Andrea L. S. Bulungu

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Medical doctors (MDs), post-doctoral (PhD) trainees, & other post-professional degree graduates from Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, & Uganda! Applications for the Fogarty Global Health Fellowship - ACHIEVE Global Research Training Program are opening soon! sites.wustl.edu/achieve/

Veteran journalist Shaka Ssali is dead A native of Kabale in Uganda, Ssali's career was marked by a passion for truth, accountability, and empowering Africa's youth

Oh sad, sad news! And somehow extra heartbreaking to lose him at such a dark period for #VOA. #Uganda #StraightTalkAfrica
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Illustration of a child holding an umbrella over a cat. The text reads "Mental health is shaped by more than just the mind. housing jobs inequality education"

New WHO #MentalHealth guidance provides all countries with practical tools to strengthen policies & services.

It tackles social factors that affect mental health like poverty & housing, ensures people with lived experience have a voice, & promotes rights-based care.

Learn more: bit.ly/4lgVjjk

On university funding @nytimes.com #TheDaily
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😳 Non-American residents: Do not exit the U.S.? I cannot imagine this is only pertinent to Brown University staff ...

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Why Are Cats Such a Medical Black Box? Many aspects of feline health remain a mystery, even to experts. Our cat-owning reporter learned this the hard way.

"#Cats have been so understudied ... They’re going to remain a black box unless something changes on the research side.” 🐾🥰
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Still not (yet) unfunded - check out my study on "Maternal Mental Health and Early Child Development in Kawempe", #Uganda #MMH4ECD

Why is #WTA #IndianWells not on TV? Only the men ... 🙄

New SDG indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity adopted by UN Statistical Commission FAO assumes joint custodianship of indicator seen as key to ending malnutrition

A little bit of good news for #nutrition in an otherwise dark horizon: New SDG indicator on Minimum Dietary Diversity adopted by UN Statistical Commission www.fao.org/newsroom/det...

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WHO shares more details about Uganda’s second Ebola Sudan cluster

Suspected cases, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.

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“It’s actually in the interest of American people to keep diseases down,”

"We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused."

Treatment for measles is unspecific & only supportive. While there is evidence that vitamin A could reduce pneumonia & mortality in children w measles, this evidence comes from regions w high rates of malnourishment. Alternative treatments (herbal medicine, homeopathy, etc) are not evidence-based.

❤️❤️❤️ this piece! I've been running the #Tusoma book club in Kampala for over a year now, and our biggest challenge is simply accessing books!

Thank you for your reporting, @stephanienolen.bsky.social. There is a near total lack of information to the public here in Kampala. Mostly, the fact that #Ebola is still circulating and is NOT under control is unknown. For those tuned into the issue, misinformation is rife.

As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear (Gift Article) Two more people are reported dead from the disease, and dozens are in isolation, as the outbreak grows.

The Times obtained a recording of a meeting of U.S. health and security experts and Embassy staff, who described how the Trump aid freeze means that there is limited disease surveillance or contact tracing in Uganda's growing Ebola outbreak.
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Hey hey! Some actual information about the not-over #Ebola outbreak in #Kampala #Uganda. 🙄 Thank you, #AfricaCDC.

“... If you base med­i­cine on sci­ence, you cure peo­ple; if you base the design of planes on sci­ence, they fly; if you base the design of rock­ets on sci­ence, they reach the moon. It works … bitch­es.”

“How do we jus­ti­fy, as it were, that sci­ence would give us the truth? It works. Planes fly, cars dri­ve, com­put­ers com­pute. ...”

Science. It works ... bitches.

Calling Africa's upcoming researchers: #IamAPHRC's 2025 Research Internship program is now open.
Apply by March 21, 2025 for an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in population and health research starting April.
#APHRCResearch #WeAreAfrica
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Trump Live Updates: Supreme Court Denies Bid to Freeze Nearly $2 Billion in Foreign Aid

Breaking News: The Supreme Court rejected President Trump’s bid to freeze foreign aid payments, which were seen as a prime target for his plan to cut spending.

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Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’ Uganda’s L.G.B.T.Q. population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk.

#Uganda
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#Uganda is the 6th most vulnerable country to aid cuts.

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