The South African Music legend Yvonne Chaka had hundreds Ugandans grooving along with her when she put up a spirited performance during the Hakuna Wakati Abuja 15% Sasa concert. The Concert which was themed “Africa wins every time you keep your promise” was aimed at creating awareness and reminding African leaders of their promise that […]
Renowned African Musicians have lashed out a scathing attack on the leaders of Africa for their failure to pay reasonable attention to the health challenges that the continent faces and thus causing a lot of pain and agony to millions of women and children that are negatively affected by Africa’s crippled health state most. This […]
The Bank of Uganda, Uganda Investment Authority and Uganda Bureau of Statistics are initiating the Private Sector Investment Survey 2010 that is set to begin on July 30. The aim of the survey is to collect data that will be used to compile Uganda’s foreign capital inflows and stock statistics. According to a media statement, the coordinators say they hope […]
With an 8.9% budget allocation to the health sector, according to the 2010 Africa Health Financing Scorecard, Uganda is ranked 28th out of the 53 countries in Africa. The scorecard is a summary of findings on the 2009/2010 Abuja commitment of African Heads of State and governments to allocate 15% of their domestic budgets to […]
The Women Wont Wait Campaign that is being led by Action Aid has demanded that the government should urgently repeal all the laws that discriminate against women. The campaign which prominently, publicly and consistently underscores that violence against women and girls is a major driver and consequence of HIV/AIDS has also made other various demands […]
According to the recent study published in the Public Library of Science medical journal, it estimates that in Africa 85% of maternal, newborn and under-age-5 deaths could be prevented if African countries took good interventions to curtail maternal and infant mortality. This means that each year about 4 million of African women, new borns and […]
Save the Children in Uganda has urged African leaders to recruit, train and retain more doctors, nurses and Midwives to help reduce the gap of 800,000 health workers in Africa by 2015. This comes amidst various calls that have been leveled out to the various leaders to ensure that by 2015 the African countries have […]
Platform for Labor Action has appealed to the government to broaden the benefits it gives to working citizens in its social security schemes. This comes at a time when there are various calls from the civil society demanding for a total makeover of the social security schemes in Uganda. The Executive Director of Platform for […]
Women rights activists from across Africa have appealed to the international community to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe to allow people in the southern African nation to enjoy better lives. The USA and a host of other western countries slapped sanction on Zimbabwe citing several abuses by President Robert Mugabe leader of ANU-PF whom they accused […]
Postdoctoral Fellow in Tenure Track Functional Genomics, Netherland Post Doctoral Fellowship, Tenure Track Functional Genomics, Netherland Job Description: The Department of Genetics at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, has a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the field of functional genomics. The Wijmenga laboratory focuses on the genetics of immune-related diseases such as […]