According to Dr Joseph Matovu, the Principal Investigator of the study, these interventions worked but there was no marginal improvement in the reduction of new infections. Infection rates were a little higher than in areas that didn’t receive the necessities and money.
The team identified over 4,000 children affected by the complication whereby 2427 cases were picked from districts of Eastern Uganda. Two hundred of them died.
Fredrick Oporia, a Researcher based at the Makerere University School of Public Health says at least 95% of the people do not use life jackets and often only a few of them get rescue support when they drown.
The risk of swindling the money has been redistributed from having a few individuals supplying substandard food and earning high from it, Kirabo worries.
Titled, ‘My pregnancy’, the first of its kind to be reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Health for circulation, the handbook contains chapters detailing what one needs to do from preconception, antenatal to postnatal care.
While initially whoever tested positive could be isolated at a treatment facility, the approach was revisited after an increase in the number of infections. This meant that those with mild symptoms of the virus could only be monitored from within their homes, while severe cases were admitted in hospitals.
When asked to demonstrate how to remove a facemask, only two children (0.54%) followed the recommended steps when removing a facemask. A total of 372 randomly sampled children aged 10 to 13 years were interviewed from 18 randomly selected villages from Mparo and Bujumbura Divisions in Hoima Municipality.
On her part, Dr. Esther Bayiga a researcher based at Makerere University School of Public Health says recommended speed has been left standard 50kms per hour even as the traffic law was amended recently without giving exceptions of for instance reduction in speed when someone is driving through a busy trading center.
James Apora, the Commandant of Maritime Police told URN on Monday that they received instructions from the Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola to prepare and purchase additional boats and conduct refresher training ahead of deployment on lake Bunyonyi in November.
Dr Olive Kobusingye, a research fellow at Makerere University School of Public Health says they found that safe boating regulations are flouted, yet the police are incapacitated to ensure safety on the lake even as most drownings are preventable through policies and regulations that reduce risk exposure. She was releasing results of the study ton Thursday.
Police statistics show that 3,880 people perished in road traffic crashes in 2019 in Uganda. Another 9,653 people were reported as having sustained injuries on Uganda's roads in the same year. But researchers at Makerere University School of Public Health questioned the figures after a four-year-long survey.
Dr Suzanne Kiwanuka, a Senior Lecturer in Health Policy Planning and Management at Makerere University School of Public Health says that keeping only those that need critical care will reduce the number of health workers needed at facilities, reduce the burden on hard resources in addition to reducing exposure to the risk of infection to health workers.
During a virtual meeting held to discuss the role of Africa in COVID -19 Vaccine Research, a Kenyan Virologist Prof. Omu Anzala said with the vaccine expected to be available in 18 months, it shows how desperately the world needs this solution since normally vaccine development can take eight or more years testing from laboratory level, to testing efficacy among animal candidates until it’s eventually tested in humans.
Dr. David Guwatudde, a Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, who was part of the research team, warns that adolescents in the highlighted districts risk becoming overweight and obese along the life course.
“We need to develop our own African model because even as we are going to begin lifting the lock down, segmenting is going to be hard. We need to adopt a model that will enable us to quickly adjust ounce we realize we are going off truck”, says Prof. Rhoda Wanyenze Chairperson of the Modelling Committee on the National Task force.
Arnold Waiswa Ayazika, the NEMA director, Environmental Monitoring and Compliance says beyond the suppressing of the locusts, NEMA is interested in monitoring the potential impact of chemicals on water sources, food crops and or any other non-target organisms.
A letter from Eng. Christina Kakeeto, the Director Estates and Works Makerere University addressed to the Police Chief in the University, shows that the affected officers were given a month to vacate the premises by the end of this week in vain.
According to the experts, some of current interventions that government is currently implementing are not effective in some parts of the country and have instead become a money-making venture for different parties involved in the fight against malaria.
Ambrose Katungi Muhwezi, a Master of Public Health Student on Distance learning in an interview with URN said students at a Masters level usually find it difficult to progress with their research due to limited interaction with supervisors. He wants more emphasis to be put on workshops intended to have supervisors open up to students.
