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Towards developing ethical capacities in social work practice in Africa: Case study and critical commentary from Uganda
(Sage Journals, 2022-11)
This article engages with a case study situated in a public social service system in Uganda, Africa. Through case analysis, I highlight the complexities related to professional ethics in social work practice in Africa and ...
Interface of culture, insecurity and HIV and AIDS: lessons from displaced communities in Pader district, northern Uganda
(Springer Nature: Conflict and Health., 2010-11-22)
Northern Uganda unlike other rural regions has registered high HIV prevalence rates comparable to
those of urbanized Kampala and the central region. This could be due to the linkages of culture, insecurity and
HIV. We ...
Sociocultural aspects of health promotion in palliative care in Uganda
(Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research., 2021)
Despite its vital importance, health promotion
has not occupied its due place in public
health in Uganda. The country is engulfed into
a rising wave of both communicable and non-communicable
conditions. This rising ...
Growing up HIV-positive in Uganda: “psychological immunodeficiency”? A qualitative study
(Springer Nature: BMC Psychology, 2017)
This study is part of a longitudinal study among children and adolescents with HIV in both urban and rural Uganda: ‘Mental health among HIV infected CHildren and Adolescents in KAmpala and Masaka, Uganda (CHAKA)’.
Method
The ...
Understanding Uganda’s early adoption of novel differentiated HIV treatment services: a qualitative exploration of drivers of policy uptake
(BMC Health Services Research, 2023)
Background
Although differentiated service delivery (DSD) for HIV treatment was endorsed by the WHO in its
landmark 2016 guidelines to lessen patients’ need to frequently visit clinics and hence to reduce unnecessary ...
Nature, causes and development implications of ecological injustice in Uganda
(East African journal of education and social sciences, 2022-03)
Uganda is one of the developing countries in the world that experience ecological injustice emanating from unsustainable use of natural resources. This study attempted to reveal the nature, causes and implications of ...
The shadow economy and education in Uganda: Is there a long-run relationship?
(International Social Science Journal., 2023)
Using time series data from Uganda covering the period from 1991 to 2017, this paper applies auto regressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to examine the long- and short-run relationship between education and the ...
Domestic violence and development implications in Budaka District
(ProQuest, 2022)
Budaka is one of the 146 districts in Uganda experiencing domestic violence (DV) with 5016 cases, recorded in 2020. This
was a significant number with obvious development repercussions despite relevant regulations, ...
Uganda’s vision 2040 and human needs promotion
(Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2015)
In 2013 the President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni launched Uganda’s
Vision 2040, a thirty-year development master plan which has received both
praise and criticism from Ugandans. Although Vision 2040 has received ...
Directions in constructing a body of knowledge in eco-social work education and practice in Uganda: Actions, channels, and implications
(African Journal of Social Work, 2023)
In recent times, Uganda has witnessed human suffering resulting from the occurrence of environmental disasters thereby placing
social work professionals, particularly those in civic organizations at the forefront of ...