Records from UAC show that 10.7 million people tested in the 2016/2017 financial year, 8.8 million in the 2017/2018 financial year and 7.2 million in the 2018/2019 financial year.
Read more ...Findings of the study conducted between April and March 2019 show that 89 percent of the voters interviewed predict violent polls. A total of 450 people from 13 regions around the country took part in the study. The study was both qualitative and quantitative in nature.
Read more ...Freddie Ssengooba, a Professor of Health Economics and Health System Management, says government should prioritize indoor insecticide residual spraying just like the use of mosquito nets.
Read more ...Hundreds of Karimojong women and men who live in Kampala want the government to provide alternative sources of income for them before can go back home. They want assistance in the forms of money and business ventures.
Read more ...Uganda’s Ebola preparedness budget released in July 2019, stood at 64 billion Shillings, a bigger percentage of which was allocated to case management and infection control. Other components of the plan include building community resilience and institutional capacity to respond to an outbreak, to prevent the importation of Ebola into Uganda, and to prepare for a possible outbreak.
Read more ...Jacob Eyeru, the chairman of the Debate Society of Uganda, an organization that organizes national debate competitions says that the most appropriate age for learners to be involved in school’s debates is primary five. By this age, learners are expected to eloquently express themselves on topics found in their environment.
Read more ...The curriculum was launched more than ten years ago and has been the mode of instruction in government schools mainly those in rural areas. The ministry now wants to change this and make it compulsory for even private schools to follow the same curriculum
Read more ...According to ministry officials, many DHOs are not doing their work of supervising the provision of standard health care in their areas of operation. They spend most of their time in their offices instead of knowing what is happening in the districts they oversee
Read more ...The study shows that the level of drug resistance in Uganda among adults is higher than 10 percent. Resistance in women stands at 16 percent while that of men stands at 14 percent.
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