Dr. Fred C. Semitala
@SemitalaFred
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Strengthening Research Capacity to Enhance Integrated Care for HIV, HIV-TB, NCDs and other public health diseases through Evidence-Based Interventions
Joined April 2023
While at the panel,Dr Lumu William, @WilliamLumu President of the @UgandaDiabetes shared statistics that risk us to #Diabetes; smoking at 8.3%, Alcohol 31.1%, Adding Salt 17.4%, hidden salt 11.3%- Overweight 23.5%, Obese 9.2%.
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It's nice catching up with Dr. Birungi @josephinepbiru1, one of the pioneer trainees on our @Fogarty_NIH funded Implementation Science Capacity Building Program @Mak-ImS @Makerere
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Getting ready to talk about integration of NCDs into HIV care @MJAPUg @IDRC_Uganda @MinofHealthUG at the National Annual Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases, & the 19th Joint Scientific Health Conference-2025
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Today, our team visited the various sites where we previously planted trees and went ahead to check on our GO-GREEN Centre, where our nursery bed is located. In our continued efforts to promote environmental sustainability, we were encouraged to see the steady growth of the trees
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Last evening, we had productive round table discussions with @MinofHealthUG colleagues and other stakeholders on how centers of excellence such as the @MJAPUg #Mulago ISS can be best positioned for broader health care in Uganda 🇺🇬
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Many years ago, in S5, I shared a decker with Michael, now Eng Bakyayita, in Ghana House. Today we attended the dedication service for our daughters after seven visitation years of secondary school (including one dedicated to COVID-19). Blessings to the candidates.
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A while back, at the Mulago ISS Clinic we were visited by Dr. Watiti @WatitiStephen a Board member @MJAPUg , to understand how we are dealing with patients returning to the clinic due to pending closure of ART services at Community pharmacies in Kampala
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Beautiful Proffesor. Enjoy your day and full life in the Ministry of Christ. 🇺🇬🇺🇬🎊🎊🎊
Here is Irene Andia Biraro, a daughter of Christ but also a member of the Adventist family.
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30 yrs ago on my first day in Lumuma Hall, I bumped into Simon, with whom I shared a room. We later worked for the same institution for a couple of years and even did a graduate short course at the Uni. Yesterday, during g lunch, we looked back and time and had great memories
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Check our Paper; Global Perspective on Acute Kidney Injury in Uganda. AKI is common in hospitalized children, with a prevalence of 13.5% & 43.5% among children with cerebral malaria Link https://t.co/2KcHPKkwBT
@ISNkidneycare @MinofHealthUG @rkalyes1 @graekan @UgandaPhysician
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🔥 📚 Here is an advert free link to our talk ! 🔥 We went into great detail to see how the challenges in health can be handled. Sprinkled with what you need to ask those vying for political positions to do! ✨ Enjoy!
I have tremendous admiration for @rkalyes1 & the outstanding work he's done in Nakaseke, at Makerere University, & in the hospitals where he provides medical care to those in need🙏🏽
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Set a reminder for our upcoming Space! https://t.co/7UrSMUb9uy Don't miss @lacor_hospital @MinofHealthUG @UgandaPhysician @rkalyes1 @AfricanAFRAN @ISNkidneycare @agabagift2 @2008gomu @DianaAtwine @olaro_charles @JaneRuth_Aceng @DrAkhilX @JosephOgavu @PbyakikaPauline At 7pm
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A great presentation on Multiple Myeloma by the team from Ward 11 @MulagoReferral @MakCHS_SOM @MakerereCHS @Makerere. We learnt that most labs and first-line therapy are readily available @UgandaCancerIns at no or reasonable cost.
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A while back, at the Mulago ISS Clinic we were visited by Dr. Watiti @WatitiStephen a Board member @MJAPUg , to understand how we are dealing with patients returning to the clinic due to pending closure of ART services at Community pharmacies in Kampala
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This weekend, as the department of Internal Medicine @MakCHS_SOM @MakerereCHS @Makerere we will be celebrating our teachers. Today we celebrate Prof. Juergen Freers, A Cardiologist who taught us excellent bedside medicine. Long live our teacher.
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