The 30th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)showed an energized field- with scientific advances galvanizing research across a host of disease areas. The findings highlighted in this round up offer a look at standout research — and, at AVAC, we know it must be matched with informed advocacy. Scroll down to learn about new interventions for…
Some of the world’s leading experts on vaccines are discussing vaccine innovation at this year’s World Innovation Summit for Health, taking place in Doha, Qatar, in a hybrid format (physical and virtual attendance) on October 4-6, 2022. Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist at World Health Organization (WHO); Dr. Jerome Kim, Director General of the International…
73 percent of Nigeria’s healthcare workers have stated that a lack of financial support will be one of the biggest threats to their national health system in the event of a new global health emergency in the next five years, a global survey has shown. The study, by YouGov on behalf of the World Innovation…
By AVAC team AVAC’s Look Back at Montreal Racism, and colonialism Daily Maverick (South Africa) reports on the protest at the opening session: Activists took over the stage at the opening of the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal, Canada, last week to protest against the refusal of visas to hundreds of delegates, primarily from Africa,…
Uganda private healthcare providers want a mindset shift perception about them from a profit centre to a partner in providing health care. Speaking to Health Journalists Network members during a boot camp held in Kampala, Grace Kiwanuka Ssali, the Executive Director of Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) an umbrella body for private health providers said the private…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has issued a license allowing two pairs of humanised mice needed in the making of the homegrown Uganda COVID-19 vaccine to be ferried into the country. The triple immunodeficient humanised mice model was developed by scientists to lead to a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the…
As part of JHR’s ‘ Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project, JHR’s media partner Health Journalists Network Uganda (HEJNU), led by Esther Nakkazi and supported by JHR Regional Coordinator Siyabulela Mandela, invited three speakers, Dr. Monica Musenero, Presidential advisor on Covid19, Robert Sempala, the Executive Director of Uganda Human Rights For Journalists and Paul Wasswa, Programs…
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…
There is a haze surrounding COVID-19 in the media at a time when the public looks to us to help them understand what scientists are saying. The imperative is that journalists need to rapidly cultivate greater clarity about: How science works How scientists can differ in translating certainties/uncertainties in the evolving science of COVID 19…