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Support. Don't Alienate
Do not alienate your friend/relative/colleague who has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Make a choice to check on them by phone call…
Mak Staff Vaccination for COVID-19 Kicks Off
Makerere University through the University Hospital has today March 26, 2021, rolled out vaccination of its staff. This is also…
University Hospital: COVID-19 Vaccination for Staff
Makerere University Hospital in conjunction with Ministry of Health, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) and WHO will be…
Involve Stakeholders in COVID-19 Vaccine Priority Setting, Mak Bioethicists urge Government
As Uganda rolls out vaccines in an effort to kick out coronavirus, Bioethicists from Makerere University have urged…
Mak Researcher Designs “COVID Alphabet” for Awareness and Behavioral Change
With the increasingly worrying situation of the novel coronavirus and its devastating global effect, Makerere University has once…
Mak's Prof. Florence D'ujanga's COVID-19 Testimony
Prof. Florence Mutonyi D’ujanga (Right) with other members of the Senate DVCAA Search Committee, R-L: Prof. J.Y.T Mugisha…
Address Drivers of Non-compliance to COVID-19 Guidelines, Researchers Urge Government
Makerere University researchers and local leaders have asked government and other key stakeholders in refugee management to…
MAKNAI Hand Pump Automation to Eliminate COVID-19 Spread at Boreholes
MAKNAI is an acronym for the Makerere University–MAK NAyIkondo – vernacular for borehole, a prototype to automate cranking of the…
COVID-19: Handwashing Adherence Drops by 93% in Kampala Hotspots
While the practice of handwashing was feasible and adhered to at the beginning of March, it has drastically dropped by up to 92.6…
Development of Diagnostic Kit for detection of COVID-19 in Saliva
Saliva is a comfortable and quick mass sampling option [Wang et al, 2004] with demonstrated high accuracy for COVID-19 diagnosis…
Development of Portable Mask Sterilizing Pod
The mask sterilization technique being presented here utilizes a pod with heat sources powered by electricity from the onboard…
Solar Powered Sanitizer Booth for Highly infectious Pathogens
MAPRONANO ACE at Makerere University in partnership with CODEK ENGINEERING CO LTD, private company have jointly developed a…
We Trace: Mobile Contact Tracer Application for COVID-19 in Uganda
MAPRONANO ACE, Makerere University in partnership with Nanobits has developed a contact-tracing App for surveillance and real-…
Re-Usable Self sanitizing Mask
The product was developed by MAPRONANO ACE, Makerere University out of the need to prevent the medical workers battling…
Characterization of Viral load and Antibody Profiles of COVID-19 Patients in Uganda
The detection of antibodies specific to COVID-19 in specimen from Covid-19 patients can inform better patient care and management…
Accredited COVID-19 Testing Facilities in Uganda
The Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has released a list of NEW Accredited Laboratories to carry out COVID-19 testing…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 8th - 14th November 2020
Drug company Pfizer and BioNTech announced on 9th November that a Phase III study of the SARSCoV-2 vaccine candidate BNT162b2 was…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 25th October - 7th November 2020
In this week’s COVID-19 Science Summary compiled by Dr. Andrew Mujugira, read about herd immunity, household transmission and…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 18th - 24th October 2020
Explore facts on the genetic risk factors for COVID-19, mother-to-newborn transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and the risk faced by HIV…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 11th - 17th October 2020
In this week's COVID-19 Science Summary compiled by Dr. Andrew Mujugira, read about lessons learnt from Ebola and HIV, SARS-COV-2…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 5th - 10th October 2020
In this week’s Science Summary compiled by Dr Andrew Mujugira, find information about COVID-19 reinfection, symptoms duration…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 27th September - 3rd October 2020
Read about the key factors for strategies to ease lockdown restrictions, occupational risk and gender in relation to COVID-19 and…
MoH Basic Information COVID-19 Patients Home-Based Isolation and Care
What is Home Based Isolation? This is when a patient confirmed to have COVID-19 is mandated to restrict activities and movements…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 20th - 26th September 2020
