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Uganda:
Kamya Demands House Recall Over Nodding Disease
Monitor, 30 January 2012
Uganda Federal Alliance president Beti Kamya has petitioned the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadagga, to recall Parliament immediately to discuss the nodding disease that has… Read more »
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Uganda:
Help Me Understand Why Money Can't Be Found to Manage Nodding Disease
Monitor, 30 January 2012
Please don't talk about rolling out action plans, waiting for results from the Centres for Disease Control or lack of funds. That analysis is far too simplistic. Read more »
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Uganda:
Govt Must Live Up to It's Mandate and Tackle the Nodding Disease
Monitor, 27 January 2012
Just like the government is scratching its head to figure out the cause of the nodding disease, currently tormenting about 3,000 children in the Acholi Sub-region, I am scratching… Read more »
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Uganda:
Health Ministry Yet to Roll Out Action Plan for Nodding Disease
Monitor, 25 January 2012
The Ministry of Health has set its third deadline to roll out a comprehensive action plan on nodding disease - an unexplained syndrome characterised by seizures, physical and… Read more »
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Uganda:
Nodding Disease Kills 200 Children in North
New Vision, 25 January 2012
Over 200 children have so far died of the mysterious Nodding disease in northern Uganda where it broke out three years ago. Read more »
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Uganda:
Ministry Develops Emergency Response for Nodding Disease but Cause Still Unknown
Independent (Kampala), 24 January 2012
Jane Ruth Aceng the Director General Health Services at Ministry of Health says the Ministry has developed a comprehensive response plan to control the disease which has affected… Read more »
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Uganda:
Government on the Spot Over Nodding Disease
Monitor, 20 January 2012
The escalation of the nodding disease syndrome in northern Uganda could have been avoided if government had implemented research recommendations availed to it in 2009 by health… Read more »
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Uganda:
Pader Runs Out of Drugs for Controlling Nodding
Monitor, 17 January 2012
Parents in Pader District have to dig deeper into their pockets to get medicine for controlling nodding disease among their children. Read more »
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Uganda:
Acholi Sub-Region Desperate As Children Nod to Their Death
Monitor, 14 January 2012
It might seem like an amusement ailment, but the victims can violently nod to death. Read more »
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Uganda:
Nodding - Parents Cry As Govt Makes Slow Move to Save Kids
Monitor, 11 January 2012
The plight of desperate families hit by the nodding disease syndrome in northern Uganda has, for the last few months, been a permanent feature in the media. Read more »
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Uganda:
Northern Region Hit By Nodding Syndrome
EA Business, 8 January 2012
Ngur village in Akwang sub-county, Kitgum districtin Uganda are battling with a strange disease now referred to as the nodding disease. Read more »