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“Escaping from Quarantine” from Quarantined: My Ordeal in Uganda’s Covid-19 Isolation Centers

Ugandan intellectual and philosopher, Jimmy Spire Ssentongo has painted a behind-the-scenes picture of how the Ugandan state handled the coronavirus disease. While the Ugandan president praised self and staff for putting the coronavirus in check through the state’s isolation centres,…
Somatosphere
2021
Blog

The Logic of Contesting States During a Crisis: Revelations from Uganda’s COVID-19 Fight

This piece examines state legitimacy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Uganda. It examines various contestations to this legitimacy, such as the Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST) student strike. The strike reveals how state institutions condition(ed) public indifference with…
Somatosphere
2021
Research paper

‘When I die, let me be the last.’ Community health worker perspectives on past Ebola and Marburg outbreaks in Uganda

This paper describes findings from interviews with health workers from three outbreaks of Ebola and Marburg virus disease.
Taylor & Francis Online
2019
Research paper

Pandemics and soft power: HIV/AIDS and Uganda on the global stage

The COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 threatened years of effort by the Chinese authorities to extend its influence around the world. As with COVID-19, HIV/AIDS presented a fundamental threat not only to countries’ internal social stability and population health, but also…
Cambridge University Press
2020
Research paper

COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement

The securitization of health is not a new phenomenon. However, global responses to the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reveal the extent to which epidemic preparedness and response is now shaped by geopolitical concerns. This commentary describes how enforcement…
Routledge
2020
Research paper

Challenges to Ebola preparedness during an ongoing outbreak: An analysis of borderland livelihoods and trust in Uganda

Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared a public health emergency of international concern on July 17, 2019. The first case to cross the border into Uganda in June 2019 demonstrates the importance of better…
PLoS ONE
2020
Research paper

Experiences of the one-health approach by the Uganda Trypanosomiasis Control Council and its secretariat in the control of zoonotic sleeping sickness in Uganda

Elimination of sleeping sickness from endemic countries like Uganda is key if the affected communities are to exploit the potential of the available human and livestock resources (production and productivity). Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, the parasite that causes acute sleeping sickness…
Elsevier
2020
Research paper

COVID-19 and Its Related Stigma A Qualitative Study Among Survivors in Kampala, Uganda

COVID-19-related stigma is gradually becoming a global problem among COVID-19 survivors with deleterious effects on quality of life. However, this social problem has received little attention in research and policy. This study aimed at exploring the COVID-19-related stigma among survivors…
American Psychological Association
2021
Research paper

Institutional vulnerabilities, COVID-19, resilience mechanisms and societal relationships in developing countries

COVID-19 pandemic challenges could be utilised as an opportunity to reform government institutions to develop resilience measures that would potentially meet contemporary and future challenges. This article highlights that the current approach of institutions has failed to meet societal need.…
International Journal of Discrimination and the Law
2021
Research paper

Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic-responses from Uganda and South Africa

Reflecting on the first 6 months of the pandemic responses in terms of refugee protection, Uganda and South Africa have taken diverging pathways. South Africa used the pandemic to start building a border fence on the border with Zimbabwe, initially…
Springer Nature
2021
Research paper

Is we they? A cross-cultural study of responses to COVID-19 updates in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda

This article delineates the material relations, routines and sensorial responses inhabited by people in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. It grounds views on a discourse of behavioural change while exploring how Ugandans, Kenyans…
Intellect
2021
Research paper

Experiences of persons in COVID-19 institutional quarantine in Uganda: a qualitative study

Quarantine has been adopted as a key public health measure to support the control of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in many countries Uganda adopted institutional quarantine for individuals suspected of exposure to severe COVID-19 to be placed in institutions…
Springer Nature
2021

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