| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Household antimicrobial self-medication: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the burden, risk factors and outcomes in developing countries | BMC Public Health | 2015 | 270 |
| 2 | Depression symptoms and cognitive function among individuals with advanced HIV infection initiating HAART in Uganda | BMC Psychiatry | 2010 | 129 |
| 3 | How COVID-19 has fundamentally changed clinical research in global health | The Lancet Global Health | 2021 | 122 |
| 4 | Postpartum major depression at six weeks in primary health care: prevalence and associated factors | African Health Sciences | 2006 | 112 |
| 5 | Explanatory Models and Help-Seeking Behavior: Pathways to Psychiatric Care Among Patients Admitted for Depression in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda | Qualitative Health Research | 2007 | 108 |
| 6 | Profiles and outcome of traditional healing practices for severe mental illnesses in two districts of Eastern Uganda | Global Health Action | 2011 | 107 |
| 7 | Gender and the stigma of onchocercal skin disease in Africa | Social Science and Medicine | 2000 | 104 |
| 8 | Barriers and facilitators to the integration of mental health services into primary health care: a systematic review | Systematic Reviews | 2018 | 88 |
| 9 | The prevalence of depression in two districts of Uganda | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | 2005 | 87 |
| 10 | Comparing the accuracy of brief versus long depression screening instruments which have been validated in low and middle income countries: a systematic review | BMC Psychiatry | 2012 | 82 |
| 11 | Influence of efavirenz pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics on neuropsychological disorders in Ugandan HIV-positive patients with or without tuberculosis: a prospective cohort study | BMC Infectious Diseases | 2013 | 79 |
| 12 | Generating evidence to narrow the treatment gap for mental disorders in sub-Saharan Africa: rationale, overview and methods of AFFIRM | Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | 2015 | 77 |
| 13 | Prevalence, comorbidity and predictors of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents in rural north-eastern Uganda | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health | 2013 | 75 |
| 14 | Poverty, life events and the risk for depression in Uganda | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | 2011 | 74 |
| 15 | A Year-long Caregiver Training Program to Improve Neurocognition in Preschool Ugandan HIV-exposed Children | Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics | 2013 | 73 |
| 16 | Prevalence and factors associated with depression symptoms among school-going adolescents in Central Uganda | Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health | 2016 | 67 |
| 17 | Mental health policy process: a comparative study of Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zambia | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | 2010 | 65 |
| 18 | Neuropsychiatric Genetics of African Populations-Psychosis (NeuroGAP-Psychosis): a case-control study protocol and GWAS in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda | BMJ Open | 2019 | 65 |
| 19 | Primary Mania Versus HIV-Related Secondary Mania in Uganda | American Journal of Psychiatry | 2006 | 61 |
| 20 | War related sexual violence and it's medical and psychological consequences as seen in Kitgum, Northern Uganda: A cross-sectional study | BMC International Health and Human Rights | 2010 | 58 |
| 21 | Stakeholder perceptions of mental health stigma and poverty in Uganda | BMC International Health and Human Rights | 2009 | 57 |
| 22 | The Association between Aids Related Stigma and Major Depressive Disorder among HIV-Positive Individuals in Uganda | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 57 |
| 23 | Selecting measures for the neurodevelopmental assessment of children in low- and middle-income countries | Child Neuropsychology | 2017 | 53 |
| 24 | Symptomatic presentation with cervical cancer in Uganda: a qualitative study assessing the pathways to diagnosis in a low-income country | BMC Women's Health | 2015 | 52 |
| 25 | Undergraduate student mental health at Makerere University, Uganda | World Psychiatry | 2006 | 52 |
| 26 | Persistence of chloroquine resistance alleles in malaria endemic countries: a systematic review of burden and risk factors | Malaria Journal | 2019 | 51 |
