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How to prevent TB

Gerald Businge — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:38:15 +0000

Children who have been contacted with an adult with TB (Tuberculosis) should be examined and get screened for TB.

If you have had a persistent cough, keep babies surroundings clean, airy and dry.

Early diagnosis and successful treatment of an infected adult is the best way to protect our children against TB.

BCG immunization protects children mainly against the development of TB meningitis and its free at government health facilities.

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Government to immunize children house to house

Gerald Businge — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 14:42:04 +0000

Children bellow five years in Uganda received extra doses of oral polio vaccine even if they had already been immunized and children aged six months to 59 months received measles vaccine irrespective of the previous immunization status and vitamin A supplementation.

The Mister for health Christine Androa says that it’s now a policy in Uganda for parents to bring their children for routine immunization against the 8 killer immunisable childhood diseases: Polio, Measles, Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, and haemophilus influenza type B.

The minister says that when all children under five years receive drops of polio vaccine at the same time, the circulation of the virus that causes polio is interrupted. He says that once immunization is properly conducted it will lead to eradication of polio in Uganda. According to the national immunization progamme, June and July rounds of polio immunization exercise would be conducted from house to house.

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UPDF uses ushs2.5b to organize Tarehe Sita

Gerald Businge — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:34:50 +0000

There are reports being circulated in town that UPDF budgeted 2.5 billion shillings to organise the 31st Tarehe Sita week. The week is marked annually in remembrance of the first armed attack when Yoweri Museveni and his NRA rebels launched a guerrilla war on February 6, 1981. The climax of the week is always February 6^th. This year’s cerebrations will climax in Kasese district.

We are told by a source in UPDF that 2.5 billion shillings would be used on improving the health of Ugandans in Kasese and the nearby districts, to transport soldiers to attend the function, make telephone calls, and organise a cocktail for the invited guests.

The money will also be used to conduct HIV-testing, counseling on HIV, run free male circumcision, immunization, fumigation of health centres in Kasese region, de-worming Ugandans to host district and show HIV films to people in Kasese.

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