Today, the African Union (AU) Commission, UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria join the rest of the world to commemorate World AIDS Day 2021 under the theme “End Inequalities. End AIDS”. This year marks an important milestone as the HIV community reach 40 years since the first reported case of…
The International AIDS Society has highlighted key areas that researchers should focus on in their quest to find an HIV cure, as the world marks World AIDS Day today. Listing understanding HIV reservoirs, HIV reservoir measurement, mechanisms of virus control, targeting the immune system in addition to Cell and gene therapy as top on agenda…
Two of the four COVID-19 vaccines currently developed in Uganda are reaching the animal trial phase, while one other is one stage away. The vaccines manufactured under the Presidential Scientific Initiative on Epidemics (PRESIDE), an initiative of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni are using different technologies; One is using the ChAdOx1 also known as the Adenovirus-vectored technology, …
Despite being the most ill-planned exercise executed by the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI), the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination is the most expensive campaign carried out in the last ten years, according to officials. In the past four years, Uganda has carried out at least two mass vaccination campaigns including the Measles/Rubella and Polio…