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New HIV treatment
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This herbal immune system tea is developed in Southern China where HIV/AIDS has become a serious epidemic, starting years ago through migrant workers to Thailand. There, in Northern Thailand, the herbal immune system tea has been tested first and is since then becoming popular. The tea may be restoring the immune system function of the body efficiently and a large number of viral secondary infections seem to be taken care of at the same time.

While this is a new way of looking at the treatment of HIV, the formula itself is but a sophisticated mixture of traditional Chinese herbs known to have positive effects on the immune system (see literature below). Please note that we have developed a new formulation called i-drops, which is designed as honey droplets. These droplets are easier to take and the honey increases resorption of the ingredients.

July 7, 2008 | 2:04 PM Comments  1 comments

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Peace talks to remain in Juba
Related to country: Uganda

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The Lords Resistance army rebel leader, Joseph Kony wants government to change the venue for negotiations from Juba to the DR Congo.

This was revealed by Gulu RDC Col.Walter Ochora.

However, the minister of state for foreign affairs in charge of International Relations Okello Oryem, also a member of the government negotiating team, says they will not accept any changes from Juba.

Okello Oryem says the final peace agreement has been negotiated and any related incident should be done in Juba.


July 7, 2008 | 12:08 PM Comments  0 comments

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Ab’oku Kaleerwe bookezza kawooteeri
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ABATUUZE b’oku Kaleerwe abaabadde baswakidde oluvannyuma lw’okulwanagana ne Poliisi n’amagye ku Lwokubiri olwalabye ng’abakuumaddembe baavuddewo ne balumba ne bookya ekibanda ky’emmere ekiriraanye kapollisi mu kitundu kino nga kigambibwa nti abapoliisi babadde batera okubeerawo era nga we balya.

Kawooteeri kano kaliraanye oluguudo lwa Northern Bypass era nnannyiniko ye Mohammed Kezaala akulira Lufula y’oku Kaleerwe.

Mu lutalo luno mwa f i i r i d d e m u owapoliisi abadde mu kutendekebwa Tom Ntanda wamu n’omwana William Byamukama 12 abadde asoma mu ssomero lya Child Care ku Kaleerwe mu kibiina ekyomukaaga. Bazadde ba Byamukama eggulo baanonye omulambo gwa mutabani waabwe e Mulago ne bagutwala mu maka gaabwe mu Kibe Zooni ku Kaleerwe.

Nnyina Gorret Nanyonga yagambye nti bagenda kumuziika leero e Fort Portal. Abatuuze abalala babiri baaweereddwa ebitanda mu ddwaaliro e Mulago oluvannyuma lw’okulumizibwa mu kavuvungano kano.

Faruku Kasule yakubiddwa essassi ku mutwe ate Stephen Mukasa omuserikale wa poliisi n’akubibwa ekiyinja naye ekyamumenye Okugulu okwa ddyo nga bombi bapooca mu waadi 3C e Mulago.

Omubaka w’ekitundu mu Palamenti, Ssebuliba Mutumba eggulo yagenze okukubagiza bazadde ba Byamukama n’avumirira ekikolwa kya Poliisi n’amagye ekitalaga bukugu mu nkola ya mulimu gwabwe, n’asaba gavumenti eriyirire bazadde b’omwana eyattiddwa.

July 3, 2008 | 1:51 PM Comments  0 comments

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We must address female genital mutilation urgently
Related to country: Uganda

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Last week, there were media debates on whether culture supercedes human rights which stemmed mainly from a case of a woman from Sebei who had acquired a permanent disability arising from female genital mutilation.

This analysis delves deep into one of the most common rites of passage - female genital mutilation - among girls and young women who hail from Bukwo, Kapchorwa and some parts of Nakapiripirit.

The day any Sabiny girl is circumcised is considered to be the most important day in her life. It is that long awaited day when a girl not only becomes a full member of the society but also a candidate for marriage.

It is the day when her prospective husband can be sure that she will be a faithful partner. That is why those who evade this rite are barred from participating in public life.

In such areas, a discourse on female genital mutilation can strike sensitive chords and can evoke strong responses from community. This is very true given that one’s cultural practices define his or her identity, sense of belonging, pride and promotes social cohesion.

Criticising such a culture from outside is seen by insiders as being judgmental. If that is so, then what set of values and value standards can we legitimately use to interrogate cultural behaviour? This is where human rights come in - to set a universal standard of norms and values that regulate behaviour! Every culture has positive and negative aspects.

