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Uganda: Budget Committee to Meet Over Re-allocations
New Vision, 17 September 2012
The NRM Caucus is meeting at State House Entebbe today to agree on re-allocations in the budgetary estimates. Read more »
Ugandan Govt in Health Funding Standoff
Members of Parliament have vowed to block the approval of the budget unless the government allocates sh260 billion to the health sector to address high child and maternal mortality rates and a shortage of health workers and medicine.Video
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17 September 2012
Health Funding Debate Freezes Uganda's Parliament
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- NTV Uganda
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- NTV Uganda
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MPs from the ruling party have convened at the State House for a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni amidst a standoff over a budget allocation to ... see more »
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Uganda: Govt Needs U.S. $400 Million Every Year to Fight HIV
New Vision, 17 September 2012
Uganda needs $1,023.37m (about sh2.4 trillion) to signifi cantly reduce new HIV infections over the next four years. Read more »
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Uganda: Women's Family Planning Needs Go Unmet
New Vision, 3 September 2012
Mariamah is 23 years old. She has four children aged 5, 4, 2 and 5 months old. Read more »
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Africa: The 'Unfinished Business' of Lowering Child Mortality
UNIRIN, 13 September 2012
In 1990, an estimated 12 million children around the world died under age five; by 2011, that figure had dropped to 6.9 million. The message, from a new report by the UN Children's… Read more »
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Uganda: 1.2 Million Babies Born Yearly
New Vision, 3 September 2012
THE population of Uganda has grown from 4.8 million people in 1950 to 33 million people as per UDHS (2011). Read more »
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Uganda: Uganda Spends Sh160 Billion On Unsafe Abortions Every Year
New Vision, 10 September 2012
The demand for abortion in Uganda is high, despite legal and moral proscription. John Semakula explores how a mere policy can bring great cost and pain to citizens. Read more »
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Uganda: Museveni Hails Achon Over Health
New Vision, 30 August 2012
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has commended former Olympian Julius Achon for supplementing government efforts in health service delivery. Read more »
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Uganda: Govt Urged to Lift Health Worker Recruitment Ban
New Vision, 24 August 2012
Uganda's health sector risks running into a crisis unless government reconsiders its ban on recruitment of staff before the end of this financial year, the chairman Health Service… Read more »
A women carries her baby in a May 2012 protest during which more than 100 activists petitioned the government to declare maternal health a constitutional right and to increase the health budget.
