Alex Coutinho (born 19 June 1959) is a

Uganda Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...

n physician, public health advocate, academic, and a former executive director of the Infectious Diseases Institute of College of Health Sciences under

Makerere University Makerere University (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922, and the oldest currently active university in East Africa. It became an independent national university in ...

. "Dr. Alex Coutinho Awarded Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize" at PRNewswire.com
retrieved 2013-6-2.

Early life

Coutinho was born in Uganda. He earned a medical degree in Uganda.

Career

Coutinho's career has focused on prevention and treatment of

HIV/AIDS in Africa HIV/AIDS originated in the early 20th century and remains a significant public health challenge, particularly in Africa. Although Africa constitutes about 17% of the world's population, it bears a disproportionate burden of the epidemic. In 20 ...

Honors

* Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, 2013.Osaki, Tomohiro
"Belgian, Ugandan win Noguchi prize,"
''Japan Times.'' 2 June 2013; retrieved 2013-6-2.

References

External links

"Dr Alex Coutinho: aid is saving hundreds of thousands of lives" at Guardian.uk
Living people 1959 births Ugandan infectious disease physicians {{Uganda-med-bio-stub