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Barbarians at the Gates? The Unemployment Plight of Africa's University Graduates

By Steve Kayizzi-MugerwaMarch 11, 20162 comments

           Introduction The plight of our youthful university graduates in Africa is quite paradoxical. For many of them, education has not unleashed economic opportunity nor social security. In spite of improving economies, graduates exit their institutions ...

Uganda’s Tobacco Control Act comes into force on 19th of May 2016

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 11, 20162 comments

This 19th of May 2016 is the day the Tobacco Control Act No. 22 enters into force. The same was passed by Parliament on the 28th of July 2015, assented to by the president on the 19th of September 2015 and gazetted in the Uganda Gazette No 67 Volume CVIII dated 18th November 2015. ...

The "No Change" Slogan and the Health Care System in Uganda

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 9, 20160 comments

Uganda has been under the National Resistance Movement (NRM)  government for 30 years. There are things that continue to puzzle the local people and the educated all alike. For example, why would the NRM Government refuse to allocate at least 15% of its National budget to the ...

Empowering nurses builds patient-centred health care

By Talibita MosesUganda Uganda Health MattersMay 4, 20162 comments

Empowered nurses have effective conflict resolution skills and understand the skilful application of nursing ethics to build strong patient care teams in Uganda. Cultivating a culture of advocacy and empowerment among nurses decreases the length of hospital stays thus improving patient ...

POLITICAL WILL AND REDUCING MATERNAL AND CHILD MORTALITY

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 27, 20160 comments

What is Uganda's budget for this year's presidential swearing in ceremony and how much does it cost to save the 16-20 women who will possibly die in childbirth that day?    Sri Lanka is one of the low income countries in South Asia, but has been hailed for progressively ...

Just Like the Spots of a Hyena – the Swagger of Impunity and Military Dictatorship

By Bbuye Lya MukangaUganda Uganda PoliticsApril 25, 20160 comments

Just Like the Spots of a Hyena – the Swagger of Impunity and Military Dictatorship   In my first blog at Mulera’s Fireplace, I alluded to an incident at a pre-Independence election rally where the person who went on to be Independent Uganda’s first Attorney ...

Birds and people

By AtwokiEast AfricaApril 19, 20160 comments

There was an item on the news today that dinosaurs started losing the battle for survival fifty million years before the asteroid strike that finally wiped them out. It is surmised that splitting up of continents and climatic change brought down the curtain on their existence and ...

Kihanga Boys Primary School: Remembering my headmasters, my teachers and the buildings

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziApril 17, 20160 comments

Kihanga Boys Primary School in Mparo, Rukiga, Kigezi is the place where my formal education journey started. It sits atop the hill by the same name, with a commanding view of the neighbourhoods of Kanywero, Kibaare, Omurukiri rwa Kanzikwera, Sindi, Nyarurambi, Iborozya, Ibumba, Butatuurwa, ...

Canada to legalize physician-assisted dying

By Muniini K. MuleraCanadaApril 15, 20160 comments

Prompted by a  Supreme Court decision,  the Government of Canada has tabled Bill C-14 for the purpose of legalizing physician assisted dying.The bill allows  people who have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability, and whose death is "reasonably ...

Mental Health in Africa: New approaches to an old problem

By ThaddyApril 15, 20160 comments

By Professor Thaddeus P. Ulzen*   The problem of mental health is as old as the ages but I am not entirely certain that I have all the new approaches that will be required. I prefer to use the term mental illnesses rather than mental illness because the brain, as complex as it ...

When misdiagnosis means a twenty hour journey to and from a major hospital

By Sabrina KitakaUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 5, 20161 comments

When mis diagnosis means in a twenty hour journey to and from a major hospital: ‘inappropriate referral’ By: Dr.Sabrina Kitaka We were completing a 6 hour ward round on a hot Thursday morning at the Infectious Diseases Ward at the Mulago National Referral Hospital. ...

Yes, TB Meningitis can be treated in Uganda, and better still it can be prevented

By Sabrina KitakaUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 13, 20162 comments

By Sabrina.B.Kitaka Case Presentation: T.O (not his initials) was a 2 year old boy who was the 1st born to both his parents. He presented to the emergency unit of the Mulago National Referral Hospital on 18th January 2016 with a history of fever and refusal to feed for 2 days. He ...

Uganda's Health Care System at Crossroads; No Functional Chain of Survival Systems

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 2, 20160 comments

Currently, there are very few functioning Ambulances in the country, and where ambulances exist, they may not have fuel or drivers. Many times, patients with life threatening emergencies are told to go to the next high level health facility, only to wait by the road side for public ...

Uganda's Health Care System at Crossroads; Re-thinking Our Priorities.

By Asa AhimbisibweUganda Uganda Health MattersApril 1, 20160 comments

  The Health care system in Uganda is at the moment described as inadequate, and holds no promise for its population in meeting and addressing the current health care challenges and the demands of the people of Uganda. As a result of the inefficient health care infrastructure, ...

Greetings

By Karuhanga InnocentMarch 31, 20161 comments

Greetings to you all. My names are Karuhanga Innocent living in Toronto-Ontario. What an amazing way of sharing thoughts and experiences, I was fired up by the title "fireplace" typical of who we are as proud Africans, sitting around a fire place and telling famous ...

THANKS

By Bonny M KyamugabirweMarch 29, 20161 comments

Greetings to all who will and have congregate/d here.   I just wanted to post this my first message, to express my sheer delight in the prospect of being able to be in touch with my people [ in/from Kigezi and East Africa] and to be apprised of issues that matter to us from ...

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