Joan Akullo, Project coordinator for Medical Drones Project, loads bottles of ARVs on a drone for delivery to patients from Bufumira sub-county, to Kusu Village in Kalangala district, Uganda. — Reuters
KALANGALA, Uganda: Uganda is delivering HIV medicine by drone in an archipelago in Lake Victoria, a pilot programme aiming to improve the transport of medical supplies for the country's health system, which faces chronic shortages.
The trial is funded by pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson, and run by the government-run Infectious Diseases Institute. It delivers HIV drugs from a hospital to patients in rural hamlets in Kalangala, an 84-island-archipelago.
Joan Akullo, Project coordinator for Medical Drones Project, loads bottles of ARVs on a drone for delivery to patients from Bufumira sub-county, to Kusu Village in Kalangala district, Uganda. — Reuters
A boy looks at a drone mounted with a container to ferry medicine after it landed before being picked up and delivered by the Village Health Team (VHT) to the clinic at the Kusu village, in Kalangala district, Uganda. — Reuters
A Uganda Flying Labs drone pilot checks the drone status before the takeoff from Bufumira to Kusu village in Kalangala district, Uganda. — Reuters
Innocent Tushemerirwe 52, a member of the Village Health Team (VHT), monitors a drone mounted with a medicine box which lands at the Kusu village, in Kalangala district, Uganda. — Reuters
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