Mr. Richard Nelson looks at one of the the HMS activities at the IDRC Office - Jinja field site
USAID Mission Director was hosted by the IDRC at their
US Presidential Malaria Initiative (PMI) Uganda Housing
Modification Study Site in Buwenge, Jinja District.
PRESS RELEASE
International research partnership and EDCTP to invest €44m in next-generation antimalarials to combat drug-resistant malaria in Africa.
The 5th IDRC Malaria Research to Policy Dissemination meeting
Our Malaria Research to Policy DisseminationMeeting was attended by IDRC collaborators from Uganda's Ministry of Health, Makerere University,
the University of California SanFrancisco, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
the University of Washington, USAID, and others
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The 7th MU-UCSF-LSMTH Young Investigator Research Symposium
The Young Investigator Research Symposium held on January 27th, 2020 in Kampala Uganda.
Upcoming Investigators at the partner institutions convened to showcase presentations on Community Studies,
Anti-Microbial Resistance, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Paediatrics, and immunology/laboratory research.
World’s largest LLIN evaluation study yet, undertaken at IDRC .
World’s largest LLIN evaluation study yet, undertaken at IDRC – Children using nets with new compound less likely to have malaria parasites, a big advance as many fear world’s most effective malaria tool is faltering as resistance to insecticides rises
The LLIN Evaluation in Uganda Project (LLINEUP) / PBO Net Study released results from the largest trial ever undertaken to assess the malaria-fighting power of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), at the Annual Meeting of American Society of
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 2019. LLINs have been credited with playing the dominant role in cutting malaria deaths in half over the last 15 years, ....