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What went wrong on health?

By Flavia Nassaka Two months to MDGs deadline, Uganda trails world on indicators On a daily basis, over 18000 children die according to the United Nations Children’s Agency. Some of the children die at delivery whereas others die before attaining the age of five. Similarly, the World Health Organisation estimates …

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Prostate cancer prevention

By Flavia Nassaka More sex partners or diet? A recently released study which claims that men who have many women partners less likely to develop prostate cancer, has renewed interest in the disease. The Prostate Cancer & Environment Study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology involved 1590 men. It reported …

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Bye-bye to the jumbos?

By Ronald Musoke Frustration as `top Uganda government officials’ are implicated in trafficking poached elephant tusks In the last two years, about 12 tonnes of ivory from poached elephants has been seized in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi; and all of it came from Uganda.  John Okot Emitchell, the field officer …

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New polio vaccine coming

By Flavia Nassaka Progress made on immunisation but maternal, child health lagging Starting next year, the Ministry of Health is to introduce a new polio vaccine for children, according to the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (UNEPI) Programme Director, Dr Robert Mayanja. Dr Mayanja was speaking to The Independent …

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Healing power of tears

By Flavia Nassaka If crying helps our emotional state, why is it discouraged? Shedding tears is one of the least explainable human behaviors. It can involve anything from merely getting moist eyes to full-on sobbing.  It is at once welcomed as a form of emotional release following a traumatic event, …

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