Nelson K Sewankambo

Datos Biográficos

ID3487940
NOMBRENelson K Sewankambo
NOMBRESNelson K
APELLIDOSewankambo
FIRMASEWANKAMBO N K
AFILIACIONESMakerere University
ORCID0000-0001-9362-053X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS54
TOTAL DE CITAS37
TOTAL COMO AUTOR54
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2000
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H3

  • Trainee Perspectives on the Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

    Open AccessPaulina Tindana, Emily Haddad et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2026

    There is a growing demand for postdoctoral bioethics training in Africa, driven by the significant rise in graduate programs offered by universities. This study sought to evaluate the Fogarty African Bioethics Consortium Post-Doctoral Fellowship program and to explore the experiences and perspectives of its trainees as well as the program's impact on their careers in their home countries. This study adopted an exploratory qualitative design invol…

  • Stronger together

    Open AccessRebecca Ingenhoff, Malabika Sarker et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Box Global health research partnerships face persistent inequities, including funding imbalances, unbalanced recognition and inequitable recognition of low-and middle-income country (LMIC) researchers and their overall capacities

  • Estimated cost-savings from integrated care for HIV, diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessGerard Joseph Abou Jaoude, Sokoine Kivuyo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2025

    Background In a cluster-randomised trial in Uganda and Tanzania, we showed that integrated management, compared with standard vertical care, could achieve a high standard of care for diabetes and hypertension without adversely affecting outcomes for HIV. However, evidence on the value for money of integrated care is needed to inform policy.Objective Our economic evaluation aimed to establish the value for money of integrated care compared with ve…

  • Advancing Doctoral and Postdoctoral International Bioethics Training Programs Supported by the D43 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty Mechanism

    Open AccessConnie M Ulrich, Joseph Ali et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 5

    Advancing doctoral and postdoctoral international bioethics training in low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) is essential to address the emerging and reemerging healthcare needs of local populations. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for sustenance of global collaboration and rapid adaptability in the future to further prioritize research frameworks to benefit LMICs. Thus, the purpose of the manuscript is to share the successes, chall…

  • Ensuring Continuity of Health Professions Training Amid a Global Pandemic

    Open AccessThomas Balizzakiwa, Pius Achanga et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024

    Uganda experienced 2 COVID-19 waves that challenged health professional education. All health professions training institutions (HPTIs) in Uganda closed in March 2020. Cognizant of the threat to quality education and the frontline workforce, the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) and Seed Global Health partnered to examine the risks and benefits of HPTI reopening through the Safe Schools Initiative (SSI). This article described the proc…

  • Estimation of cause-specific mortality in Rakai, Uganda, using verbal autopsy 1999-2019

    Open AccessDorean Nabukalu, Júlia Almeida Calazans et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    BACKGROUND: There are scant data on the causes of adult deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. We estimated the level and trends in adult mortality, overall and by different causes, in rural Rakai, Uganda, by age, sex, and HIV status. OBJECTIVES: To estimate and analyse adult cause-specific mortality trends in Rakai, Uganda. METHODOLOGY: Mortality information by cause, age, sex, and HIV status was recorded in the Rakai Community Cohort study using verbal …

  • Use of mobile phones to collect data on Covid-19

    Open AccessRobert Ssekubugu, Anthony Ndyanabo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

    During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, we deployed a rapid, mobile phone-based survey to assess access and participation rates when using mobile phones to collect data on COVID-19 in Rakai, south-central Uganda. We sampled prior Rakai Community Cohort Study (RCCS) participants based on HIV status using mobile phone contacts. We administered a 30-minute phone-based interview to consenting participants to assess their knowledge about different aspe…

  • Colonization and decolonization of global health

    Open AccessMaysoon Hussain, Mitra Sadigh et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2023

    Despite taking on several forms throughout history such as colonial medicine, tropical medicine, and international health, the field of global health continues to uphold colonialist structures. History demonstrates that acts of colonialism inevitably lead to negative health outcomes. Colonial powers promoted medical advancements when diseases affected their own people, and only did so for locals when in the colonies' best interests. Numerous medi…

  • In the era of universal test and treat in Uganda, recent intimate partner violence is not associated with subsequent ART use or viral suppression

    Amanda P Miller, Eileen V Pitpitan et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2023

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been associated with delays throughout the HIV care continuum. This study explored prospective associations between experiences of past-year IPV and two HIV care outcomes in the context of current universal test and treat guidelines using two consecutive rounds of an ongoing HIV surveillance study conducted in the Rakai region of Uganda. Longitudinal logistic regression models examined associations between IPV,…

  • Linkage to care and treatment among men with reactive HIV self-tests after workplace-based testing in Uganda

    Open AccessPatience A Muwanguzi, Laron E Nelson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Introduction: HIV self-testing at workplaces has the potential to reach men at risk of HIV infection with lower access to HIV testing services. While several studies have reported high uptake of HIV self-testing, linkage to HIV care following a positive result remains a challenge. This study, therefore, explored the motivators for and barriers to linkage to HIV care and treatment among men who returned positive results following workplace-based H…

  • Integrating Care for Diabetes and Hypertension with HIV Care in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessGeoff McCombe, Jayleigh Lim et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    INTRODUCTION: Although HIV continues to have a high prevalence among adults in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes and hypertension is increasing rapidly. There is an urgent need to expand the capacity of healthcare systems in SSA to provide NCD services and scale up existing chronic care management pathways. A scoping review mapped extant policy and evidence based literature on the feasibility …

  • Cango Lyec (Healing the Elephant)

    Open AccessJue Luo, David Zamar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Migration and Health2022Referencias: 6

