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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 Christian Care College with a distinctive goal of reaching out to different people. Socially, Pius has worked with different […]

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 laboratory technician working with the Balamu project. He graduated from Uganda Instate of Allied Health ...

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 ...

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 ...

NCD Research, 15 September 2022

Spirometry Study: Begin of data collection

In June 2022, we commenced our research activities on chronic respiratory diseases. We started the data collection by using our well-established ...

Publications, 31 August 2022

Publications: Measurement of kidney function in Uganda

Our team is proud to announce Dr. Robert Kalyesubula’s new publication titled ‘Measurement of kidney function in Malawi, South Africa, and ...