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    Posted on: June 5, 2017

    Tested Changes to Improve Newborn and Child health Care Services


    supports ten (10) child health collaborative sites in Gulu, Omoro and Nwoya districts, to improve ...

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    Posted on: May 31, 2017 - Short Report

    A guide to increasing TB screening amongst the fishing communities: The USAID ASSIST Project's experience from Northern Uganda


    screening in selected populations. The innovation of TB screening at landing sites was guided by the ... of clients treated for TB being from landing sites. The health workers’ observation isn’t surprising ... screening in three landing sites in Apac district. From the TB screening exercise conducted over a week’s ...

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    Posted on: March 24, 2017

    TB hunters! A revolution against TB in Northern Uganda


    Wansolo and Kiga fishing sites. Even a hunter is not always successful, but for us we have been able to ... fishing communities. In January 2017, at a site visit, I asked the in-charge of a health centre III in ... fishing/landing sites on lake Kyoga because they are so congested and housing is so poor,” he quickly replied. ...

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    Posted on: March 15, 2017 - Short Report

    Improving the Identification of HIV-positive Children in Uganda: Tested changes and how they were implemented


    apply lessons from pilot facilities to other sites. ASSIST Uganda is also working with the Ministry of ... vulnerable children and families. This document summarizes learning from 25 sites located in several ...

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    Posted on: July 27, 2015

    Improving the quality of voluntary medical male circumcision through use of the continuous quality improvement approach: A pilot in 30 PEPFAR-supported sites in Uganda


    assessments found serious gaps in performance to minimum VMMC quality standards in a number of sites.  In ... continuously improve VMMC service quality.  This article describes the initial work with 30 sites across Uganda ... records.   The article describes how the 30 site-level teams achieved large improvements in compliance with ...

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    Posted on: February 6, 2017 - Case Study

    Systematic approach to improving six-week post voluntary medical male circumcision follow-up at Moroto Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda


    to remind clients to come for follow-up, however for those who could not come to the site, their ...

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    Posted on: September 23, 2016 - Journal Articles

    Cost-effectiveness of implementing the chronic care model for HIV care in Uganda


    Uganda, randomly sampling 56 patients receiving HIV services from the three sites. We also selected about ... 46 randomly sampled patients receiving HIV services at three control sites We analyzed pre- and ...

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    Posted on: September 19, 2016

    The ASSIST Experience: Reducing rejection rate in viral load testing across 15 districts of northern Uganda


    Amolator, Alebtong, Lira, Agago and Kitgum districts to carry out on-site viral load mentorships and found ... which ART was initiated. Ten percent (2/20) of sites had no viral load kits. Ten percent (10%) of ... site was given two (2) copies of specimen rejection criteria and health facility teams were supported ...

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    Posted on: August 1, 2016 - Case Study

    Increasing viral load monitoring of people living with HIV on ART in Northern Uganda in line with the 90-90-90 global targets


    In Northern Uganda, the USAID ASSIST Project has supported Ministry of Health (MOH) sites to ...

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    Posted on: May 2, 2016 - Reports

    The effectiveness and efficiency of implementing the chronic care model for HIV care in Uganda


    from a random sample of clients receiving HIV services at any one of six sites. The intervention ... provided among workers at those sites. Overall, providers experienced improvements delivering care, and ...

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