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NCD Research, 2 May 2023

A week of Cervical Cancer Screening Training

During the past month, the ACCESS Uganda Team led by Richard Munana and Ivan Weswa together with medical doctoral student Jana Kimmel from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin collaborated with stakeholders in Nakaseke to faciliate the Training for the Cervical Cancer screening study. Jana shares her rich experience of participating in the training activites. In the […]

Education, 20 April 2023

Dr. Josephine Ndawula research visit to MDC Berlin and Charité

Dr. Josephine Ndawula from Makerere University participated in a monthly research visit to Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine earlier this year. Below you can read her report and key learnings that she acquired during this time: From ...

People, 1 March 2023

Meet Pius Kiwanuka

Pius is dedicated towards mobilizing community members to engage in our project activities by following up participants and monitoring CHWS’ activities. Pius went to different colleges for higher education and completed a Diploma in Theology at ...

People, 1 February 2023

Meet Samuel Zziwa

Samuel supports the Balamu project as our laboratory technician by conducting laboratory investigations and experiments. Zziwa Samuel is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Balamu, 3 November 2022

Annual Report 2022

We are very pleased to share with you the progress we have made. Thanks to the support of the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung, the only NCD ...

People, 20 October 2022

Meet Jana Kimmel

Jana is a fellow of the Balamu Exchange Program, which gives her the opportunity to conduct NCD research in the highly interesting field of ...

People, 30 September 2022

Meet James Karahuka

James supports the Balamu project as a clinical officer, providing care in our NCDs clinics and confirming measurements in the field for our ...