In a historic celebration, the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine inaugurated its 501.33 Kwp Solar PV System on 30th November 2019, at its Fajara campus. The inauguration, organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, celebrated […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and UNIDO, will inaugurate its 501.33 kWp Solar PV System on 30th November 2019, at its Fajara campus. The Project is implemented by the MRCG at LSHTM, as part of the UNIDO/GEF 5 project: “Greening the productive […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, in collaboration with the World Health Organization will host Bacteriology And External Quality Assurance Program (EQAP) Surveillance And Laboratory Training Workshop in The Gambia, from 28th October to 1st November 2019. The training will convene staff from the IB-VPD network laboratories that are supported by the […]
The Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine held an Open Day at the Brikama District Hospital on 9th October 2019, sensitise hospital staff, community leaders, local authorities, journalists and the community on the Pregnancy Interventions in Mothers Relating to Diabetes in Asian India and Low-income countries […]
Dr. Thushan de Silva, Dr. Abdul Karim Sesay, Helen Brotherton, and Prof. Beate Kampmann of the Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have received a Grand Challenges Exploration Award to develop a novel metagenomic approach to detect infectious pathogens in hospitalised preterm neonates in The Gambia. […]
The Pneumococcal Vaccine Schedules (PVS) study, is a 4 year collaborative study between MRCG at LSHTM and the Ministry of Health (MoH) The study aims to evaluate an alternative schedule for Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) compared to the current schedule. All resident infants (birth cohort ~10,000) in the Basse (URR) and Fuladu West (CRR) Demographic […]
Malaria has declined significantly in The Gambia and determining transmission dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum may help better targeting control interventions towards its elimination, according to research published in Scientific Reports. Malaria remains a significant health problem across most of Africa, despite gains made in reducing burden across most countries. To sustain these gains and accelerate […]
Despite the introduction of an increasing number of vaccines to the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), and huge government and development partners’ investments, many children globally continue to go unvaccinated by their first birthday or never complete the recommended schedule. In sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in West Africa, vaccination coverage rates are lower than in other […]
Hospital-acquired neonatal infections and AMR are a major burden in sub-Saharan Africa, and improved surveillance is required, according to a new review of 151 studies comprising data from 84534 neonates from 26 countries, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Serious bacterial infections in newborn babies – sepsis, meningitis, and pneumonia – are a leading cause […]
Bacterial sepsis is a leading cause of disease and death in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Many of the causative agents can be prevented with vaccines such as Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). The impact of these vaccines on infection needs to be monitored through surveillance. However, microbiological facilities and […]
Globally, more than 2.5 million neonatal deaths occur every year, and a third of these deaths are caused by severe bacterial diseases, which often present as sepsis. In sub-Saharan Africa, neonatal sepsis is caused primarily by Gram-positive bacteria with Staphylococcus aureus often associated with these infections. Oral azithromycin (AZI) prophylaxis has been shown to be […]
The malaria node of The West African Network of Excellence for TB, AIDS and Malaria (WANETAM-2) organized the second entomology training workshop, for 30 participants, in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso from 19th to 31st August 2019. The workshop was hosted in collaboration with the Centre d’Excellence Africain en Innovations Biotechnologiques pour l’Élimination des Maladies à Transmission […]