Photo: Dr. Scott Kellermann with Dr. Jeremy Lazarus (former AMA President) and his wife, Debbie Lazarus CHICAGO, IL, JUNE 8: The American Medical Association recognized Dr. Scott Kellermann for his outstanding and life-saving work among the Batwa pygmies in southwest Uganda, a work spanning over 18 years. The AMA named Dr. ...
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The EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) team of undergraduate students at University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) gave an end-of-semester presentation on May 3. The team worked with Bwindi Community Hospital (BCH) to identify ways to connect BCH IT systems with Ugandan government IT systems. A new group of EPICS studen...
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In our guest house, a common mantra at the dinner table is, “Have you taken your malaria prevention?” as the container is passed around the table. Cerebral malaria is still poorly understood by the medical profession. Untreated, it is inevitably fatal. Several times a week a mother arrives breathless, running to our facility...
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KF was approved as a new member of the Anglican Global Mission Partners (AGMP). The AGMP is a networking partnership of Anglican global mission-committed organizations working together to pursue and develop joint initiatives and partnerships, encourage missionary vocations and increase efficiency and impact. To learn more visit ...
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World Health Organization recently awarded Bwindi Community Hospital’s Waiting Mothers Hostel for its outstanding achievements. Before the hostel existed, 1 in 113 births in the region resulted in the death of the mom. That horrible statistic has been reduced to nearly 1 in 2,000. The hostel serves expecting mothers who are ne...
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