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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’ objectives. It was a challenging time, as continuous adaption to the health policy climate was required. We adjusted protocols and standard operating procedures to ensure that NCD patients can continue to receive […]

Events, 3 November 2021

Presentation at GLOHRA Day 2021

On 23rd October 2021, our team members Juliet Nandawula and Rebecca Ingenhoff presented the progress on our cross-sectional "IMPEDE CVD" project at the German Alliance for Global Health Research (GLOHRA) day in Berlin. IMPEDE CVD is a ...

Publications, 22 October 2021

Global Health Education in Nephrology

Publication Alert! We are beyond excited to share our recent publication in JASN. In this commentary, we discuss global health training and presents the benefits of bidirectional globalhealth exchanges.

Education, 23 September 2021

Training of our community health workers

As our study is ready to set off, the study team currently trains 25 community health workers. The CHWs will be key players in supporting the ...

NCD Research, 8 September 2021

Begin of data collection

In August 2021 we commenced our research activities by completing over 30 qualitative interviews in partnership with Makerere University. We ...

Publications, 17 August 2021

Patient-centered hypertension education by CHWs among PLWHA

The study titled 'Acceptability of patient-centered hypertension education delivered by community health workers among people living with ...

People, 16 July 2021

Meet Dr. Richard Munana

Meet our Medical Officer Dr. Richard Munana! Richard is a postgraduate clinical fellow at the Balamu Project. His role in our project is to ...

Events, 1 July 2021

World Health Summit Regional Meeting Uganda 2021

As part of the World Health Summit Regional Meeting Uganda this week, we organized a workshop on "Rural Health Centres of Excellence" hosted by ...

Partner, 4 June 2021

Digital interventions for cardiovascular health

We are delighted to share the reception of additional funding to conduct a digital health, cross-sectional project in rural Uganda. Together ...

NCD Research, 21 May 2021

Obtainment of ethical approval

Our team received ethical approval from Makerere University College of Health Sciences to perform a mixed-methods-study in Nakaseke ...