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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Enhanced cholera surveillance to improve vaccination campaign efficiency
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Open AccessEnhanced 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...
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Open AccessCholera 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...
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Open AccessSudan Ebola virus (SUDV) outbreak in Uganda, 2022: lessons learnt and future priorities for sub-Saharan Africa
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Open AccessThe 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...
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Open AccessA 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 (...
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Open AccessThe 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...
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Open AccessAlkaline 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...
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Open AccessClosing 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...
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Open AccessOvercoming 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