London, United Kingdom | AFP | Former Wales and British and Irish Lions rugby captain Gareth Thomas has told the BBC that he is HIV positive. In a documentary to be broadcast on Wednesday, the 45-year-old, who came out as gay in 2009, explains how in 2018 he felt like …
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Bouaké, Ivory Coast | AFP | Every time Catherine Coulibaly’s 19-year-old son had to make a routine appointment with the cardiologist for his heart condition, she gritted her teeth as she silently counted the financial cost. It wasn’t just the hospital fee — there was the transport, food and accommodation, too, …
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Kenya becomes third country to adopt world’s first malaria vaccine Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenya on Friday became the third country to start routinely innoculating infants against malaria, using the world’s first vaccine to combat a disease that kills 800 children globally every day. The vaccine — RTS,S — …
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Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenya on Friday became the third country to start routinely innoculating infants against malaria, using the world’s first vaccine to combat a disease that kills 800 children globally every day. The vaccine — RTS,S — targets the deadliest and most common form of malaria parasite in …
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Artist casts a critical eye on ambiguity Kampala, Uganda | DOMINIC MUWANGUZI | A lot has been said about the revival of the Uganda Airlines; mostly how it is going to change the economic fortunes of the country through promoting tourism and boosting Uganda as a brand internationally. With this, …
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Where is the compensation from insurance companies? | THE INDEPENDENT | We begin with an extended excerpt from former Minister of Finance, Prof. Ezra Sabiti Suruma’s 2014 book titled `Advancing the Ugandan Economy: A personal Account’. On page 159, he writes: In some accidents, dozens of people died and many …
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Study looking at 200,000 young women finds no correlation | THE INDEPENDENT | Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI). There are more than 100 Human papillomavirus (HPV) types that are transmitted sexually or via any skin-to-skin contact in the genital area. Low-risk HPVs mainly cause …
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WHO warns of falsified Augmentin | THE INDEPENDENT | The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that fake versions of the antibiotic Augmentin have been discovered in Uganda and Kenya. The genuine drug is sold by GlaxoSmithKline but the packaging of the falsified drugs says it is manufactured by SmithKline …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has boosted Uganda’s Ebola efforts with a donation of 5.5 Billion shillings. The committed funds will be spent in supporting the Ministry of Health conduct surveillance at its border with Democratic Republic of Congo. Patricia Rader, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | International Air Ambulance has today concluded a highly successful annual Health Service Providers (HSP) workshop, where strategies to strengthen their insurance practices in the next one year were laid out. Over 400 Health Service Providers (HSP) gathered at hotel Africana on Friday to discuss …
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