This year’s World AIDS Day is like no other. It is being celebrated amidst another pandemic, COVID-19, which has swept across the world, devastating health systems. The novel coronavirus pandemic is showing us just how interconnected global health is with other critical issues such as social and economic inequalities. However, as the world turns its […]
THRiVE is pleased to announce the upcoming PhD defense for Dr. Daniel Semakula, the Information and Knowledge Translation officer. This defense is scheduled to happen on December 2 2020 via zoom at 12:15PM. Dr. Semakula will defend his dissertation titled: “Improving critical thinking about treatment claims, evidence and choices. Development and evaluation of an intervention […]
Dear Reader,The week of September 21-25, 2020 was a global Fungal Disease Awareness Week but perhaps this fact wasn’t realized by some readers. THRiVE recognizes the importance of fungal diseases and two of our fellows have made it their lifelong commitment to carry on life saving research. They are recognized nationally and internationally for their […]
RACHEAL NINSIIMA Before the outbreak of COVID-19, THRiVE was planning to hold face-to-face mentorship sessions between PHD fellows and their supervisors. But when the pandemic caused educational institutions to shut down and restricted physical meetings, there was need to rethink the Fellows’ Presentation and Mentorship Sessions. A seismic shift happened and the sessions went virtual. […]
Editorial Dear Reader,In this issue of THRiVE News, there are articles on the COVID-19 pandemic and some that are not.It is understandable why researchers and research institutions have taken great interest and mobilized internal and external resources, time and finances to address this crisis. The articles not related to COVID should remind us that the […]
Researchers call for increased community engagement to tackle COVID Emergency situations are often fraught with uncertainty and increased stress and strain on local communities. Lessons from previous outbreaks such as Ebola show that people feared going to health facilities for treatment because of misinformation, mistrust and misunderstanding among affected communities. Moreover, initial response efforts tended […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Message from the Director THRiVE-2 commends its fellows for writing nearly all articles in this issue of THRiVE News. Some researchers, however, have no drive to write articles for this newsletter. Yet, sharing ideas, research findings and experiences is a key aspect of good science and it is beneficial to researcher and the readers. The fellows’ […]