    Cango Lyec participants displayed lower than previously reported yet significant levels of probable PTSD and depression. Based on findings from this study, providing trauma-informed care, ensuring food and housing security, eliminating gender-based violence, and reintegrating former abductees remain important tasks to facilitate post-conflict rehabilitation in Northern Uganda

  • Drivers and barriers to workplace-based HIV self-testing among high-risk men in Uganda

    Open AccessPatience A Muwanguzi, Robert C Bollinger et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    We recommend the involvement of employers in workplace-based HIV self-testing to encourage participation by employees. There is need for HIV self-testing support both during and after the testing process. Both employers and employees recommend the use of non-monetary incentives, and regular training about HIV self-testing to increase the uptake and acceptability of HIV testing services at the workplace

  • I felt very small and embarrassed by the health care provider when I requested to be tested for syphilis”

    Open AccessRichard Muhindo, Andrew Mujugira et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    HIV programs are likely to be important entry points for syphilis testing among FSW. Multi-level interventions to address testing barriers should consider focusing on these service delivery points. Extending the dual syphilis and HIV testing approach to FSW may improve testing uptake for both infections at public health facilities and decrease population-level incidence

  • Ethical issues in intervention studies on the prevention and management of diabetes and hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessElizabeth Shayo, Elizabeth H Shayo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    Conducting intervention studies in Africa, where medicines supply for chronic conditions is inequitable and patchy, raises major ethical issues. \n \nHere we discuss what should the ethical approach be for a research programme in terms of provision of a steady and sustainable supply of medicines for patients with diabetes and hypertension

  • SMART Vaccines 2.0 decision-support platform

    Open AccessBenjamin J J Mccormick, Benjamin JJ McCormick et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    In resource-constrained environments, priority setting is critical to making sustainable decisions for introducing new and underused vaccines and choosing among vaccine products. Donor organisations and national governments in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) recognise the need to support prioritisation of vaccine decisions driven by local health system capacity, epidemiology and financial sustainability. Successful efforts have sup…

  • Enhancing science preparedness for health emergencies in Africa through research capacity building

    Open AccessSamson Kinyanjui, Sharon Fonn et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

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  • Evolution of research ethics in a low resource setting

    Open AccessJoseph Ochieng, Erisa Mwaka et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2020

    BACKGROUND: The globalization of clinical research in the last two decades has led to a significant increase in the volume of clinical research in developing countries. As of 2016, Uganda was the third largest destination for clinical trials in Africa. This requires adequate capacity and systems to facilitate ethical practice. METHODS: This was a retrospective study involving review of laws, guidelines, policies and records from 1896 to date. RES…

  • Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control and predicted 10-year CVD risk

    Open AccessSamson Okello, Alfa Muhihi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2020

    In seven communities in east and west Africa, a quarter of participants had hypertension, about 40% were unaware, half of those aware were treated, and half of those treated had controlled blood pressure. The 10-year predicted CVD risk was low across sites. Access to health insurance is needed to improve awareness, treatment, and control of hypertension in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Communities and Clinical Trials

    Open AccessMachteld van den Berg, Bernhards Ogutu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Empirical Research on…2020Citada por: 1Referencias: 6

    When clinical trials enter human communities, two complex systems merge-creating challenges for the clinical trial team and the local human community. This is of particular relevance for clinical trials in low-resource settings where the resource scarcity can intensify existing inequities. Here we present a case study of a phase III malaria vaccine clinical trial. Through qualitative interviews with researchers and caregivers of pediatric partici…

  • Population-level adult mortality following the expansion of antiretroviral therapy in Rakai, Uganda

    Open AccessDorean Nabukalu, Georges Reniers et al.ARTICLEPopulation Studies2020Referencias: 30

    There are limited data on the impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on population-level adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. We analysed data for 2000-14 from the Rakai Community Cohort Study (RCCS) in Uganda, where free ART was scaled up after 2004. Using non-parametric and parametric (Weibull) survival analysis, we estimated trends in average person-years lived between exact ages 15 and 50, per capita life-years lost to HIV, and the mortalit…

  • Acceptability of HIV testing for men attending televised football venues in Uganda

    Open AccessCharles Peter Osingada, Godfrey Siu et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    This study suggests that HIV testing services at venues where EPL football games are televised is generally acceptable to men. In implementing such services, consideration should be given to preferences for external or unknown health workers and the motivating factors contributing to the use of these services. Given that HIV testing is currently not conducted in these settings, further research should be conducted to evaluate the feasibility of t…

  • Low HIV viral suppression rates following the intensive adherence counseling (IAC) program for children and adolescents with viral failure in public health facilities in Uganda

    Open AccessEsther Nasuuna, Joanita Kigozi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Suppression rates were low among ART-treated children with virological failure that completed the recommended three IAC sessions. As we move towards having 90% of ART-treated children and adolescents achieve and maintain viral suppression, there is need to re-evaluate the implementation of IAC among children and adolescents to consider both psychosocial and biological factors such as resistance testing for those with multiple detectable viral loa…

  • Reaching the First 90 in Uganda

    Open AccessKatherine Buhikire, Joachim G Vo et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2018

  • Assessing the influence of knowledge translation platforms on health system policy processes to achieve the health millennium development goals in Cameroon and Uganda

    Open AccessPierre Ongolo-Zogo, John N Lavis et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2018Citada por: 1Referencias: 54

    There is a scarcity of empirical data on the influence of initiatives supporting evidence-informed health system policy-making (EIHSP), such as the knowledge translation platforms (KTPs) operating in Africa. To assess whether and how two KTPs housed in government-affiliated institutions in Cameroon and Uganda have influenced: (1) health system policy-making processes and decisions aiming at supporting achievement of the health millennium developm…