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Bringing Health Care to Uganda

NPR
Published May 19, 2002 at 11:00 PM CDT

Africa is littered with the wreckage of international projects that started with pomp and hope, and then died as foreigners lost interest. Now, in Uganda, activists are trying out a model they hope will last: a health care system paid for and run by the people it serves. For All Things Considered, NPR's Joanne Silberner reports.

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