Representatives from across the Alliance gather in Botswana for the 2024 HLB-SIMPLe Annual Meeting

by April Houston | Jun 18, 2024 | Alliance Updates, Updates

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

by April Houston | Jun 12, 2024 | Alliance Updates

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,...

MAP-IT Continues Capacity Building Efforts With 7th Hypertension Academy

by April Houston | May 18, 2024 | Alliance Updates

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...

Research Coordinating Center Representatives Visit HLB-SIMPLe Projects in Uganda and Nigeria

by April Houston | May 17, 2024 | Alliance Updates

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

by April Houston | May 16, 2024 | Alliance Updates

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

by April Houston | Apr 16, 2024 | Alliance Updates

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...