Population survey

Working in a rural area

Conversation with the community

Semuto Clinic

Data collection in the community

How we build an impact

Research

Conduct community-based NCD research in a rural Ugandan district to deliver new insights into disease burden and NCD management strategies.

Education

Integrate health education in NCD disease management while educating nurses and medical students to become future health leaders.

Care

Work with community health workers to diagnose and treat NCDs through a sustainable, patient-centered model of care..

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People, 1 January 2023

Meet Winnie Namugula and Prossy Nabbumba

Winnie and Prossy are two of our research nurses, they support the Balamu Project by providing care and confirming measurements for our studies. Winnie and Prossy support the Balamu project as research nurses in our NCDs clinics and in the field. Their work mainly focuses on hypertension and diabetes mellitus. Their duties include taking […]

People, 20 December 2022

Meet James Sewanyana

James works as a clinical officer in our NCDs clinics. James works as a clinical officer in the three clinics of the Balamu project. If you call on him at ACCESS, you might find him in the clinic with a patient, on the phone securing medical ...

People, 1 December 2022

Meet Julia Gaal

Julia is a fourth-year medical student supporting the Balamu project as a student assistant. She joined the project in 2021 as an undergraduate research fellow and conducted her research project to obtain the first state exam on barriers to NCD ...