{"id":5091,"date":"2020-06-03T14:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/?p=5091"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:20:23","slug":"scottish-experts-help-fight-covid-19-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/scottish-experts-help-fight-covid-19-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish experts help fight Covid-19 in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5092 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/06\/Photo-one-Dr-Derek-Sloan-with-infectious-diseases-colleagues-in-Kampala-Uganda-e1591003513276-1536x921-1-300x180.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr Derek Sloan is working closely with colleagues at the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in order to develop a series of adverts and programmes for Ugandan television about Covid-19.\u00a0 These broadcasts are being transmitted on national media channels and are available on-line.\u00a0 They are intended to promote evidence-based public health messaging in relation to the ongoing pandemic.\u00a0 They also directly address some myths and rumours which are circulating about Covid-19 in Kampala, and which &#8211; if left unchecked &#8211; may undermine Uganda\u2019s strong response to the threat posed by the virus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The full press release and links to the adverts can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.st-andrews.ac.uk\/archive\/scottish-experts-help-fight-covid-19-in-uganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of St Andrews news page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Derek Sloan is working closely with colleagues at the Infectious Diseases Institute at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, in order to develop a series of adverts and programmes for Ugandan television about Covid-19.\u00a0 These broadcasts are being transmitted on national media channels and are available on-line.\u00a0 They are intended to promote evidence-based public health&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,11,1],"tags":[232,306,691,1134],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-igh","category-outreach-public-engagement","category-uncategorised","tag-covid-19","tag-dr-derek-sloan","tag-makerere-university","tag-uganda"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 02:45:17","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}