Ugandan Rural Health
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A light shines outside a patient's home.
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A mother calls for her children as the home health nurses have arrived.
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A home health care nurse treats a patient's bed sore.
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A young village girl suffered multiple stab wounds and was brought by taxi to Mengo Hospital.
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A local midwife sits with an expectant mother. Often midwives rely on herbs grown in their gardens to treat maternity patients.
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At the children's ward inside Mengo Hospital.
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A home care nurse checks in on an HIV/TB patient just outside of Kampala.
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Children play outside the dying woman's room.
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A home health care nurse is exhausted from a long day of visits.
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An HIV patient's condition has worsened since the home health care workers last visited. The family stopped giving her meds as they couldn't afford them.
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New mosquito netting is distributed by USAID in the Mukono district of Uganda.
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A patient at Mengo Hospital receives an HIV test.
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An expectant mother at her prenatal checkup in Mukono, Uganda.
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An expectant mother at her prenatal checkup in Mukono, Uganda.
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Anti-malarial drugs administered to a pregnant patient in Mukono, Uganda.
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New mosquito netting is distributed by USAID in the Mukono district of Uganda.
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A patient receives medication for TB.
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A Ugandan family receives sad news. They struggled to care for a family member infected with HIV and TB. Quite often the choice is between lifesaving drugs or food for the family.