A litany of issues preventing people in low and middle-income countries from accessing COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and treatments have been misrepresented as vaccine hesitancy, according to new report from Matahari Global Solutions, the People’s Vaccine Alliance, and the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition (ITPC). Researchers studying communities in fourteen low and middle income countries and territories…
Surgeons are now offering clients an option of having endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery, which are relatively new in Uganda but have been in existence for decades in other countries. The first laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed on a human patient was done in 1987 by the French physician Mouret. This was after 1986, following the development of a…
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…
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…
The Panel for a Global Public Health Convention (GPHC) – an independent coalition of global leaders and former heads of state, including John Mahama, Former President of Ghana – proposed a bold path forward in a new Call to Action to dramatically strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response through a new Pandemic Treaty. The panel aims to…
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…
Uganda is improving its medical oxygen demand and supply ecosystem with a national scale up implementation plan that articulates a holistic approach. The oxygen ecosystem includes liquid oxygen cylinders and concentrators, as well as the clinical engineering and technical assistance to use the technology. The government and the private sector have joined hands to improve the…
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.…
Vaccine production is a long process, while you need a recipe you also need capacity building and some privileged information shared by experts along the way as they look over your shoulder and point you to the right direction and later you demonstrate that it works on your own. Vaccine production is a serious matter…
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…