Stella Neema

Datos Biográficos

ID248048
NOMBREStella Neema
NOMBRESStella
APELLIDONeema
FIRMANEEMA S
AFILIACIONESMakerere University
ORCID0000-0001-8687-1525
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS32
TOTAL DE CITAS9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR32
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1997
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • How community members in Uganda perceive controlled human infection studies

    Open AccessWinfred Nazziwa, Stella Neema et al.ARTICLEResearch Ethics2026

    Controlled Human Infection studies are a new and uncommon way of conducting clinical research in low resource settings. Regardless of the supposed importance of human infection studies in advancing clinical research, there is still limited literature on community perceptions of this field of research, particularly in low-resource settings. An exploratory qualitative study involving 107 community members organized into 16 focussed groups was condu…

  • Fear-based parent-child sexual health communication in rural southwestern Uganda

    Dorcus Achen, Viola N Nyakato et al.ARTICLESex Education2025

    Fear-based sexual and reproductive health communication remains widespread in Uganda, particularly in rural communities, where it is driven not only by religious, cultural, and political ideologies but also by internalised anxieties about parental failure. This study examines how fear functions as both a protective impulse and a disciplinary strategy in parent-adolescent communication in southwestern Uganda. Using community-based participatory re…

  • Unpacking ‘irrational’ behaviours

    Open AccessOlga Loza, Mike Kesby et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2025

    Stewardship of antibiotic medicines will likely play a key role in curtailing the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) globally. In East Africa, drug sellers are a critical group for interventions because they often dispense without prescription and violate regulations designed to facilitate antibiotic stewardship. Currently, measures to tackle regulatory avoidance are often rooted in individuated cognitive-behavioural approaches that label sel…

  • An ethnographic study on the socio-cultural factors that influence adherence to mass drug administration among schoolchildren in schistosomiasis hotspots along lake albert, Hoima District, Uganda

    Open AccessPaskari Odoi, Stella Neema et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Programmatic factors that could facilitate MDA uptake include continuous health education through integration of schistosomiasis into the school curriculum in transmission hotspots and investment in provision of a pre-treatment snack to reduce side effects. Sanitation as a facilitator of MDA uptake strengthens the argument for continued and expanded integration with the WASH sector for schistosomiasis control

  • Norms of masculinity

    Dorcus Achen, Gily Coene et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2025Referencias: 31

    Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) communication between parents and children is critical for adolescent well-being but remains limited in many Sub-Saharan African contexts. This study examined how masculinity norms shape SRH communication between parents and boys in rural southwestern Uganda, where such interactions are often constrained by gender socialisation, fear-based approaches, and traditional expectations of masculinity. Using qualitat…

  • Community insights into societal causes of and solutions for schistosomiasis transmission in Lake Albert fishing villages

    Open AccessMaxson Kenneth Anyolitho, Stella Neema et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2025Referencias: 1

    Despite challenges, Lake Albert provides a significant source of livelihood to communities. Providing alternative water sources and empowering local communities through the provision of alternative livelihood strategies is critical to reducing contact with the lake. A bottom-up participatory approach to community engagement facilitates community understanding of schistosomiasis problems and allows them to devise sustainable solutions to the probl…

  • Treatment seeking behaviours, antibiotic use and relationships to multi-drug resistance

    Open AccessKeina Sado, Katherine Keenan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Antibacterial resistance (ABR) is a major public health threat. An important accelerating factor is treatment-seeking behaviour, including inappropriate antibiotic (AB) use. In many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) this includes taking ABs with and without prescription sourced from various providers, including health facilities and community drug sellers. However, investigations of complex treatment-seeking, AB use and drug resistance in …

  • Treatment seeking and antibiotic use for urinary tract infection symptoms in the time of Covid-19 in Tanzania and Uganda

    Open AccessEmmanuel Olamijuwon, Katherine Keenan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2024

    Background: There is still little empirical evidence on how the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and associated regulations may have disrupted care-seeking for non-COVID-19 conditions or affected antibiotic behaviours in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to investigate the differences in treatment-seeking behaviours and antibiotic use for urinary tract infection (UTI)-like symptoms before and during the pandemic at…

  • Ich-Mupong”, a swollen stomach

    Open AccessPaskari Odoi, Stella Neema et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

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  • Talking About Gene Drive in Uganda

    Open AccessSarah Hartley, Aleksandra Stelmach et al.ARTICLEScience Communication2024Citada por: 1Referencias: 57

    Uganda may host the world’s first field trials of gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control. Global North discourses pre-suppose African publics have access to information about gene drive and are ready to make decisions about its governance. We explore assumptions about the availability of this information in Uganda. We find a paucity of information available combined with a strong desire for information from lay publics. We discuss these findin…

  • Understanding the social and physical menstrual health environment of secondary schools in Uganda

    Open AccessAndrew Sentoogo Ssemata, Denis Ndekezi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Adolescent girls face social, psychological, and physical problems managing menstruation in schools in low-resource settings. This study aimed to evaluate the social and physical menstrual health environment of secondary schools in Wakiso and Kalungu districts, Uganda, in preparation for a subsequent menstrual health intervention trial to improve education, health and wellbeing. We conducted a qualitative rapid assessment in 75 secondary schools …

  • Situating the social sciences in responsible innovation in the global south

    Open AccessKatie Ledingham, Chris C Opesen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Responsible Innovation2023

    There has been growing attention in recent years on the potential reconfiguration of responsible innovation (RI) to increase its relevance for global challenges in the Global South. This reconfiguration will require a broad and empowered role for social scientists. Yet RI has been preoccupied with public and stakeholder inclusion, rather than social science inclusion. We probe this gap through a case study of the social sciences in the developmen…

  • A mixed-methods exploration into the resilience of community drug distributors conducting mass drug administration for preventive chemotherapy of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis in Côte d’Ivoi…

