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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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Richard Feinmann on winning a BMJ Group award

Posted in International Medical Foundation, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, tagged , , , , , on June 6, 2011 | Comments Off

Published on BMJ Blogs: Click here for original. I suppose I could be accused of banging on too much about doctors volunteering at the end of their career. But now I have another reason. At my age, I thought the days of national and international meetings were long gone. So, what a surprise to find [...]

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We are Winners!

Posted in International Medical Foundation, TB Diagnostics and Treatment, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 21, 2011 | Comments Off

The BMJ nominated us winners for the “Getting Evidence into Practice” award. The TB Diagnostics Lab was the very first project that I became involved in at International Medical Foundation, back in 2007. I remember being approached almost every day by Dr. Mark Russell (a VSO volunteer) who wanted to do something for the many [...]

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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 | Comments Off

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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World TB Day

Posted in TB Diagnostics and Treatment, tagged , on March 24, 2009 | Comments Off

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, [...]

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One Year Old!

Posted in Fund Raising, Sponsors, Suubi Trust, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2008 | Comments Off

Suubi Trust is one year old tonight. Earlier today we had our Annual General Meeting at which Steve presented our Financial Summary. In our first year we have raised just over £48,000. We have been able to support all of the following: We established a new TB Lab at the hospital in Kampala and helped [...]

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