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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 |

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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Advent: Day 17 Primary Care

Posted in Advent, Business of Health Care, Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, International Medical Foundation, Sponsors, Touch Namuwongo, Yer Yotkom, tagged , , , , , on December 17, 2010 |

International Medical Foundation (IMF) provides public health and primary care to the communities living around IHK and the up-country clinics (mentioned in Day 12). This includes for example: health education, family planning, reproductive health, HIV testing and treatment, immunizations and treatments for the common acute conditions such as malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhea. We operate [...]

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Advent: Day 13 TB

Posted in Advent, Fund Raising, Staff, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on December 13, 2010 |

The first project that Suubi Trust supported was the development of a level 2 bio-containment facility at International Hospital Kampala to provide a MODS TB culture and sensitivity service. That was back in July 2007. Since then we have completed the clinical trial and are now using the method to help diagnose patients from IHK [...]

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Advent: Day 10 Dr. Richard

Posted in Advent, Charis - IMC Lira, Fund Raising, Hope Ward, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , on December 10, 2010 |

This is Dr. Richard as many of us will remember him, enjoying being with the kids on Hope Ward. He made a huge difference in his time with us as a voluteer with VSO. There are more photos of him on the VSO website here. Even after their VSO stint was finished, Richard and Patricia [...]

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Advent: Day 9 HIV/AIDS

Posted in Advent, Aldo Project, Hope Ward, Patients, Staff, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 9, 2010 |

  IMF has a number of community based programmes helping to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. We provide counselling and testing, help those who are negative to stay safe and for those that are positive we are able to help with treatment and care. Uganda has in past years been very successful in tackling this huge [...]

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Advent: Day 3 Touch Namuwongo

Posted in Advent, International Medical Foundation, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , on December 3, 2010 |

I really like this photo which I took during an open day for the Touch Namuwongo Programme at IHK. It was just great to see so many of the local children taking part in the events in the hospital grounds. Our vision is that IHK would help to serve all of the people living in [...]

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Dragon’s Den- African Style!

Posted in Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , on October 21, 2010 |

Alan and Alison posted this about one of our latest initiatives on Touch Namuwongo – hoping to help the community with income generation… original post here   As part of the income generation project with the Touch Namuwongo Community volunteers, Alan organised a Dragon’s Den style forum for the volunteers to pitch their business ideas [...]

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A Day with the CATTS (Part Two)

Posted in Patients, Touch Namuwongo, tagged , , , , , , on October 14, 2010 |

More from Dr. Grania, original post here. After my eventful day with Rose we headed out again to see a patient who had recently been started on TB treatment. Emmanuel was HIV-positive and had recently suffered from night-sweats, had a cough, and had lost 10kgs in a short period of time. He was referred to [...]

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A Day with the CATTS (Part One)

Posted in Patients, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 11, 2010 |

Dr. Grania is a key member of our team working on the development of and clinical trial for a new (faster – cheaper) diagnostic method for TB. She was back in Kampala last month and has posted this update on her Blog. A key aspect of our plan for the TB project has been to [...]

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Last Patient Of The Day

Posted in International Medical Foundation, Patients, Touch Namuwongo, Volunteers, tagged , , on October 1, 2010 |

By Dr. Alison: It had been a busy day in the community sexual health clinic and we were all feeling tired and hungry. It had been a long day too for Jane, our last patient of the day, not that she allowed us to think that for a moment. She entered the room in a [...]

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