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Fighting Uganda's Nodding Syndrome

Collines Angwech, the woman helping children with nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda

Collines Angwech grew up in Northern Uganda, an area that bore the brunt of armed attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army. Collines spent a lot of her childhood on the run from them. Then ten years ago, a mysterious illness - called Nodding Syndrome - started affecting children there. Collines made up her mind to help them. (Picture courtesy of Collines Angwech.)

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