To the women’s rescue: Saving Ugandan island

To the women’s rescue: Saving Ugandan island

By Namutebi Patricia It is 6 pm and I am sailing on the mighty Lake Victoria, the largest freshwater lake in the world. The huge waves keep flapping against the local man-made boat, I arrive ashore on Myende Island at 8 pm. I brave the last-minute moments of being carried off the boat. Uganda’s water industry is […]

New solutions for GBV to promote peace in Uganda

New solutions for GBV to promote peace in Uganda

By Namutebi Patricia Thirty-eight-year-old Nanozi Sandra* welcomes me with a smile. She is carrying a child on her back as she weighs and packs up plastic bottles in a huge sack. She displays a face of resilience. Sandra is a single mother of five. She collects garbage which she later sells at a recycling plant. Sandra […]

Silencing the guns: Gloria’s journey from the frontlines of LRA war

Silencing the guns: Gloria’s journey from the frontlines of LRA war

By Namutebi Patricia When passion meets purpose, our lives become meaningful and then impactful. I met Gloria Laker Aciro Adiiki. She is one of Uganda’s female journalists who has covered war stories. She narrates the story to AWiM News below: Gloria narrates, “As a former war and peace reporter during the northern Uganda LRA war, this is […]

List of Celebrities Who Tested Positive for COVID-19

List of Celebrities Who Tested Positive for COVID-19

The coronavirus is affecting 199 countries and territories around the world with 614811 cases among which are celebrities who tested positive. Check out the list for affected celebrities 1.Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson:The popular Hollywood couple announced on March 11 that they were infected by the coronavirus and were placed in quarantine in a Gold Coast […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-isolating. In early February, as the UK took a different approach to much of the rest of Europe in its handling of the crisis, Johnson said he was continuing to shake hands with people – even in a hospital in which he said there […]

Alibaba Co-Founder Jack Ma Donates Masks, Testing Kits and Protective Gears to Uganda Fight Coronavirus

Alibaba Co-Founder Jack Ma Donates Masks, Testing Kits and Protective Gears to Uganda Fight Coronavirus

On 24th March 2020, Uganda received a donation of 20,000 testing kits, 100,000 masks and 1,000 protective suits from Alibaba Co-Founder Jack Ma in a bid to support African countries fight COVID19. According Mr. Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the senior spokesperson of the ministry of health, “the equipment reached the country in the evening by the Ethiopian […]

Coronavirus Cases in Uganda Rise To 19

Coronavirus Cases in Uganda Rise To 19

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed five new cases of coronavirus in Uganda bringing the total number to 14. Minister of State for Primary Health Care, Dr. Joyce Moriku Kaducu on Wednesday said that two of the five cases are Chinese nationals while the others are Ugandans. All the first nine confirmed cases are […]

China’s National Health Commission Advices Medical Institutions to Use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to Treat Coronavirus

China’s National Health Commission Advices Medical Institutions to Use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to Treat Coronavirus

As scientists race to find a cure and vaccine, China is increasingly turning to its traditional remedies. As of late last month, more than 85% of all coronavirus patients in China — about 60,000 people — had received herbal remedies alongside mainstream antiviral drugs and there was improvement. Chinese government’s push to use Traditional Chinese […]

Public Dialogue on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19), Uganda

The Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health (MoH)-Uganda, World Health Organisation (WHO)-Uganda, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Uganda and the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) has organized a Public Dialogue on the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) scheduled to take place on Friday 13th March 2020 at the Imperial Royale […]

UN Issues $15m to Vulnerable Countries Fight Coronavirus

UN Issues $15m to Vulnerable Countries Fight Coronavirus

Fighting against Coronavirus, the United Nation’s Central Emergency Fund has donated $15 million to fund vulnerable countries with weak health care systems to contain the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. The announcement came as the World Health Organization (WHO) upgraded the global risk of the coronavirus outbreak to ‘very high’ – its top level of […]

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