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BBC World Service hosts an international science festival from the heart of Africa.

BBC World Service hosts an international science festival in the heart of Africa from Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, for the culmination of the What If… season.

BBC World Service hosts an international science festival in the heart of Africa from Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, for the culmination of the What If… season. We examine issues of culture, education, economics and development.

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What if Africa was the New Hub of Global Science?: Improving African health

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A newborn baby girl, daughter of a HIV-positive mother, receives an anti-retroviral drug

26/03/2013

Improving African health

BBC World Service - What if Africa was the New Hub of Global Science?, Improving African health

Four leading doctors who have all worked on Aids in Uganda, discuss how to improve Africa's health with Gareth Mitchell and Alan Kasujja.

Peter Piot, Director of the London School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Global Health, Dr Nelson Sewankambo, Professor of Medicine and Principal of the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University, Dr Alex Coutinho, Director of the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University and Professor Pontiano Kaleebu, Director of the MRC Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda, have all worked on Aids, either in the discovery of the epidemic or in researching and treating the condition. They are joined by Gareth Mitchell and Alan Kasujja in the tent at Makerere University in front of an audience to talk about three decades of Aids. They also discuss how Uganda is facing a rise in the incidence of non communicable diseases such as heart disease, cancer and stroke as well as neglected tropical infections. They also debate what needs to be done to improve the health of Africans.

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