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SOME BOOKS ON MENTAL HEALTH BY UGANDAN AUTHORS.
Writing a book, especially from a personal, lived experience of mental health challenge is something that takes commitment, dedication, focus, hard work and having empathy. In the past, most Ugandans […] More
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TEARS ON MY PILLOW #Stories4Health
I turned and tossed in my small bed in the deep ours of thenight, the only light i could see from the moonlight. My stomach was growling the hundredth time […] More
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FACE TO FACE WITH SURGERIES BUT STILL GROWING STRONG: My OWN STORY
I don’t know how many surgeries and what kind you have experienced in your life. For me, it has been six surgeries over a period of 76 years. My parents, […] More
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The Game That Takes Everything
In the glow of a smartphone screen, a quiet epidemic is claiming the hopes—and sometimes the lives—of Nigeria’s youth. ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE writes that what begins as a harmless bet on a football […] More
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in Agriculture, Farming and Gardening, Business and Entrepreneurship, Career and Employment, Education and Academia, Fiction, Health and Medicine, Identity & Culture, Innovation, Science and Technology, Journalism and Media, Politics and Government, War and Conflict, Writing and LiteratureReality Under Siege: When AI Rewrites the World
In the beginning, artificial intelligence was a distant marvel — something spoken about in TED Talks and foreign tech expos. In Uganda, it arrived quietly, tucked inside mobile apps, banking […] More
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Patron’s Address — Heartsounds Uganda World Bipolar Day 2026 | #BipolarStrong
A few years ago, I sat with a young man — I will call him Fred — in a small room at Butabika Hospital. He had arrived late, slipping into […] More
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My Experience With MCAZ’s GVP Inspection—and What You Can Learn From It
Last month, I participated in my second Good Vigilance Practice (GVP) inspection as a Local Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance (LQPPV). My first in February this year was on familiar ground […] More
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Honoring Goes Both Ways
As a Clinical Social Worker who uses play and trauma-informed approaches, I’ve had the privilege of walking alongside children and families doing deep inner healing work. This week, I had […] More
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The stress of owning a uterus
Nothing stresses me out about womanhood like the everyday simplicity of owning a uterus. Hear me out! In Primary 5, our senior woman teacher called us and taught us about […] More
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Fake asthma medication
Some weeks ago, I landed on a post of a grieving mother who had lost her son to an Asthma attack. I kid you not, even though I have gotten […] More
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Business Continuity Planning in Pharmacovigilance: A Real-World Case from an Internet Shutdown in Uganda
This month brought an unprecedented challenge in my provision of pharmacovigilance services to clients, due to a complete internet shutdown in Uganda, where I am based. The shutdown began on […] More
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Learning about emotions and mental health saved me.
Somewhere in December 2014, I hated the idea of waking up. For someone who liked to have her own space, I’d started fearing being on my own. I’d dispelled the […] More
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in Health and Medicine, Identity & Culture, Poetry, Self-help and Inspiration, Writing and LiteratureDear depression
Dear depression, Give me thoughts, Without the anxiety. Give me pain, With a knowing that it’ll pass away. Give me all the grief, Only if it won’t play on repeat. […] More
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in Business and Entrepreneurship, Education and Academia, Family, Friends and Relationships, Health and Medicine, History & Heritage, Identity & CultureThe legacy of grandpa.
Penning my journal. Stumbled in this pic of grandpa Ezekiel Omkhulu on my maternal side back taken in his sunset years in the 1970s’. In the 1920s he worked in King […] More
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“GLOBESITY”
I recently watched a documentary on Youtube “Globesity; Fat’s New frontier” about the Global Obesity crisis and at so many points all I could do was shake my head, cry […] More
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C FOR CARDIO…ON A WEEKEND!!!
Hola, You would probably be wondering why “cardio on a weekend’ for a title, well guess what…it’s one of those weekend specials. The type that you don’t get or […] More
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