Makerere University has joined an international research consortium implementing a €3.9 million European Union-funded project to improve access to hypertension and type 2 diabetes care for an estimated 4,480 people across 160 villages in Uganda and Rwanda. The four-year project, known as BEACON-HD, will test a decentralised healthcare model that combines telemedicine, patient self-monitoring and...Read More

Professor Yoichi Mine says threats from disease, disaster and social conflict now cascade across borders, and urges data-driven, people-focused responses KAMPALA – Professor Yoichi Mine, Executive Director of the JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, delivered a lecture on human security at Makerere University, arguing that security should be judged by the...Read More