International / Bipolar Disorder Category

Title of  Winning Proposal:  Bipolar Disorder in HIV/AIDS patients: A prospective study

Dr. Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu is a postgraduate student of Psychiatry at Makerere University. Her current research is “A Comparative Study of the Clinical Features and Immunological Status of Primary Mania Vs Secondary Mania in HIV/AIDS Patients", funded by SIDA/ SAREC, of Sweden.

She received her medical degree from Makerere University in 1999, did her internship at Rubaga Hospital, and then worked at St. Joseph's Hospital and Butabika Psychiatric Hospital. In working with mentally ill patients she noticed many HIV related mental problems including Mood disorders hence her interest and research in them.

She is a member of the Uganda Psychiatric Association, Uganda Medical Association and East African Young Psychiatrists and Trainees Association. She is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Psychiatry sponsored by the "Support to the Health Sector Strategic Plan Project", under the African Development Bank. Last year, she won the IBRO student travel grant to the 6th Neuroscience School and The Neurobiology of Epilepsy workshop in Grahamstown, South Africa.

Winning the Young Minds in Psychiatry Award helps her include a third arm of HIV positive patients without mood disorders to her research project and thus complete the tripartite comparative analysis.

She is married with two children.

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