MUWRP researchers start study on HIV Cure

Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) is in collaboratory network with other researchers to find a cure for HIV. An HIV cure includes both remission and eradication. Remission is the durable control of virus in the absence of any ongoing antiretroviral therapy (ART). Eradication is the complete removal of intact and rebound-competent virus. Under the HOPE Collaboratory Network, MUWRP…

Building trust in health through dialogue

In November last year the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) released a report Trust in Our Nation: Building Effective Governance and Partnership Systems for National Development. The report said in Ugandan development context, it is easy to be suspicious and cynical of one another’s motives and behaviours, a situation which is not surprising due to a…

An integrated approach of cervical cancer and schistosomiasis treatment and care present opportunities towards elimination

By Esther Nakkazi  Initiating an integrated approach for cervical cancer and Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) for affected women and girls presents an opportunity towards the World Health Organization (WHO) elimination target over the next decade.  The WHO targets to eliminate transmission of cervical cancer by 2030 and its policy brief on deworming adolescent girls and…

Defeating leukaemia cells by depriving them of energy – Animal study

A Swiss-French team from Inserm, in France that includes University of Geneva (UNIGE) scientists has discovered how to trigger apoptosis in leukaemia cells by disrupting their energy maintenance mechanism. The previously unknown mechanism could lead to the development of new therapies for treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia, which affects blood and bone marrow cells, a particularly dangerous form of cancer.…

Gene-environment interactions that drives autism evidence revealed for the first time

Scientists have provided the first evidence of the close interactions between genes and the environment in the social dysfunctions typical of autistic disorders. For the first time a team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, within the framework of the Synapsy National Centre of Competence in Research, has deciphered how a change in cell environment triggers the…

An estimated 1.2 million people died in 2019 from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, more deaths than HIV/AIDS or malaria

More than 1.2 million people – and potentially millions more – died in 2019 as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, according to the most comprehensive estimate to date of the global impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The analysis of 204 countries and territories, published in The Lancet, reveals that AMR is now a…