Articles about 'Makerere University' | University of Cambridge

Phone-based HIV support system repurposed for COVID-19 monitoring in Uganda

22 July 2020

A cost-effective phone-based system developed by a Cambridge researcher and her Ugandan colleagues to support HIV patients has been rapidly adapted by the team to help the Ugandan Ministry of Health monitor those in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic.

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African Academics on Cambridge Research Office Capacity Building Programme

African academics collaborate on Cambridge Research Office programme

21 June 2019

Academics from across sub-Saharan Africa gathered in Cambridge this week to share knowledge and attend talks on how to build greater capacity in their research support offices.

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Balme Library, University of Ghana, Legon

Innovative and internationally competitive African research celebrated as part of the 10th anniversary of the Cambridge-Africa Programme

01 May 2018

The University of Cambridge programme supports research in Africa with 50 partner institutions across 18 countries.

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Suffering from pre-eclampsia, this young mother had to undergo a Caesarean to deliver her twin boys, seen here in the arms of her mother (Malawi)

Under pressure: the battle to have a baby in Africa

16 February 2017

A complication of pregnancy that causes the mother’s blood pressure to rise – often fatally – is more common in women of African descent than any other. Research in Uganda by African and Cambridge researchers is helping to uncover why.

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Kony 2012

The Bible as a weapon of war

08 February 2017

How do former Lord’s Resistance Army soldiers – men, women and children who have used the Bible as a weapon of war – learn to reread the scriptures once they return home? This is the puzzle facing researchers from Uganda and Cambridge.

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Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz

Cambridge has waived application fees for graduate students from most African countries

26 October 2016

The University’s policy on graduate admissions was reiterated at the opening of the third Cambridge-Africa Day

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Strolling, Uganda

"The Professor is World Cup": understanding ‘secret’ urban languages

22 April 2015

Research into a ‘playful’ and increasingly popular urban language that grew out of the necessity for criminals to hide their true intent could help organisations in Uganda communicate better with the country’s huge young population.

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