Alliance Updates
Representatives from across the Alliance gather in Botswana for the 2024 HLB-SIMPLe Annual Meeting
Representatives from all six research teams, the RCC, and the NHLBI gather in Gaborone, Botswana, for the HLB-SIMPLe Annual Meeting in May 2024. (PHOTO: RCC/April Houston) Written by Elvin Geng and April Houston. The 2024 HLB-SIMPLe Alliance Annual Meeting was...
HLB-SIMPLe’s Uganda study reaches a new milestone
A study nurse facilitates a training on hypertension care at Kakiri HCIII, a peri-urban clinic in Wakiso District, Uganda. (PHOTO: PULESA/Chelsea Lipoto) Written by Asiimwe Masika Jacqueline, Research Assistant, PULESA Uganda. The PULESA study, HLB-SIMPLe's...
MAP-IT Continues Capacity Building Efforts With 7th Hypertension Academy
MAP-IT's seventh hypertension academy workshop, hosted in April 2024 in Akwa Ibom state. (PHOTO: MAP-IT/Daniel Henry). The MAP-IT Nigeria team hosted their hypertension academy workshop in April 2024, training 121 community nurses and health extension workers...
Research Coordinating Center Representatives Visit HLB-SIMPLe Projects in Uganda and Nigeria
John Baptist Kiggundu (PULESA), Lisa de las Fuentas (RCC), Fred Semitala (PULESA), Adam Wilcox (RCC), Kenneth Schechtman (RCC), Angela Brown (RCC), and Victor Davila-Roman pose for a photo outside the IDRC office in Kampala, Uganda in April 2024. (PHOTO:...
Local and Central Government Officials Visit PULESA Study Sites
Dr. Gerald Mutungi (left) and Dr. Stephen Watiti (right) review a register to assess the extent of blood pressure screening at the Kawala Health Center III in Kampala, Uganda. (PHOTO: Courtesy of PULESA). Dr. Gerald Mutungi, commissioner for non-communicable...
HLB-SIMPLe Trainee Spotlight: Luanaledi Chunga
As the HLB-SIMPLe Alliance is large and quite dispersed geographically, we want to help you get to know some of the brilliant people who enable our groundbreaking research. This month, we are featuring Luanaledi Chunga (she goes by Naledi), a clinical research mentor...
HLB-SIMPLe Trainee Spotlight: Nomathemba Chandiwana
As the HLB-SIMPLe Alliance is large and quite dispersed geographically, we want to help you get to know some of the brilliant people who enable our groundbreaking research. This month, we are featuring Nomathemba Chandiwana, an early-stage investigator from the iHEART...
Innovative Research on HIV and NCDs Unveiled at CROI 2024
Denver was recently the focal point of groundbreaking HIV research, hosting the esteemed Conference on Opportunistic Infections and Retroviruses (CROI). This annual event, attended by over 5000 experts, showcased the latest scientific findings, with this year’s...
Building on Health System Strengths to Improve Care Delivery
Members of the MAP-IT research team gather in Uganda at the Alliance Annual Meeting in 2023. Front row, left to right: Dr. Anyiekere Ekanem, Dr. Angela Attah, Dr. Dike Ojji, Dr. Angela Aifah, Nafesa Kanneh, Shivani Mishra, Dr. Adeola Taiwo, Deborah Onakomaiya. Back...
“Let Communities Lead” – Inside the World AIDS Day Celebrations in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria
By Shivani Mishra, Daniel Henry, Taibah Alqaisi and Angela Aifah Researchers can be optimistic to a fault. We believe we can find answers to every problem and take great strides to prove it. However, when it comes to eradicating HIV/AIDS, science is not enough. HIV...