The private collection of Dr Kawuma holds documents relating to St Francis Leprosy Centre in Buluba, Uganda, where he was Medical Director for twenty years, until the beginning of 2002.

There is personal correspondence with Dr Stanley Browne when he was still Director of the Leprosy Study Centre in London (1978 – 1979), and three albums of clinical photographs.

Reports held in the collection are:-

• on the 25th and 50th anniversaries of St Francis Leprosy Centre, Buluba
• annual reports covering leprosy control field work in South East Uganda, 1978 – 1993
• annual reports on Buluba Leprosy Centre, 1978 – 2001. Dr Kawuma was the main author of these from 1983 to 2001

There is also documentation relating to presentations (written speeches) on the following occasions:-

• opening of a new leprosy treatment centre at Lubira (now a general health centre)
• 50th anniversary of Buluba
• 60th anniversary of Buluba

There are letters to various donors over a ten-year period, and a dissertation to Makerere University Institute of Public Health on ‘Epidemiology of Leprosy in Bulongo Sub-country, Iganga District, Uganda’, 1980.

Copies of the following documents are in this collection (some of which were never published):-

• Leprosy in Uganda, the current situation (1984)
• Buluba Leprosy Hospital, Uganda: a review of admissions, 1981 – 1984. Published in Leprosy Review, 1987, 58: 257-262
• Leprosy in Uganda: on the road to a national control programme (1989)
• Leprosy in Uganda, current status (1992)
• Leprosy in Uganda, current status (1994)
• Leprosy and infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Uganda. There is still the raw data collected in a TDR supported study, ‘A case control study of the interaction between HIV infection and leprosy, in Uganda’. The results of the study were published in the IJL, December 1994
• Type 1 reaction, neuritis and steroid therapy: the impact of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus. Published in Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 88 (1994) 315-316

There are records of Dr Kawuma’s presentations made to the International Leprosy Congress in Beijing, 1999: ‘Early detection in leprosy’ and ‘The trends of leprosy control in Uganda’. He also has documents from the ILA Congresses in Delhi (1984), The Hague (1988), Orlando (1993) and Beijing (1999).

Entry made 27 February 2003