus outbreak in 2022 highlighted gaps in community and health facility reporting.* -
- A study evaluated surveillance capacities in public and private health facilities, revealing that 85% of surveyed private facilities failed to report to the national system, and many lacked trained staff.* -
- Identified gaps included weak community surveillance, poor engagement of private facilities, low awareness of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, and insufficient funding and training for effective reporting.*
Article Synopsis
- Disease surveillance is essential for managing health programs, but in Uganda, reporting data on diseases was often incomplete and delayed from 2020 to 2021.
- A study evaluated weekly data from 146 districts, finding national averages for reporting completeness of 70% and timeliness of 49% in 2021, with some regions performing better than others.
- Despite improvements, no region met the timeliness target, and Kampala District had consistently low reporting rates, especially in referral and private facilities.
Rift Valley fever, endemic or emerging throughout most of Africa, causes considerable risk to human and animal health. We report 7 confirmed Rift Valley fever cases, 1 fatal, in Kiruhura District, Uganda, during 2021. Our findings highlight the importance of continued viral hemorrhagic fever surveillance, despite challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In Uganda, over 43% of all pregnancies among young women (15-24 years) living with HIV are either unwanted or mistimed. Unintended pregnancies account for 21.3% of neonatal HIV infections.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Uganda was affected by two major waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The first wave during late 2020 and the second wave in late April 2021. This study compared epidemiologic characteristics of hospitalized (HP) and non-hospitalized patients (NHP) with COVID-19 during the two waves of COVID-19 in Uganda.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although WHO recommends cotrimoxazole (CTX) discontinuation among HIV patients who have undergone immune recovery and are living in areas of low prevalence of malaria, some countries including Uganda recommend CTX discontinuation despite having a high malaria burden. We estimated the prevalence and factors associated with malaria parasitaemia among adults living with HIV attending hospital outpatient clinic before and after discontinuation of CTX prophylaxis.
Methods: Between March and April 2019, 599 participants aged 18 years and above, and attending Kitgum hospital HIV clinic in Uganda were enrolled in a cross study.