OWSD Award
2016
OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Award for Early Career Women Scientists
Award Specialization
Psychiatric epidemiology
Award Category
Work Position
Senior Lecturer, Makerere University College of Health Sciences
February 2016
Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu > Other Awards
For her work using psychotherapy as a treatment for depression and alcoholism in Ugandans living with HIV. Depression is a serious problem for HIV patients throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, making it more likely that those patients will stop taking their HIV-antiretroviral medications. Dr. Nakimuli-Mpungu works with service providers to integrate depression screening with HIV-treatment, as well as to include local communities in discussions of depression to help destigmatize the illness.