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With the increasingly worrying situation of the novel coronavirus and its devastating global effect, Makerere University has once again taken an institutional lead by designing a behavioral change…

Uganda integrated snakebite envenoming into the country’s neglected tropical disease (NTD) program and drafted the first national snakebite prevention and management strategy in 2018. But, the…

By Dr. Elizabeth Ekirapa  The COVID-19 crisis has put a lot of pressure on employers and workers generally. With the physical distancing measures achieving a sufficient reduction in COVID-19…

Although men still face challenges in testing for HIV, a recent report shows that providing them with pre-test counseling can boost their confidence to self-test for HIV. Researchers in the latest…

Dr. Christine Bukenya, study PI, and co-PI Dr. Richard Mangwi together with the study team at the dissemination event in Kololo.    Kampala —Wednesday 10/02/2021: Researchers have urged government…

12 Field Epidemiologists have graduated under the Makerere University Public Health Fellowship Program. This is after the fellows completed their two-years field disease analysis. The graduates were…

KI’s President, Ole Petter Ottersen, and Barnabas Nawangwe, Vice Chancellor at Makerere University, signed an agreement to establish the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Health on 29 January 2021…

The year 2020 marked a climax of implementation of the Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) project, a three-year program led by The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) that sought to reduce new HIV…

After a lifetime of dedicated service to MakSPH, Maxensia Walusimbi, popularly known as Maxie announced she would join retirement from the university service. This after she clocked age 60, a…

Photo: Local leaders, implementing partners, study team and government officials pose for a group photo after the REFLECT Study dissemination within Kyaka II Refugee Settlement in Kyegegwa district…

As Uganda continues to fight tirelessly to control the spread of COVID-19, results from a field-based survey in Kampala’s informal settlements have indicated that citizens have abandoned hand hygiene…

Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have not only become increasingly common in developed countries but in developing countries as well. Over time, there has been an increasing burden of NCDs in Uganda…