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We arrived in Kiryandongo a week later, but found the MalariX project abandoned after an intervention by the Ugandan health minister, Dr Stephen Mallinga. Mallinga is a physician as well as a politician and had launched a major crackdown on the alternative medicine industry, shutting down bogus aid projects and driving reflexologists from the streets of Kampala. The refugee settlement’s "innovative" approach to healthcare had not escaped his attention. “We had 20 acupuncturists, too,” an RMF guide ruefully told me, “but we had to let them all go.”
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