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This paper was written to share experiences from collaboration between Baylor College of Medicine (US), Baylor Children’s Clinics (Uganda and Bostwana), Makerere University College of Health Sciences and University of Bostwana all under the umbrella of the Collaborative African Genomics Network (CafGEN). CafGEN worked together with H3Africa initiative collaboration between National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Wellcome Trust. The two came together to study disease progression in children. For example, is there a genetic explanation for why some children born with HIV live longer than others? In order to involve the community and ensure sensitization, they came up with a comic series called the Genome Adventures. These series were developed to address issues of genes, genomics and biomedical science specifically targeting adolescents and youth in the communities. This was a great example of inter-professional collaboration because to get to the final product, input had to be made by scientists, researchers, information professionals, comic illustrators, media, writers as well as content developers for adolescent and youth information materials. The Comic series, with 4 volumes, were published and translated into major languages spoken on the African continent that is Arabic, French, Hausa, Luganda, Portuguese, Setswana and Swahili. So far launches have been done in Bostwana, Tanzania and Uganda and feedback on their use is being integrated. Their future plans include creating a TV series while incorporating feedback from the comic series already printed. Comments and Questions 1. If the Community Advisory Boards were from Botswana and Uganda, would their ideas resonate with different cultural backgrounds? Consultations were done in all the 35
leading countries where the series are to be launched especially in Hausa and Arabic speaking countries. 2. Are there plans to carry out this same intervention for other diseases? If the genome study is successful, then they will roll out the intervention to cover as many diseases in children as possible. 3. Copies were received in Makerere University, Albert Cook Library. However, there was no explanation attached to them. There is need to create more awareness for the series and the study itself. AHILA is one such forum to create awareness to health information professionals. Presenter 5: Dr. Alison Kinengyere Strengthening Systematic Reviews Capacity: Collaboration between The African Center for Systematic Reviews And Knowledge Translations at Albert Cook Library, Makerere University Through funding from IDRC, the African Center for Systematic Reviews and Knowledge Translation (AfCen) was developed at the Makerere University College of Health Sciences. This was developed to improve the rigor of research by pulling various experts from different backgrounds to work together towards producing more evidence based research findings. 36
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