Skipping meals is not a solution to weight loss according to Louise Serunjogi – a dietician and nutritionist with Uganda Ministry of Health. He says people who skip meals tend to over eat when they get the opportunity to eat food causing more weight gain, which is unhealthy. The Ugandan dietician says, the energy used […]
An official from the East African Center for Constitutional Development, Edrine Wanyama has appealed to the government of Uganda to ban the use of Sugar Molasses used to make Alcohol because, they are poorly processed and are of bad quality. Molasses are sugar bye-products commonly found near sugar processing industries of Kinyara Sugar works in […]
Uganda doctors and other health workers in different parts of the country need to put more efforts in curtailing the spread of HIV/AIDS stigma. Dr Odong Ayella of St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor says although a lot sucess has been scored in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Uganda, many Ugandans do not clearly understand that HIV/AIDS […]
The Uganda police force is set to create a unit that will arrest health workers that steal drugs from government health centers and hospitals. This follows a directive from the Uganda President Museveni in his State of the Nation Address at delivered at Uganda Parliament in Kampala yesterday. President Museveni directed the Uganda Police force […]
Mothers in Uganda have been advised to take serious caution while choosing powders and creams for their babies. Mothers use poweder and different creamsn to smear their babies for good skin and baby body comfort. The president of the Uganda Pediatrics Association, Dr. Sabrina Bakeera says a number of powders applied on babies cause skin […]
The Ministry of Health is to start the countrywide in door spraying of DDT in July 2010 as the government of Uganda goes ahead with the controversal decision to spray the dangerous chemical to kill equally dangerous anophlese mosquitoes which cause malaria, the leading killer disease in Uganda. The ministry says the spraying of DDT is aimed […]
A new UN backed report has underscored the need to invest more in agriculture and energy if countries and the world in general is to achieve sustainable dev elopement in the 21st century. With current production and consumption of fossil fuels and food draining freshwater supplies, triggering losses of forests and other ecosystems and raising […]
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PRESS RELEASE 2 June 2010 For Immediate Release Contact: Alex Rafalowicz + 49 1525 991 8665 $20 Per Year Will Not Solve Climate Change People’s Voices Must be Heard in Climate Negotiations BONN – Today, Ambassador Pablo Solon of the Plurinational State of Bolivia highlighted Bolivia’s concern over current UN climate negotiations. The Ambassador […]
The Uganda Woman Member of Parliament for APAC district in Northern Uganda, Betty Amongi has called upon the various cultural institutions in Uganda to step up their efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Betty Amongi told Members of parliament in Kampala that it is not just enough for cultural institutions to streamline prevention of HIV/AIDS in […]