Makerere University Lung Institute is a champion in innovative lung health research that integrates disease prevention, clinical care and training in sub-Saharan Africa.
The iBreath training programme is an in-service training programme in the form of human resource development assistance to facilities to help them provide quality respiratory health services competently, safely and efficiently.
MLI team and stakeholders during the Fresh Air H2020 Project dissemination meeting
The research will be conducted in Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Malawi and Zimbabwe, and will involve 3,000 children aged between 12 and 14 years old who have symptoms of asthma.
Abstract Background Second-line drug resistance (SLD) among tuberculosis (TB) patients is a serious emerging challenge towards global control of the disease. We characterized SLD-resistance conferring-mutations among TB patients with rifampicin and/or isoniazid (RIF and/or INH) drug-resistance tested at the Uganda …
Makerere University Vice Chancellor Inaugurates New Lung Institute Board
Inside this issue • Preliminary study results from the COVIDEPI study • Updates from the Coronavirus Immune Therapy (COVIDIT) Study launch • How to breathe during a pandemic: implications of COVID-19 for people with chronic lung disease Click here to …
This project is part of the EDCTP2 programme supported by the European Union
EDCTP TMA Grant Award
Award number: TMA2020CDF-3194
Grant Amount: 150,000 Euros
Title: Microbiome fuels Th17 mediated airway inflammation in COPD among HIV-infected individuals
Principal investigator: Alex Kayongo, MBChB, MSc, PhD fellow, MakCHS
Makerere University Lung Institute unveils first-of-its-kind Pulmonary Function Assessment equipment
Abstract The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published the complete 2023 GOLD report, which can be freely downloaded from its webpage (www.goldcopd.org) together with a “pocket guide” and “teaching slide set” [1]. It contains important changes …