
Peter
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Acute Medic / Home educator / Medical Educationalist / GP / Dad to 5 / Sometimes Runner & cyclist / Africa / Global health
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22-08-2018 15:39:52
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As we conclude #championsTraining it's great to meet Ministry of Health- Uganda midwife Ritah Niwamanya, welcome to the APT-Sepsis team as we continue partnering with Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme & Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. To our APT-Sepsis Maternal Health Champions welcome. Looking forward to partnering with you


Great to see Catriona Waitt receiving the Dolores Shockley Diversity & Inclusion in Clinical Research Award #ASCPT2024. for work building evidence for the medication we use in pregnant & breastfeeding mothers. Looking forward to better evidence to use in SAM Online.


As we finish our final APT-Sepsis #MaternalHealthChampions training lead by Peace Okwaro, the support from Ministry of Health- Uganda has been excellent, lwasa joel & others share insights from both midwifery & O&G, as we seek to reduce #MaternalSepsis with Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme




Delighted that Catriona Waitt today celebrates her silver wedding anniversary, and can still look as young and beautiful as ever, in her timeless wedding dress. Here's to the next 25 years!


Prof Catriona Waitt introduces the training session to improve storytelling and filming training Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University. How can we better share the successes at challenges of our projects with funders, participants, government# Ministry of Health- Uganda and the communities we work with?


Waiting for Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus & #WHO decision around #Mpox it's crucial we treat this outbreak with the same concern given worldwide in 2022. Currently within Africa but increasing cases means it will continue to spread. Let's ensure equity in our response. Dr. Nahid Bhadelia Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA



Great to be visiting APT-Sepsis sites with Peace Okwaro the week following the #UgandanSafeMotherhood conference. Visiting sites in the North West of Uganda & seeing the hard work and dedication of midwives eager to bring about change and reduce maternal mortality Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University


Today we manage to get the whole Uganda APT-Sepsis Team together as we reflect on the study so far and plan for the next 6 months. Great to learn from each other and seek to strengthen the team and our outcomes to improve maternal health in Uganda . Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme


Well done Ministry of Health- Uganda for detection of #EbolaSudan. Now comes the hard work of detection & containment. We know you have excellent personnel and tools to initiate this important work. Dilemma is a double outbreak with #Mpox currently. Which will add to pressures on facilities

How telling that this is published on the day an outbreak of #Ebola #SudanVirus is declared in Uganda. We now need to ensure we include these women in therapeutic trials World Health Organization (WHO) Ministry of Health- Uganda to identify an effective treatment and vaccine. Dr. Nahid Bhadelia

Well done. Really important research and has the potential to save lives and give evidence of effectiveness Ministry of Health- Uganda Bruce Kirenga have pregnant and breastfeeding mothers been included in the study as potentially high risk group. Catriona Waitt

Supporting APT-Sepsis Prisca inspires and empowers those she works with. Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University

Delighted to celebrate the work of our Ministry of Health- Uganda midwives who have supported APT-Sepsis & Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University in collecting data for 158,000 births at 29 sites across Uganda. Seeking to reduce maternal mortality through 3 key evidence based interventions. Well done.


What does the community advisory board add? Great value, personal knowledge, voices of the community, this morning APT-Sepsis shares updates, explores views & listens. Hearing ideas on sharing results with our community to support with safe childbirth & reduced risk of infection


