Evidence-based Interventions against COVID 19: A shared interest for academia, humanitarian workers and public health authorities. With the detection of COVID 19 in Uganda and in Adjumani refugee settlements, there was a considerable risk that COVID 19 will devastate the lives of refugees. The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) rapidly responded to build the refugee community […]
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The separate worlds of adults and children in COVID-19. COVID-19 has flipped the world as we know it, on its head! With it, came new demands on how we should live. As a result, all sections of society, namely: women, children, the elderly and men are struggling to adapt and manage the shocks from the
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Hunger in COVID-19: The silent war for refugees in Uganda and beyond. Uganda is home to about 1. 2M South Sudanese refugees who mainly fled armed conflict in South Sudan. Just as they settled in, they now have to deal another ‘silent war’ of hunger exacerbated by COVID-19. In March 2020, the government of Uganda
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Reflections from an Implementing Partner (IP) in refugee settlements. The COVID 19 pandemic continues to ravage populations worldwide. While the impact of the pandemic varies in different countries, all nations are faced with unprecedented socio-economic challenges. These include among others, increasing number of people infected and dying; rising cost of health care straining the national
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“Refugees” – rethinking the nomenclature that separates us. Mr. George Piwang -Jalobo
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Double Jeopardy: Child Protection Concerns amidst Displacement and COVID-19 Control. With over 1.4 million refugees, Uganda is one of the leading refugee host countries globally. One quarter of the country’s refugee population comprise of children, thousands of whom are unaccompanied. Like many other countries, Uganda was affected by the COVID-19; and the country responded with
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Hope after heartwrenching field experiences in refugee communities! At the start of this year, I heard about the Corona virus spreading to other countries and got both anxious and scared. In March, the President started what would later become a series of nation addresses with instructions on how Uganda would fight the spread of the
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The need to lead by example in fight against COVID-19! The need to lead by example in COVID-19 The Refugee Lived Experiences, Compliance and Thinking (REFLECT) in COVID-19 Study is one of the studies Agnes participated in under CHASE-i. The study is an intervention by stakeholders in partnership from academia, policy formulation and implementation, in
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Catherine Nakidde Nzesei is the Centre’s Associate Director of Programmes – providing leadership and support to the Programmes Unit across all projects, teams and associates.
Catherine is a public health specialist with graduate training in public health, health promotion and international development. A recipient of the 2022 Commonwealth Scholarship, she embarked on a PhD in public pealth at UCL which is driven by her passion for health system strengthening – and building on previous work around Strengthening Health Professional Regulation in Uganda and Kenya. Catherine’s PhD examines systems and processes for continuous quality improvement of healthcare professional training.
Catherine’s professional interests revolve around leveraging impact from effective systems and empowering vulnerable population categories to enable them to fulfil their potential – whether in a professional, community or personal setting. Some of her previous work has focused on understanding the experiences of refugees and slum dwellers in the COVID-19 pandemic as well as health system resilience. Since inception, Catherine has directly supported for several Centre projects including those on Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH), refugee health and wellbeing, Quality Improvement (QI) and livelihoods.
