Wellcome Trust research capacity scientific conference. Uganda in May 20 - 21, 2014.

Wellcome Trust will be hosting a research capacity scientific conference in Uganda in May 20 - 21, 2014.  The conference will showcase the breath and quality of the science outputs from the Trust’s capacity-building projects. CARTA is one among the Trust's projects.  

A call for submission of abstracts from beneficiaries of the Trust's support was floated in December 2013. This call received over 170 responses which were assessed on merit by a selection committee made up of both Wellcome Trust staff, governors and researchers. 

Several CARTA fellows submitted their abstracts for consideration whereby three were accepted for final presentation to the conference, the three, together with the titles of their abstracts and type of presentation are shown on the table below:

	Firstname	Last name	CARTA Institution	Abstract title	Presentation type
1	Anne	Khisa	The University of Nairobi	An exploratory study of reintegration of women following obstetric fistula surgery in West Pokot, Kenya.	Poster
2	Stephen Ojiambo	Wandera	Makerere University	Prevalence and correlates of disability among older Ugandans: Evidence from a national household survey	Poster
3	Simbarashe	Takuva	University of the Witwatersrand	Genetic Variation in the Vitamin D Receptor and HIV Disease Progression in a South African Cohort	Oral

The presentation is a competition with the best oral and poster presentations will receive an award.  Anne Khisa, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera and Simbarashe        Takuva will be hoping to win an award in their presentations.

CARTA at PAA 2014. Boston, Mass, May 1-3, 2014

Population Association of America, a non-profit, scientific, professional organization that promotes research on population issue held its annual meeting in Boston Massachusetts May 1-3, 2014.  The annual event brings together world leading researchers working on population issues.

7 CARTA fellows abstracts accepted for presentation.
In 2014, 7 CARTA fellows had their abstracts accepted for presentation, 6 of whom made it to the annual meeting.  These are Stephen Ojiambo Odera cohort 2, Mary Obiyan cohort 2, Joshua Akinyemi cohort 1, Nicole de Wet cohort 1, Sunday Adedini cohort 1 and Melvin Ojo Agunbiade cohort 3.  Judy Mangeni cohort 3 whose abstract was accepted for presentation would have been there but faced logistic difficulties.  The fellows were joined by CARTA Director Alex Ezeh who was there also attending the meeting together with other staff from APHRC, among them Chimaraoke Izugbara.  See select pictures taken at the meeting,

Left to right - Joshua Akinyemi, Alex Ezeh, and Sunday Adedini (extreme left)

Sunday Adedini 

Sunday Adedini and Nicole De Wet

From left Melvin Ojo Agunbiade, Stephen Ojiambo, Sunday Adedine and Joshua Akinyemi