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Eight hours in congo

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Fighting the stereotype, two wazungu experience the lesser-known side of Goma.

It was around 11am on August 5 when a friend and I crossed the border into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Goma from Rwanda.  It was the start o [ … ]

 

AIDS patients face a future without drugs

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Patience – we use one name to preserve her anonymity - faces a gloomy future. For the past one year, she has been suffering from incessant malaria, headache, and an irritating skin rash. She is HIV positive and has been advised to start taking anti-retroviral drugs.

Unfortunately, when s [ … ]

 

Kampala traffic jams may run out of control by 2023

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It may be 8:00am or 6:00pm, at either hour traffic flow in Kampala city will be at the peak. The movement of vehicles, motor-bikes, commonly known as bods bodas can be a nightmare as many passengers jump off to move faster on foot. Is it dropping a child at or picking one from school, or is it [ … ]

 

New city authority inherits old transport problems

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Can it make bus system work?

As the central government looks set to take over management of Kampala city, one area it needs to look at closely is the city roads and transport sector.  It needs a deeper look at the problems and the various plans and proposals to solve them. 

Kampala specifically, and Uganda as a whole, is developing quickly, but the infrastructure of the city and country are not growing as fast.

Kampala district, according to 2002 census, accommodated 66% of all urban residents countrywide. 

Since then, Kampala District and the areas surrounding it (called the “the Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (GKMA)”) have seen significant increases in population, vehicles on the road, businesses and construction, but there has been little to no change in infrastructure. 

 

To keep or end 1.5 free points for varsity girls?

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Makerere grapples with contradiction of more girls joining university but more boys graduate at end of course

In 1990, government introduced affirmative action of 1.5 extra points for all female students joining public universities. Since then the number of female students in public univers [ … ]

 

Mbarara’s limping health care puzzles Canadian doctors

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There is a road full of pebbles and dust that winds through an endless stretch of green; up one side and down the other, interrupted only by a cluster of indistinct homes with papyrus roofs or the well defined figure of a labourer pushing a bicycle strapped with bundles of unripe plantains to the [ … ]
 

How Uganda’s health care problems can end with a phone

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In December 2008, 15 km from the Ugandan border a British doctor saved the life of a teenage boy in Rutshuru in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, by amputating his shoulder.

Dr. David Nott had succeeded in carrying out a life saving operation using his mobile phone where he text a colleague [ … ]

 

Marking 150 years of Red Cross humanitarian work

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has maintained a strong operational presence in Africa, with activities focused on protecting and assisting people directly affected by armed conflict or other forms of violence. In Uganda, the ICRC has been operational since 1979 and has a fie [ … ]

 

Self medication, expired drugs aggravate spread of resistant TB

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Two deadly strains of TB are quietly and steadily spreading and will claim more victims if deliberate efforts aren’t put in place to check the spread. The multi-drug resistant tuberculosis or MDR - TB and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis or XDR –TB are both very difficult and very expen [ … ]
 


 
 
 

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