This week’s #COVID19 Science Summary compiled by Dr. Andrew Mujugira explores the impact of physical distancing on incidence of…
The Effect of Covid-19 on Education in Africa and its Implications for the Use of Technology
A Survey of the Experience and Opinions of Educators and Technology Specialists
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 13th - 19th September 2020
In this week's Science Summary compiled by Dr. Andrew Mujugira, read what we know about COVID-19 in persons under 21 years and…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 6th - 12th September 2020
COVID-19 saliva test vs the nasal swab, rise in infections with the opening of US universities and vaccine trials in Russia,…
COVID-19 Prevention: Avoid These Three Cs
It will take all of us to end the COVID-19 pandemic. As you carry out your daily tasks, watch out for the 3Cs that is; Crowded…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 30th August - 5th September 2020
People with obesity have higher risk of severe COVID‐19 including hospitalization, intensive clinical care and death. A meta-…
COVID-19 IPC Refresher Training at IDI
On Monday 7th September, 2020 security and sanitation staff at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) Makerere University and…
Mak Translates COVID-19 Messages into 6 Native Languages
Language experts from Makerere University in collaboration with public health officials have translated key messages about COVID-…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 23rd-29th August 2020
This week's Summaries by Dr. Andrew Mujugira showcase mental health, immune response to COVID-19 and the significance of social…
Mak Adds Thermal Imaging, 3D Printing to Fight Against COVID-19
Makerere University under the Department of Agricultural and Bio-Systems Engineering (DABE), College of Agricultural and…
Testing Mak Staff for Coronavirus
The Makerere University Department of Microbiology and Immunology will commence free testing of staff for coronavirus with effect…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 16th-22nd August 2020
SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks in prisons are difficult to contain because of population-dense housing and limited space for medical…
Mak donates Touchless Handwashing Kits to Mulago Hospital and CHS
Makerere University has donated three Touchless Handwashing (Tw-20) Kits to Mulago National Referral Hospital and another one to…
SPICES Uganda Supports Fight Against COVID-19 in Mukono
Dr. Geofrey Musinguzi, Coordinator of the SPICES Uganda project on 20th August 2020 handed over face-masks, a temperature gun to…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 9th-15th August 2020
110 (36.3%) of 303 persons quarantined with #COVID19 in South Korea, were asymptomatic and 21 (19.1%) developed symptoms during…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 2nd-8th August 2020
The politicization of COVID has made it difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, fact from fiction. As the finger-pointing…
Mak unveils Touchless Handwashing Kit TW-20 in response to COVID-19 pandemic
15 Kits fabricated and donated to health facilities and markets Over 40,000 hand washers recorded from Kits installed in one…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 26th July-1st August 2020
Quarantine forced us to slow down in ways we hadn’t since?? Stop, reflect, and recharge. Put less pressure on yourself. There are…
IDI CAPA-CT II Partners-UNITO Publish Method Quantifying Experimental COVID-19 Drug in Blood Samples
University of Turin (UNITO) investigators, partners on the Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)-led consortium…
IDI's Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitiser Production-Kasangati HC IV
The prevailing #COVID19 outbreak led to the set up of a large scale central Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitiser Production unit at…
IDI-MoH COVID-19 Supervision Visit to Rakai
Dr. Mohammed Larmorde, IDI, Makerere University accompanied Dr. Allan Muruta, MoH on a two-day support supervision visit to Rakai…
Six Innovators Pivoting to Face COVID-19
For the past ten years, USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) has supported innovators who are developing creative,…
COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control ToT-Kampala
Today, we successfully concluded our trainings at IDI Mulago in our effort to build capacity and awareness on Infection…
COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control ToT-Mbale
Practical demonstrations during the Mbale Region Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) Trainer of Trainees training yesterday.…
COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Training by IDI-PCT
Today, the Makerere University Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)-Prevention, Care and Treatment (PCT) department held 2…
Makerere University Presents Covid-19 Intervention Model
At a press conference held today Tuesday 16th June 2020, a research team led by Makerere University presented a ‘Mathematical…
Outlook of Health Sector in COVID-19 Era
On June 6, 2020, the Team Leader, Makerere University Centre of Excellence for Maternal Newborn and Child Health (MNCH)-Assoc.…
Mak-RIF Awards 110 Researchers and Innovators to Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic
Makerere University has continued to uphold Uganda’s precautionary approaches towards responding to the novel Coronavirus (COVID…
What I Learnt About MNH Service Delivery in Rural Uganda Before COVID-19
BY BEN WENDEL | In March 2020, I got the chance to work with Prof. Waiswa and Dr. Kizito on the Centre of Excellence for Maternal…
How Luuka District is Coping With the Lockdown to Deliver MNCH Services
Support supervision for health services provision is part of the routine activities within the health systems strengthening to…
MNCH to Assess Impact of COVID-19 on RMNCAH, HIV Service Delivery in Uganda
Working with the Uganda Ministry of Health and with funding from UNICEF, the Maternal Newborn Child Health Centre of Excellence…
Report: Health and Socio-Economic Impacts of Physical Distancing in African Countries
Policy Brief: Health and Socio-Economic Impacts of Physical Distancing in African Countries
In the absence of a cure or a vaccine, countries have to rely on a suite of nonpharmaceutical interventions that include: 1)…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 23rd-29th May 2020
Chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, alone or in combination with azithromycin, are widely used for COVID-19 treatment despite no…
Mak’s Findings: Index Patients Diagnosed and Treated for COVID-19 in Uganda
On Tuesday May 26, 2020, Makerere University (Mak) Management converged to share findings from the study whose aim of was “to…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 16th-22nd May 2020
To date, 53 African countries have reported 75,498 cases (12,739 in South Africa) and 2,561 deaths. Africa's younger population…
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 9th-15th May 2020
The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared a novel COVID-19 vaccine called mRNA-1273 to begin phase 2 trials with 600…
Making Smart Dietary Decisions During this Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak
IDI CoVID-19 Science Summary 1st-8th May 2020
Of 21 patients with end-stage COVID-19 in China, 6 received convalescent plasma and 15 did not. Nineteen died; 5 of 6 in the…
Current and Emerging Diagnostic Tests Available for the novel COVID-19 global pandemic
Open Letter - by Gerald Mboowa Abstract On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization…
Mak Responds to COVID-19: Call For Applications
Uganda is taking the precautionary approach while responding to the novel COVID-19 pandemic. This means extensive social…
Coping With Provision of MNH Care During COVID-19 Lockdown in Rural Uganda
By Dr. Felix Kizito | All mothers and babies’ lives matter even in the toughest of the situations, as medical workers we ought to…
Makerere Researchers & Kiira Motors Corp complete Engineering tests on Ventilator Prototype
The team comprising Makerere researchers and engineers from Kiira Motors Corporation has completed the engineering tests on the…
Q&A Social Distancing & the COVID-19 Fight, by Prof. Rhoda Wanyenze
On April 7, 2020 Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) Professor and Dean Dr. Rhoda Wanyenze was hosted on NTV by…
What Next after the COVID-19 Pandemic?
By Nathan Okiror, MPH student, MakSPH Since the beginning of the year 2020, the commonest word being cited on nearly all media…
ICT Resources & Services for Home Use
To mitigate the impacts of COVID-19, the Directorate for ICT Support (DICTS) is endeavouring to provide continuous…
Covid-19 Infection In Children: What Should We Worry About?
Date of Publication: March 30, 2020 by Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka The total number of Covid-19 cases globally stands…
A Collaborative Effort spearheading the Development of an Open Design Low Cost Ventilator
Collaborative Effort between Makerere University, ResilientAfrica Network (RAN) a project of the School of Public Health, Kiira…
My thoughts on The 1995 Constitution and COVID-19
by Dr. Busingye Kabumba (@bkabumba)
Ministry of Health: When do you need to test for COVID19?
