Mildmay Uganda Hospital Doctor Wins Prestigious Joep Lange Award

Mildmay Uganda Hospital Doctor, Joseph Baluku has won the prestigious Joep Award at the end of the 14th International Conference on HIV treatment, pathogenesis, and prevention research in resource-limited settings hosted virtually from December 1st 2020.

"The Joep Lange Award for best abstracts goes to early-African investigator Dr. Joseph Baluku. Well done to you and we look forward to seeing you at the next Interest 2020 Conference," a tweet from the official conference Twitter handle read.

The Joep Lange Award is one exceptional award won by a scientist that presents the highest scoring scientific abstract at the conference by an African scientist.

Dr Baluku presented work titled, “The frequency and yield of Cryptococcal Antigen Screening among Newly Diagnosed and Anti-Retroviral Therapy Experienced HIV Patients in Rural Uganda”. He emerged the winner from a pull of over 600 Abstracts submitted by scientists involved in researching HIV treatment, pathogenesis, and prevention research in Africa.

Dr. Baluku is the Infectious Disease Physician at the Mildmay Uganda Hospital.

Who is Joep Lange?

Joseph Marie Albert "Joep" Lange was a Dutch clinical researcher specialising in HIV therapy. He served as the president of the International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004. He was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down on 17 July 2014 over Ukraine.