Museveni at one of his campaign rallies

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The Ministry of health said there is a malaria outbreak in 10 districts of northern Uganda that has killed a total of 162 people in the last three months. The Director General of health services, Ruth Aceng, says 22, 873 cases have been recorded in Lamwo, Gulu, Kitgum, Oyam and Agago among others.

Addressing the media at the MOH headquarters, Aceng said the cases were realized after recording admissions and outpatients reports in health centres in the 10 districts.

She however reveals that government has put in place a number of interventions which include dispatching three multi-disciplinary teams to provide technical support to the affected districts, delivering anti-malarial medicines and conducting at least two spray rounds to quickly halt malaria transmission.

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Baryomonsi is concerned that since TB treatment lasts for more than four months most patients tend to give up taking before prescribed doses are complete under the guise of feeling better, which leaves them at the risk of remaining with the disease and spreading it further and thus increasing the costs of treatment on the government’s part.

Since TB treatment is free at all government health facilities, Baryomonsi is now asking people to go for checkups more regularly to know their health status.

Chris Baryomunsi was speaking just a day before the world marked the Global Tuberclosis day on 24^th March 2015. Uganda held the event to commemorate the day in the Northern Uganda district of Gulu.

Meanwhile the country is hosting a regional conference on health and science which has started today 25th March 2015 and will end on 28th March 21015 in Kampala.

The East African Community member states will discuss health issues geared at transforming and strengthening the sector in the region to enable it respond to threats of emerging and re-emerging communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases among other conditions of public health.

The conference brings together over 1000 scientists and health experts and will also focus on integrated approaches for disease prevention and control as well social determinants of health and disease conditions.

The conference will in addition document the progress registered by regional member states towards the attainment of health related millennium development goals that will facilitate sharing and documentation of best practices and innovations in the health sectors investment.

The Deputy Secretary General of the East African Community, Hon. Jessica Eriyo notes that the 5th annual health and scientific conference will have parallel sub conferences that will all discuss very important regional health issues.

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The study which was conducted by World Vision early this year indicates that every month monthly close to 20 women are delivered by Traditional Birth Attendants down from 10 recorded last year in the districts of Nakasongola ,Oyamu, Kitigumu and Gulu.

The regional advocacy coordinator for World Vision Isaac Eju says this has come as a result of the limited number of midwives in health facilities.

He says the preference for traditional birth attendants has also partly contributed to increased cases of maternal and child deaths in these areas.

 The study is recommending an increase in the number of health workers in health centers 3 and 4 so as to motive expectant mothers to deliver from hospitals.

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Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has asked the women of Uganda to tie themselves on trees at the NGO Forum (Kabalagala) head offices in solidarity with the mothers who are caring for children with nodding disease.

The mysterious nodding disease invaded northern Uganda and it has already claimed several lives and dozens of others are admitted in hospitals in critical condition.

The FDC women leader Ingrid Turinawe says that the women should tie themselves as a symbol of the indignity women have had to face as they tie their nodding children to trees in Northern Uganda.

She says that even men are free to join the women in the campaign to untie Uganda from all the ills that have plagued our nation. “Come join us as we declare – no to indignity, to suffering, to corruption, to all the other things that we want to untie our country from. Come to the NGO Forum,” she says.

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Many people across the world have expressed mixed reactions about the content of the video about LRA war and its commander Joseph Kony being played in USA and Europe. Some Ugandans and Africans have welcomed USA’s interests in ending the bloody LRA war.

But others complain that when Joseph Kony was maiming people in the northern Uganda, killing them, forcing them out of their homes for years, kidnapping people, selling young girls and boys as slaves and at one time forcing some village to cook corpses and then forced them to eat them and then summarily killed everyone in South Sudan, the Americans and Europeans were almost mute and could only send in help in form of military trainers to the UPDF.

Now when Joseph Kony is no threat, the Americans have taken an active interest in him but some Ugandans suspect that the Americans might be targeting new oil discoveries in northern Uganda. It is rumoured that there is huge oil deposits in some parts of Northern Uganda.

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Ugandans in the northern Uganda are to hold a round table meeting and also conduct victory party for some of the people who contested on opposition party ticket and won the polls.

The round table meeting will take place on Thursday this week in Nwoya district at a place called Lukutu.

The round table meeting will kick off in morning hours and the cerebrations will follow immediately from 2:00pm at Koch Amar trading centre also in Nwoya district.

The organisers of the two events have invited the president General of DP, Norbert Mao among other opposition leaders to attend the round table meeting. Why? This is because Hon. Mao comes from Northern Uganda.

By James Okello

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In the documentary Russell does mention that Joseph Kony has moved on from Northern Uganda. Russell simply mentions that LRA war is one of the neglected conflicts in Africa. This is true; LRA is one of the neglected insurgencies in Africa.

Russell mentions that the Ugandan army (UPDF) is still trying to rout Joseph Kony and needs US help. This is also very true even if we (Ugandans) may not like the USA support.

If the UPDF has indeed made Kony a money-making machine for themselves using Kony as a trap, is it not better that Kony is neutralized so that the UPDF loses that particular escape goat? So Russell is the ‘white man’ saving Africans again – well if Africans will not do it why can’t we let humanity prevail whatever its color?

I hear Russell spends most of the money he raises on salaries, travel and other fun projects and not on the children of Northern Uganda. That is abominable and unfair, but this movie has given us the chance to expose him and perhaps improve accountability. We hope that unlike the Ugandan government he has a conscience! But again, what is making everyone hoping mad about Russell’s documentary?

By Anne Mugisha

Senior Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) official

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Kony’s video sales in USA and European countries show that the world this time is united towards eliminating the LRA insurgency in the Great Lakes Region.

Many people watching this film have given thanks to Invisible Children and American Documentary team.

However the LRA Video has got more criticism than praise on social networks like facebook, twitter and and youtube. Currently the LRA insurgency in Northern Uganda is no more and the people there are focused on Rehabilitation; Agriculture food security; modernizing Agriculture and answering Education challenges at all levels.

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For example, the report shows that the FDC members from the northern Uganda lied the people of northern Uganda who are voters in Jinja that Nabeta gave out free transport to people who wanted to grab land from northern Uganda. This angered them and vowed not to support Nabeta anymore.

The report also shows that FDC lied to the fishermen that it was Nabeta who introduced the tax levied on their boats. The report goes further to allege that NRM lost the polls because of the corruption among public officials. Lastly the report shows that some of the NRM members refused to support the ruling party candidate and instead supported an opposition candidate.

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