Santa Layet, one of the claimants from Olwor-North village, Acoro Parish who lost 30 cows, 20 goats, and 10 sheep, expressed her frustration, saying, "It is heartbreaking to watch others receive payments while we continue to wait.
On Wednesday, December 4th, the local leaders from the Karamoja who met with President Museveni at Naitakwae ground in Moroto district asked the government to consider compensating the people who lost their crops to wild animals.
While addressing the leaders, Museveni commended the Karamojong for accepting to surrender their guns and embrace peace that is now attracting more development and social-economic transformation.
Richard Obita, the Director of Technical Services with the National Information Technology Authority –Uganda said that an optic fibre backbone transmission cable will be set up across the entire sub-region district information centres established to improve digital communication.
Isaac Ngagenu, the Zombo district civil engineer, noted that the final touches, including filling the approaches, painting the guardrails, and ensuring the deck is properly dried, are in progress. He stated that the remaining work should be completed by November 30, 2024.
While releasing findings of their three years research in the two regions on Friday, the Center for Health, Human Rights and Development (CEHURD) revealed women and girls in Karamoja still use old and rudimentary options of secluding themselves and seating on heaps of soil during their monthly period.
The report further shows that this year alone, East and Southern Africa will need to mobilize almost US$ 12 billion to fully fund the HIV response. This amount will climb to around US$ 17 billion by 2030 unless new HIV infections are reduced.
The strategy aims to motivate community health workers, improve access to primary healthcare, and promote preventive, curative and rehabilitative services. It will be implemented by the village health teams and community health workers.
In an interview, Dr Misaki Wayengera, a virologist at Makerere University told URN that it’s hard to trace where the president could have gotten infected but rather explained that there’s generally a surge in flu-like illness currently, which is not a surprise as this is a seasonal issue to do with the influenza virus life cycle.
In a joint statement, signed by Peter Sands, the Executive Director of the Global Fund, Winnie Byanyima, the head of UNAIDS, and Ambassador John Nkengasong, the US Global AIDS Coordinator, the organizations expressed concerns that the law will impede health education and outreach efforts critical for ending AIDS as a public health threat.
Titled "Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends, 2005 to 2021" shows that despite reaching US$1 billion in spending, funding for TB R&D is a mere fraction of what’s needed to achieve the United Nations' sustainable development goal of ending TB as a pandemic by 2030. Every day, 4400 people continue to die from TB, a treatable and curable airborne infectious disease.
Meri Jino, the LC V chairperson of Kaabong district attributed the rising cases of malnutrition to the rampant cattle raids that saw the district losing over 55000 head of cattle to rustlers. Jino says this is a huge loss to families because it affects their livelihoods as children can no longer feed on milk as they used to.
Association president Dr Samuel Oledo said doctors will receive their enhanced salary of Shs5million in July when the new financial year starts. He says the government has also committed to consider getting them duty free vehicles and that it is now putting together members of the taskforce to handle issues of compensation. He says if government repeats the same tricks this time, they will without notice go back to industrial action on the 1st of May 2022.
AVMI Executive Director Dr. Patrick Tippoo says they are unaware of any initiative by Uganda towards manufacturing and added that only four countries that have not yet started actual manufacturing have been recognized adding that for any country hoping to start production, it not only requires a lot of money but determination and patience.
The drug which was tested on more than 100 patients at Mulago National Referral Hospital was being promoted as having antiviral, anti-inflammatory and immunological properties and that it will help in the cure of many other infections apart from COVID-19.
The report identified the barriers children with disabilities face to participating fully in their societies and how this often translates to negative health and social outcomes. It shows that children with disabilities are disadvantaged compared to children without disabilities on most measures of child well-being.
Museveni said he had launched a full war against Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria but wondered why it has been impossible to have a vaccine yet pathogens such as SARS COV-2 virus that only emerged recently have vaccines.
