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Suubi Trust Annual Returns

Posted in Cancer Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Since it was registered on July 2nd 2007, Suubi Trust has raised just over £200,000 to help support the work of International Medical Foundation, an NGO providing healthcare services to the financially disadvantaged in Uganda. Our key focus at this time is raising funds to build a maternity theatre at Charis Health Centre in Lira, [...]

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Target TB Partners’ Newsletter

Posted in TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , , , on November 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Autumn issue has the following piece noting the BMJ award for International Medical Group. The newsletter can be downloaded by clicking here.

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Dr. Alison Raising Funds for Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Fund Raising, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , on August 17, 2011 | Comments Off

A recent post by Dr. Alison described how she helped to establish an STD Clinic within the Touch Namuwongo Programme in Kampala. This summer Alison, Alan and their family raised £1,171 to help support this programme by speaking at a local church lunch and hosting a Ugandan party for supportive friends in her native St [...]

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Dr. Alison (VSO) working with Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Fund Raising, Staff, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on July 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Alison Cowan, a GP from the UK, and her family have recently returned after a fabulous 18 months in Uganda working with the IMG group through the charity VSO. She came to Uganda initially to facilitate the training of medical staff across the various IMG primary care clinics. Through this work she came to appreciate [...]

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A Case of Cervical Cancer

Posted in Cancer Care, Hope Ward, Patients, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , on July 22, 2011 | Comments Off

By Jemimah Kiboss: A few weeks ago a relatively young lady (Rose*) walked into my office looking ten years older than she actually was. She came looking for help for her mother with an ultrasound scan report indicating that her mother had a mass in her cervix and another mass nearby as well as a [...]

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Mbazira Ramulah treated on Hope Ward

Posted in Hope Ward, Patients, Touch Namuwongo on March 29, 2011 | Comments Off

By Jemimah Kiboss: Medical condition: Chronic Deep Venous Thrombosis Mbazira Ramulah is a 27 year old adult female residing in Kabalagala Zana Zone, a single mother with 2 children, a grade three teacher who stopped teaching because of her medical condition. Ramulah has had a blood clotting disorder for the last ten years and has [...]

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People Reached in 2010

Posted in Aldo Project, Cancer Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Heart Surgery, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Pader Clinic, Physiotherapy, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo on March 16, 2011 | Comments Off

We recently reviewed progress for International Medical Foundation over 2010 and are pleased to note the following data: 5,592 people were counselled and tested for HIV 1,644 were enrolled on our treatment programmes for those living with HIV 19 patients received treatment each month for Cancer 9 received open heart surgery 244 were admitted onto [...]

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Shortlisted for BMJ Group Awards

Posted in Suubi Trust, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We are pleased to note that the TB project at IHK has been shortlisted for this year’s BMJ Group Awards under the “Getting Evidence into Practice” category. Thanks to Dr. Richard for making the submission. TB is a significant health issue in Uganda and our project, supported initially by Suubi Trust and then by Target [...]

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UK Aid as a share of National Income

Posted in Business of Health Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Hope Ward, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, Yer Yotkom, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »

In the last few weeks there’s been a lot of discussion about UK overseas aid. (on Twitter #AidReview) DFID has just completed a thorough review of all the programmes that it supports and has announced some changes planned for the next few years. Essentially the UK Government is committed to sharing up to 0.7% of [...]

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Advent: Day 25 Doing it for Barbie, Together We Can.

Posted in Advent, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , on December 25, 2010 | Comments Off

Barbie lives just 5 minutes walk from the back of the hospital in Kisugu. This is one of the parishes/zones that we reach into with our Touch Namuwongo programme. In the last two years Touch has continued to extend its services, some of  which can be seen on the poster above. Whilst the provision of [...]

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