Furthering the jet-set image we StratiGrad students seem to be getting, I spent January visiting the study sites for my PhD project. My project is a sub-study of a large transfusion trial (TRACT) taking place between 2 hospitals in eastern Uganda, so I was lucky enough to go out to set things up and get the ball rolling. A welcome side effect was missing the worst of the winter here in London, and managing to just miss the rainy season in Uganda too!
I visited the regional referral hospitals at Mbale and Soroti towns in eastern Uganda, the two sites where the sub-study will be run, spending the majority of the time in the slightly larger but significantly dustier town of Mbale.