Damazo T Kadengye

Datos Biográficos

ID7767360
NOMBREDamazo T Kadengye
NOMBRESDamazo T
APELLIDOKadengye
FIRMAKADENGYE D T
AFILIACIONESAfrican Population and Health Research Center
ORCID0000-0001-7586-4928
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS16
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR14
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Data science without borders

    Open AccessAgnes Kiragga, Agnes N Kiragga et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Effective public health data science in Africa requires a comprehensive understanding of institutional capabilities across multiple dimensions. This study conducted a multidimensional assessment of three African health institutions to examine the availability of health data, healthcare training, data governance needs, and infrastructure capabilities, to inform the use of data science tools to address health challenges. Methods: The st…

  • Use of tobacco and nicotine products among adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Open AccessLyagamula Kisia, Shukri F Mohamed et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: The use of tobacco among adolescents in low- and middle-income countries is a public health issue of concern. The tobacco industry's aggressive marketing tactics target young people in African countries, leading to early initiation of tobacco use. While existing evidence focuses on 13-15-year-olds, data from Sub-Saharan Africa indicates that smoking initiation ranges from as young as 7 years old to around 16 years old. The lack of d…

  • Examining gender as an issue of policy priority

    Open AccessHenry Owoko Odero, Doris Kwesiga et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Despite global and national commitments to gender equity, including Sustainable Development Goal 5, health policy processes often fail to adequately integrate gender considerations. This study explores how gender is prioritized in the development and implementation of four Kenyan Health Policy Implementation Strategies (HPIS), offering insight into the role of institutional actors, policy framing, and contextual factors. Methods: A qu…

  • Factors associated with self-reported diagnosis of depression in Kenya

    Open AccessEvans Omondi, Wingston Ng’ambi et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The proportion of participants who self-reported depression was low. Besides, there was a considerable variation in self-reported depression across different counties in Kenya. Furthermore, there was variability in depression among different socio-demographic groups. Therefore, there is a need to target mental health interventions to persons with chronic conditions and those in middle economic class as they are greatly affected with depression

  • Gendered socio-economic and mental health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic among adults living in selected informal settlements in Kenya

    Open AccessDaniel Mwanga, Daniel M Mwanga et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background COVID-19 pandemic had devastating socio-economic and health effects, including mental health. This study examines the intersectionality between gender and mental health outcomes among Kenyan adults in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kisumu, and Kilifi Counties during the COVID-19 crisis. This is necessary to inform mental health response in case of another pandemic. Methods We analyzed data collected in a longitudinal survey between J…

  • Our program manager is a woman for the first time”

    Open AccessSally Atieno Odunga, Henry Owoko Odero et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2024

    We call upon health-sector organisations in Kenya to offer continuous policy sensitisation sessions to their staff and be deliberate in having supportive policies and other pragmatic interventions beyond policies such as training and mentorship that can enable women's career progression

  • Attitudes and perceptions towards epilepsy in an onchocerciasis-endemic region of Tanzania

    Open AccessVivian P Mushi, Winifrida Kidima et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    Despite high awareness of epilepsy, there is insufficient understanding, negative attitudes, and perceptions, including misconceptions and stigma about this neurologic condition. Community-based education programmes are essential for promoting proper healthcare-seeking behaviour and dispelling myths

  • Sars-CoV-2 incidence monitoring and statistical estimation of the basic and time-varying reproduction number at the early onset of the pandemic in 45 sub-Saharan African countries

    Open AccessMichael Safo Oduro, Seth Arhin-Donkor et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    The world battled to defeat a novel coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19), a respiratory illness that is transmitted from person to person through contacts with droplets from infected persons. Despite efforts to disseminate preventable messages and adoption of mitigation strategies by governments and the World Health Organization (WHO), transmission spread globally. An accurate assessment of the transmissibility of the coronavirus remained a …

  • Factors associated with viral load suppression among orphans and vulnerable children and adolescents living with HIV in Kenya

