The novel Type 2 Oral Polio Vaccine (nOPV2) Project team at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) held an Open Day at the Fajikunda Health Centre on Wednesday 11th May 2022. The Open Day was held under the theme “MRC, Government & […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) held a stakeholder and results dissemination meeting on the impact of cleaning educational interventions on environmental hygiene in neonatal units in The Gambia. The meeting, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Edward […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM), in collaboration with local stakeholders, held an open day closing festival in Farafenni – North Bank Region on Tuesday 28 March 2022, to mark the end of the PRECISE Project. PRECISE (PREgnancy Care Integrating translational Science […]
0n 28th March 2022, an MRC UKRI-funded project at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) handed over a donation of cleaning materials and products worth over £1000 the maternity and neonatal wards of the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital (EFSTH). The study, […]
On 5th March 2022, the Wellbeing Committee at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) presented a donation of Eighty Thousand Dalasis (GMD 80,000) to Ms. Madeleine Demba, in support of her fundraising for breast cancer treatment. Madeleine worked as an intern at […]
The Malaria Population Biology (MPB) Group at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI) has concluded an intensive training on amplicon sequencing for Genomic Surveillance of Malaria (GSM) at the Unit’s campus in Fajara. The […]
The Clinical Services Department (CSD) at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) in collaboration with Worldwide Radiology-UK successfully delivered its first remote clinical X-ray meeting with a radiologist in the UK this March. This initiative is part of the CSD’s routine monthly […]
International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8th March every year, globally. In many parts of the world, the month of March is also recognised as Women’s History Month, with initiatives to recognise, honour, and celebrate the contributions of women around the world. The MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM has commemorated IWD every year, […]
The Malaria Population Biology (MPB) Group at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) held an intensive training on Ex-vivo drug sensitivity testing for the most deadly malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, from 14th to 18th February 2022. The week-long training was funded by […]
The Childhood Tuberculosis (TB) Sequel Project team at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (MRCG at LSHTM) has concluded a stakeholders’ meeting and capacity building training for health care workers, on “life after childhood TB”. The training, organised in collaboration with the Gambia National Leprosy […]
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a leading cause of death around the world, with the highest burdens in low-resource settings. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that AMR is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. Researchers at the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene […]
The burden of malaria in The Gambia has substantially declined over the past two decades. However, the transmission of the disease persists, especially in the eastern part of the country. The vision of the World Health Organization and the global malaria community is a world free of malaria. Countries can accelerate efforts toward elimination by […]