Norah Owaraga

Food is a basic need and the highest priority human right

Start first with Uganda’s hospitals and healthcare facilities where it is the norm to find malnourished patients struggling to afford food.

Tandon’s Socialist Ideas Feasible: Uganda Back to Tribal Economics

Gone are the days when social mothers – women who have not biologically borne children but are mothers of many, were celebrated.

Book Review: “The Iteso”

The importance of well researched and well written books can not be overestimated. One such book is “The Iteso”, by J.C.D. Lawrance for Eria Paulo Engulu, M.B.E., Chief Judge of Teso in the 1950s and his people. Since I got to learn of and to acquire “The Iteso” (photocopy of the full book), I feel…

TB drugs are likely being stolen and sold to other countries

I am inclined to agree with Dr. Stavia Turyamuhabwa, Programme Manager of Uganda’s Tuberculosis (TB) and Leprosy Control Programme that “there is no one being treated for TB when they do not have it.” Dr. Turyamuhabwa was responding to findings of a Global Fund audit which uncovered missing TB medicines and which raised suspicion that…