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Addressing HIV stigma through utilising the Acholi’s own local cultural system is an empowering process that will position the role of the elders back into the community.
Considerable effort has gone into improving laboratory services in many African countries. But the quality of tests is questionable.
In Uganda, essential medicines are not being stocked at facilities that need them most. This includes drugs to treat chronic diseases.
Medical circumcision in settings where there are high rates of HIV will only be successful if these interventions take into account local beliefs about circumcision.
Non-communicable diseases are skyrocketing in Kenya and Uganda. Though the countries’ governments have a responsibility to tackle the problem, individuals need to take action too.
If the vaginal ring becomes available for commercial use it will become one of the tools in the HIV prevention toolbox for women alongside female condoms and daily pre-exposure prophylaxis.
The cases of two women who died in childbirth in two different parts of Uganda are being used in a Constitutional Court battle forcing the government to fulfill its healthcare obligations.
Women who were found to have lied in a clinical trial testing anti-HIV drugs were heavily criticised. But there are several factors that drove them to lie.
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Executive Director at the Centre for Health, Human rights and Development and lecturer, Uganda Christian University
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Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center
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Director: Clinical Trials, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Anthropology and Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Social scientist, MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, Yale University
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Senior scientist, MRC/UVRI Uganda Research Unit on AIDS
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Associate Professor Johns Hopkins University, and Director of the Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Clinical Laboratories, Johns Hopkins University
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Associate research scientist in Epidemiology, Yale University
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Associate Professor, Thompson Rivers University
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Lecturer, Makerere University