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DGHI Director Chris Plowe and Chancellor Eugene Washington visit Eldoret

We were delighted to host Chris Plowe (DGHI Director), Eugene Washington (Chancellor), Chris Tobias (DGHI Director of Finance and Operations) and Jamie Mills (Grants and Contracts Manager) to Eldoret this week! We were able to introduce them to the wide range of collaborations and initiatives in Eldoret and most importantly introduce them to our partners here at Moi University. They were able to visit the Cardiac Care Unit at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, a group of peer counsellors working with Eve Puffer’s team, and visit our community-based cohort in Webuye, Kenya.

Dr. Plowe trying his hand at catching mosquitoes by vacuum aspiration in one of our cohort households
His catch!
Dr. Washington examining some bloodfed female anopheles mosquitoes with Eric Nalianya, one of our field researchers

    Dr. Plowe and Dr. Washington learning the finer points of identifying mosquito species by microscope

Dr. Plowe and Dr. O’Meara inspecting a sticky barrier trap for mosquitoes
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Turkana, Kenya

April 2018

Members of the ExactDx team visited Lodwar, Kenya to meet with government health officials, visit public health facilities and learn about malaria in the region. 

We visited several government and mission clinics in Turkana Central. Hoping our fact-finding mission leads to some productive partnerships and new approaches to malaria control in this challenging setting.

Dispensary 30 kilometers outside of Lodwar serving a pastoralist community near the Turkwel river
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Welcome to our students and trainees!

Last week we welcomed Verona Liao and Assumpta Nantume to Eldoret. Both are Masters of Science in Global Health students who have joined our team in Eldoret to work on their masters theses. Assumpta will be working with our EPiTOMISE team in Homa Bay and Verona will be using innovative new techniques to try and catch outdoor resting mosquitoes in Webuye. We will post more about their adventures in the coming weeks.

Looking for mosquito collection sites in Webuye
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EPiTOMISE Site initiation workshop

The EPiTOMISE study team at our soon-to-be-finished study clinic in Homa Bay, Kenya

We are making progress in our preparations to launch our study aimed at improving care for children with sickle cell anemia. The EPiTOMISE study will compare three malaria prevention drugs for reducing malaria morbidity, hospitalization and mortality in children with sickle cell disease. In malaria endemic areas, malaria is one of the major causes of death and severe disease in these children.

The Homa Bay Teaching and Referral Hospital team and the EPiTOMISE study team at our site initiation workshop in Homa Bay, Kenya.

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