(as prepared for delivery at Reach Out Mbuya’s Banda offices, Nakawa Division, Kampala) Good afternoon! I am delighted to join you today for this very special occasion – celebrating 20 years of existence of Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative, or ROM as we commonly call it. Congratulations on this milestone! I am especially touched […]
World AIDS Day 2021: Community Activity in Katoogo and Kasenyi For this years’ World AIDS Day and to commemorate ROM @ 20, Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM) conducted a community activity in Katoogo and Kasenyi Communities. A team of medical and community staff carried out health awareness services and home visits to needy
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Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative (ROM) in conjunction with Our Lady of Africa Church aims to raise funds for the continued support of Orphans and Vulnerable Children to attain uninterrupted quality education. A Garage Sale towards raising school tuition for 75 extremely vulnerable children in Mbuya Parish to attend post primary education in the year
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By Florence Awor; Senior Counsellor at Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative HIV discordance is a lack of agreement of the couple HIV test results. A situation where a Couple tests for HIV and one partner results are HIV negative while the other is HIV positive. A couple is defined as two persons in an ongoing
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REACH OUT MBUYA COMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE 2021 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING NOTICE Notice is hereby given that in pursuant to Article 8 of the Articles of Association of Reach Out Mbuya Community Health Initiative, the 2021 Annual General Meeting shall be held on Friday 1 October 2021 at Our Lady of Africa Kindergarten Hall located Plot
Josephine Kaleebi Executive Director Reach Out Mbuya It is interesting to note how partners that disclosed their status have been helped in the lockdown. A wonderful case of a ROM male client who was locked up in a factory was helped by his wife to get his drugs refilled. The wife’s support was obviously a
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By Venus Okello 23 July 2021 Our elders provided us with love and care, a source of wisdom and talent we boast of, our good character and positive behavior influencers and pillars of our cultures, families and communities. We all ought to play a role in shielding these elders from calamities especially during this pandemic.
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By Sarah Nassolo Social Worker ROM’s psychosocial interventions are geared towards achieving positive change in the lives of the youth within the three core areas of; skills and knowledge, emotional and social wellbeing. Under skills and knowledge, we focus on supporting them acquire new skills in communication, hands on skills like crafts making and life
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Every 24, March ROM joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Tuberculosis Day. Awareness campaigns on the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and the need to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic in both adults and children are underway. This is done through the community out reaches and talk-shows where the community
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On 17th to 18th of March 2021, Reach Out Mbuya (ROM) held the Village Saving and Loans Association (VSLA) field agents training. The trainees were equipped with entrepreneur skills, HIV and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention knowledge to help them support cases of GBV within the VSLAs. Application of the Village Agents model will increase
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