“Owning our future through community engagement: enhancing uptake of COVID-19 prevention and mitigation measures” Reports to: Principal InvestigatorNature of Contract: 6 monthsDeadline for application: 11th June 2020 by 5.00pm East African Standard Time BackgroundMakerere University College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) in partnership with Makerere University College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS) with funding from […]
Since December 2019 the world has changed at a such an alarming speed and manner never experienced for over a century. All THRiVE consortium partners have been impacted in one way or another. Countries have implemented public health and health care delivery measures some of which had not been experienced for generations. They included lock […]
Thank you for the tremendous support extended to THRiVE in 2019 and we hope that you will continue the same way in 2020. We live in a world faced with numerous complex health challenges that require more than ever before international cooperation to solve them. Concurrently contemporary organizations and scientific research tend to emphasize teamwork […]
Acoording to Dr. David Meya as quoted by THEHILL, “The pandemic is testing the health systems in Africa especially around the readiness to handle public health emergencies. The capabilities of handling a large number of critically ill patients would be the most challenging especially in countries with poor health systems,” Dr. David Meya, an infectious […]
In his PhD study titled: ‘Detecting mycobacterium TB in stem cells in latent infection,’ Dr. Mayito is proposing to develop a new innovative diagnostic test for TB infection. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines Latent TB infection as a state in which individuals harbor TB-causing bacteria without evidence of manifestation of symptoms of active disease. […]
Using genes, Makerere University based Researcher Dr. Gerald Mboowa can determine how many years it will take a person living with HIV without treatment can progress into AIDS. Dubbed, ‘Functional host-genetic loci associated with pediatric HIV-disease progression in Uganda and Botswana”, his research reveals that after a person is infected with HIV, they are either […]
Message from the director Dear Reader, In this issue of THRiVE News, there are reports that illustrate how THRiVE work has greatly benefited from partnerships between academic institutions of both types namely; universities and research institutes. This issue gives us opportunity to reflect on how to make partnerships succeed. Partnerships allow diverse knowledge and partners […]