    Open AccessDaniel Dilliott, David G Addi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Volunteer community drug distributors (CDDs) have been vital to progress made in the elimination of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis; two neglected tropical diseases amenable to preventive chemotherapy (PC-NTDs). However, formative work in Côte d’Ivoire and Uganda revealed that CDDs can encounter considerable challenges during mass drug administration (MDA). CDDs must be resilient to overcome these challenges, yet little is known about the…

  • Gendered Experiences of Parent–Child Communication on Sexual and Reproductive Health Issues

    Open AccessDorcus Achen, Viola N Nyakato et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    There is need for community-based interventions to improve parent-child SRH communication to address the deeply rooted cultural and gender contexts in rural south-western Uganda

  • Level and comfort of caregiver–young adolescent communication on sexual and reproductive health

    Open AccessCecilia Akatukwasa, Viola N Nyakato et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    Overall, the level of SRH communication is low and varies according to the number of SRH topics. Caregivers' comfort with SRH communication with YAs was a significant correlate of SRH communication. This justifies the need for interventions that aim to improve caregivers' comfort with communicating with young adolescents about SRH

  • Ngutulu Kagwero (agents of change)

    Open AccessCarmen H Logie, Moses Okumu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2021

    With over 1.4 million refugees, Uganda is Sub-Saharan Africa's largest refugee-hosting nation. Bidi Bidi, Uganda's largest refugee settlement, hosts over 230,000 residents. There is a dearth of evidence-based sexual violence prevention and post-rape clinical care interventions in low- and middle-income humanitarian contexts tailored for refugee youth. Graphic medicine refers to juxtaposing images and narratives, often through using comics, to con…

  • Lokale opfattelser af den kvindelige krop og dens reproduktive rolle. Et eksempel fra Uganda

    Stella NeemaARTICLETidsskriftet Antropologi2019

    The paper deals with Banyankole women of Southwestem Uganda and examines their perceptions of the female body and its reproductive processes. Data is based on qualitative ethnographic studies carried out for a period of one year in 1992 in Southwestem Uganda. The Kinyankole interpretation of the female body is seen in the framework of the biosocial body, both as a physical and a social body with norms and core values of society to be adhered to f…

  • Postnatal Care Experiences and Barriers to Care Utilization for Home- and Facility-Delivered Newborns in Uganda and Zambia

    Open AccessEmma Sacks, Tsitsi B Masvawure et al.ARTICLEMaternal and Child Health Journal2016

  • Influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in Northern Uganda

    Open AccessBenjamin Alipanga, Maarten De Schryver et al.ARTICLEAVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus2016

    Whether post-conflict reconciliation programmes are able to change hostile behaviours is not known. This study sought to assess the influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in two communities in Northern Uganda. Four hundred and forty five adolescents within two communities, one with and the other without interventions were assessed for exposure to war-related and daily stressors and place…

  • Influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in Northern Uganda

    Open AccessBenjamin Alipanga, Maarten De Schryver et al.ARTICLEAVRUG-bulletin/Afrika Focus2016

    Whether post-conflict reconciliation programmes are able to change hostile behaviours is not known. This study sought to assess the influence of reconciliation programmes on the reconciliation attitudes of war-affected adolescents in two communities in Northern Uganda. Four hundred and forty five adolescents within two communities, one with and the other without interventions were assessed for exposure to war-related and daily stressors and place…

  • Condom use within marriage

    Pranitha Maharaj, Stella Neema et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2012

    The aim of the study is to measure trends in condom use in marital and cohabiting relationships in South Africa and Uganda. The data for the study come from two cross sectional surveys conducted in 1998 and 2008 among adult men and women and their partners in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the Jinja district, Uganda. The findings suggest that consistent condom use has risen substantially in both countries. The percentage reporting consistent con…

  • Reasons Why High Religiosity Can Co-exist with and Precipitate Discontinuation of Anti-retroviral Therapy among Different HIV Clients in Uganda

    Open AccessChristopher Tumwine, Stella Neema et al.ARTICLEReligions2012Referencias: 17

    In-depth interviews were conducted with 39 very religious people living with HIV (16 had ever and 23 had never discontinued antiretroviral therapy-ART) to assess the role of religion in these treatment decisions and in coping with HIV. Participants who had ever discontinued ART gave reasons such as: teachings and prophecies from religious leaders, and supporting Biblical scriptures all of which led them to feel that God and their faith, not ART, …

  • Acceptability of male circumcision for prevention of HIV infection among men and women in Uganda

    Lisa Albert, Lisa M Albert et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2011

    In the last decade, three randomized controlled trials in Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda have shown that medical male circumcision (MMC) reduces the sexual transmission of HIV from women to men. Objectives of this assessment were to measure acceptability of adult MMC and circumcision of children to inform policies regarding whether and how to promote MMC as an HIV prevention strategy. This mixed-method study, conducted across four Ugandan distri…

  • My partner wants a child

    Open AccessJolly Beyeza‐Kashesya, Jolly Beyeza-Kashesya et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2010

    The gender of the positive partner affects the factors associated with a desire for children. Interventions targeting sero-discordant couples should explore contraceptive choices, the cultural importance of children, and partner communication

  • Acceptability and adherence of a candidate microbicide gel among high-risk women in Africa and India

    Elizabeth Greene, Georges Batona et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2010

    Vaginal microbicides currently under development are substances that may prevent the transmission of HIV. Qualitative, in-depth post-trial interview data from a Phase III clinical trial of 6% Cellulose Sulfate microbicide gel in two sites in Africa (Uganda and Benin) and two in India (Chennai and Bagalkot) were examined in order to better understand factors that influence microbicide acceptability and adherence in a clinical trial setting. Women …