Norah Owaraga

‘Official violence’ against women sustains

It is no longer cotton. The crops have changed. As did cotton. in the name of ‘progress’ and in the name of ‘modernization’, new crops propagate negative ills, including land grabbing for starters. Constructive land dispossession is when people are not moved off their land, but are conned into offering their land rent free to…

Madhavani’s saviour-complex off-putting

The Madhavani-Amuru proposition is Machiavellian. The pity-language used in the proposition is mind boggling. Madhavani is offering or sacrificing to bring development to the people of Amuru the proposition goes. Yah right, seems so patronising and obscurantic. Madhavani Group of Companies is a business that has sustained for multiple generations and will likely continue to…

Tuberculosis A Social Injustice

Treating tuberculosis (TB) Districts hit by Isoniazid stock out… The (Uganda) National TB and Leprosy Program (NTLP), together with AIDS Control Program, rolled out implementation of this intervention. Using isoniazid preventative therapy – IPT for people living with HIV at the beginning of 2015. Despite this, the IPT coverage has remained low in the country.…

National tuberculosis Program Budget 71% not funded

State Minister for Health (General Duties), Hon. Sarah Opendi, receiving GeneXpert tuberculosis (TB) testing machines from the Ambassador of the United States of America to Uganda, Her Excellency Deborah Malac (photo credit Rachel Mabala) “If your health services largely depend on the kindness of other countries, then you know you are a banana republic. If…