Makerere University’s Office of the Academic Registrar, has released the Official admission lists for privately sponsored students for the Academic Year 2017/2018. Speaking to URN, Charles Ssentongo, the Deputy Academic Registrar said the academic year begins on August 12. Ssentongo said that all students admitted on private programmes shall begin picking
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Deaths linked to Aids have halved in a decade, official figures shows. The condition, which is caused by HIV, used to be one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. A report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) showed deaths had fallen from a peak of 1.9 million
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MTN Uganda Foundation on Tuesday launched a partnership with SOS Children’s Villages, an international child care organization in Uganda that will see the telecom company inject Shs330m in SOS Uganda’s Retention for Completion project. The Retention for Completion project was developed by SOS Children’s Villages. Its aim is to increase
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Uganda's giant telecommunications network, MTN Uganda has revised its internet bundles effective 14th July , 2017. The changes have mainly been effected in volumes of the MTN’s new social bundles, commonly known as the MTN Swift and MTN WTF. [caption id="attachment_2599" align="aligncenter" width="1086"] Revised Social Bundle Volumes[/caption] This comes after a
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Pregnant women in Uganda who have urinary tract infection symptoms are wrongly consuming antibiotics prescribed without laboratory confirmation, a study carried out by the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Makerere University shows. The study, aimed at finding out the accuracy of UTI diagnosis, assessed 2,562 women from four groups.
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Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has stressed the need to lower the cost of production for the private sector led growth to yield positive results. The President made the observations onFriday at State House, Entebbe during a meeting with envoys of the European Union in Uganda who were led by the
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Microsoft Has Ended Support For Its Windows 8 Smartphones The US tech giant will now focus on other segments, amid ongoing speculation about its strategy for mobile. Users of Windows-powered phones – which have failed badly against rivals from Apple and Google Android – were invited to upgrade to its
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Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), the regulator of Uganda’s telecoms sector has asked MTN Uganda to explain its recent changes in pricing. This is after a number of MTN subscribers petitioned the regulator over what they termed as unclear and exorbitant changes. In a letter dated Jul7, 2017, UCC Executive Director,
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The Petroleum Authority of Uganda has released a list of 293 local and international companies cleared as suppliers of various goods and services in Uganda’s burgeoning oil and gas sector. A number of Ugandans have in the past complained of lack of transparency in the oil and gas sector, but
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A vaccine has for the first time been shown to protect against the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea, scientists in New Zealand say. There are fears gonorrhoea is becoming untreatable as antibiotics fail, the BBC reported. The World Health Organization sees developing a vaccine as vital in stopping the global spread
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