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World Service,23 May 2017,14 mins

Fighting Uganda's Nodding Syndrome

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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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