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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Speak Truth to Power
Arrangements are under way to run a radio program on Radio Sapienta every Tuesday beggining February
of 2009. The broadcast is scheduled to run from 2100-2200 Ugandan local time. Listeners will have their questions answered
by a team from the UASCRF which will be based in the United States. Doctors, nurses, and other medical officials from the
Sickle Cell Association of Uganda who will be based in Uganda.
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Monday, January 19, 2009
A new dawn
It about 14 hours to the innaguration of the first African-American President of the most powerful
nation on earth. People all over the world have different expectations and hope in the new President. Africans in particular
who have always been let down by their own leadership look forward towards the new President hoping that his policies
may make a positive change in their lives particularly in their economic and health fields. For people with sickle cell disease
in Uganda and all over the world, their only hope is that the world may awaken and give sickle cell disease the attention
that it deserves.
Abudallah Mulumba, UASCRF
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Glad Tidings for 2009!
2009 is already 17 days old, and I hope it is not too late to wish everybody a happy and prosperous 09. Back at Uganda-American
Sickle Cell Rescue Fund, we have just concluded an equally fruitful and a grim ripping 2008. Concentrating on the fruitful
if I may, my daughter Carol Mariam Mulumba who has had sickle cell since birth had a succesful bone marrow transplant on October
29th 2008 from her brother and I am happy to report that a series of DNA analysis shows 100% donor blood free of sickle cell!!
This is day 77 post transplant and everything seems to be going smoothly.
Perhaps the best news of this is
the enthusiam and hope that this procedure generated in Uganda.Sickle cell patients in Uganda now are aware that
sickle cell is curable!!!It may be a long call for most Ugandans to afford this treatment at this time but I know that
there may come a time when this treatment will be available and affordable to most Ugandans.
Abudallah Mulumba
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