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in Competitions and Challenges, Health and Medicine, Journalism and Media#Stories4Health Writing Competition [CLOSED]
UPDATE 11/07/2020: The #Stories4Health Competition Winners have been announced here. UPDATE 01/07/2020: The #Stories4Health competition has been closed today and the judging panel will be looking at the entries (click […] More
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in Health and Medicine, PoetryCOVID-19: A WILDFIRE #Stories4Health
On the Eve of 2020 I was discovered! In Wuhan, China I was revealed! An enemy of the respiratory tract I am named! Difficulty in breathing I initiate! The human […] More
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in Family, Friends and Relationships, Fiction, Health and MedicineTo love and virus. #Stories4Health
To love and virus Written by Jehosheba Abahi Terry’s lips married mine and formed a coalition, the type that our bodies got so high in pleasure and set in adventure […] More
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in Fiction, Health and MedicineEndangered By Lockdown #Stories4Health
It was exactly nine-thirty in the morning. The atmosphere was bright, noisy, and gay. The morning sun was still tender to the skin as it rose from the East with […] More
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in Education and Academia, Health and Medicine, Identity & CultureMenstrual Journal: Periods NOT Taboo #Stories4Health
I just turned 11 and was preparing to get into High School, I was going to leave for boarding school the following day and mom had said she wanted to […] More
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in Competitions and Challenges, Family, Friends and Relationships, Health and MedicineReproductive Health During The COVID-19 Lockdown- My Experience. #Stories4Health
About two weeks ago, we patiently watched on television as H.E. Museveni declared that the then 46-day long nationwide lock-down would be extended by two more weeks. That was to […] More
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in Health and Medicine, Journalism and Media, Law, Crime and JusticeREHAB FROM HELL – THE AFRICA RETREAT CENTRE
We pulled up into the gate and my sister’s kids came running behind the car to meet us. I pushed open the passenger door. The little one jumped into my […] More
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in Health and Medicine, Religion and SpiritualityOn Endo: Tubeless…a salpingectomy!
I wrote this a few weeks back but hesitated to share until well…now. You know those car tyres? They are apparently the better kind. Less risk of a flat. Here […] More
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in Family, Friends and Relationships, Health and Medicine, PodcastsKi Love Lavu Podcast 02 – Love Languages and Zodiac Signs
Building loving relationships has been shown to improve depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses. Everyone deserves to have good mental health, be supported and loved. For those who are […] More
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in Health and MedicineMy Grandma Beat Covid-19!!
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in Health and Medicine, Religion and Spirituality.. Give Me Death!
I spent the weekend horizontal. Unwillingly so. I generally prefer to be vertical, up (literally) and about. Sleep loves me more than I love it but there was no sleeping […] More
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in Health and MedicineWhy you should pay more attention to your oral health, and dentists.
Television has ruined dentists for me. Every TV show/movie I’ve watched with a dentist character has them being dissed as not being real doctors. As a result, dentistry is one […] More
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Understanding Uganda’s Evolving Medical Device Regulatory Framework
This month, I joined the Centre for Design, Innovation, and Translational Excellence (CITE) at Makerere University for a medical device innovators forum. The workshop, held on 10 June 2025 at […] More
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On Endo; Made Something of Yet!!
I am thankful. For many many things. I think I am even thankful for endometriosis. I have been thinking about whether we can be thankful for even the bad stuff. […] More
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in Health and Medicine, PoetryHOPE IS A CURE #Stories4Health
Whatever they said and so did, it was never a thing to be ashamed of unless you chose to join them. The choices of words offend but they deliver the […] More
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in Community & Opinion, Competitions and Challenges, Health and Medicine, Journalism and MediaCovik One-Nine #Stories4Health
You were probably making plans for this year when it happened. Going about your daily tasks with great anticipation of the good tidings the new year was going to bring. […] More
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in Fiction, Health and Medicine, Identity & CultureShit
“When did you collect this sample?” The lab technician stretched clinical latex gloves onto his hands, before he could touch my little container of shit. “Thirty minutes ago.” I responded. […] More
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in Community & Opinion, Fiction, Health and MedicineWhispers, Emmanuel Ssebaggala
[box type=”info” align=”aligncenter” ]This is one of the stories that came out of the Writivism 2014, a project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, with the assistance of several partner organisations, which identifies, trains […] More
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We thank God for Jamie Foxx
We thank God for Jamie Foxx. I also don’t know why I’d never imagined he has another name other than Jamie Foxx. The clearest memory I have of him in […] More






















