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Child Sacrifice Emerges as Disturbing Uganda Trend

Child Sacrifice Emerges as Disturbing Uganda Trend

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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Boisean helps refugee Fidel Nshombo reconnect with his family in Uganda

Boisean helps refugee Fidel Nshombo reconnect with his family in Uganda

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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Archbishop of York attacks Uganda’s anti-gay bill

Archbishop of York attacks Uganda’s anti-gay bill

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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New climate change deal for Uganda

New climate change deal for Uganda

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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Uganda memory books tell of stark AIDS truths

Uganda memory books tell of stark AIDS truths

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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OBITUARY OF THE LATE MARJORIE JULIET NALIKA KAVUMA

OBITUARY OF THE LATE MARJORIE JULIET NALIKA KAVUMA

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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Death Announcement | Maama Irene Nambafu Mukasa of Bweya, Kampala Uganda.

Death Announcement | Maama Irene Nambafu Mukasa of Bweya, Kampala Uganda.

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 [...]

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Cadboro Bay optometrist heading to Uganda

Cadboro Bay optometrist heading to Uganda

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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Human Rights Watch slams Uganda AIDS bill

Human Rights Watch slams Uganda AIDS bill

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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Local hospice partners with group in Uganda

Local hospice partners with group in Uganda

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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U.S. Grants Uganda $246M In Aid To Improve Agricultural, Health Systems

U.S. Grants Uganda $246M In Aid To Improve Agricultural, Health Systems

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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Ambrose Obiya, “The problems of the disabled have been forgotten”

Ambrose Obiya, “The problems of the disabled have been forgotten”

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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UGANDA | Nodding disease could be "non-epileptic disorder"

29 August 2009

NAIROBI, August 2009 (IRIN) – Hundreds of children in northern Uganda have been affected by a rare and unexplained “nodding disease” that causes seizures, physical and mental stunting and at times leads to blindness and even death. Previously reported in Southern Sudan, its cause is being investigated, according to the Ugandan health ministry. IRIN contacted researchers [...]

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Peace & Happiness by Mirembe and Ssanyu Nutt-Birigwa

Peace & Happiness by Mirembe and Ssanyu Nutt-Birigwa

10 July 2009

Ssanyu Nutt-Birigwa believes in serendipity. And why wouldn’t she? The path that’s led her to her current role as a partner in the recently launched Peace & Happiness Group — an organization she started with her sister to shed light on the ongoing aftermath of the civil war in Uganda and help stimulate economic and [...]

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UGANDA | Patients not diagnosed early enough

24 June 2009

NAIROBI, (IRIN) | About 40 percent of HIV-positive Ugandan patients are already ill or displaying symptoms of AIDS when they are diagnosed, a new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Abstract/publishahead/Late_Disease_Stage_at_Presentation_to_an_HIV.99240.aspx has found. The study, conducted by western Uganda’s Mbarara University Teaching Hospital, noted that more than one-third of [...]

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Brookline Community Acupuncture | Opening New Clinic May 8th

Brookline Community Acupuncture | Opening New Clinic May 8th

08 May 2009

At Brookline Community Acupuncture, treatments are provided in a group setting and offered on a sliding scale. Therefore, you can come more frequently and thus optimize the effects of the treatments. Everyone's needs and financial situation are different. Your practitioner will suggest how often she/he feels you need to receive a treatment, but the decision is yours. Although we have a suggested fee scale based on income, you pay what you feel you can afford.

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Family fun Sunday will build Uganda classrooms in summer

19 April 2009

MADISON – Impoverished schoolchildren in Masajja, Uganda, will receive some much-needed help this summer from students at Drew University in Madison. Raising the funds to extend that help will begin with a “family fun day” offered to the Madison community from 1 to 5 p.m. this Sunday, April 19, with dodge ball, kickball and three-legged races [...]

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Rwanda | A Message of Hope From a Pile of Bones

Rwanda | A Message of Hope From a Pile of Bones

07 April 2009

Rwanda is one of the most enchanting places on earth—and one of the most haunted. With its rolling hills and lush greenery, it could easily pass for paradise—if not for memories of 1994. Fifteen years ago, on April 6, the plane carrying Rwanda's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot out of the sky. The murder set off an orgy of slaughter and cruelty so extreme that it defied description or understanding.

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“Wealth in Fitness”  | Bob Classic Show | Robert Ssebugwawo

“Wealth in Fitness” | Bob Classic Show | Robert Ssebugwawo

06 April 2009

By James Bakama, Cash at stake in bodybuilding contest | A bodybuilding and fitness show featuring over 100 competitors will be staged in Kampala next month. The inaugural Bob Classic Show will have cash prizes at stake, according to its California-based organiser Robert Ssebugwawo. The first edition will entirely be for Ugandans. Ssebugwawo said,” We [...]

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