From the field, the clinic, and the community.
Updates on the work, the numbers behind it, and the people it reaches. We write when there is something to say.
What shared responsibility looks like.
At the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva, our CEO Allan Kiwanuka shared a stage with Breakthrough T1D and the Helmsley Charitable Trust — a grassroots leader and the funders shaping global diabetes policy, at the same table.
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From Survival to Systems.
On Thursday, Uganda's seventeen-partner ALIGN-T1D Consortium submitted a single, government-led proposal to build universal type 1 diabetes care into the national health system. Kabukye Trust coordinated the submission.
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Sugarwise Starlets reaches four districts.
A $50,000 grant from the T1D Community Fund has taken Kabukye Trust's flagship diabetes programme into Buyende and Luuka — 124 children screened in the first phase.
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Rebuilding leprosy expertise in West Nile.
Uganda once had a network of clinicians trained to recognise leprosy. Most have retired. A new partnership with Buluba Hospital is rebuilding the skill base, district by district.
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Three medicines. Three simple rules. A childhood saved.
Newborn screening, penicillin, and hydroxyurea. The tools to prevent thousands of early deaths from sickle cell disease already exist. They simply need to reach the right children.
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Fatuma's HbA1c dropped from 12.4 to 7.1 in six months.
The numbers look abstract. The change is not. A thirteen-year-old from Buyende has stopped missing school.
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Our CEO writes from the clinic and the village about what rural diabetes and NCD care actually takes. Published on LinkedIn.