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The Network for African Parliamentarians is carrying out campaign to have all various Parliaments in Africa come up with committees on Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) in their various Parliaments to ensure easy implementation. The MDG’s are access to universal primary education, eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, promoting gender equality and women empowerment, reducing child […]
The Secretaries-General of the Commonwealth and La Francophonie will visit Canada on 9 June 2010 to meet Prime Minister Stephen Harper at his invitation. The high level meeting will discuss ways of ensuring that the concerns of those countries that are not attending the forthcoming G-8 and G-20 summits, especially small states and developing states, are […]
President Yoweri Museveni has revealed that indicted Sudan president Gen Omar Bashir will not attend the Africa Union summit scheduled in Kampala later in June 2010. Museveni who was speaking in a meeting with the president of the International Criminal Court Judge Sang-Hyun Song said Bashir who is wanted by the Hague based UN Court […]
The representative of the Parliament of Uganda in Parliamentarians Take Action for Maternal and Newborn Health organisation, Hon. Sylvia Sinabulya has said that only 42 percent of women in Uganda get the assistance of skilled health workers during delivery of babies. Sinabulya who is also the Member of parliament for Mityana district told the Parliamentary […]
The Minister of Uganda for Internal Affairs, Sam Kutesa has said preparations for Uganda to host the African Union (AU) summit in June are in final stages. The AU meeting in Kampala will attract over 20 heads of states in Africa. He said the AU commissioner; Jean Ping is in the country assessing the preparations […]
Ultimate Media Government has been advised to factor into the 5-year National Development Plan provisions for recruitment of medical doctors in the country. Speaking at a workshop on maternal health, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga notes that the plan, which was launched recently, ignores the urgent need for more medical personnel, most […]
How is Uganda’s health system organized and planned so as to accord the citizens reasonable health services and fulfil the above health aspirtations?
Ultimate Media The latest maternal mortality survey in Uganda indicates that about 14 women die daily around the country due to reproductive complications which include pregnancy and child birth. The year has 365/6 days. This means about 5124 women die annually in Uganda due to reproductive complications. The Millennium Development Goal number five aims […]
The Forum for Women in Development has called upon the Ministry of Education to create a special desk to handle gender related issues. FOWODE’s Programme Director, Julius Mukunda, made the call while presenting a research paper on Gender budgeting to the Social Services committee today. Mukunda notes that in spite of government’s efforts to […]
Ashoka through its Changemakers programme has launched a call for proposals for he Next Generation of Ideas for Maternal Health. Strong mothers enable children, families, communities and economies to grow and thrive. And we have the power to end preventable maternal death and disability in our lifetime. Ashoka and the Maternal Health Task Force are […]