Nodding syndrome has been out of the news for a couple of months, perhaps crowded out by Ebola. But a search of the Daily Monitor found this September 25 report: NGO offers better facilitation for nodding. Excerpt:
A visit to Havens of Hope, a daycare centre operated by Gulu Hope, an NGO, in Aromo Wanglobo Village at the weekend, found a different atmosphere from the gloom reported in the three government-aided facilities caring for nodding disease patients.
On arrival at the premises, nearly all the children who dropped out of school, greeted us with smiles, their squared shirts and cream skirts and shorts neatly arranged.
At the centre, which opened two months ago, the children get maximum attention, including feeding, classes, physical education and medication as soon as their parents drop them off.
“We feed them both nutritionally and psychologically, including breakfast and lunch, in addition to availing a full-time nurse, who gives them drugs in case they did not take from home,” Ms Collins Angwech, the director of Gulu Hope, says.
She added that besides the two teachers, the centre is also cutting down on the distance of about 15 kilometres that the parents should have travelled to Odek Health Centre for drugs.You'll find a link to Havens of Hope in the Hot Zone Sources list. Meanwhile, I've picked up rumours of ten new cases in Masaka. I'll try to confirm them.
