Dr. Nkonwa says that some PLWH have also been advised to form groups where they can send one person to the health center to pick ARVs for all members to minimize transport costs. He notes that the model aims at bridging the gap between health centers and People living with HIV/AIDS in distant villages.
In Lira town, the UPDF medical workers immunized more than 2000 children at Saint Gracious Nursery and primary, Lira Army Nursery and Primary, and Saint Stephen Nursery Schools and Erute Prisons.
Dr. Captain Ivan Ndikuno, the 5th Division Health Officer says their participation is to boost civilian medical workers so that all children below 15 years are immunized during the five-day exercise.
The minor reportedly refused to undergo through Measles and Rubella immunization at her school on Thursday citing a directive from her father, Kenneth Ocan, 28, the Chairperson of Ikorom village in Mucwini Sub-county.
In the campaign being conducted by the area LCI officials, Dr. Odung emphasized that every household whose toilet facility has been washed down must bury all fecal material in a dug pit of at least a half a meter into the ground for every time they want to defecate.
The recovered drugs include one big box filled with about 150 doses of injectable Artesunate, 12 boxes of coartem and 97 boxes of Rapid Diagnostics Test kits for malaria, with about 2,400 pieces of test kits.
