Uganda Primary health care state minister James Kakooza

Speaking to journalists in Kampala today, Kakooza said that the government of Uganda is talking to neighboring countries to ensure joint fight against the disease.

He says while Uganda has tried to fight polio, countries like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo do not and the disease is brought by cross border business people.

Kakooza further said that when Uganda put a campaign of “Kick polio out Uganda” neighbor countries never bothered to carry out mass immunization against polio.

After many years as a polio free country, the disease which paralyses part of limbs was reported in Uganda last month.

By Issa Baluku,  Weinformers Media

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Mosquito which spreads Malaria disease

The Uganda Minister of State for Primary Heath, James Kakooza has indicated that malaria prevalence rates will reduce by 5 percent before the end of 2015.

Currently, the prevalence of malaria in Uganda stands at more than 25 percent and remains the leading killer mostly affecting children and pregnant mothers according to statistics from the Ministry of Health.

Kakooza told Ultimate Media that the government has put in place various interventions, like giving free mosquito nets to Ugandans that cannot afford and spraying DDT to reduce the prevalence rates by 2015.

The minister says the Ministry of Health pilot scheme to spray DDT in the districts of Kanungu, Kumi and the Acholi region has already significantly reduced the malaria prevalence rates by about 5 percent.

Kakooza says with such a success story Ugandan’s should not think the task is impossible.

By Zacharia Tiberindwa

Ultimate Media

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