According to the national coordinator pediatric and adolescent HIV care at the health ministry, Dr. Cordelia Katureebe revealed  that they have for long been receiving complaints from parents and guardians of the children living with HIV about the bitterness the current drug has been pausing to the kids which has also seen them neglect to swallow the drug which makes their lives  riskier, making them develop  more health complications as a result of not being able to take their drugs religiously. She also stresses that with the clinical trial that  started in May  this year and will end in 2017, they are targeting over 3000 children under 15 years across the country and health experts hope to roll it out by 2018.

The  project manager paediatric HIV, at drugs for neglected diseases initiative (DNDi) Dr. Olawale Salami confirms that previous clinical trials on the same pallets have been carried out in Kenya and now in Uganda with results indicating positive thus the need to have it used in our countries with children under 15 years.

But one of the mothers who has a positive child found  at Joint Clinical Reserch Centhre in  Lubowa says the current syrup administered to children is bitter and not very good for kids to consume but with the new formulation of pellets will help and make it easy for the positive kids to swallow their drugs.

The  statistics carried out last year in the country by the ministry of health shows  that 95000 children are estimated to be born with HIV and only 60,000 (63%) are on treatment with 37000 not yet on treatment.

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The ministry for health warned health workers in West Nile against selling drugs meant for testing and vaccinating people against Hepatitis B. The warning came after Moyo woman MP Ann Auru told parliament that some health workers in her district are charging people shs 3000 to carry out tests on them about this disease.

However, health state minister Dr. Chris Baryomunsi says the ministry is going to follow up on this matter, adding that these drugs are for free and he was surprised that some people are being forced to pay for this service. He told parliament that government plans to broaden the exercise of testing and vaccinating against Hepatitis B to all districts across the country in case funds are availed to the ministry.

Baryomunsi told parliament that the ministry had requested for 39bn to respond to this epidemic in northern Uganda but parliament gave out only shs10bn and that the ministry decided to begin with worst affected districts in West Nile which had between 20-23% cases, Kitgum had 11%. However now the exercise will cover all other parts especially eastern where the epidemic has been reported.

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This is contained in the research findings collected by Uganda Youth Development Link (UYDEL). The programmes director of UYDEL, Rogers Mutaawe says that the majority of the Ugandan youths consume alcohol, opium and marijuana among others.

Mutaawe says that the number of youth living on drugs and alcohol is increasing in Kampala.

The youths who consume alcohol and drugs need more rehabilitation, counseling and psychosocial support treatment in order to bring them to normal life.

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It seems the sky is the only limit for Uganda now. We have been told by senior sources in Uganda government that the United States of America and the Republic of China are in talks with Kampala government to start buying HIV/AIDS drugs in Uganda.

Uganda currently is one of the countries in the world producing high quality anti retroviral (ARVs) drugs known as the ‘Tenofovir drugs.’

The sources told our Kampala based reporters that the US and China want to buy the tenofovir drugs and they make more research on them. The tenofovir drugs are produced by Quality Chemicals limited, a Kampala based Drug Company.

People living with HIV/AIDS need to take only one pill per day and this drug can not cause drug resistance in the body. The proprietor of Quality Chemicals, Emmanuel Katongole, confirms the development and says that the Tenofovir drugs are easy for people to swallow.

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This is after lawyers representing Kalungi, the key suspect in the death of Butaleja Woman MP Cerinah Nebanda raised queries over the charge sheet.

the accused, Adam Suleiman Kalungi

Led by Mcdusman Kabega and Yunus Kasirivu, the lawyers argued that the charge of supplying and dispensing restricted drugs does not indicate the dates when the said drugs were supplied.

The lawyers also point to the fact that the charge sheet does not state who received the drugs or which specific drugs they are.

The Chief Magistrate Esther Nambayo agreed with the lawyers and has struck the charge off the charge sheet.

Kalungi now faces charges of man slaughter and unlawful possession of narcotic drugs.

He has however declined to apply for bail for fear of being re-arrested but his co-accused persons are currently applying for bail before the court.

The case has now been adjourned to February 5^th when the Magistrate shall rule on whether or not to grant the five suspects bail.

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The officials led by the Permanent Secretary Dr Asuman Lukwago had appeared before the Committee to respond to the Auditor General’s report of 2009/10.

They presented two documents; one referring to former Health Minister Jim Muhwezi as having refunded over 470 million shs of the Gavi funds while another indicated that he had not.

The committee chaired by Terego County MP Kassiano Wadri was left in confusion prompting them to kick the officials out.

The Permanent Secretary Dr Asuman Lukwago expressed regret over the anomalies. he said they will conduct investigations to furnish the committee with the right information.

Recently Anti-Corruption Court acquitted two of the three former health ministers accused of mismanaging 1.6 billion shillings meant for the GAVI.

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The committee chaired by Terego county member of parliament Kassiano Wadri Ezat while meeting officials from Gulu hospital led by the hospital director Dr.Nathan Onyaki noted that Gulu hospital drugs  got expired in the financial year 2009/10 due to lack of storage facility.

MPs on the committee who include Kassiano Wadri, Alice Alaso and Eddie Kwizera said that a number of patients could have died in Gulu hospital because they were treated using expired drugs since the hospital had no proper drug storage rooms.

MPs discovered that drugs worth 6.2 million shillings got expired due to poor storage before the expiry market date.

MPs also said that the number of patients increased in Gulu sub region because the drugs were not effective to deal with diseases.

Gulu (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Director Gulu hospital Dr. Nathan onyaki admitted that drugs expired and there is a possibility that some expired drugs used to treat patients then since the hospital had no good storage rooms for the drug.

He said that the expired drugs were collected by the National medical stores and replaced by a new stock.

He however told mps that the hospital has put in place good storage rooms and facilities and drugs no longer expire.

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The Committee chaired by Terego County MP Kassiano Wadri discovered that a lot of drugs disappear on the way calling for an urgent investigation to discover the culprits. The committee was meeting officials from Mulago hospital.

Kassiano asked the officials from Mulago to provide reconciliation order that is followed during the process of Procurement so that they can trace the missing drugs.

The members were also concerned about the expiry of drugs in stores yet public health centers do not have drugs.

The Executive Director Mulago Hospital Dr Byarugaba Baterana in his response said most drugs that expire in stores are procured for a particular disease that is anticipated but end up expiring without being distributed.

He also confirmed the issue of drug theft from the hospital but says that he has put in place mechanisms to curb the problem.
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It seems Uganda is no longer the pearl of Africa. Uganda, the country preparing to celebrate her 50 years of independence is still ruined by diseases, corruption, embezzlement, human rights abuse and lack of drugs in hospitals.

For example we have just received shocking information that over 80 Hepatitis B patients in Uganda have been put on antiretroviral drugs due to lack of the required drugs needed to treat Hepatitis B.

Uganda’s District Health Officers led by Ann Adunia say that Ugandan hospitals have do not have drugs to treat Hepatitis B patients. She says that Uganda’s ministry of health ministry is aware of the problem but it is incapacitated to offer relief. Several people in Uganda die helplessly due to lack of hepatitis B drugs.

For Hepatitis B patients to share ARVs with HIV positive patients, results into ARV stock depletion.

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Madam Aisha, you may be more likely to develop ulcers if you are infected with pylori Bacterium or when you have taken drugs like aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen. Some people get ulcers as a result of a family history of ulcers, have another illness such as liver, kidney failure or lung disease, or drink alcohol regularly.

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