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The Flip Side becomes a book

Posted in Hope Ward, TB Lab, Volunteers, tagged , on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Dr. Grania Brigden (Price) worked at International Hospital Kampala as a volunteer, with VSO, for one year up to September 2008. She and her husband Dan kept their family, friends and supporters up to date on their experiences via their Blog, The Flip Side of the Coin.
The Blog has now become available as a book [...]

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Richard Feinmann on volunteering in Hope Ward

Posted in Hope Ward, Staff, TB Lab, tagged , , on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

What to do when you are a sexagenarian physician who has retired from hospital practice with 40 years in the NHS under your belt and golf/Sudoku not really appealing? Well, my health visitor wife and I applied to Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) and I am writing this from a hospital in Kampala, Uganda, where I have [...]

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World TB Day

Posted in TB Lab, tagged , on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Today is World TB Day.
TB is preventable, treatable and curable and yet
it kills close to two million people a year.

Little red rods kill 2 million people every year and we can cure it!
Dr Richard, Bosco and the team at IHK continue their work to validate our implementation of MOT, a new, low cost, diagnostic method [...]

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Grania: A Plan Comes Together

Posted in TB Lab, tagged on June 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Grania, a VSO, is leading our work at the TB Lab; the following is taken from her blog…

Finally! It’s great when a plan comes together, and, after quite a bit of work and waiting, a Big Plan has finally come together…
A few months ago, official funding for our MOT validation study was cut. This meant [...]

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February Funding

Posted in Fund Raising, Hope Ward, Sponsors, TB Lab, tagged , on March 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The following is a brief account of giving and sponsorship in February:

We received £125 from individual supporters in the UK.
A sponsor gave £1,000 to help meet University fees for Bosco, our TB lab tech.
Inverness Medical UK gave £511 in the form of discount for essential supplies to help support sugery in Hope Ward.
In Kampala, Hwan [...]

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Bosco

Posted in Sponsors, Staff, TB Lab on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John Bosco Byekwaso is our lab technician working in the TB and Microbiology lab at International Hospital Kampala. Like many of his peers Bosco is continuing his professional studies in the evenings after a full day’s work. He is a hard working, dedicated and ambitious young man.

One of our key supporters has very generously donated [...]

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Work Continues at the TB Lab

Posted in Fund Raising, TB Lab, tagged on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

During my visit I had a number of update meetings with Dr Grania and Bosco in which we discussed progress and next steps.
Bosco continues to perform comparative tests using various methods to help establish the viability of the MOTS technique.

Dr Grania continues to work with the various academic and clinical research organisations with the aim [...]

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The IMF Team

Posted in Hope Ward, Lira Clinic, Staff, Suubi Trust, TB Lab on January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I had the pleasure of working with the Team during the early part of January to discuss and agree our strategies and plans for 2008.

Dr Grania (TB Lab Programme Coordinator), Dr Muhame (Hope Ward), Dr Ian Clarke, Mairead (Programme Grants Coordinator), Katherine (Lira Clinic Programme Coordinator), and Patricia (Hope Ward Programme Coordinator).

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Cycle Ride Sponsorship

Posted in Fund Raising, TB Lab, tagged on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Brin and Cheryl have so far rasied just over £1,300 in sponsorship from their bike ride. What a tremendous effort. These funds will help to support the ongoing MOT/MODS validation work at the TB Lab.

Our thanks to them and all of their supporters in sunny Penzance.

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TB Lab Validation

Posted in TB Lab, tagged on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Our current focus at the TB Lab is ensuring appropriate validation of the MOT/MODS methodology and the processes being used. Bosco and the team are performing tests using the new MOT method and comparing results with the established MGIT method. Once we have proven the MOT method we will start a similar validation for MODS.

Grania, [...]

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