CanStaging⁺, a user-friendly tool aimed at facilitating the recording of comparable cancer staging data worldwide, has been launched. The tool has been developed by researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR), the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). CanStaging+ will facilitate the recording…
26 January 2021 – Important advances in HIV prevention research were announced today at the 4th HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P // Virtual), convened by IAS – the International AIDS Society. Highlights included findings from a pair of trials evaluating whether infusions with a broadly neutralizing antibody (bNAb) can prevent HIV acquisition and positive…
By Esther Nakkazi It is not possible to honor all the health workers, advocates, and media personnel who have died of COVID-19 but telling the story of Dr. Charles Kiggundu and Patrick Luganda may serve as a tribute to them and others. Both Dr. Charles Kiggundu and Patrick Luganda were consultants in their fields, advocates…
Regulatory review and introduction plans must be accelerated New York City, November 9, 2020— AVAC enthusiastically welcomes the news that another trial of the long-acting, injectable antiretroviral cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for HIV prevention for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has demonstrated safety and efficacy, this time among cisgender women. Today’s announcement from ViiV, the US National Institute of Allergy and…
By Esther Nakkazi Six-year-old Rahmah Kiiza is a special guest at World Cerebral Palsy day. She is in a wheelchair, on the front speakers’ row, seemingly attentive, sometimes making random noises during ongoing speeches and testimonies. Rahmah is one of 900 persons with cerebral palsy registered by the Uganda National Association of Persons…
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda developed a “COVID-19 Resource Toolkit” in collaboration with Uganda’s Ministry of Health and other partners in order to expand access to key COVID-19 information and resources across Ugandan society. The toolkit includes links to videos, public service announcements in various languages, posters, and other information on COVID-19 signs and…
The African Development Bank’s Board of Directors (www.AfDB.org) on Wednesday approved $27.33 million in grants to boost the African Union’s (AU) efforts to mobilize a continental response to curb the COVID-19 pandemic. The approval follows a meeting of the extended Bureau of the Conference of Heads of State and Government with Africa’s private sector on…
On September 30, 2020, the Voucher Plus Activity, a project of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand and improve access to quality maternal and newborn services will close. Christine Namayanja, the chief of the party spoke to Health Journalists Network in Uganda (HEJNU) about the achievements of the vouchers and the journey…
MESHA, a Kenyan based science media organization, will hold a virtual pre-conference this week from 10th-11th September 2020. The pre-conference comes ahead of the annual Africa Science journalism conference to be held in Kisumu a border town between Kenya and Uganda. MESHA will organize the event as a major African congress of science journalists where…
By HEJNU Fifty-four countries have signed up to a ground-breaking initiative, which aims to secure at least 220 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine once licensed and approved, the World Health Organisation has announced. The governments will secure the vaccine through COVAX, a global initiative that is co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations…