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Support for International Change, Engen partner to fight HIV/AIDS
By Ahmed Bogere Masembe:
Support for International Change (SIC), a Tanzania-based organisation and petroleum company, Engen, have partnered together to help drive its awareness campaign to fight the spread of HIV/AIDS and also to empower...
No cure yet for ‘Nodding disease’ as more children die In northern Uganda
By Ahmed Bogere Masembe
Gulu: Patrick Anywar, 14, lies curled up naked in the dust and midday heat of a Ugandan village, struggling to look up at his younger brother and sister playing in front of the family home.
After a minute’s effort...
These Four Things Happen Right Before a Heart Attack
Every year, approximately 785,000 people suffer a first heart attack. And 470,000 who’ve already had one or more heart attacks have another one. The scary thing is that 25 percent of ALL heart attacks happen “silently,” without clear...
Uganda joins global anti-FGM initiative
The government of Uganda has joined an international initiative backed the United Nations [UN] to end the ancient practice of female genital mutilation [FGM] which is practiced by the Sabiny people of eastern Uganda and many other communities...
94 year old Ramajit Raghav Becomes Father For the First Time
The wait to hold his own child is finally over for Ramajit Raghav, who became father to a son for the first time at the advanced age of 94.
Ramajit hails from a small village in India and has been working at his landlord’s farm for the last...
Fattest Kid in the World
Seven-year-old Jessica Gaude differs greatly from her pals. With 222 kilograms, she is the fattest child in the world.
She eats 10,000 calories each day in Coca-Colas, 15 hamburgers with fries and several kilograms of chocolate. What she eats...
I would rather get HIV/AIDS than be Pregnant-Ugandan Youth
KAMPALA, UGANDA–Esther Kasirye Kisekka has been a nurse for 11 years and an HIV/AIDS counselor for the last three years in Kampala. She has seen a lot of shocking things. But speaking in her consulting room in Kampala, she says that what...
Uganda makes new Low Cost HIV/AIDS Drug
Uganda will starting next month produce a new low cost and more effective life saving HIV/AIDS drug.
104.9 Ssuubi FM has learnt that the new anti- retroviral (ARV) drug, Tenofovir, will be manufactured by local company Quality Chemicals Pharmaceutical...
President cautions youth against HIV/AIDS pandemic
Agago: President Yoweri Museveni has urged the youth to desist from immoral life-styles that may drive them to contracting the HIV/AIDS scourge. He said that promiscuity is still the main route through which the pandemic spreads and noted that...
Uganda Plans To Eliminate Mother To Child Transmission Of HIV/AIDS By 2015
ENTEBBE- The Ugandan government has launched a new HIV/AIDS prevention strategy and plan for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV by 2015.
Programme Manager at the AIDS Control Programme (ACP) Zainab Akol said under the plan,...