By Carol Davis | President
I just returned from Uganda last week after a three week visit to Uganda including the Agwata clinic. Part of the supplies I brought with me were special heavy flow sanitary pad kits to be given to mothers who deliver at the clinic. These kits were lovingly made and donated by a wonderful group of women from Littleton, Colorado.
The photo shows the three nursing staff members at our clinic who were happy to receive this donation. The number of deliveries in any given month can vary from as low as 5 to a high of 20. I can say the maternity hut was in use almost every day that I spent in Agwata! As a side note: the head nurse apologizes for not being in uniform! She was about to leave on a motorcycle to take a report to the sub-county health department.
Many of our supporters have asked how the recent U.S. global funding cuts are impacting health care where we work. While we receive no federal funding directly, our clinic is indirectly affected because HIV treatment drugs, malaria medicines and test strips, in particular are becoming in shorter supply for the Ugandan governmental stores area. Our clinic is not an authorized distribution point for HIV drugs, but it does mean that our clinic gets less malaria drugs from the district's health stores. The clinic then requests more from us, even knowing that we do not have any additional funding ourselves. Our view is that this situation will probably worsen in 2026 as the governmental stores are drawn down.
We want to emphasize that with the small amount of funding we have for clinic medicines, at the nursing staff's request, we do prioritize the malaria test strips and malaria treatment medicines which are truly life saving especially to children under the age of 5, and pregnant mothers. It is very scary to live in a malaria area if there are not sufficient malaria treatment drugs available. And the more we prioritize the malaria medicines, it means we have less to spend on antibiotics which are also very important.
As we mentioned in an earlier report to you, our support for the clinic is entirely dependent on extra donations from our donors and funding from this project. We and the Agwata Community are truly grateful for the gift of health you have given the 5000 people living in this remote area of northern Uganda! This project will become even more important during the next year.
Please share this project report with at least one person you know who has a passion for helping with life saving health projects like our clinic! And explain how the conditions here are becoming more fragile and critical.
As always, I thank you so much for your generosity and caring! I remain committed to this area and as always I remain,
For Humanity,
Carol Davis, President
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