CPAR Uganda Ltd
a nonprofit company limited by guarantee & is without share capital
Category: Health
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CPAR’s gift of healthcare services to Uganda
It was nice to see a Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) branded stretcher published in the New Vision as part of #UgandaAt60 commemoration messages. CPAR has indeed contributed a lot to the Uganda health sector. Case in point, in addition, for example, from 1992 – 2008 CPAR constructed and equipped 11 health centres…
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Belief: “where TB is HIV is” or “where HIV is TB is”
“The two TB patients, the first borne and the second borne, were staying together in the same house, but they contracted TB from different sources. This is because we found out that both of them they were HIV positive and they were brother and sister. No, they did not co-infect each other with TB. Obviously,…
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Curing ignorance about TB is a challenge
In 2016, CPAR Uganda had the privilege to conduct qualitative research on the tuberculosis (TB) pandemic in Uganda. As we prepared our data collection tools and made determinations of our research maps – population for our study and the sample of study respondents, our attention was drawn to learning that we had prior taken for…
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Lira City Tuberculosis Marathon
Our Administrative Assistant, Ms. Gladys Gladrina Awino, has just concluded participation in the 10 km Tuberculosis (TB) Marathon that was held at Lira City this morning, Sunday 13th March 2022. Pictured with the Chief Marathon Runner, the Lira City Resident Commissioner, Mr. Lawrence Egole and her fellow runners: Dr. Jimmy Ssewanyana of Lira Regional Referral…
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Video: Tuberculosis in Uganda
“It is where she was working as a maid for Indians that is where she got the problem. When you are cooking their food you have to put a lot of chillies in it,” explained a mother of how she believes her teenage daughter got infected with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). This was April 2017, during…
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Research – findings TB on rise in Uganda
Dr Stavia Turyahabwe, Programme Manager, Uganda National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, agreed with research findings of CPAR Uganda’s investigation into pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in Uganda, which found that TB is on the increase in Uganda. This was revealed in a story: “Tuberculosis on the rise in northern Uganda,” which was published on 20th July…
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Research – situation analysis Uganda TB deaths & poverty
Poverty is a determinant of successful treatment or not of tuberculosis (TB). A Uganda TB survivor, for example, narrated how while at a government hospital she and her fellow patients had to fend for themselves, food wise. The long distances from home to the facility where they were isolated made it difficult for their families…
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Research – TB survivor testimony
“Twenty five years ago, I woke up early in the morning, around 05:00 a.m. and 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…
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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.…
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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…
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