The number of children that die before attaining the age of five years in developing countries like Uganda has fallen from 99 per 1000 live births to about in 1998 to 72 per 1000 births in 2008. Though this may be so, the Global to Action has expressed dissatisfaction with the progress of developing countries […]
Abacus Parental Drugs Ltd has pledged to donate IV fluids and solar lamps to five hospitals for six months. The hospitals that will benefit from the donations include Namwenda Hospital in Kamuli, Kiryandongo Hospital in Masindi, Kagadi Hospital in Kagadi, Mityana Hospital in Mityana and Hoima Hospital. The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has […]
Workers in the informal sector are more likely to get HIV/AIDS infection than their counterparts in the formal sector in Uganda. According to a bulletin of Platform for Labor Action on Social Security, this is so because the informal sector is associated with high levels of poverty and gender inequality which aspects precipitate HIV transmission. It […]
The Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Dr. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid will give Ugandan mothers and other citizens a public lecture on reproductive health on July 27th this year. The venue for the lecture is Makerere University’s Main Hall starting at 3:00pm and ending at 5:00pm. The lecture has been organized by Makerere University […]
The National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS has urged the government of Uganda to end the routine stock outs of Anti Retroviral drugs in the various government health centers in the country. This comes after a recent revelation that only 190, 000 out of 350, 000 people living with HIV/AIDS in need of ARVs […]
Despite the various health interventions in the country to control Tsetse flies, about 70% of national herds in Uganda is at risk of contracting animal trypanosomiasis also known as Nagana. Apart from the threat to livestock, over 11 million people remain under the risk of contracting Sleeping Sickness. A statement from the government warns that […]
The government of Uganda has used part of the 79 billion shillings that was directly disbursed to the districts in Northern Uganda for the implementation of the Peace Recovery and Development programmes in those districts to procure 60 hydra form machines for 40 of the PRDP districts. This comes after earlier this month the government […]
The Minster of Health, Dr. Stephen Malinga has urged members of Parliament to sensitize the public on ways of preventing the red eye disease from spreading in communities. The outbreak of this disease was first reported in Kisenyi Parish, central division of Kampala about 6 weeks ago. Outbreaks have also been reported in other nine […]
The government of Uganda is in the process of formulating new guidelines to implement the second phase of the National Agricultural Advisory Services programme commonly known as Naads. The programme was recently halted by President Yoweri Museveni following several complaints from the public of mismanagement of funds by the NAADS officials. Most of the projects were […]
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