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  • Replace grass with food

    Our food gardens in place of grass lawns project has demonstrated feasibility and viability of using small spaces to grow nutritious food for own consumption and for income generation. We challenged our staff members to pilot it by replacing grass lawns and flowers with food in the grounds of our centers. The only condition, establish…

  • Promoting Hibiscus Sabdariffa

    During the last planting season for 2016, through a highly participatory process that was endorsed by elders, we donated start-up Hibiscus Sabdarrifa seeds to 43 pioneer smallholder farmers in Loro in Oyam District in Northern Uganda. Despite adverse weather conditions, 11 pioneer beneficiary farmers took the risk and planted. They reported harvesting and selling a…

  • Research – situation analysis why TB deaths in Uganda

    Experts at the National TB and Leprosy Programme (NTLP) of Uganda estimate that there are 60,000 patients living with tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda. In 2014, according to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2015, Uganda was among the 22 high TB burden countries in the world – those which have a high number of TB cases.…

  • Tuberculosis survivor testimony

     “Twenty five years ago, I woke up early in the morning, around 05:00 a.m. I went to the spring well to fetch water. It is good to fetch drinking water very early in the morning. As I tried to draw water from the well, I slid and fell into the well. I stayed in the…

  • Research – situation analysis world TB funding

    One finds it surprising that countries such as Russia with a GDP per capita of US$ 13,011 and Brazil with a GDP per capita of US$ 11,734 are among the 22 tuberculosis (TB) disease burdened countries (TB countries), together with ‘poorer’ countries such as DR Congo with a GDP per capita of only US$ 442.…

  • Research – situation analysis TB funding in East Africa

    Considering that tuberculosis (TB) is among infectious diseases that are transmitted through the air, it is logical to expect that nations would consider its treatment and control of utmost priority. One would not expect, for example, inconsistency between a country’s ability to pay, in this context measured by its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita…

  • Research – situation analysis TB funding in Uganda

    One cannot assume that Uganda’s entire tuberculosis (TB) budget provision per capita wholesomely and directly reaches TB patients who most need it. In Uganda, for example, funding for the National TB Programme is intended to cover costs for policy making, advocacy, communication, production of technical guidelines, production of operational guidelines, procurement of drugs and supplies,…

  • Theory to fight tuberculosis

    According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a major challenge for controlling tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda is there being insufficient reliable data or information which can be utilised to inform policy. CPAR Uganda’s approach in the fight against TB, therefore, is located within a theory of change (TOC) that is based on the assumption that…

  • Impact Report 2015

    Health Promotion Preventative healthcare, through facilitating increased quantities, qualities and varieties of food crops that smallholder farmers produce at household level for: In partnership with Alinga Farms, a social enterprise, we introduced at our Loro Center and surrounding communities the growing, consumption and sell of Hibiscus Sabdarrifa (hibiscus), otherwise also known as Roselle or Red…

  • Research – situation analysis TB countries 2014

    The 22 tuberculosis (TB) disease burdened countries (TB countries) in the world, in 2014, were home to a combined population of nearly 4.6 billion people. Nine of those 22 TB countries are in Africa and in 2014 those nine African countries were home to a combined population of 580 million people. The nine African TB…