According to a survey of AMREF, low district health budgets have been identified to be the biggest constraints to improving maternal health services in East Africa. The survey that involved the reviewing of status of health of 18 districts and county health systems districts from three East African countries Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to assess […]
The Non Governmental Organization Forum has strongly appealed to men to be more involved in the fight for better maternal and infant health standards in Africa. This comes at a time when the African Union summit that has just kicked off in Kampala with the meeting centered on Maternal and Infant Health. The Programme Manager […]
Workers in the informal sector are more likely to get HIV/AIDS infection than their counterparts in the formal sector in Uganda. According to a bulletin of Platform for Labor Action on Social Security, this is so because the informal sector is associated with high levels of poverty and gender inequality which aspects precipitate HIV transmission. It […]
The late Nabagereka of Buganda Lady Damalie Kisosonkole has been laid to rest at Namirembe Cathedral in Kampala this Monday evening. Lady Damalie Kisosonkole 80, the Nnaabagereka to the late Sir Edward Muteesa II passed away on Monday 12th July 2010 at Nakasero hospital where she had been hospitalized for some time. The late lady […]
Uganda has joined the rest of the world to Mark the Nelson Mandela day which saw several trees planted and speeches dedicated to justice, unity and development, as the international icon marked his 92nd birthday. The Nelson Mandela day was marked at Kitante High School where the head teacher, Rose Zizinga called upon the pupils […]
The President of opposition Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), Dr. Olara Otunnu has mourned dead Buganda kingdom queen, Lady Damali Kisosonkole, widow of the first President of Uganda, late Sir Edward Muteesa II. Otunnu says Uganda has lost an educationist, councilor, person of good values and a loving mother. Late Kisosonkole is remembered for having championed […]
When the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) releases its annual Human Development Report for 2010, there will this time be a new measure of poverty in countries from the trade income based measure of poverty. The UNDP and Oxford University have launched a new index to measure poverty levels which they said give a “multidimensional” […]
The Uganda Law Society has organized a workshop with the Justice Law and Order Sector to train lawyers on proper ethical behavior in their profession. This comes at a time when the ethical standards in the law profession are at questionable levels with more Ugandans loosing trust in lawyers by the day. Many people in […]
President Yowri Museveni has dismissed claims that the bomb attacks on innocent Ugandans was a result of Uganda sending troops to Somali and rubbished calls for Uganda’s withdrawal from the war raveaged country in the Horn. “Well, those people are not right. Do you remember ADF? ADF was planting bombs in Kampala in the 1990s […]
Uganda is the first country in Africa to have established an Equal Opportunities Commission that has been empowered to undertake its own investigations and prosecution of discriminatory practices while enforcing affirmative action in Uganda. The commission has been officially inaugurated at its offices in Bugolobi. The Uganda Equal Opportunities Commission will be chaired by Mrs. […]