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A community-based approach to integrating socio, cultural and environmental contexts in the development of a food database for indigenous and rural populations: The case of the batwa and bakiga in south-western Uganda

Scarpa, G.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Twesigomwe, S.; Kakwangire, P.; Peters, R.; Zavaleta Cortijo, Claudia Carol; Patterson, K.; Namanya, D.B.; Lwasa, S.; Nowembabazi, E.; Kesande, C.; Harris-Fry, H.; Cade, J.E. (MDPI, 2021)

Comprehensive food lists and databases are a critical input for programs aiming to alleviate undernutrition. However, standard methods for developing them may produce databases that are irrelevant for marginalised groups ...
Feasibility and Operational Performance of Tuberculosis Detection by Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Platform in Decentralized Settings: Results from a Multicenter Study

Gray, Christen-M.; Katamba, Achilles; Narang, Pratibha; Giraldo, Jorge; Zamudio Fuertes, Carlos Eduardo; Joloba, Moses; Narang, Rahul; Paramasivan, C. N.; Hillemann, Doris; Nabeta, Pamela; Amisano, Danielle; Alland, David; Cobelens, Frank; Boehme, Catharina-C. (American Society for Microbiology, 2016)

Currently available nucleic acid amplification platforms for tuberculosis (TB) detection are not designed to be simple or inexpensive enough to implement in decentralized settings in countries with a high burden of disease. ...
Feasibility, diagnostic accuracy, and effectiveness of decentralised use of the Xpert MTB/RIF test for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistance: A multicentre implementation study

Boehme, C.C.; Nicol, M.P.; Nabeta, P.; Michael, J.S.; Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo; Tahirli, R.; Gler, M.T.; Blakemore, R.; Worodria, W.; Gray, C.; Huang, L.; Cáceres Nakiche, Tatiana; Mehdiyev, R.; Raymond, L.; Whitelaw, A.; Sagadevan, K.; Alexander, H.; Albert, H.; Cobelens, F.; Cox, H.; Alland, D.; Perkins, M.D. (Elsevier, 2011)

The Xpert MTB/RIF test (Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) can detect tuberculosis and its multidrug-resistant form with very high sensitivity and specificity in controlled studies, but no performance data exist from district ...
Integrating climate in Ugandan health and subsistence food systems: where diverse knowledges meet

van Bavel, B.; Ford, L.B.; King, R.; Lwasa, S.; Namanya, D.; Twesigomwe, S.; Elsey, H.; Harper, S.L. (BioMed Central, 2020)

Background: The effects of food insecurity linked to climate change will be exacerbated in subsistence communities that are dependent upon food systems for their livelihoods and sustenance. Place-and community-based forms ...
Preparing for the health impacts of climate change in Indigenous communities: The role of community-based adaptation

Ford, James D.; Sherman, Mya; Berrang-Ford, Lea; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Harper, Sherilee; Lwasa, Shuaib; Namanya, Didacus; Marcello, Thomas; Maillet, Michelle; Edge, Victoria (Elsevier, 2018)

Climate change presents substantial risks to the health of Indigenous peoples. Research is needed to inform health policy and practice for managing risks, with community based adaptation (CBA) emerging as one approach to ...
Rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis with the Xpert MTB/RIF assay in high burden countries: A cost-effectiveness analysis

Vassall, A.; van Kampen, S.; Sohn, H.; Michael, J.S.; John, K.R.; den Boon, S.; Davis, J.L.; Whitelaw, A.; Nicol, M.P.; Gler, M.T.; Khaliqov, A.; Zamudio Fuertes, Carlos Eduardo; Perkins, M.D.; Boehme, C.C.; Cobelens, F. (Public Library of Science, 2011)

Background: Xpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) is a promising new rapid diagnostic technology for tuberculosis (TB) that has characteristics that suggest large-scale roll-out. However, because the test is expensive, there are concerns ...
Seasonality, climate change, and food security during pregnancy among indigenous and non-indigenous women in rural Uganda: Implications for maternal-infant health

Bryson, J.M.; Patterson, K.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Lwasa, S.; Namanya, D.B.; Twesigomwe, S.; Kesande, C.; Ford, J.D.; Harper, S.L.; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Namanya, D.; Ford, J.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Garcia Funegra, Patricia Jannet; Lwasa, S.; Edge, V.; Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change Research Team (Public Library of Science, 2021)

Background Climate change is expected to decrease food security globally. Many Indigenous communities have heightened sensitivity to climate change and food insecurity for multifactorial reasons including close relationships ...
Vulnerability of indigenous health to climate change: A case study of Uganda's Batwa Pygmies

Berrang-Ford, L.; Dingle, K.; Ford, J.D.; Lee, C.; Lwasa, S.; Namanya, D.B.; Henderson, J.; Llanos Cuentas, Elmer Alejandro; Cárcamo Cavagnaro, César Paul Eugenio; Edge, V. (Elsevier, 2012)

The potential impacts of climate change on human health in sub-Saharan Africa are wide-ranging, complex, and largely adverse. The region's Indigenous peoples are considered to be at heightened risk given their relatively ...
Vulnerability to the health effects of climate variability in rural southwestern Uganda

Labbé, Jolene; Ford, James D.; Berrang-Ford, Lea; Donnelly, Blanaid; Lwasa, Shuaib; Namanya, Didacus Bambaiha; Twesigomwe, Sabastian; Harper, Sherilee L.; Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change Research Group (Springer, 2015)

Vulnerability to the health impacts of climate change will be shaped by the existing burden of ill- health and is expected to be highest in poor and socio-economically marginalized populations. Sub-Saharan Africa, in ...

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