| 27 | Epilepsy and retarded growth in a hyperendemic focus of onchocerciasis in rural western Uganda | East African Medical Journal | 1992 | 50 |
| 28 | HIV-associated cognitive impairment in sub-Saharan Africa—the potential effect of clade diversity | Nature Clinical Practice Neurology | 2007 | 49 |
| 29 | Prevalence and risk factors of depression in childhood and adolescence as seen in 4 districts of north-eastern Uganda | BMC International Health and Human Rights | 2013 | 49 |
| 30 | Low-coverage sequencing cost-effectively detects known and novel variation in underrepresented populations | American Journal of Human Genetics | 2021 | 49 |
| 31 | Psychological distress and associated factors among the attendees of traditional healing practices in Jinja and Iganga districts, Eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional study | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | 2008 | 46 |
| 32 | Burden of Depression in Outpatient HIV-Infected adults in Sub-Saharan Africa; Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | AIDS and Behavior | 2020 | 46 |
| 33 | HIV prevalence in persons with severe mental illness in Uganda: a cross-sectional hospital-based study | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | 2013 | 44 |
| 34 | Prevalence of Suicide Ideation in Two Districts of Uganda | Archives of Suicide Research | 2005 | 42 |
| 35 | Barriers to biomedical care and use of traditional medicines for treatment of cervical cancer: an exploratory qualitative study in northern U ganda | European Journal of Cancer Care | 2015 | 41 |
| 36 | Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of group support psychotherapy delivered by trained lay health workers for depression treatment among people with HIV in Uganda: a cluster-randomised trial | The Lancet Global Health | 2020 | 41 |
| 37 | Association of caregiver quality of care with neurocognitive outcomes in HIV-affected children aged 2–5 years in Uganda | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2016 | 39 |
| 38 | Effect of Caregiver Training on the Neurodevelopment of HIV-Exposed Uninfected Children and Caregiver Mental Health: A Ugandan Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial | Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics | 2017 | 38 |
| 39 | Endothelial Activation, Acute Kidney Injury, and Cognitive Impairment in Pediatric Severe Malaria | Critical Care Medicine | 2020 | 38 |
| 40 | Intimate partner violence as seen in post-conflict eastern Uganda: prevalence, risk factors and mental health consequences | BMC International Health and Human Rights | 2016 | 37 |
| 41 | Effects of Depression Alleviation on ART Adherence and HIV Clinic Attendance in Uganda, and the Mediating Roles of Self-Efficacy and Motivation | AIDS and Behavior | 2017 | 37 |
| 42 | Barriers and facilitators to the integration of mental health services into primary health care: a systematic review protocol | Systematic Reviews | 2017 | 37 |
| 43 | Perceptions of human papillomavirus vaccination of adolescent schoolgirls in western Uganda and their implications for acceptability of HPV vaccination: a qualitative study | BMC Research Notes | 2017 | 37 |
| 44 | INtegration of DEPression Treatment into HIV Care in Uganda (INDEPTH-Uganda): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial | Trials | 2014 | 36 |
| 45 | “If my husband leaves me, I will go home and suffer, so better cling to him and hide this thing”: The influence of gender on Option B+ prevention of mother-to-child transmission participation in Malawi and Uganda | PLoS ONE | 2017 | 36 |
| 46 | Psychological treatments delivered by community health workers in low-resource government health systems: effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy for caregivers of children affected by nodding syndrome in Uganda | Psychological Medicine | 2018 | 35 |
| 47 | Caregiver mental health and HIV-infected child wellness: perspectives from Ugandan caregivers | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2017 | 34 |
| 48 | The role and challenges of cluster randomised trials for global health | The Lancet Global Health | 2021 | 34 |
| 49 | Implementation and Scale-Up of Psycho-Trauma Centers in a Post-Conflict Area: A Case Study of a Private–Public Partnership in Northern Uganda | PLoS Medicine | 2013 | 33 |
| 50 | Association between coping strategies, social support, and depression and anxiety symptoms among rural Ugandan women living with HIV/AIDS | AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV | 2018 | 33 |
