Uganda CV's in Uganda
"In Ukraine, everything is not bad, but in many respects it is similar to Africa." Impressions of a trip to Uganda
Konstantin Dmitriev, project manager at Dev-Pro, in a column for MC.today shared travel notes about his trip to Uganda. In Africa, he was amazed by the list of vaccines needed to enter the country, the huge number of motorcycles and the ban on the trip organizers from trying local food in cafes.
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Konstantin Dmitriev, project manager at Dev-Pro
The three of us flew. Two colleagues from the USA and me. We wanted to use the example of one of the companies to understand how microcredit works in Uganda and help its employees do their job better.
I was invited to travel to Uganda in early August, but Ebola (the virus that causes Ebola haemorrhagic fever - ed.) Broke out in the Congo, and the trip had to be postponed. In September, we gathered strength again, the trip was not Uganda CV's in Uganda confirmed until the last, so we prepared for two weeks.
You can't just go and go to Uganda. It all starts with medical training - vaccination. The list of recommended vaccines for Africa as a whole is something like this:
Yellow fever and hepatitis A vaccinations were available in Kharkiv, and vaccinations were easy. After vaccination against yellow fever, you receive an international certificate. You cannot enter the country without it.
Vaccines against typhoid and meningococci were not found closer than Berlin. I made the decision to go after them three hours before departure, since there were eight days left before entering Uganda. Moreover, the formation of full-fledged immunity takes another 14 days.
Immediately after the vaccination, my arm became numb. In the evening, I got a feeling of a cold. The next two days, I fell out of my life with a temperature of 40 and a terrible headache. One of these days was on the road.
Later, my colleagues and I discussed vaccines. It turned out that they had the same effect, but from other vaccinations, all individually. This suggests that I initially had a weak immunity to the disease being vaccinated. In contact with a real virus, things could be bad.
For myself, I refused the hepatitis B vaccine (immunity is developed for two months, is transmitted through blood like AIDS, it can be infected in the hospital through a needle, and the duration of stay in Uganda is only a week) and the meningococcal B strain vaccine (children carry it, vaccination very difficult, and at that time I had already done four in a week with the recommendation of one per month).
All the while in Uganda, you need to drink malaria medicine. The most effective and safest is Atovaquon-Proguanil 250mg / 100mg. You can get it in Ukraine, but it's expensive, so I bought it in Germany when I went to get vaccines. In the same place, the doctor warned that I would suffer from him: I would feel dizzy, vomit, and general weakness would appear. But it's better than malaria. It should be taken one day before entering Africa and a week after leaving.
But not malaria alone. Because insects carry many infections, including Ebola. Sleep under a mosquito net, which must be treated with a special insect repellent, usually Permethrin. You also need to treat all clothes before departure and renew the impregnation every 2-3 days.
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