Uganda Virus Research Institute

The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), located in Entebbe, Uganda, was established in 1936 as the Yellow Fever Research Institute by the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1950, after gaining regional recognition it was renamed the East African Virus Research institute (EAVRI). After the collapse of the East African Community in 1977, it became a Uganda Government public health research institution and was renamed the Uganda Virus Research Institute. The institute was first to isolate more than 20 new arbovirus, including West Nile Virus, Bwamba Fever, Semliki Forest Virus, Orungo, Kadam virus, and O'nyong'nyong virus. The Government of Uganda now administers and funds the institute through the Uganda National Health Research Organization (UNHRO) which is an umbrella research body with in the Uganda Ministry of Health. ==References== * [http://www.health.go.ug/health_units.htm|Uganda Ministry of Health: Health Facilities official webpage] * Sempala, Sylvester D. K. (3 July 2002). Institute Profile: The Uganda Virus Research Institute., Trends Microbiol. 2002 Jul;10(7):346-8. (PMID: 12110215[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12110215&dopt=Abstract]) * [http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/dfid/aids/collaborators.htm Scroll down for entry on UVRI], DFID Organisations in Uganda Medical research institutes

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