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  • 'Everybody Wins' as Uganda, America Fight Against HIV/Aids 1 Dec 2009 09:26 GMT
    ... on this World AIDS Day. The World Health Organisation estimates that over four million individuals in ... fight against HIV/AIDS, the US Mission in Uganda is sponsoring a series of World AIDS ... wins when we know the facts about HIV and AIDS." UBC TV will air 10 ...

  • 'Everybody Wins' as Uganda, America Fight Against HIV/Aids [opinion] 1 Dec 2009 13:17 GMT
    ... on this World AIDS Day. The World Health Organisation estimates that over four million individuals in ... fight against HIV/AIDS, the US Mission in Uganda is sponsoring a series of World AIDS ... wins when we know the facts about HIV and AIDS." UBC TV will air 10 ...

  • Health Alert Boosts HIV/Aids Fight 3 Dec 2009 11:50 GMT
    ... male involvement in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Health Alert has embarked on giving out oxen, ox-ploughs, ... women are also encouraged to test for HIV with their husbands. According to December Anywar, ... Anywar, the acting programme coordinator of Health Alert-Uganda, 28 oxen and ox-ploughs have already been ...

  • Hopes of new drugs, vaccines for tuberculosis 7 Dec 2009 22:00 GMT
    ... CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - In Uganda, health experts are getting laboratories ready and preparing ... City under control," said Ann Ginsberg, chief medical officer of the TB Alliance. TB Alliance ...

  • Home-based HIV care strategy as effective as clinical-based therapy 2 Dec 2009 19:12 GMT
    ... qualified staff and constrained facilities in many health centres in Uganda, a new study conducted in the eastern ... other Taso centres. The clinic had five medical officers but the number present usually varied ...

  • UGANDA: Family Planning Critical in HIV-Ridden Uganda 4 Dec 2009 02:29 GMT
    ... may have changed since the publication date. UGANDA: Family Planning Critical in HIV-Ridden Uganda Edmonton ... but these people were concerned about the health of the child and the mother, and ... provided by your own physician or other medical professionals. Always discuss treatment options with a ...

  • Community-led monitoring of anti-TB essential medicines in Uganda 7 Dec 2009 00:35 GMT
    ... Community-led monitoring of anti-TB essential medicines in Uganda Community-led monitoring of anti-TB essential medicines in ... we monitor” said Prima Kazoora, Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development, Uganda. “During monitoring of ... drug stock outs occur” suggested Prima. “Stop Medicine Stock-Out Campaign engaged a wide network of ...

  • Will Criminalising HIV Spread Help in Fight Against Virus? 7 Dec 2009 15:54 GMT
    ... IN April this year, Johnson Aziga, a Ugandan living in Canada was found guilty of ... status to their sexual partners and allows medical personnel to reveal someone's status to their ... people living with HIV and undermine public health and human rights. AIDS activists have slammed ...

  • Ministry calls for voluntary HIV testing 1 Dec 2009 21:45 GMT
    ... Presidential Guard Brigade soldiers in Entebbe yesterday UGANDA yesterday marked World AIDS Day with messages ... go for voluntary counselling and testing services. Health minister Dr. Stephen Mallinga noted that voluntary testing ... of women in Ugandan have tested for HIV while the men lag behind, with only ...

  • Mother to child to transmission ranked second in HIV spread 5 Dec 2009 17:50 GMT
    ... to child to transmission ranked second in HIV spread About 80,000 women living with HIV/Aids ... living with HIV/Aids get pregnant annually in Uganda and 20,000 to 25,000 of these pass ... Anthony Mbonye, the Assistant Commissioner for reproductive health at the ministry of health, transmission of HIV ...

  • Saving babies from HIV infection 5 Dec 2009 17:50 GMT
    ... Project to keep babies from Africa and Uganda free of HIV provides a ray of hope despite Uganda’s ... villages, to help rapidly expand family-and community-centred health services to stop new HIV infections among children. ...

  • I was all along wrong about Uganda and Africa 6 Dec 2009 21:13 GMT
    ... I was all along wrong about Uganda and Africa My recent visit to Uganda ... insect in Africa gives you a different disease! The mosquito gives you malaria; the tsetse fly ... to take pills to prevent malaria, several vaccinations, and what do you mean, you won’t ...

  • An HIV positive widow's struggle to survive against all odds 2 Dec 2009 19:12 GMT
    ... An HIV positive widow’s struggle to survive against all ... body.” They hail from Kasese in western Uganda. His death impacted on their lives in ... when they got it. This compromised her health, with the HIV status and that of her ...

  • Uganda - Problems in the meat industry 6 Dec 2009 00:31 GMT
    ... Uganda - Problems in the meat industry ... of epileptic seizures include metabolic disorders, poisoning, drugs, head injuries and development disorders. Ciprofloxacin, Theophylline ...

  • Swine flu and pigs: A misconception that will take time to change 7 Dec 2009 08:17 GMT
    ... The ministry of health is currently in the process of getting ... a weakened immune system due to other medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, asthma, ... 22, 417 in Kenya and 227 in Uganda. The first case of influenza A (H1N1) ...


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