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Group health education session for forest goers applying COVID-19-mandated social distancing. Photo credit: Dr. Thant Ko Ko (Defeat Malaria Project).
April 25, 2020
World Malaria Day 2020 – Continuing the Momentum to End Malaria

As countries across the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, URC continues efforts to prevent, detect, and treat malaria. On World Malaria Day, observed April 25, URC reaffirms our commitment to the global fight to end the disease. URC is leading programs to prevent and treat malaria...

Providing care at a temporary mobile military outpost in Uganda
April 21, 2020
Mobile Health Clinics – Getting HIV Treatment to the Military

Mr. Hamidu remembers the day – July 20, 2010 – when he was told he was HIV positive. Diagnosed at a public health facility in Kotido District, Uganda, he immediately started on HIV treatment. He receives care and treatment at a military outpost supported by URC’s Department of Defense HIV/AIDS...

Rosa works in the urban organic garden managed by the local government unit and a USAID RenewHealth site. Photo credit: Red Santos.
April 16, 2020
Recovery is Possible – Community-based Drug Rehabilitation in the Philippines

The URC-implemented USAID RenewHealth Project helps people who use drugs, those in recovery, and their families obtain access to information, care, self-help, and community-based rehabilitation and recovery support. The project assists local government units at 20 sites across the Philippines...

March 20, 2020
Combating Stigma to End TB: It’s Everyone’s Fight

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health challenge globally and in Uganda. In Uganda, some 89,000 people develop TB each year, with only 60,000 diagnosed. Of those diagnosed and started on treatment, only seven of ten complete treatment. A key barrier to diagnosis and treatment is stigma. In...

A health worker speaks with KI’s contacts. Credit: USAID Defeat TB
March 20, 2020
Tracking Down TB in an Urban Slum: Patient-led Contact Tracing

KI, a resident of Kisenyi, one of the largest slums in Kampala, had been out of touch with his family for several years. When he fell ill, he reached out to his sister, a health worker, who took him to Mengo Hospital, a private not-for profit hospital in Kampala, to be tested for TB.

BARMMHealth’s capacity-building efforts have prepared health workers to adapt messaging to confront the COVID-19 pandemic. Credit: BARMMHealth, URC Philippines
March 16, 2020
Supporting Response to COVID-19 While Continuing Essential Health Services

For decades URC has worked with national programs to advance efforts to combat infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), HIV, malaria, and other emerging and reemerging diseases. URC-led programs have strengthened health systems by developing polices, standards, guidelines, and the...

Earl Gast, President of URC
March 09, 2020
Earl Gast Named President of URC

Global development leader Earl Gast has been appointed the new President of University Research Co., LLC (URC). With 30 years of experience in government and private industry, Gast is a talented professional with proven expertise in the public and private sector leading strategic, results-driven...

Brenda Lakisa together with Dr. Miriam Ajambo, Medical officer at Gulu RRH neonatal unit during a community follow up visit to baby Precious at 4 months of age.
February 24, 2020
A Precious Beginning – Improving Care for Preterm Infants

The Ministry of Health’s Newborn Steering Committee and URC’s USAID Regional Health Integration to Enhance Services in North, Acholi Activity (RHITES-N. Acholi) partnered to establish functional neonatal care units (NCUs) for sick and premature infants in all Acholi districts. Under the...

Waiswa and his children use their tippy tap handwashing station
February 10, 2020
Better Sanitation and Hygiene – Better Health, Uganda

Waiswa, a peasant farmer, lives with his family in Kaliro district in East Central Uganda. Unlike other households in Kaliro, Waiswa’s home did not have a pit latrine, increasing his family’s risk of contracting diarrheal diseases due to poor sanitation practices.

Marni Laverentz
January 07, 2020
Promoting Government Ownership and Sustainability in Ghana: A Conversation with Marni Laverentz

Marni Laverentz, DrPH, recently completed a tour of duty as Chief of Party (COP) of URC’s USAID Systems for Health Project in Ghana which ended in December 2019. The five-year project left a significant legacy of strengthened health systems and improved delivery of health services. Marni took...

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