When Norbert Mao came to Yale in 2003, he was a 36-year-old member of Parliament, representing the city of Gulu in the northern region of Uganda. At the time, the area was the epicenter of a decades-long war, and Mao was working with other...
The availability of medicines to treat chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, varies widely throughout Uganda, said Yale researchers and their collaborators in Uganda and at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. The new study reveals previously...
Twelve years ago, faculty and students from Yale and Uganda’s Makerere College of Health Sciences (MakCHS) began working and learning together with one goal: to improve patient care in Mulago National Referral Hospital (MNRH) in Kampala. During the course...
Nearly everyone has been pestered by a housefly — a dilemma easily solved with the quick deployment of a flyswatter. However, not all species of flies are so harmless or so easily dispatched.
In sub-Saharan Africa there is a vastly different, much more...