Health

How One Ugandan District Quietly Rewrote the World’s Understanding of HIV

Deep in Uganda’s Rakai District, a research program has been quietly dismantling myths about HIV for more than three decades. The findings that emerged from this corner of East Africa didn’t just inform local policy, they reshaped how the entire world fights one of its deadliest epidemics. This is the story of science done right, in a place most people couldn’t find on a map.