Organisation: Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP)
Duty Station: Masaka
(5 Jobs), Mpigi (3 Jobs), Kalungu (3 Jobs), Bukomasimbi (4 Jobs), Sembabule (6
Jobs), Lwengo (3 Jobs), Uganda
Reports to:
OVC/DREAMS M & E Officer
About US:
The Rakai Health
Sciences Program (RHSP) was established in 1987 as a collaboration between
researchers at Makerere, Columbia and John Hopkins Universities, the Division
of Intramural Research at the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious
diseases and the International Centre for Excellence Research (ICER). This was
as a result of the first identification of clinical AIDS in Rakai district
Uganda in 1982 by Drs. Sewankambo and Serwadda. The initiation of the Program,
then known as Rakai Project led to a series of clinical studies characterizing