Toilet papers as the name suggests is primarily meant to be used in toilets though it has acquired a lot of secondly functions now days like blowing the nose and being used as cheaper alternative sanitary pads, especially among school girls. Using toilet papers as cheaper alternative sanitary pads is dangerous because it can cause […]
President Museveni is expected to open a week-long commonwealth magistrates and Judges Association Conference in Kampala. The conference starts on Monday. The Republic of Uganda is now the fourth African country to host this conference. Other African countries are Zimbabwe (1994), South Africa (1997) and Malawi (2003). According to the Uganda government, over 300 […]
There is an acute shortage of doctors and nurses in Public hospitals in northern Uganda following mass resignations. Arua and Pader Districts hospitals are the worst hit as doctors and nurses there opt to resign once they are posted to areas they consider as hardship areas, according to sources in the ministry of […]
Leading world HIV/AIDS have asked Uganda to implement its national HIV prevention and strategic plans if the country is to reverse the spiraling infections of HIV. The right on the heels of the 2011 AIDS Indicator Survey in Uganda shows that the HIV prevalence has gone up to 7.3% from 6.4% in 2006. The […]
Makerere University has designed metallic mobile toilets code named ‘Smart Portable public trailer toilets’. The metallic mobile toilets are in a trailer like form and they are intended to benefit masses especially urban centers and slum communities in Uganda. The metallic mobile toilets have been constructed using metallic materials. The metallic mobile toilets technology […]
Cervical cancer is the most common form of cancers affecting most women in East African countries of Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya. In Uganda alone every year close to 3,577 women get diagnosed with cervical cancer and about 2,464 die from it, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) report. But cervical cancer is […]
The Ebola outbreak in an East African country Uganda has come to an end according to the World Health Organisation announcement published on Monday. The Ebola hemorrhagic fever hit the people of Kibaale district in western Uganda in August, 2012, killing 17 people and scores of others were successfully treated. Ebola spreads by direct contact […]
Uganda Police Force Athletics team has won at least two Gold medals in IAAF World Mountain Running Championship in Valla Camonica in Italy. The Uganda Police team composed of PPC Martin Moses Kurong, Mande Abdalla Kibet and Michael Cherop won Gold Medal in the junior Men’s category with 13 points as a team. Reports indicate […]
In order to see fundamental changes in Uganda’s military, Ugandans need to contrast them with the changes in the politics. As we give this analysis, politics in Uganda has been vulgarized and commercialized. Elections are mostly a bidding contest and Parliament has evolved from a marketplace of ideas to a marketplace. The UPDF (Uganda […]
HIV/AIDS testing is one of the chief means of slowing new infections which have steadily increased in East Africa especially in Uganda. The cases of HIV spread in Ugandahave increased from 124,000 annually, as of 2009, to 130,000 today. The Ministry of Health IN Uganda estimates that 40 percent, or about 13,600, 000 people […]