'I got to understand what it means to be a cancer patient': Qualitative evidence from health professional cancer patients and survivors.

Objective: The study sought to (1) examine healthcare professionals' (HCPs) lived experiences of cancer and (2) generate evidence to inform policy and clinical practice for cancer care.

Methods: This was a qualitative study conducted between January and December 2020 on HCPs who were ill with, or who had survived cancer in Uganda. Purposive sampling was used.

Women's lived experiences of advanced cervical cancer: a descriptive qualitative study.

Aim: To explore the lived experiences of women with advanced incurable cervical cancer attending a palliative care service in Uganda.

Methods: This qualitative and exploratory study was conducted at Mobile Hospice Mbarara in South Western Uganda. The target population was a convenience sample of all patients with a confirmed histological diagnosis of advanced cervical cancer; stage 2B to 4B, and clinically advanced disease.

Prevalence of major depression in deliberate self-harm individuals in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of major depression in deliberate self-harm individuals.

Design: A cross sectional descriptive study.

Setting: Three tertiary health care centres in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV disease progression: impact of traditional herbs on adult patients in Zimbabwe.

This cohort study examined the impact of phytotherapy (PT; traditional herbs) on neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV disease progression to antibody immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), CD4 counts, and viral load in adult patients in Harare, Zimbabwe. This is a community-based and nonintervention cohort study. The study was conducted in and around Harare City from June 1996 to May 1998.

Quality of life evaluation in patients with HIV-I infection: the impact of traditional medicine in Zimbabwe.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of phytotherapy (traditional medicine) in persons with HIV infection and to assess the quality of life of those persons with respect to HIV disease progression, including sociodemographic characteristics.

Design: A community based open label non-intervention and uncontrolled cohort study.

Setting: Blair Research Institute Clinic.