Media cafe for journalists explains PrEPVacc's approach

As part of the MRC Festival of Research 2019, the MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit organized and held a very successful media café for journalists in South Western Uganda, where its Masaka field station is located and where the PrEPVacc study is being undertaken.

“As part of the interaction, we shared with 50 journalists the work being undertaken by the Unit, including PrEPVacc. Journalists said that the interaction was very helpful and would welcome similar engagement in future.”

MRC/UVRI’s Head of Communications and Engagement, Pamela Nabukenya Wairagala, said that the cafe organised in partnership with the Health Journalist Network Uganda, was intended to help journalists from both print and electronic media houses in Uganda to understand and appreciate the research process, outcomes and impact and specifically to get an overview of some of the ongoing work at the Masaka site.