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07 March 2010
KAMPALA (IRIN) – The lack of adequate sanitation facilities in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, has led to increased use of polythene bags – known as “flying toilets” – for human waste disposal, local officials said. The situation is worse in slums where infrastructure is basic. The few private and public facilities that exist charge up to [...]
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26 February 2010
By DANA HUGHES | ABC News | Witch Doctors, Films May Propagate Belief That Burial of Body Parts Brings Riches | Uganda is a country so beautiful that Winston Churchill once called it “the pearl of Africa.” It has world-class wildlife, fertile rolling hills and a breathtaking lakeshore. Asima Baguma describes the horror of finding her [...]
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07 February 2010
JUBA, (IRIN) – More than four million insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been distributed across Southern Sudan since 2007, but universal coverage of treatment remains a long way off, according to experts. The region is, however, likely to achieve preventive targets set by African heads of state in 2000 at a summit in Abuja, Nigeria. These include [...]
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12 January 2010
Many Budonians spanning several generations met at Rev. Labani Bombo’s funeral at the King’s College Budo main Chapel toward the end of last year. The farewell service was led by the retired Bishop of Namirembe Diocese Bishop Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo. Other prominent Budonians who spoke included Mr. Edward Kato Ssekabanja the President of the Old Budonians Club. [...]
27 December 2009
It was her first trip to Africa. She arrived late at night and had barely gotten up the next morning when word came to her: She had visitors. Peggy says: “Unbelievable. In a city of 2 million people – a huge city, with all its refugee areas and slums that could take hours to walk across [...]
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27 December 2009
ELKO — When pediatric dentist Thomas Sorensen packs for his trip to Africa in January, he will be taking dental supplies, local anesthesia, surgical gloves and masks. “Most of my luggage will be equipment and supplies, and we will ship a lot of stuff over,” he said. Sorensen will be making his third trip to Uganda to [...]
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27 December 2009
LONDON – A top Anglican cleric who was born in Uganda spoke out Thursday against a proposed law in his native country that would impose the death penalty on some gays. Archbishop of York John Sentamu — who along with the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is one of the global fellowship’s most senior priests — [...]
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19 December 2009
At Copenhagen on Tuesday 15th December, Welsh Environment Minister Jane Davidson today announced a new deal between the Welsh Assembly Government and the Mbale region of Uganda to help prepare the area for the impacts of climate change. The Mbale Territorial Approach to Climate Change project is a three year partnership between Wales, the Mbale region [...]
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02 December 2009
IRIN | As donors tighten their belts in the global recession, health experts in Uganda worry that the national antiretroviral (ARV) programme, which is almost entirely dependent on foreign aid, will be unable to keep providing the life-prolonging drugs. Uganda is only able to provide ARVs to 57 percent of the 240,000 people who require them, [...]
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02 December 2009
WAKISO, Uganda (AFP) – Unable to face explaining to her younger daughter Winnie Namagga, that, after losing her husband and eldest child to AIDS, she herself had tested positive for the disease, Harriet Balakyabwe decided to say it in writing. “I was fearing to talk about it,” Harriet Balakyabwe, Winnie?s mother, told AFP. “When her father [...]
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25 November 2009
Mrs.Marjorie Juliet Nalika Kavuma, died on November 25th, 2009 at Valley Presbyterian Hospital, in Van Nuys, California from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. Mrs Kavuma was born on August 4th, 1939 at Rubaga Hospital, the daughter of the Late Owekitiibwa Ezekiel Walusimbi, former Regent and Chancellor of the Exchequer during the late Sekabaka Muteesa II’s reign. She [...]
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23 November 2009
By Pius Bugembe | Richard Namisano( Namisi) of New York City and Peter Mukasa of Waltham Massachusetts announce the death of Maama Irene Nambafu Mukasa of Bweya, Kampala Uganda. Maama Irene passed away this morning 11/23/2009 at 5.30 AM in Kampala Hospital. She had a surgery on her back in September, two weeks just [...]
14 November 2009
By Keith Vass | Saanich News | For Canadian kids, getting your eyes checked is just part of growing up. In Uganda, it just doesn’t happen. It’s why many children in that African nation never know why they’re struggling in class. “Since they have never been tested, they wouldn’t be able to tell if its [...]
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12 November 2009
LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony’s mother, Norah Anek Oting, has died. Norah Oting passed away at Mulago Hospital last night. Oting was ill for a while and had been admitted at Mulago Hospital for several days. It is not know what Oting was suffering from or what caused her death. It is also unknown [...]
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09 November 2009
KAMPALA (AFP) – Human Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda’s HIV/AIDS bill, some of whose clauses call for mandatory testing of pregnant women, sex offenders and victims, and disclosure of HIV status. The New York-based group said the bill “promotes dangerous and discredited approaches to the AIDS epidemic”. The HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill [...]
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09 November 2009
By JOSEPH DITS | Tribune Staff Writer | SOUTH BEND — They came to the dying man’s village in Uganda down a weaving, rutted dirt road. They found him lying in his dark hut. No windows, just a door. The cancer bulged near his eye. It reeked because of a lack of care — so [...]
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29 October 2009
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda announced a grant of $246 million in new aid for improving the Uganda’s agricultural and health systems, Reuters reports. “More than $170 million will be spent on health and education to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, fight tuberculosis, eradicate malaria, improve maternal and child health and increase access to family planning [...]
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19 October 2009
AWER, Ambrose Obiya, 70, and his family returned home in March after spending 13 years in a nearby camp, or protected village, because the war between the army and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army had subsided. Although life improved with the move, it was something of a hard homecoming, explains Obiya, who lost his sight [...]
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30 August 2009
TWVS is a new home visiting service that provides visiting nurses, physical, occupational and speech therapists that will take care of your relatives in the comfort of their home in Uganda with direct physician supervision. Your relatives will have regularly scheduled visits from our nurses, checking their vital signs, performance status, reconcile their medications and ensure [...]
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