In Brief
Jul 17, 2007
IDPs get sh300m for malaria fight<br>LIRA<br>Research Triangle International in partnership with Christian Children’s Fund (ccf) has donated about sh327m to two Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps. The two camps are Ogur and Abidia. The money is meant for the implementation of malaria pr
IDPs get sh300m for malaria fight
LIRA
Research Triangle International in partnership with Christian Children’s Fund (ccf) has donated about sh327m to two Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps. The two camps are Ogur and Abidia. The money is meant for the implementation of malaria programmes in the camps. It will cover a population of about 23,796 IDPs. The donation will be spent on insecticide treated nets, and the prevention and control training about malaria. At the launch of the project, the CCF malaria project manager, Rashid Mwesige, said the current facts about malaria in Uganda show that at least 328 deaths are reported daily.
Pharmacists urged on quality
Kampala
Local pharmaceutical manufactures should produce quality medicine that can compete on the international market, the Minister of State for Primary Health Care, Emmanuel Otala, has said. “You need to keep quality so that we are able to meet the millennium development goals and prosperity for all which government promised people. This can only happen when we are all healthy,†Otala said at the opening of the stakeholders meeting on the role of the local pharmaceutical sector in promoting access to Artemesinin-based combination therapy at Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala.
women trained to control hiv/AIDS
KAMPALA
Over 50 women living with HIV/Aids have been trained in art and craft to fight the pandemic. The training empowers them to use their talents and skills to enable them to articulate and deal with the various health challenges prevalent in their communities. The week-long training, which was centred on design, health and community, was conducted by the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts of Makerere University. Bruno Serunkuma, the coordinator, said the training was part of a one-year pilot project sponsored by the British council under the partnership Scheme in Higher Education.
LIRA
Research Triangle International in partnership with Christian Children’s Fund (ccf) has donated about sh327m to two Internally Displaced People’s (IDP) camps. The two camps are Ogur and Abidia. The money is meant for the implementation of malaria programmes in the camps. It will cover a population of about 23,796 IDPs. The donation will be spent on insecticide treated nets, and the prevention and control training about malaria. At the launch of the project, the CCF malaria project manager, Rashid Mwesige, said the current facts about malaria in Uganda show that at least 328 deaths are reported daily.
Pharmacists urged on quality
Kampala
Local pharmaceutical manufactures should produce quality medicine that can compete on the international market, the Minister of State for Primary Health Care, Emmanuel Otala, has said. “You need to keep quality so that we are able to meet the millennium development goals and prosperity for all which government promised people. This can only happen when we are all healthy,†Otala said at the opening of the stakeholders meeting on the role of the local pharmaceutical sector in promoting access to Artemesinin-based combination therapy at Grand Imperial Hotel in Kampala.
women trained to control hiv/AIDS
KAMPALA
Over 50 women living with HIV/Aids have been trained in art and craft to fight the pandemic. The training empowers them to use their talents and skills to enable them to articulate and deal with the various health challenges prevalent in their communities. The week-long training, which was centred on design, health and community, was conducted by the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts of Makerere University. Bruno Serunkuma, the coordinator, said the training was part of a one-year pilot project sponsored by the British council under the partnership Scheme in Higher Education.