Today the President met at his Rwakitura home with a delegation led by the Hon. Minister of Health, which included the UVRI team led by the Director Prof Pontiano Kaleebu, a team of Oxitec led by its CEO, Dr. Grey Frandsen, and Mr. Echodu Calvin, the Founder and Executive Director of Pilgrim Uganda.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified Ugandans who would like to compete for an PhD fellowship opportunity through the GIISER project within the Viral Pathogens Theme. The GIISER project is Global Immunology & Immune Sequencing for Epidemic Response, funded by the Bill and Gates Foundation and coordinated by MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified Ugandans who would like to compete for an MSc fellowship opportunity through the GIISER project within the Viral Pathogens Theme. The GIISER project is Global Immunology and Immune Sequencing for Epidemic Response, funded by the Bill and Gates Foundation and coordinated by the MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit.
Let us join the rest of the world in celebrating the world's Aids Day as we increase awareness of the available HIV prevention strategies for all ages. True:'Let the communities lead'.
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The Hypovax consortium (www.hypovax.org) has been established at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in The Netherlands to address the recognized challenge of differences in vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy between countries, and between populations within countries.
UVRI, which started the research project in 2016, says it is in the process of returning the mosquito species from a US laboratory.
https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/scientists-move-to-breed-...
The Monitoring Training course was held from 28th August to 1st September 2023 at Uganda Virus Research Institute- International AIDS Vaccine Initiative premises. It aimed at equipping participants with comprehensive insights into effective monitoring practices within the context of clinical research.
The global community has failed to reduce the rate of infection among teenagers at the same rate as infection among adults despite Fast-Track targets to terminate the AIDS epidemic by 2030. In actuality, the rate of progress is three times slower. AIDS is the number one killer of people in this age range in several regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa (UNICEF 2019).
