Mbale KWTRP
The KWTRP is supporting the development of infrastructural capacity in Eastern Uganda in partnership with the Mbale and Soroti Regional Referral Hospitals. This work is focusing on malaria and its consequences in the region – direct morbidity and mortality and the indirect consequences of malaria including bacterial infection, malnutrition and genetic polymorphisms.
Mbale and Soroti Regional Referral Hospitals in Eastern Uganda are in areas of perennial hyper-endemic malaria transmission. Work linked with the programme began in 2008 with multi-centre studies, and we supported the PhD studies for Dr Peter Olupot-Olupot, who is now the Director of the Mbale Clinical Research Unit.
Our work focus on malaria and its consequences in the region: direct morbidity and mortality (including the emergence of blackwater fever in children in this region) and the indirect consequences of malaria including bacterial infection, malnutrition and genetic polymorphisms including sickle cell disease and G6PD deficiency