    Open AccessBrian Onyango, Rose Mokaya et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    While tremendous progress has been made on attaining HIV treatment goals (95-95-95), children’s viral load suppression remains a challenge particularly among the orphans and vulnerable groups. In Sub Saharan Africa, there is limited evidence of specific interventions in orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programs to support children and adolescents living with HIV (CALHIV) to attain durable viral load suppression. Through a large OVC cohort, t…

  • Determinants of contraceptive use among women 0–23 months postpartum in Kitui County, Kenya

    Open AccessZeyu Zheng, Lilian Mutea et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The risk of unintended pregnancy is high in the postpartum period, especially during the first year of delivery. Yet, short birth intervals are associated with increased risk of adverse maternal and infant outcomes. In Kenya, despite women having multiple contacts with healthcare providers during their pregnancy and postpartum journeys, uptake of contraceptives during the postpartum period remains low. We examine factors that determine contracept…

  • Measuring misclassification of Covid-19 as garbage codes

    Open AccessElisabeth Barboza França, Lenice Harumi Ishitani et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    The purpose of this article is to quantify the amount of misclassification of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) mortality occurring in hospitals and other health facilities in selected cities in Brazil, discuss potential factors contributing to this misclassification, and consider the implications for vital statistics. Hospital deaths assigned to causes classified as garbage code (GC) COVID-related cases (severe acute respiratory syndrome, …

  • Understating the barriers to achievement of the Unaids 90–90–90 goal in Tanzania using a population-based HIV impact assessment survey 2016–2017

    Y Wang, Sylvia Kiwuwa-Muyingo et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2022

    The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and partners launched the 90-90-90 targets. We used Tanzania HIV Impact Survey (THIS) data in 2017 to study the barriers to achieve 90-90-90 targets. THIS was a population-based survey with a stratified multistage stage sampling design. We used weighted logistic regression to associate three targets with socio-demographics, HIV-related discrimination, fear and shame. We defined HIV awareness…

  • Accessing HIV care may lead to earlier ascertainment of comorbidities in health care clients in Khayelitsha, Cape Town

    Open AccessRichard Osei‐Yeboah, Tsaone Tamuhla et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2021

    Successful antiretroviral rollout in South Africa has greatly increased the health of the HIV-positive population, and morbidity and mortality in PLHIV can increasingly be attributed to comorbidities rather than HIV/AIDS directly. Understanding this disease burden can inform health care planning for a growing population of ageing PLHIV. Anonymized routine administrative health data were analysed for all adults who accessed public health care in 2…

  • Prevalence of depressive symptoms and associated factors among adolescents living with HIV/Aids in South Western Uganda

    Elizabeth Kemigisha, Brian C Zanoni et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2019

    Adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) are prone to depression, which can have detrimental effects including disease progression, poor treatment adherence and mortality. We aimed to determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms and their associated factors among ALHIV in Uganda. We conducted a cross-sectional survey among ALHIV (10-19 years) attending urban and rural clinics in Mbarara, Uganda between March and May 2017. Presence of depressive sym…

  • Social intolerance, risky sexual behaviors and their association with HIV knowledge among Ugandan adults

    Damazo T Kadengye, Shona DalalARTICLEAIDS Care2019

    Understanding the link between HIV knowledge, risky sexual behaviors, and social intolerance such as stigma and discrimination is important for HIV prevention and treatment program planning. We investigated whether intolerant attitudes and practices among Ugandan adults were associated with HIV-transmission knowledge. We analyzed data from a nationally representative population-based household survey, the 2011 Uganda AIDS Indicator Survey. A tota…

  • The knowledge-risk-behaviour continuum among young Ugandans

    Open AccessRaquel Palomino González, Damazo T Kadengye et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    Despite high general SRH/HIV knowledge and perceived risk of pregnancy and HIV, risky sexual behaviour among young Ugandans remains high. Effectiveness gaps in the integrated SRH/HIV response for young people should be addressed and targeted interventions focused on holistic prevention at individual level through information, risk awareness, and skill development should be combined with interventions targeting social structures affecting individu…