Norah Owaraga

Tackling the Tuberculosis Disease Burden

Food insecurity should not be the reason for releasing MDR-TB patients from hospital. And it is not enough to provide food rations to TB patients, because it is not sustainable. TB takes a long time to treat and cure.

It is time to End Tuberculosis Improve Diagnostic Services

A fully installed GeneXpert machine costs 70 million shillings. The car allowance for MPs is 150 million shillings. If we can afford to spend 63.9 billion shillings on cars for MPs, they we can afford to buy sufficient TB diagnostic equipment.

Importance of editors in media houses cannot be overstated

This morning as I enjoyed my cup of Ugandan coffee and read stories from one of my favourite news sources, the Daily Monitor, I came across a story headlined: “I only eat boiled food, says Monica Lubega.” I was fascinated by the feasibility of this, since I had once read or is it watched a…

Evidence based advocacy is more effective in long run

We thus invite you to visit the special page on TB on our website through which you can download various publication which contain the qualitative data that we generated and our analyses.