An Evaluation of Antibiotic Prescribing Practices in a Rural Refugee Settlement District in Uganda by Matua Bonniface, Winnie Nambatya, Kalidi Rajab

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Best practices in the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative: Perspectives of regulators and medicines manufacturers by Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda, Samvel Azatyan, Petra Doerr, Collins Agaba, Kristin N. Harper

“…To do this, we conducted interviews with key participants from four regional MRH initiatives—the East African Community (EAC), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)—as well as representatives from the pharmaceutical industry. …”
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Rwanda - Burundi: Political Dialogue as a Method of Achieving Agreement by Augustin Ndayisaba

“…In this way, the role of interregional organizations, especially the East African Community (EAC), is more significant in order to encourage both countries to engage in dialogue, taking into account that current diplomacy requires multilateralism to discuss and solve the problem. …”
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on trade balance in the East Africa Community region: evidence from a Pooled Mean Group model by Cyprian Amutabi

“…AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic posed an unprecedented shock on the demand and supply chains of commodities, thus, disrupting trade flows globally. Albeit East African Community (EAC) countries reported negative trade balances even prior to the inception of the pandemic; it remains unknown as to whether the situation significantly deteriorated in the pandemic era. …”
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Best practices in the African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative: Perspectives of regulators and medicines manufacturers. by Margareth Ndomondo-Sigonda, Samvel Azatyan, Petra Doerr, Collins Agaba, Kristin N Harper

“…To do this, we conducted interviews with key participants from four regional MRH initiatives-the East African Community (EAC), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)-as well as representatives from the pharmaceutical industry. …”
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Board structure and the likelihood of financial statement fraud. Does audit fee matter? Evidence from manufacturing firms in the East Africa community by Lucas Ekiru Kaituko, Peter Nderitu Githaiga, Stephen Kimutai Chelogoi

“…The study uses the logistic regression and a sample of 15 manufacturing firms listed within the East African Community partner states from 2007 to 2021. The Beneish M-Score is used a proxy measure of the likelihood of financial statements fraud. …”
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AN ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA’S RULES OF ORIGIN ON ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN AFRICA by Howard Chitimira, Friedrich Hamadziripi

“…Some of the prominent RECs in Africa include the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community for Central African States (ECCAS), the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). …”
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Drivers and Barriers of Digital Market Integration in East Africa: A Case Study of Rwanda and Tanzania by Stephanie Arnold

“…However, while they could collectively improve their standing by uniting behind an integrated digital market, national governments in the East African Community are reluctant to implement a single digital market, leading us to inquire: What constrains digital market integration in East Africa? …”
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Vaccination and vaccine-preventable diseases in Africa by Jean Paul Sinumvayo, Pierre Celestin Munezero, Adegboyega Taofeek Tope, Rasheed Omotayo Adeyemo, Muritala Issa Bale, Masceline Jenipher Mutsaka-Makuvaza, Tolessa Muleta Daba, Jean Baptiste Nyandwi, Lambert Nzungize, Diane Mutumwinka, Moshood O. Omotayo, Muhammad Bashir Bello, Kudirat Aderonke Adedeji, Leon Mutesa, Ahmed Adebowale Adedeji

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Mainstreaming biodiversity and wildlife management into climate change policy frameworks in selected east and southern African countries by Olga L. Kupika, Godwell Nhamo

“…Regional climate change policies such as the East African Community, Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and African Union address biodiversity and/or wildlife issues whilst the Southern African Development Community region does not have a stand-alone policy for climate change. …”
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Regional Cooperation on Shared Watercourses: The Policy and Legal Framework on Transboundary Water Resources in Mainland Tanzania by Kennedy Gastorn

“…Tanzania is located within two regional economic blocks, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the East African Community (EAC), and it also borders the eight countries of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. …”
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The State of the Power Sector in Rwanda: A Progressive Sector With Ambitious Targets by Samuel Bimenyimana, Godwin N. O. Asemota, Lingling Li

“…The Rwanda's electricity tariff was estimated to be about 22.2% more expensive, compared to the highest electricity tariff of other East African Community (EAC) countries. The reports of Electricity Access Roll-out Programme (EARP) also show that the number of new customer connections increased from 364,000 households in June 2012 to more than 700,000 households (31% of the total households in Rwanda) in 2017.…”
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A review of sustainable planning of Burundian energy sector in East Africa by Egide Manirambona, Stephen M. Talai, Stephen K. Kimutai

“…The East African Community EAC (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan) is still challenged by energy poverty for its socio-economic development. …”
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Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda; an East African public health concern by Sospeter Berling Sospeter, Okereke Promise Udohchukwu, Juvenali Ruaichi, Goodluck Nchasi, Innocent Kitandu Paul, Andrew Marvin Kanyike, Rebecca Susan Dewey

“…Adequate preparations need to be made by the healthcare authorities of the nations concerned; the government, healthcare workers, and the East‐African community as a whole have important roles to play in the effective prevention and control of the spread of Ebola virus within and across their borders.…”
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GEO-POLITICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING KENYA AND TANZANIA FOREIGN POLICY BEHAVIOR SINCE 1967 by Patrick Wakhungu JUMA, Elijah Onyango Standslause ODHIAMBO

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Time-Frequency connectedness between developing countries in the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of East Africa by Lorna Katusiime

“…The study thus applies the time-frequency connectedness measures of Diebold & Yilmaz (2012) and Baruník & Křehlík (2018) to examine return and volatility connectedness dynamics in East African Community (EAC) member states. The study found a strong interdependence among the considered EAC markets as indicated by the high values of total return and volatility spillover indices. …”
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Projecting malaria hazard from climate change in eastern Africa using large ensembles to estimate uncertainty by Joseph Leedale, Adrian M. Tompkins, Cyril Caminade, Anne E. Jones, Grigory Nikulin, Andrew P. Morse

“…While the two malaria models produce very distinct transmission patterns for the recent climate, their response to future climate change is similar in terms of sign and spatial distribution, with malaria transmission moving to higher altitudes in the East African Community (EAC) region, while transmission reduces in lowland, marginal transmission zones such as South Sudan. …”
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Beyond theatre regionalism: when does formal economic integration work in Africa? by Westerlind Wigstrom, C, Christian Westerlind Wigstrom

“…Four African customs union case studies - the East African customs union of the 1960s and 70s, the customs union of the East African Community in the 2000s, the customs union of the Economic Community of West African States and the Southern African Customs Union – lend strong empirical support to the RPS framework. …”

Physicochemical and Microbial Quality of Water from the Ugandan Stretch of the Kagera Transboundary River by Daniel Nimusiima, Denis Byamugisha, Timothy Omara, Emmanuel Ntambi

“…Measures should therefore be instituted by the East African Community member states to mitigate riverine pollution and ensure sustainable use of the Kagera transboundary river.…”
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Discrimination of honeys produced by Tanzanian stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) based on physicochemical properties and sugar profiles by Christopher Alphonce Mduda, Juma Mahmud Hussein, Masoud Hadi Muruke

“…Also, the levels of free acidity (32.05–99.95 meq/Kg), ash content (0.09–0.81 % w/w) and reducing sugars (43.79–50.82 g/100 g) in some honey samples deviated from the East African Community standards for stingless bee honey. …”
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