Peter Mugyenyi

Peter Ndimbirwe Mugyenyi is an Ugandan physician, HIV/AIDS researcher, Administrator (business)|medical administrator and author. He is executive director and co-founder of the Joint Clinical Research Centre, and a leading authority on treatment of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Quotes There are more than those who have already started on treatment. And therefore, my message was to request for continued support to Africa so that we can treat the huge numbers of people, who are still in desperate need of life-saving medicines. They wouldn’t be so many as to overwhelm the budget. We should be able to handle all of those patients who are in immediate need of treatment for their very survival. The numbers, not only in Uganda, but across Africa, are still many. It’s not a Ugandan-peculiar situation, but certainly there is need for increased funding. If we don’t get increased support, not only from PEPFAR, but the global community, we may lose ground and start losing the impressive gains that we have achieved over the last seven years. And yet those in immediate need of antiretroviral therapy are estimated to be over seven million. External links Category:Living people Category:1945 births Category:Makerere University alumni Category:Epidemiologists Category:Pediatricians Category:Physicians from Uganda Category:Medical scientists