There are cultural practices that protect and promote human rights but there are others which restrict human rights. Taking a ‘romanticised’ notion of culture is not a good beginning point for discussion as it confuses or reduces ‘right’ to ‘tradition’, ‘good’ to ‘old’, and ‘obligatory’ to ‘habitual’.

Respecting other people’s cultures is very important but it does not tantamount to tolerating practices that are detrimental to the physical and mental well-being of its members, most especially girls and women.

The right to culture or to participate in cultural life is often evoked by those who defend the necessity of preserving traditional practices, including those that impair the well-being of girls and women, and infringe on their rights. Our constitution, culture, policy and Local Government Act recognise the importance and necessity of respecting one’s culture and the right to culture.

Objectively, the enjoyment of the right to culture or practice cultural life should never result in negation of other rights contained in the same laws and policies, and the nullification of the intent and spirit of the rights protected in such laws and policies.

The U N Committee on the Rights of the Child has classified female genital mutilation as the cruellest and severest forms of torture against girls and young women the world over. A few years ago, most parts of Ethiopia were having high rate of female genital mutilation.

Women victims were experiencing a lot of difficulty during delivery and some even contracted HIV in the process. The government then responded by making reforms in focal sectors to curtail the vice. Three years down the road, the practice of this social mayhem have declined drastically.

The first step that the government took was to criminalise female genital mutilation. This was successfully done by having it included in the country’s criminal code. Perpetrators undergo imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years.

This move has gone along way in deterring many from performing this act. Girls and women were themselves empowered to fight female genital mutilation by civil society organisations.

This gave them confidence and they took the lead in the defense of their rights. The women’s participation was so crucial in changing the power dynamics both at home and in the public space.

Awareness raising activities were also conducted to break the silence on the impact of female genital mutilation on the development of girls, young women and society as a whole. Initially, girls had been socialised from birth to accept the inferior status ascribed to them by the dominant power holders in society and the necessity of subscribing to female genital mutilation and were resisting efforts to end female genital mutilation.

We should urgently follow the above steps to combat female genital mutilation and avoid being a laughing stock when the next generation rewrites the history of protecting girls from harmful traditional practices in Uganda.

July 3, 2008 | 1:00 PM Comments  0 comments

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Doctors battle to save Siamese twins
Related to country: Uganda

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Mulago Hospital surgeons are examining Siamese twins delivered at Kibuli Hospital on Wednesday to determine if they can be separated.
The female twins were born to Sauda Nakazibwe and Hussein Kato of Wakiso district. The couple has three children.
The twins, co-joined from the trunk to the abdomen, have two heads, two hands at the front and two sprouting at the back, with two front legs and one developing at the back.
Halima Ndagire, the nurse in-charge of the maternity ward at Kibuli, said the case was the first of its kind at the hospital.
Born by caesarian, the twins weighed 4kg at birth.
“The operation was successful. The twins cried exactly after five minutes and immediately passed out urine,” Ndagire said.
She said the babies were referred to Mulago Hospital for further examination but their mother was recovering at Kibuli hospital.
Dr. Jamiir Mugalu, the head of the special care unit at Mulago, said experts were examining whether the twins shared the spine, heart, liver and kidney.
“We are ascertaining how their blood vessels are arranged so that we can know whether they require an immediate operation.”
The babies are admitted in the intensive care unit where they are fed through tubes.
Mugalu observed that Siamese twins were not common, adding that the most recent case was of Veronica Driciru, 27, a resident of Arua, who had such twins in 2007.
They female twins, co-joined at the head and sharing a big vessel in the skull, died after 18 hours after birth, Mugalu said.
He also mentioned another case of twins born in Arua in 2001 but were successfully operated in the United States of America.

Kato, an art designer, said the news of the Siamese babies shocked him, because an earlier scan indicated that his wife carried twins, but not joined.
“Coming to terms with having Siamese twins hasn’t been easy, but I have received a lot of encouragement and comfort from friends and family. I love my children and I accept what God has given us,” he added.
Nakazibwe’s sister, Mastula Namubiru, however said the mother was still trying to come to terms with giving birth to co-joined twins.
“We are trying our best to comfort her, but she is still breaks down when people try to comfort her,” Namubiru said.
Nakazibwe, who will be discharged on Saturday, is a teacher at Balibabaseka Secondary School in Wakiso.

June 27, 2008 | 4:31 AM Comments  0 comments

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