5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Among 423 patients attending Gulu Regional Referral Hospital’s eye clinic, 298 (70.4%) were diagnosed with conjunctivitis.

• 2

  The clinic-based proportion reflects convenience sampling and should not be interpreted as conjunctivitis prevalence in Northern Uganda’s general population.

• 3

  After adjustment, recent exposure to someone with conjunctivitis was associated with a 13% higher prevalence of the disease.

• 4

  Patients aged 40 years or older had a 27% lower prevalence than children aged 0 to 11 years.

• 5

  The cross-sectional study used clinical diagnoses, did not distinguish conjunctivitis subtypes, and could not establish causality.