The wellbeing of thousands of girls in Uganda, particularly Eastern Uganda, is at risk with reports of high repeat adolescent births in nearly three decades. A repeat adolescent birth is a second or more live birth before age 20 following a first birth before age 18 years! According to a study conducted by Dr. Dinah […]

New study highlights challenges of communities’ response towards COVID-19 mitigation measures A new study conducted by a team of researchers from Makerere University led by Prof. Nelson Sewankambo reveals that there was an increase in resentment to the new social norms imposed by the COVID-19 emergency response during the first national lockdown. Between November 2020 […]

Are you interested to learn about the prevailing attitudes and perceptions towards COVID-19 mitigation measures and community response to new social norms imposed by the emergency response? And about the short-term socioeconomic impact and community coping mechanisms? Training of Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (THRiVE) is pleased to invite you to a […]

Dear Readers,Welcome to the June 2021 issue of THRiVE News, a publication of the THRiVE consortium. This is a time when Uganda and Kenya are struggling to cope with severe phase two of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Both countries are experiencing rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 among young people leading to symptomatic and more severe disease […]

The Training The training will bring together research officers, postgraduate students and scientists who intend to understand the spatio-temporal pattern of diseases. The training aims to provide basic and intermediate understanding of data and geospatial tools and analytics for disease prediction and monitoring. Furthermore, the training will introduce the concept of system thinking and system […]

This year marks the twelfth anniversary of a formidable research collaboration between Gulu University and Training of Health Researchers into Vocational Excellence in East Africa (THRiVE) program. The story begins in 2009 when the Northern Region, Uganda was beginning to heal from more than two decades of war, challenged by vector-borne diseases such as malaria […]