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Partner, 29 March 2022

Visit of St. Mary’s Health Center Kasaala in Luweero

The ACCESS team visited St. Mary’s Health Center Kasaala in Luweero to network with a facility that has similar goals for the community. The two projects have already collaborated through a surgical camp in 2021, where hard-to-reach community members of Nakaseke and Luweero District with eye defects received free treatment. Now, both teams came together […]

Partner, 22 March 2022

Site Visit of the NCD Commissioner from the Ministry of Health

Dr. Oyoo Charles Akiya is the newly appointed commissioner of non-communicable diseases from the Ministry of Health in Uganda. He visited the Balamu Project and Nakaseke Hospital NCD clinic to understand our work regarding non-communicable ...

Healthcare, 1 March 2022

Dr. Robert’s view on NCD medication in Nakaseke, rural Uganda

Throughout the project activities of Balamu in the past five years, recurrent medication shortages across all government facilities were experienced. Our project, which intends to improve and extend NCD care in rural Uganda sustainably, ...

Education, 18 February 2022

Julia Gaal’s research report

"As part of a research module of the curriculum at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, I got the chance to conduct my medical research ...

People, 15 January 2022

Meet Hellen Namugenyi

Hellen supports our studies by confirming measurements in the field and in the clinics. Hellen supports our work at the project site in Nakaseke ...

People, 15 January 2022

Meet Rebecca Ingenhoff

Rebecca leads the Balamu operations while pursuing her Ph.D in the Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care at Charité. She is a ...

Balamu, 14 January 2022

Developing Infrastructure and Sustainability

The Balamu team is in the implementation phase of developing a digital infrastructure through an Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. This ...

Funding, 6 January 2022

New project ‘GRIP-NCDs’

For the project German Research Innovation Program for Non-Communicable Diseases (GRIP-NCDs) , experts from renowned institutions in Germany, ...

Publications, 30 November 2021

Building a patient cohort in rural Uganda

Between 2016 and 2017, we conducted a population-based census for NCD research. Community health workers (CHWs) and study team members went ...

Balamu, 12 November 2021

First Annual Report

We are delighted to share the first annual report of our second funding period. Overall, we were able to achieve our first years’ ...