Afriscope was established as a Ugandan limited company to do one thing well: carry the on-the-ground work of health research in Uganda with the seriousness it deserves. We are research-rooted, not commercially-driven. Our work begins where a protocol meets a household, a clinic, or a community gathering — and our reputation lives or dies on what happens there.
What we stand for is straightforward. Research is a relationship with the communities it studies. We refuse the parachute model. Enumerators, supervisors, and qualitative researchers come from the regions we work in, speak the languages our participants speak, and answer to the same neighbours when the study has gone. That orientation shapes everything from how we recruit, to how we handle refusal, to the language used in a consent script.
We are anchored in Kampala, and our reach extends across Uganda and the wider East Africa region. From the capital we coordinate field teams, logistics, translation, and data management; in the districts we work alongside village health teams, local leaders, and clinic staff. We move at the pace of the community, and the study is the better for it.
We seek partnerships with universities, non-governmental organizations, ministries of health, and study sponsors who want a local team they can trust to carry their protocol with fidelity. If that is the kind of partner you are looking for, you can read about our services, learn more about our methodology principles, or speak with the team.
