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Uganda: More Than 200 Kibaale Residents Battling Elephantiasis Disease [1]

Kibaale — More than 200 people in Kibaale District are struggling with podoconiosis also known as nonfilarial elephantiasis which has left them in abject poverty and misery as they are stigmatised.

Publication Date: 
17/08/2017
All Africa [2]
Tags:
Health [3], Diseases [4], Uganda [5], Poverty [6], Africa [7]
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