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Tag: Lira City
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2023 Impact Report on CPAR Uganda Centres
Gulu City We celebrate progress made in 2023 by Dr. Robert Kidega, our Development Partner, who is taking the lead in our efforts to establish the CPAR Uganda Medical Centre at our Gulu property on Plot 30, Gulu Avenue in Gulu City. Dr. Kidega is a medical doctor who holds a Bachelors of Medicine and…
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CPAR Reading Room in Lira City now open
The CPAR Uganda Reading Room at our Lira Learning Centre on Plot 5 Makerere Road, Lira City; right opposite the Lira City Council (former Lira District Local Government Headquarters) and surrounded by the Lira City Golf Course has re-opened for business. With effect from Tuesday, 11th April 2023, we will be open Monday to Saturday,…
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Contributing to fighting Covid-19 in Lira City
On Friday, 30th July 2021, on our behalf, seven young adults who are benefiting from our mentoring programme and are stationed in Lira City, delivered our CPAR Uganda gift towards the fight against Covid-19 of 100 litres of liquid soap and 500 face masks to the Lira Resident City Commissioner (RCC). Our gift was very…
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Misinformation about covid-19 vaccine is really out there…
At first, I didn’t see how dangerous the covid-19 virus was. I was seeing from TV how Chinese were suffering and I thought it would not reach us in Uganda. When wave two came in I got scared seeing our people dying. But I felt a bit encouraged because I had gotten my first doze…
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COVID-19 statistics scare people from getting vaccinated
I got my first doze in May 2021, after so much persuasion from my dad. I remember he told me one morning not to come back to his home if I don’t go for vaccination. He insisted that I should bring him a card for evidence that I had been vaccinated. He also said the…
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Involve youth in Covid-19 vaccination drive
My father inspired me to go for coronavirus vaccination. At first, I was scared because some people kept saying the vaccine could kill you. And also listening to complaints people had about it. A lady in a WhatsApp group, for example, shared her experience in the hospital when her mother was vaccinated and she said…
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Young adults not engaged in Covid-19 vaccination drive
Government has been advocating for mainly essential workers and those in a particular age bracket (50+) to get the vaccination. This may have made many young people to have little interests in looking for Covid19 vaccines. Within our research area, Lira, I asked some young persons and they said their parents went and for them…
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Culture shouldn’t be ignored in Covid-19 vaccination
Young people who went to get vaccinated in Lira City said that the rooms in which the vaccine is administered have no privacy – it’s like a hall with over 20 people and you can find men bare-chested as they unbuttoned their shirts to receive the injection on their shoulder. This is bad. The hospital…
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