Mamatha Lala - HIV Research Trust

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Pauline Byakika-Kibwika, winner of the HIVRT alumni scholarship to attend the HIV Drug Therapy Congress, Glasgow, 2018.

HIV Research Trust alumni were asked to complete a survey describing how their HIVRT scholarship had impacted their professional and academic lives allowing Trustees to better understand how it affected patient outcomes in the scholar’s home setting. The Trustees assessed all survey responses and selected Pauline to receive the above award. Her story is summarised below.

In 2010 Pauline attended a placement at Mahidol University, Thailand to obtain clinical pharmacology analytical skills to assist her in completing her PhD. Pauline’s PhD work contributed to the current knowledge on treatment of malaria in HIV-infected patients who are also receiving antiretroviral treatment. This work has been utilised and referenced by the World Health Organization in the current policy on treatment of malaria in HIV-infected individuals.

After completion of her PhD, she was promoted to Associate Professor and currently heads the Infectious Diseases Unit at the Department of Medicine of Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda where they care for those who are affected with HIV and opportunistic infections - more than 200 HIV-infected inpatients and over 300 outpatients are seen each month.

Pauline is also the Director of the Research Directorate at Makerere where her responsibilities include reviewing and guiding the research framework at the Department of Medicine and supervising Masters and PhD students’ research projects.

Mamatha Lala

Country	India
Job Title	Clinical Assistant/Pediatrician
Date of Scholarship	February-April 2010
Host Country	South Africa
Scholarship	To learn techniques and approaches in the management of children with advanced HIV infection and opportunistic infection

THE ORPHANS OF THE HIV EPIDEMIC, THE CHALLENGES FROM TODDLERHOOD TO ADOLESCENCE AND BEYOND

Mamatha Lala, Committed Communities Development Trust, Wadia Group of Hospitals, Mumbai Smiles, Society for Human and Environmental Development, Mumbai, India presented 'The orphans of the HIV epidemic, the challenges from toddlerhood to adolescence and beyond' on Monday 3 November 2014 at the 12 International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection, Glasgow, UK

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'HIV Research Trust Alumnus'
'Mamatha Lala MBBS, DNB (Pediatrics),DCH
'The orphans of the HIV epidemic, the challenges from toddlerhood to adolescence and beyond'

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