Month: March 2020

Throughout his years as an infectious disease physician and researcher, Dr. Jonathan Mayito has realized a big gap in the diagnosis of asymptomatic (latent) Tuberculosis infection and monitoring of treatment...

KAMPALA — Recent studies on HIV associated meningitis, commonly caused by the fungus, Cryptococcocus, show that close to half of those infected with this meningitis die if they don’t receive...

Visiting the University of Cambridge over the late autumn/early winter 2019 was an adventurous experience for me; leaving the comfort zone of Makerere University in Uganda, opening myself up to...

KAMPALA – It’s been three months since the Coronavirus, code-named Covid-19, emerged in China. Reports from global media giants CNN and Aljazeera as of February 17th, 2020 indicate that the global...

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. Dr. Gerald...

March is infamously known as the Kidney disease awareness month and we commemorate the World Kidney Day (WKD) every second Thursday of March. Within this month, awareness is raised about...