Three weeks ago, an outbreak of Avian influenza was confirmed along the shores of Lake Victoria at Lutembe bay in Wakiso and Bukakata in Masaka district. South Sudan Livestock Minister Martin Daku sharing a moment with Uganda’s Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry, And Fisheries Vincent Ssempijja during a press conference on bird flu at the Ministry head offices in Entebbe Wakiso district.
Category: Uganda
UPC secretary general Edward Sseganyi dies
PIC: UPC Secretary General Edward Sseganyi addresses a weekly briefing on June 22, 2016. He has succumbed to cancer of the esophagus.
President warns against begging
In order to ease land transactions, the Lands ministry divided up the country into 22 cadastre zonal areas to include Arua, Lira, Mukono, Gulu, Masindi, Mbale, Jinja, Mbarara, Masaka, Soroti, Tororo and Kabale. Others are Moroto, Kibaale, Kabale, Kabarole, Wakiso, Luweero, Mityana, Rukungiri and Kampala.
NMS runs out of anti-malaria drugs
Dr Jimmy Opigo, the programme manager of the National Malarial Control programme at the Ministry of Health noted that “the drug stock out is life threatening at a time when there is high malaria transmission more than any other time in the past years during the same period.” At the end of last year, the NMS general manager Moses Kamabare expressed concern over the then looming drug stock outs for both anti-malarial drugs and antiretroviral drugs due to limited funds in their current budget.
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In the foreword to Uganda Vision 2040, a booklet on transforming Uganda from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country within 30 years, President Yoweri Museveni says, ” it is, therefore, with great pleasure that I now present Vision 2040 whose aspirations are to change the country from a predominantly low income to a competitive upper middle income country within 30 years with a per capita income of $9,500″ As we celebrate 31 years of the NRM administration, the above excerpt summarises the thoughts of an elegant man, Yoweri Museveni, whose history straddles two centuries with a wealth of experience, hard assets of tolerance, drawing upon the rare wisdom of a temperament that has consistently displayed magnanimity to his opponents.
63 districts covered in the ongoing HIV/Aids survey
The Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment , the fourth HIV/Aids study of its kind in Uganda since the 1980s, will cover 40,000 randomly selected participants from 520 villages countrywide The $4m survey, which was rolled out in August last year, by the Ministry of Health through the International Centre for Aids programmes is largely funded by the US Centre for Disease Control. The previous round of Aids Indicator Surveys show that HIV prevalence in the general population in Uganda increased from 6.4 per cent in 2004/5 to 7.3 per cent by 2011, tallying with the 2013 HIV estimates, which show that HIV prevalence stabilised around 7.4 per cent in 2012/2013.