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Pope John Paul started World Day of The Sick: What kills most Ugandans

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Uganda’s burden of disease is dominated by communicable diseases, which account for over 50% of sickness and deaths. Malaria, AIDS, TB, and respiratory, diarrhoea, epidemic-prone, and vaccine-preventable diseases are the leading causes of illness and death.

Pope John Paul started World Day of The Sick: What kills most Ugandans
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision

Today is World Day of the Sick. It was requested by Pope John Paul II, instituted on world calendar days on May 13, 1992, and is celebrated every year on

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