Cerebral palsy survey in Uganda fills knowledge gap
[PRESS RELEASE 2017-10-26] Cerebral palsy is more common and has higher mortality in Uganda than in high income countries. The underlying brain injury often occurs after the first month after birth, probably caused by malaria, a new population based study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and Makerere University in Uganda reports. The study, which is published in The Lancet Global Health, is the largest of its kind on cerebral palsy in Africa.Registry and epidemiological studies from high income countries (HIC) show that about ten per cent of all children have some type of