Publications by authors named "Titus Arunga"

Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to explore effective HIV prevention strategies in rural East African communities by understanding clients' experiences with a patient-centered dynamic choice prevention model (DCP).
  • Through interviews with 56 participants and 21 healthcare providers, key themes emerged regarding the emotional benefits and challenges faced in adopting prevention methods like PrEP and PEP.
  • Factors such as stigma, power dynamics in relationships, and limited knowledge about prevention options impacted individuals' ability to engage with prevention services.
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Background: Greater social capital is associated with positive health outcomes and better HIV management. The ways by which social capital may influence household water insecurity (HHWI), a critical determinant of health among persons living with HIV, remain underexplored. Further, despite the importance of reliable water access and use for health and agricultural productivity, few studies have described the strategies smallholder farmers living with HIV use to manage water insecurity.

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Polygamy is the practice of marriage to multiple partners. Approximately 6-11% of households in Uganda and 4-11% of households in Kenya are polygamous. The complex families produced by polygamous marriage customs give rise to additional considerations for healthcare providers and public health messaging around HIV care.

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encompass a variety of research and analysis techniques which have the common aim of uncovering what cannot be captured numerically through the quantification of data. For qualitative analytical methods in the interpretivist tradition (e.g.

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