The world is rethinking HIV, and @IDIMakerere is in the room.
Our team, led by @okoboi25, Head of Research, joins global experts in Rio de Janeiro for #AIDS2026. Theme: "Rethink. Rebuild. Rise.", a call to reimagine the HIV response at a defining moment.
#OneIDI#HIVResearch
๐ข The Ministry of Health has responded; only the National Drug Authority (NDA) is mandated to license drug shops in Uganda. AHPC has been directed to cease licensing drug shops with immediate effect. ๐๐บ๐ฌ #PharmacyUganda#PSU
Active case search remains one of the strongest tools in Ebola outbreak response.
Teams from AFENET and @MakSPH continue supporting surveillance, case investigation, contact tracing, and infection prevention and control activities across Kampala health facilities to strengthen early detection and prevent transmission.
#EbolaResponse #EVD #DiseaseSurveillance #FETP #PublicHealth #HealthSecurity #AFENET #UgandaHealthSecurity
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Our position on the National Drug and Health Products Authority Bill 2025, which was passed by @Parliament_Ug on 26th March, 2026.
When Birth Becomes the Most Dangerous Moment, Wanduru & the Work of Making Labour Safer
As a clinical nurse at Nakaseke Hospital in central Uganda, Phillip Wanduru (@phillwdru) watched babies who should have survived struggle for breath. Some were born still. Others cried briefly, then went silent. Many were not premature or unusually small; they were full-term babies whose lives unraveled during labour.
Those early encounters never left him. They became the questions that followed him into public health, into research, and eventually into a doctoral thesis that would confront one of Ugandaโs most persistent and preventable tragedies.
Dr. Wanduru joins fellows in the MakSPH PhD forum who concluded their doctoral journeys in 2025, and his work speaks for babies who never cried, for mothers who waited too long for help, and for health workers doing their best within strained systems. It insists that birth, while always risky, does not have to be deadly.
He completed the PhD through a collaborative programme between @Makerere and @karolinskainst
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