By Shillar Nakayemba on August 16, 2017
Ggaba landing site, kampala, Kampala Capita City Authority (KCCA)., Kasagama John, Lake Victoria shores, Makindye division, Youths
Environment issues, Latest Uganda News
Kasagama John a resident at Ggaba landing site in Makindye division on the Lake Victoria shores says he was a fisher man before he started carrying out sand mining. Fishing as an activity was so competitive yet there was inadequate fish in the lake. This led to little earnings which couldn’t sustain his family, says. […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 11, 2017
Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, kampala, ministry of health, outbreak of measles, Wakiso districts
Health, Latest Uganda News
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed the outbreak of measles in Kampala and Wakiso districts. Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng says that their surveillance and case findings indicates that a total of 67 cases so far been identified and of these, seven have been confirmed by the laboratory tests within the month of July. Measles is an airborne disease that […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 4, 2017
Janet Museveni, minister for education and sports, Parliament, Uganda Nurses and Midwife CouncilHealth of Ministry
Education, Health, Latest Uganda News
Government has given a period of six months to private health training institutions to comply with the set minimum entry requirements for training health students. This was revealed by the Minister for Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, while responding to MP’s concerns on the floor of parliament over claims that nurses were denied professional entry […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 4, 2017
Animal Industry and Fisheries, coffee factories, Masaka districts, Minister of Agriculture, Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), Vincent Sempijja.
Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
A government operation to close coffee factories and arrest a group of people behind the harmful coffee harvesting practices is soon extending to most parts of the country. The operation which was first conducted in greater Masaka districts oversaw the closure of many coffee factories which were found processing wet coffee and has now closed […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on August 3, 2017
Abu Dhabi, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, China, city of Phalodi, climate change, Doha and coastal cities in Iran, Dubai, global Paris climate change agreement, Gulf in the Middle East, India, journal Science Advances, Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and Patna in Bihar, Prof Elfatih Eltahir, Rajasthan, South Asia, the heartland of the global oil industry, US National Weather Service
Africa, Environment issues, General, Latest Uganda News
Extreme heatwaves that kill even healthy people within hours will strike parts of the Indian subcontinent unless global carbon emissions are cut sharply and soon, according to new research. Even outside of these hotspots, three-quarters of the 1.7bn population – particularly those farming in the Ganges and Indus valleys – will be exposed to a […]
By Samuel Wamuttu on July 27, 2017
Adelaide, and Professor David A. Cooper from the Kirby Institute, Australia, author of the LATTE-2 study Dr David Margolis, Canada, France, France and Germany, Germany, injectable antiretroviral therapy (ART), international aids society, new phase 2 trial published in The Lancet, paris, Professor Joe Eron, Professor Mark A. Boyd, Spain, Sydney, two drugs (cabotegravir and rilpivirine), university of adelaide, University of New South Wales, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, ViiV Healthcare
Health, Health & Medical, Latest Uganda News
An injectable antiretroviral therapy (ART) consisting of two drugs (cabotegravir and rilpivirine) administered every four or eight weeks may be as effective as a daily oral dose of the drugs in maintaining viral suppression in patients with HIV, according to a new phase 2 trial published in The Lancet. In the study, patients were given […]
By Ali Happy on July 19, 2017
biogas production, fertilizer, Gabba lading site, heavy metal pollution, Ibrahim Kizito, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Lake Victoria, Lake Victoria(Nalubaale), mosquitoes, purify eutrophicated water, Rwanda via the river Kagera, Simon Magezi, South America, water hyacinth
Environment issues, Latest Uganda News
Visiting Lake Victoria, one of the visible features at first sight is the green water hyacinth as some of it forms shapes that can be viewed from a distance stretching towards the islands on the waters. Water-hyacinth is a floating plant that has clusters of leaves with spongy stalks arising from a base of dark […]
By Isaac Senabulya on May 4, 2017
000 in 2012 to 3400 in 2016, 347 patients are on ARV treatment, budget estimates for the year 2017/2018, committee chaired by Bukuya County MP, currently 940, Diana Atwine, elimination of mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) and new infections has so far dropped from 22, government plans to spend 46 billion shillings for the purchase of ARVS for HIV/AIDS patients, Joel Sebikali, Member of Parliament for Ntetwe County in Kyankwanzi district, Micheal Bukenya, ministers of health Jane Aceng, officials at the ministry of health, performance report of the government health sector, permanent secretary, Sarah Opendi
General, Health & Medical, Latest Uganda News
The Member of Parliament for Ntetwe County in Kyankwanzi district, Joel Sebikali, has called for a probe into activities of officials at the ministry of health whom he has accused of failing to avail adequate anti retro-viral drug for HIV/AIDS patients in the country especially at sub county hospitals. “Many people across the country have […]
By Atugonza Gorett on January 18, 2017
Health, Health & Medical, Health tips, Personal Helath
I know we all don’t smell great every day of the week, I mean we’re only human. These things happen all of us women. It can be embarrassing and downright smelly, but you can get rid of vaginal odor. You just need the right remedies that can help you get rid of it and these are. […]
By Isaac Senabulya on December 14, 2016
Anthony Okello, Gomba West MP, health materials and nursing care in most government hospitals across the country, Herbert Ariko, improvements on health Centre III and IV., Jack Wamai Wamanga, Jane Aceng, Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga, Kalule Ssengo and Kioga County MP, Kioga County MP, maternal and child health services in the country, Mbale Municipality MP, Members of parliament on the parliamentary committee of national economy, members to approve a proposal by government to secure a loan worth USD110 million to support the reproductive, Minister of Health, MP for Nakaseke North, Mukono South MP, Soroti Municipality MP, Syda Bumba, the Soroti MP
Health, Latest Uganda News
Members of parliament on the parliamentary committee of national economy expressed their displeasure last week to the minister of health, Jane Aceng, over what they said is a worsening provision of health materials and nursing care in most government hospitals across the country. The committee chaired by the MP for Nakaseke North, Syda Bumba, was […]
