Ventorina Aculu, a mother of eight in her 60s, says she is proud to have given birth to her many children. Her distress only set in with her last two, both sons and now adults. Omac Alfred and Kibwota ...

Augustine Languna's eyes welled up and then his voice failed as he recalled the drowning death of his 16-year-old daughter. The women near him looked away, respectfully avoiding the kind of raw ...

On Monday, World Health Organization officials and scientists will gather in Uganda to discuss a mysterious affliction, called “nodding disease,” that is affecting almost 3,000 children in the African ...

Uganda has opened its first clinics specifically set up to help thousands of children who have a mysterious fatal condition known as nodding syndrome. The disease's cause is unknown, but it affects ...

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Nodding syndrome is a rare neurological condition that can result in head nodding and violent seizures. Some researchers think they know the... Ventorina Aculu, a mother of eight in her 60s, says she ...