Affiliation: World Health Organization
- A qualitative analysis of vaccine safety perceptions and concerns among caretakers in UgandaFiona Braka
World Health Organization, Uganda Country Office, Kampala, Uganda
Matern Child Health J 16:1045-52. 2012..Concerns and misconceptions about vaccination still exist among caretakers in Uganda and influence decisions to vaccinate. Effective inter personal communication initiated by HCWs towards caretakers is needed...
- Hepatitis B infection among health workers in Uganda: evidence of the need for health worker protectionFiona Braka
World Health Organization Country Office, Kampala, Uganda
Vaccine 24:6930-7. 2006..98% of health workers are willing to be vaccinated. These results confirm the need for protection and vaccination of health workers in Uganda against hepatitis B...
- Achieving measles control: lessons from the 2002-06 measles control strategy for UgandaWilliam B Mbabazi
IDSR EPI Surveillance Officer, WHO Uganda Country Office, P O Box 24578, Kampala, Uganda
Health Policy Plan 24:261-9. 2009..Measles control can be sustained and the inter-epidemic interval lengthened by offering an early second opportunity for measles vaccination through other health delivery strategies...
- Surveillance for Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in children aged <5 years: implications for immunization in UgandaAnnet Kisakye
Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda
Clin Infect Dis 48:S153-61. 2009..Twenty-five isolates (83%) had intermediate resistance to penicillin but none were fully resistant. Pneumococcal meningitis is common and severe in Uganda, indicating a role for the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine...
- Exposure of Ugandan health personnel to measles and rubella: evidence of the need for health worker vaccinationRosamund F Lewis
World Health Organization, Kampala, Uganda
Vaccine 24:6924-9. 2006..Increasing age and longer duration of service increased the risk of rubella infection. A national policy on health worker protection should include immunisation against vaccine-preventable diseases upon entry to training...
- Action for child survival: elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis in UgandaRosamund F Lewis
Uganda Country Office, World Health Organization, Kampala, Uganda
Bull World Health Organ 86:292-301. 2008..To guide immunization policy, we determined the public health benefit of introducing Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine in Uganda and estimated the vaccine effectiveness...