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Sweden provides SEK 20 million to Uganda’s Ebola response
Government Offices of Sweden
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March 21, 2025
SWEDEN, March 21 - On Monday 17 March, Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa visited Uganda’s crisis centre – which is established in the event of major disease outbreaks – in response to the ongoing...
Global Down Syndrome Foundation Celebrates World Down Syndrome Day in Denver, NYC, Australia, Uganda & Italy
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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March 20, 2025
DENVER, SYDNEY, KAMPALA, NYC, GENOVA, March 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the Global Down Syndrome Foundation (GLOBAL) announced their World Down Syndrome Day celebrations in Denver, New York City, Australia, Uganda, and Italy. The...
DRC/Burundi/Uganda/Rwanda: Families search for their loved ones as cross-border displacement surges
International Committee of the Red Cross
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March 19, 2025
With support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), National Red Cross Societies in the DRC, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda have mobilized hundreds...
Love Without Boundaries Launches Groundbreaking Pediatric Cardiac Database to Bring Equity in Heart Care to Ugandan Kids
EIN Presswire
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February 28, 2025
Love Without Boundaries launches a Pediatric Cardiac Database to connect Ugandan kids with life-saving heart care, ensuring every child has a chance to thrive. ST. PETERSBERG, FL, UNITED STATES, February 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Love...
StrongMinds Report Details Work Treating Depression in African Prisons
EIN Presswire
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July 15, 2025
Group therapy may be a key to reducing recidivism KAMPALA, UGANDA, July 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- StrongMinds, a global non-profit that treats depression using layperson-led interpersonal group therapy (IPT-G), has released a new report...
SF Bay Area Nonprofits Partner to Feed Children in Uganda
EIN Presswire
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February 3, 2025
Teaching horticultural skills in African villages LIVERMORE, CA, UNITED STATES, February 3, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Three San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits are partnering to help ensure food security to thousands of children in the east...
Program launched to combat sickle cell disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
Baylor College of Medicine - Texas
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January 7, 2025
Texas Children’s Global HOPE and Baylor College of Medicine Global Health, with support from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization, announced the next front in their joint efforts to dramatically improve...
How Uganda’s push for “clean cooking” could save lives and counter climate change
UN Environmental Program
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January 22, 2025
Kagimu is one of a growing number of Ugandans who in recent months have switched to electric cooking technologies. The ambitious nation-wide push, supported in part by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), is designed to stem air...
Minister John Steenhuisen: AU Extraordinary Summit on Post Malabo CAADP Strategy, its Action Plan and the Draft Kampala Declaration
South African Government
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January 10, 2025
Her Excellency, Ambassador Josefa Sacko, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, African Union Commission, Honourable Chair: Hon. Frank K. Tumwebaze, Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and...
MOPO Partners With The Health Electrification And Telecommunications Alliance
EIN Presswire
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December 10, 2024
MOPO partners with HETA to deliver 24-hour power access to healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone. SHEFFIELD, UNITED KINGDOM, December 10, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- MOPO, a UK-based company specialising in pay-per-use battery technology, is...
Collaboration, Innovation, and People are Key to Unlocking Health Equality, According to Experts at CPHI Middle East
EIN Presswire
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December 11, 2024
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, December 11, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Creating access to health equality, real-life smart health solutions, and the future of biotechnology were among the key topics unpacked on day two of the inaugural CPHI Middle East,...
Junaid Family Foundation Invests in Uganda: Advancing Drink Local Drink Tap’s WASH Projects for Safe and Healthy Schools
EIN Presswire
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November 20, 2024
JFF is proud to support & showcase Drink Local Drink Tap’s latest water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects at four schools in Uganda. BEACHWOOD, OH, UNITED STATES, November 20, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Junaid Family Foundation (JFF)...
Tonix Pharmaceuticals Announces Research Agreement with Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) to Design, Plan and Seek Regulatory Approval for a Phase I Clinical Study of TNX-801 for Mpox in Kenya
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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November 4, 2024
Proposed clinical study in Kenya intended to test the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of TNX-801, a vaccine being developed to prevent mpox (formerly called monkeypox) The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox a public health...
Afya Launches Campaign to Make NYC First In Nation With Hospitals to Rescue Unused Medical Supplies for Global Areas
EIN Presswire
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October 15, 2024
Healthcare Nonprofit Partners with Greater New York Hospital Association to Give Medical Supplies “Second Life” YONKERS, NY, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Afya, a Yonkers-based global healthcare not-for-profit...
StrongMinds Report Reveals Climate Change is Deepening Depression in Pastoral Community in Uganda
EIN Presswire
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October 15, 2024
KAMPALA, UGANDA, October 15, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- StrongMinds Report Reveals Climate Change is Deepening Depression in Pastoral Community in Uganda StrongMinds, a global non-profit treating depression through layperson-led interpersonal...
How a novel type of insurance is helping Uganda’s banana farmers avoid catastrophe
UN Environmental Program
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October 31, 2024
Bananas are integral to Uganda’s economy, with 47 per cent of farmers involved in their cultivation in 2019, according to Uganda’s statistics bureau. Bananas are much more than a food crop; with the plant’s fibres used for ropes and mats, and its...
Tonix Pharmaceuticals Announces That its Single Dose Mpox Vaccine Candidate TNX-801 Aligns with WHO’s Newly Issued Preferred Target Product Profile for Mpox Vaccines in Global Health Emergency
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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September 16, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) released its preferred target product profile (TPP) criteria for mpox vaccines at its Mpox Research and Innovation Scientific Conference held August 29-30 TNX-801, Tonix’s attenuated live-virus vaccine...
ABL Diagnostics Signs Distribution Agreement with Anatech to Expand Molecular Detection in South Africa, Southern Africa
EIN Presswire
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July 16, 2025
WOIPPY, FRANCE, July 16, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- ABL Diagnostics (FR001400AHX6 – ABLD, the “Company”), a Euronext-listed leader in molecular diagnostics, is pleased to announce a distribution agreement with Anatech Instruments (Pty) Ltd...
WASH Funders and Private Corporation Invest in Launch of Water Mission’s Professional Water Utility in Uganda
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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September 5, 2024
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., Sept. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Three global organizations are coming together to support the launch of an innovative professional water utility in Uganda, that will create sustainable safe water access for households,...
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Announces $10.4 Million in Young Investigator Grants to 150 Mental Health Scientists Worldwide
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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September 10, 2024
New York, Sept. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) today announced it is awarding $10.4 million in Young Investigator Grants to 150 promising early career scientists who are conducting neurobiological and...