It can now be measured. But are we closer to a cure? The road to a cure for HIV is long, winding, and with no definite end in sight. That said, a new study published in January in the journal Nature is shedding light on a way to measure what …
Read More »American funding impacts Uganda’s health sector
Stella Kabasinguzi is a mother of twins. She gave birth to the two boys by C-section at Kyenjojo Hospital in western Uganda. They arrived preterm weighing only 2kg and 1.7kg at birth and were in danger of dying if it had not been for the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit …
Read More »World’s first malaria vaccine
Children aged five to 17 months old in Kenya, Ghana, Malawi to test it Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have been chosen to test the world’s first malaria vaccine through a pilot program beginning next year, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on April 24. The vaccine, which has partial effectiveness …
Read More »