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Why Makerere’s $10,000-scientist drive aims to shield Africa from pandemics - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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When COVID-19 swept across Africa, public health officials faced a humiliating reality. As local health centres filled, African epidemiologists and governments were forced to rely almost entirely on clinical trials, drug protocols, and vaccine guidance generated in Western laboratories, data that often failed to account for the continent’s distinct demographic and health profile. “During that time, we noted that all of the evidence was coming from elsewhere and that this evidence did not apply t
Cancer Institute performs stem cell transplant - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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David Bongomin Awany was preparing to leave Uganda for India when his treatment plan suddenly changed. The 56-year-old businessman from Nwoya district, now living in Gulu City, had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that affects the bone marrow. He needed an autologous stem cell transplant, a highly specialized procedure that Ugandan patients have traditionally sought abroad. Then Dr Henry Dungu, a senior consultant haematologist at the Uganda Cancer Institute, told him the pro
Uganda’s Cancer Crisis: 278 patients seek care daily - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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Every day, an average of 278 people walk through the Uganda Cancer Institute seeking care. Some need a diagnosis. Others return for chemotherapy, laboratory tests, blood products or specialist treatment. Behind each visit is a patient and a family confronting an illness that is becoming an increasingly visible test of Uganda’s health system. Uganda Cancer Institute registered 8,764 new cancer patients in the past year, a 10 per cent increase from 2024, according to figures presented during a vis
New surgical armour arrives at cancer institute - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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For years, patients arriving at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) for urgent gastrointestinal scans often faced a frustrating reality: after travelling hundreds of kilometers to Kampala, they were told the institute lacked the necessary diagnostic equipment and had to be referred to private facilities outside. That care gap is finally closing. Last week, parliamentarians who had previously questioned why cancer patients were being turned away for basic endoscopy procedures received an answer. Un
UHRC commissioners to IGG: probe and find the truth - The Observer Media Ltd (opens the original)
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For five months, according to Commissioner Simeo Nsubuga, the Uganda Human Rights Commission has not held a formal sitting. That may sound like an internal administrative problem. It is not. The Commission is Uganda’s constitutional watchdog for human rights, the institution citizens are meant to turn to when they allege torture, unlawful detention, abuse by public officials or other violations. When its commissioners cannot meet and make collective decisions, complaints may stall, institutional
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