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Author Correction: Enhanced cholera surveillance to improve vaccination campaign efficiency

Hanmeng Xu, Kaiyue Zou, Juan Dent, Kirsten E. Wiens… in Nature Medicine (2024)

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Enhanced cholera surveillance to improve vaccination campaign efficiency

Systematic testing for Vibrio cholerae O1 is rare, which means that the world’s limited supply of oral cholera vaccines (OCVs) may not be delivered to areas with the highest true cholera burden. Here we used a ph...

Hanmeng Xu, Kaiyue Zou, Juan Dent, Kirsten E. Wiens… in Nature Medicine (2024)

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Cholera and COVID-19 pandemic prevention in multiple hotspot districts of Uganda: vaccine coverage, adverse events following immunization and WASH conditions survey

Between March, 2020 and December, 2021 due to cholera and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemics, there were 1,534 cholera cases with 14 deaths and 136,065 COVID-19 cases with 3,285 deaths reported resp...

Godfrey Bwire, Annet Kisakye, Esther Amulen… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2023)

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Sudan Ebola virus (SUDV) outbreak in Uganda, 2022: lessons learnt and future priorities for sub-Saharan Africa

Godfrey Bwire, Benn Sartorius, Philippe Guerin, Merawi Aragaw Tegegne… in BMC Medicine (2023)

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The COVID-19 pandemic in the African continent

In December 2019, a new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and associated disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was identified in China. This virus spread quickly...

Godfrey Bwire, Alex Riolexus Ario, Patricia Eyu, Felix Ocom… in BMC Medicine (2022)

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A prolonged cholera outbreak caused by drinking contaminated stream water, Kyangwali refugee settlement, Hoima District, Western Uganda: 2018

On 23 February 2018, the Uganda Ministry of Health (MOH) declared a cholera outbreak affecting more than 60 persons in Kyangwali Refugee Settlement, Hoima District, bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo (...

Fred Monje, Alex Riolexus Ario, Angella Musewa… in Infectious Diseases of Poverty (2020)

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The quality of drinking and domestic water from the surface water sources (lakes, rivers, irrigation canals and ponds) and springs in cholera prone communities of Uganda: an analysis of vital physicochemical parameters

Water is the most abundant resource on earth, however water scarcity affects more than 40% of people worldwide. Access to safe drinking water is a basic human right and is a United Nations Sustainable Developm...

Godfrey Bwire, David A. Sack, Atek Kagirita, Tonny Obala… in BMC Public Health (2020)

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Alkaline peptone water enrichment with a dipstick test to quickly detect and monitor cholera outbreaks

Detection, confirmation and monitoring of cholera outbreaks in many develo** countries including Uganda is a big challenge due to lack of the required resources and the time the test takes. Culture method wh...

Godfrey Bwire, Christopher Garimoi Orach, Dauda Abdallah… in BMC Infectious Diseases (2017)

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Closing the access barrier for effective anti-malarials in the private sector in rural Uganda: consortium for ACT private sector subsidy (CAPSS) pilot study

Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), the treatment of choice for uncomplicated falciparum malaria, is unaffordable and generally inaccessible in the private sector, the first port of call for most mala...

Ambrose O Talisuna, Penny Grewal Daumerie, Andrew Balyeku, Timothy Egan… in Malaria Journal (2012)

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Overcoming the affordability barrier for effective and high quality life saving malaria medicines in the private sector in rural Uganda: the Consortium for ACT Private Sector Subsidy (CAPSS) pilot study

Ambrose O Talisuna, Penny Grevval, Andrew Balyeku, Timothy Egan… in Malaria Journal (2012)