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Table 2 Refugee population compared to rate of facility RDT use by district, Aug 2013-Jun 2014

From: Including refugees in disease elimination: challenges observed from a sleeping sickness programme in Uganda

District

Refugee population (Jun 2014)a

# RDTs used per facility-month (Aug 2013 – Jun 2014)

# Facilities using RDTs

# Facility-months RDTs available

# RDTs used

Koboko

–

9.5

14

135

1279

Maracha

–

5.3

14

140

742

Yumbe

–

5.4

24

165

883

Arua

11,098

3.4

57

465

1563

Moyo

–

2.8

40

218

608

Amuru

–

2.5

27

135

337

Adjumani

76,043

1.2

36

176

217

  1. a Population data refers to South Sudanese refugees who came to Uganda after 15 Dec 2013 and had registered with UNHCR by 17 Jun 2014 [55]. No settlements hosting South Sudanese refugees existed outside of Adjumani and Arua Districts at this time. RDT data was shared by the programme and analysed in [38]
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