Uganda Program on Cancer and Infectious Diseases

The Uganda Program on Cancer and Infectious Diseases (UPCID), established in 2004, is a joint program between Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and the Uganda Cancer Institute.[1] The program works to understand and treat infection-related cancers in the United States and abroad.

The UPCID Clinic and Training Center is located at Makerere University Medical School on the campus of Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda.

Leadership collaboration

The collaboration was founded by Corey Casper, a physician-scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and Jackson Orem, director of the Uganda Cancer Institute.[2]

Funding

In October 2009, the United States Agency for International Development awarded a US$500,000 grant to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center to aid in the construction of the first United States cancer clinic and medical-training facility in Africa.[3][4][5]

References
  1. "Insight: Cancer in Africa: Fighting a nameless enemy". Reuters. 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  2. "In Uganda, strengthening a partnership against cancer". Fred Hutch. 2016-12-02. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  3. "Your Odds Of Surviving Cancer Depend Very Much On Where You Live". NPR.org. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  4. Journal of the National Cancer Institute: JNCI.. (2009). United States: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health. p1611
  5. "Hutchinson Center to Build First U.S. Cancer Clinic and Training Facility in Africa Thanks, in Part, to a Grant From USAID." Cancer Weekly, 10 Nov. 2009, p. 480. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A211287425/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=ebsco&xid=21763a8b. Accessed 15 May 2022.

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