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Research paper

Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda

The ways in which dimensions of health and healthcare intersect with economics and politics in particular contexts requires close attention. In this article we connect concerns about antibiotic overuse in Uganda to the social milieu created through policies that follow…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2020
Research paper

Reconciling imperatives: Clinical guidelines, antibiotic prescribing and the enactment of good care in lower-level health facilities in Tororo, Uganda.

Faced with the threat of antimicrobial resistance, health workers are urged to reduce unnecessary prescription of antimicrobials. Clinical guidelines are expected to form the basis of prescribing. Emerging through evaluations of best practice, guidelines also create benchmarks to assess practice…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2022
Thesis

Antibiotics in Society: a multi-sited ethnography in rural and urban Uganda

This thesis employed a multi-sited ethnographic approach in urban and rural settings in Uganda to study the social and economic factors that shape antibiotic use. It found that these included everyday insecurities, availability of resources, and professional and patient expectations…
Central and East Africa Hub
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
2022
Research paper

“One Man’s Meat Is Another Man’s Poison”: Marungi and Realities of Resilience in North West Uganda

Approaches to resilience in post-war contexts prioritise systems-based thinking above everyday realities. This paper explores reconstruction through marungi (khat) in North-West Uganda. Presenting ethnographic evidence, we chart connections between marungi and resilience among growers, traders and “eaters”. Firstly, we argue…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2022
Research paper

“We need good nutrition but we have no money to buy food”: sociocultural context, care experiences, and newborn health in two UNHCR-supported camps in South Sudan

Determinants of newborn health and survival exist across the reproductive life cycle, with many sociocultural and contextual factors influencing outcomes beyond the availability of, and access to, quality health services. To better understand key needs and opportunities to improve newborn…
Central and East Africa Hub
BMC International Health and Human Rights
2018
Research paper

Social norms and family planning decisions in South Sudan

With a maternal mortality ratio of 789 per 100,000 live births, and a contraceptive prevalence rate of 4.7%, South Sudan has one of the worst reproductive health situations in the world. Understanding the social norms around sexuality and reproduction, across…
Central and East Africa Hub
BMC Public Health
Research paper

Resistant Resilience: Agency and Resilience Among Refugees Resisting Humanitarian Corruption in Uganda

Resilience is a dominant humanitarian-development theme. Nonetheless, some humanitarian-development programmes have demonstrably negative impacts which encourage vulnerable people to actively resist these programmes. Based on 12 months ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan refugee settlement during 2017–18, this paper argues refugee residents…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2022
Report

“Our Hearts Have Gone Dark”: The Mental Health Impact of South Sudan’s Conflict

This report by Amnesty International describes the serious and significant mental health impact of South Sudan’s conflict to highlight the urgency for more attention and resources to improve the availability, accessibility, and quality of mental health services in the country.…
Central and East Africa Hub
Amnesty International Ltd
2016
Research paper

When kleptocracy becomes insolvent: Brute causes of the civil war in South Sudan

South Sudan obtained independence in July 2011 as a kleptocracy – a militarized, corrupt neo-patrimonial system of governance. By the time of independence, the South Sudanese “political marketplace” was so expensive that the country’s comparatively copious revenue was consumed by…
Central and East Africa Hub
Oxford University Press
2014
Research paper

Invisible Labour: The Political Economy of Reintegration in South Sudan

This article considers the 2005–12 Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) programme in South Sudan. Current DDR practice centres on ex-combatants’ reintegration through encouraging entrepreneurship and self-employment and thereby their willingness to take risks and responsibility. However, South Sudan’s DDR programme…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2014
Research paper

How the politics of fear generated chaos in South Sudan

Soon after South Sudan achieved independence in 2011, its political landscape grew increasingly volatile. It became almost impossible for international and regional actors to address one crisis before another more serious one erupted. This article combines cultural, political, economic and…
Central and East Africa Hub
Oxford University Press
2018
Research paper

Dr Livingstone, I Presume? Evangelicals, Africa and Faith-Based Humanitarianism

Humanitarianism is a principal means through which Northern-based Christian groups intervene into sub-Saharan African states. However, current scholarship neglects the agentive roles played by religious actors in the delivery of mainstream aid. This secularises humanitarian governance, “others” religious actors and…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2013
Research paper

Context Matters: The Conventional DDR Template is Challenged in South Sudan

The disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programme as implemented in South Sudan provides a perfect entry point to study the interaction between an international intervention and local contexts. The article describes and analyses the DDR programme in South Sudan as…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2013
Research paper

In the Long Run: Ugandans Living with Disability

Uganda has progressive legislation in place to support the rights of people with disabilities, and has received donor support for special education and community-based rehabilitation programs over the years. Yet while political mobilization and interventions aiming to minimize disabling conditions…
Central and East Africa Hub
The University of Chicago Press
2020
Research paper

The Framing of Malnutrition by Parliamentarians in Uganda

The quest for political commitment to reducing malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa draws attention to the role of national parliamentarians. Whereas parliamentarians have the authority to ratify legislation, monitor policies and budgets and transform behaviour, little is known about how malnutrition…
Central and East Africa Hub
Oxford University Press
2021
Research paper

Schistosomiasis messaging in endemic communities: Lessons and implications for interventions from rural Uganda, a rapid ethnographic assessment study

This study used a rapid ethnographic assessment to investigate sources, nature and perception of schistosomiasis-related health information in three lake-shore communities in Eastern Uganda. Through transect walks, observations, interviews and focus groups, the authors found that although the main source…
Central and East Africa Hub
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
2021
Research paper

Poisoning at the periphery: allocating responsibility across the Uganda/South Sudan borderlands

This paper presents ethnographic evidence from three sites across the Uganda/South Sudan borderlands. At each location, procedures to identify alleged poisoners were documented. Novel voting processes were initiated by hybrid local authorities. Addressing widespread anxiety about proximate wrong-doing seemed to…
Central and East Africa Hub
Taylor & Francis Online
2017
Research paper

Spatial accessibility to basic public health services in South Sudan

This article develops a GIS model of spatial health access metrics nationally and sub-nationally in South Sudan. Using publicly available data on health facilities, population, land cover and use, road networks and elevation, the authors found that in 2016 only…
Central and East Africa Hub
PAGEPress
2017
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