On Thursday 29th April 2010, Sukuta Health Centre opened its doors to the community and other key stakeholders in a programme themed ‘Working Together with the Community: Novel Vaccine Studies’.The

Vaccines are known to be a cheap, safe and effective method of saving lives.

Recently, Dr Assan Jaye received the welcome news that he, together with colleagues from Dakar and Bissau, won a 1.8 million Canadian dollar capacity building grant from the Global Health Research

Friday 12th February 2010 marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in the long-standing partnership between the Medical Research Council and the University of The Gambia.

The MRC unit in The Gambia has outlined new plans for the next five years, which will include focusing its science on three new themed areas: Child Survival, Disease Control and Elimination, and

Every 15 seconds, a child somewhere in the world dies of pneumonia.

Trials of a screen-based malaria prevention programme in 500 homes in The Gambia have led to a 50 per cent reduction in malaria transmission and anaemia in children.

Research across the world is changing due to large investments in science and innovation in developing economies.

The reported dramatic decline* in malaria in The Gambia over the last ten years has rekindled interest and hope in the possibility of eliminating the disease from the country.

Human capacity building is at the root of everything MRC (UK) The Gambia wants to achieve; it underpins development in general and the scientific breakthroughs The Unit has enjoyed over several dec

According to WHO figures, road traffic injuries account for 1.2 million deaths each year, and every fifteen seconds a worker dies somewhere in the world from a work related accident.

On Wednesday 5th December 2007, an open day programme was held at Sukuta Health Centre to thank and inform the host community and the mothers whose infants have participated in MRC studies at the s