Uganda: Why Are Country's Old Diseases Dying Hard?

opinion

It has been centuries since diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, sleeping sickness and leprosy among others were first discovered. Yet it has taken more centuries to battle - with not much success - these ancient diseases which are treatable, curable and preventable and whose means of prevention is usually cheap and available.

For years now, malaria has been Uganda's most threatening and leading killer, claiming the lives of between 70,000 to 110,000 people every year.

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