Uganda has confirmed an ebola outbreak in Mubende district.
Project Title: Exploring immune responses in primary and more advanced Schistosoma mansoni infection and treatment of preschool-age children using Aurora spectral flow cytometry.
The diagnosis of HIV infection has played very critical roles over the past three decades in detecting and monitoring infection as well as patient management. As technology evolved, screening, confirmatory and HIV monitoring assays have greatly improved in terms of quality and speed. Coupled with this development is the unprecedented increase in the number of test kits that are available for determining HIV status. Rapid test kits that are simple and instrument-free, are commercially available for measuring HIV antibodies.
Every year partners of the Eastern Africa Consortium for Clinical Research (EACCR3) network gather to assess progress, share best practices and challenges of implementing the project in an Annual General and scientific meeting (AGM). The first AGM was hosted by the Good Samaritan Foundation -Kilimanjaro Christian Centre (GSF-KCMC) at Kibo Palace Hotel in Arusha between 10th and 11th August 2022.
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