Philippa Musoke

Philippa Musoke is a Ugandan doctor, academic, researcher and professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, chair of the Ministry of Health, PMTCT and Pediatric Antiretroviral Therapy technical committees. In 2022, Philippa received the Golden Jubilee Medal awarded to her in recognition of outstanding service and loyalty to Uganda and for her contribution to Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) research in Uganda.

Quotes

• Not every site has the capacity to do what we do in Mulago and Kawempe.Some mothers don't start treatment at the required time.
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• Some of the women get the disease during pregnancy and they don't know about it, so they end up producing a child with HIV.Some of them take the medicine when they want This makes the viral load very high, increasing the risk of transmission to the baby.
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• If you look at the group,we follow at MUJHU,3,000,the prevalence of mother -to-child transmission of HIV is at zero percent.None of them transmitted the virus to the baby.They are on treatment and are followed regularly (by our health workers).But the national prevalence is at around 5 percent.
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