Message from the Ministry of Health. When do you need to test for #COVID19? Watch and share widely. Stay Home, Stay Safe…
MNCH in These Difficult Times of COVID-19; Every Effort Counts
The Coronavirus pandemic is spreading around the world, I acknowledge that our lives have been changed drastically and on a very…
Your Resilience in Managing Tough Times
Many people get worn out and overly worried during times like these when we are faced with the emergency of the Covid-19 pandemic…
919 Toll Free Number available to Call Ministry of Health
We are glad to announce that as we #fightcoronatogether, you can now call @MinofHealthUG on 919 Toll-Free for…
Important Communication from Makerere University Health Services
You are urged to observe the INFECTION PREVENTION measures highlighted by His Excellency the President of Uganda and the Ministry…
COVID-19 Quarantine and Follow-up Dilemma; Lessons from the Ebola Response
MoH Uganda COVID-19 Do's and Don'ts
BACKGROUND An outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) was declared by the People’s Republic of China on 31st December, 2019.…
MoH Uganda COVID-19 Guidelines for Safe Mass Gatherings
Mass Gatherings are characterized by the concentration of people at a specific location for a specific purpose over a set period…
MoH Uganda COVID-19 Guidelines on Self-Quarantine
What does self-quarantine mean? This is a transparent self -restriction of persons’ activities when they are not ill with COVID-…
MoH Uganda COVID-19 Guidelines on Institutional Quarantine
What is Institutional quarantine? This is a transparent restriction of persons’ activities when they are not ill with COVID-…
MoH Uganda COVID-19 Guidelines for Public Places
The world is currently faced with a pandemic of COVID-19, a new virus that spreads so fast through droplet infection especially…
MoH Uganda COVID-19 Guidelines for Burials
The world is currently faced with a pandemic of COVID-19, a new virus that spreads so fast through droplet infection especially…
MoH Uganda COVID-19 Factsheet
What is Coronavirus? This is a new virus that causes respiratory illness in people and animals and can spread from person-to-…
Ministry of Health - Important Contacts
The toll free lines are: 0800-100-066, 0800-203-033, 0800-303-033. The lines are fully active and assistance will be…
World Health Organisation is answering all your COVID-19 Questions on WhatsApp
Go to URL, and click 'Start a Conversation'
University Closure Guidelines in Compliance With Presidential Directive on COVID-19
All Staff & Students of Makerere University Reference is made to the communication from the Chairperson of Council Ref…
Mak Library Operations During COVID-19 Orchestrated Closure
The Entrance to the Main Library Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. Date taken: 4th February 2020. The Library E-Resources will…
COVID-19 Sensitisation by IDI Training & Global Security Arms
You're invited to attend and participate in the following Upcoming Event: COVID-19 Sensitisation by IDI Training…
VC's Message Following Presidential Directive to Close Schools and Institutions
Fellow Makerereans and all our Stakeholders. This afternoon, His Excellency the President of the Republic of Uganda who is also…
Research: Researchers find Coronavirus in Ugandan Bats and Camels
Kampala, Uganda | DAILY MONITOR | A research laboratory at Makerere University College of Veterinary Medicine (…
H.E. President Yoweri Museveni Addresses the Nation on the Coronavirus Epidemic
President Yoweri Museveni at State House | Credit: New Vision Address by H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic…
Uganda’s Preparedness to Prevent, Detect and Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Dean, MakSPH -Prof,Rhoda Wanyenze , The Director, AFENET-Mr.Simon Antara, Dr.Lisa Nelson, the US Centres For Disease…
Making Workplaces Ready for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
Making Workplaces Ready for Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), a training organised by the Makerere University School of Public…
IDI Hands Over PoE Equipment Worth UGX510M for Infection Control
The Minister of Health-Hon. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng (Left) inspects some of the Point of Entry (PoE) equipment worth UGX310M handed…
Mathematics of COVID-19 – Professor Tom Britton
There is a lot of discussion about what we can expect from the ongoing pandemic. Many scientists try to predict the future and…
Smokers who get COVID-19 have a higher chance of suffering more severe symptoms than their counterparts
As the COVID-19 caseload continues to rise, studies are starting show how smokers who contract the virus are more likely to…