The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) (on Thursday announced the top 10 nominees who will be contending for the 2017 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), to be awarded in Accra, Ghana on 18th July 2017. Innovators from nine African countries including Uganda, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Liberia, Morocco, Nigeria,
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Latest information indicates that there's panic at Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development since President Yoweri Museveni has just got info that a top official in that ministry tried to extort money from Italian investor Enrica Panetta behind the Shs900bn (or USD250M) hospital in Lubowa near Quality Supermarket. Reliable
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Ugandans who have been using emergency pregnancy control pills have a reason to worry after it has been discovered that some of them are fake and may not serve the intended purpose. National Drug Authority (NDA) has confirmed that the counterfeit Postinor2® is already circulating on the Ugandan market. Postinor2®
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Ugandan Members of Parliament (MPs) recently clashed the Executive over payment of health workers, with the two arms of government bitterly disagreeing on 2017/18 budget allocations. The Health Ministry had submitted a proposal requesting for Shs46.86bn in 2017/17 budget for wage requirement for the authorized recruitment of staff for health
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By Katusiime Kellen Airtel Uganda has joined hands with Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS) to mobilize the public to donate blood in a 4-day campaign. Airtel and UBTS have set up six centres within Kampala and its suburbs to enhance their ‘Be Red Campaign’ which targets to raise over 4,000
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Marriage appears to be good for your health, boosting your survival chances if you have a major heart risk factor such as high cholesterol, say researchers. A loving spouse might spur you on to look after yourself better, they told a heart conference, based on their study of nearly a
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Social networking websites can be more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol and can have an overall negative effect on young people’s mental health, says a new report. The study conducted by Royal Society for Public Health in the UK surveyed almost 1,500 young people aged 14 to 24 on how
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The National Drug Authority has urged the public against buying medicines that aren’t translated in English. This comes follows the findings that some imported medicines on the Ugandan market aren’t labelled or translated in English yet it is mandatory. For example, NDA recently found TobraDex that is produced by Alcon
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Geocycle, an international waste management firm has launched in Uganda with the aim of providing a solution to waste management that leaves no residue. Under the Geocycle brand, the LafargeHolcim Group offers waste management services in over 50 countries around the world. “Our promise is to offer a superior solution
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An 18-year-old student has designed a bra that can help in the early detection of breast cancer and has won top prize at the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA). Julian Rios Cantu, a Mexican, said he was inspired by his mother’s battle with the disease which eventually led to both
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