Répondre aux défis sociétaux et promouvoir le développement durable sont une préoccupation particulièrement urgente pour les universités africaines.
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Responding to societal challenges and promoting sustainable development is an especially pressing concern for African universities.
Many animal species can be detected using a simple, low tech method of collecting DNA from the environment.
White saviourism is simultaneously a state of mind and a concrete unequal power structure between the Global North and the Global South.
People are starting to notice the weather and climate, and to understand climate change better than ever before.
Young Ugandans have already fallen far behind in their learning because of COVID.
The ritual site becomes a communal classroom where songs and dances teach history, impart values and preserve cultural identity.
The non-stop four-day dance party is always controversial – this year because of threats of terrorist attacks.
Nearly three-quarters of all patients in the study were taking at least one antibiotic. This is high and could indicate overuse.
In high-income countries people at high risk of TB disease undergo screening programmes even when they have no symptoms.
It’s individuals, communities, and institutions who build the necessary confidence to pursue complex and challenging solutions to their problems.
There is more to ethnic identity than ancestral location or settlement pattern, language or family history.
HIV services must be comprehensive to ensure that people take their medication as prescribed and avoid onward transmission of the virus.
Even before the advent of COVID-19, donors had begun to exit HIV programmes with increasing frequency.
It is important that herbal medicine be checked for its safety, its potential to treat particular ailments, and to ascertain its chemical components.
There are currently 1.2 million Ugandans enrolled on antiretroviral therapy (ART). They are especially affected by the lockdown.
Uganda needs to activate the community engagement pillar and resource the new strategy that’s in place.
Sacred sites where rituals are performed by the community should be protected as living archives that house local heritage.
Museveni’s attempt to gain support in urban areas in the 2021 elections was not only about repression. But it still failed.
The giant leap in the number of people accessing HIV treatment would not have been possible without task shifting from medical doctors to less-specialised cadres such as nurses and midwives.
In some countries there appear to be mismatches between lists of essential medicines and lists of registered medicines.
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Researcher, Makerere University
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Lecturer, Department of Forestry, Biodiversity and Tourism, Makerere University
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Lecturer, Makerere University
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Lecturer, Makerere University
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Senior Lecturer of Health Systems Pharmacy and Researcher, Makerere University
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Lecturer & Researcher, Makerere University
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Professor of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University
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Lecturer, Makerere University
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Professor of Economics, Makerere University
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Lecturer, Makerere University
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PhD Fellow, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University
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Senior Research Fellow and Field Director, Makerere University Biological Field Station, Makerere University
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Senior Lecturer, Makerere University
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Lecturer in Public Health, Makerere University
