Uganda: Theft of Vital Medical Equipment Puts Lives At Risk

Dizzy and sweating, 25-year-old Kevin Amoding sits with her eyes closed in the HIV clinic, as her tiny little daughter begins to cry. She walked three kilometres from her village to Asuret Health Centre III and has spent the last 10 days here, in the hope of checking her CD4 count.

The tired looking Amoding badly needs to have her blood taken for a routine CD4 count - a test that measures the health of her immune system. However the clinic cannot provide the test as its only CD4 count machine was recently stolen, along with a microscope.

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