Browsing by Author "Kyotalengerire, Agnes"

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    $19m skills development youth project launched.
    (New Vision, 2017-08-09) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    A total of 15,000 youth are set to benefit from $19m (Sh68,5b) employment skills development programme by Heifer International. The programme, launched recently, is targeting your aged between 15 and 24, in six districts of Kiboga, Wakiso, Luwero, Bugiiri, Ngora and Amuria.
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    Access to family planning key to empowerment, development.
    (New vision, 2017-07-10) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    With her 10-month-old baby clinging to her breast, Jackline Nyiramanjambere picks places of cotton wool off her skirt as she answers questions about her life. When she falls to remember her date of birth, she reaches for her national identity card and displays it.
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    Amref brings health to communities
    (New Vision, 2017-12-06) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    For several years the stench of Urine followed Eugenia Faida wherever she went. Although she tried to pad herself to prevent urine from leaking her efforts were futile.
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    Bound together, separated by man
    (Sunday Vision, 2017-07-09) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    "The twins shared a heart, liver, diaphragm, intestines and ribs and the operation to separate them took 13 hours".
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    Community hospital offers free health care
    (Sunday Vision, 2017-11-19) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    A health care facility, which offers free services and diagnosis for the community in and around Maganjo and Nabweru in Wakiso, is today launching a new three-storeyed building that will take services to another level.
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    Community hospital offers free health care.
    (New Vision, 2017-11-19) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    A healthy care facility, which offers free services and diagnosis for the community in and around Maganjo and Nabweru in Wakiso, is today launching a new three-storeyed building that will take the services to another level.
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    Ebola alert: what you should know.
    (New Vision, 2026-05-25) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    Uganda has registered one death of Ebola Bundibugyo virus disease among two individuals who travelled from DR Congo. The first was a 59-year-old Congolese man had crossed the border to Uganda and died of Ebola at Kibuli Muslim Hospital in Kampala on May 14.
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    Employers urged to protect workers from HIV
    (New Vision, 2026-05-08) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    Private sector companies have been urged to strengthen workplace measures aimed at protecting employees, especially women from the risk of acquiring HIV.
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    Enhance your gate with fibre sheet.
    (New Vision, 2017-09-09) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    Gate designs and colours are gradually evolving, Elimia, male, a fabricator and proprietor of Kutegeragana Metal Fabrications in Ntinda, Kampala, says lately, people are drifting away from metallic gates and embracing gates coated with fibre sheet.
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    Family planning:
    (New Vision, 2017-07-11) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    Eucalytus tree surround the run-down semi-permanent mud-and- wattle house, the home of Judith Kakuru, a mother of eight children and a resident of Makanga cell, Butobere ward, Mparo village in Kabale central division. Thye 33-year old mother had her first child when she was 17 years old.
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    Family planning: Empowering women to be productive
    (New Vision, 2017-07-11) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    A woman who is informed about Family planning will decide on which method to use, to enable her produce the number of children she can take care of.
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    Fistula: What Uganda needs to end the condition
    (New Vision, 2018-05-23) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    Today Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate the international Fistula Day under theme: End Fistula now, reach everyone. The commemoration aims at raising awareness, visibility of obstetric fistula and intensifying actions towards ending the condition in Uganda and the world over. Agnes Kyotalengerire explores what the Government is doing to eliminate thee backlog of 75,000 to 100,000 patients who are not treated.
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    Health facilities offering HIV injection.
    (New Vision, 2026-05-05) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    A total of 103 public health facilities across he country are now offering lenacapavir, the long-acting injectable drug for HIV prevention, following the recent national launch and roll-out.
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    How Gayaza Junior banned ‘kaveera’
    (New Vision, 2018-06-13) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    As part of New Vision's month long campaign on the dangers of plastic waste, Agnes Kyotalengerire explores Gayaza Junior school's policy not allowing plastic bags into their premises.
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    How Lira medics have washed away bady deaths.
    (New Vision, 2018-01-17) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    According to Dr. Jolly Nankunda, the commonest cause of inflections among newborn babies is bacteria. The baby may pick the germs from the mother's birth canal during delivery, especially if the canal is colonised by harmful bacteria ( that which causes infection).
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    Manage your weight to beat obesity in old age
    (Sunday Vision, 2018-04-22) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    " If you have not been physically active in your early years, do not expect to have a strong body and muscles in old age. Nutritionally, if you have not been feeding as recommended or engaged un poor dietary habits in your earlier years, the body does not have the reserve to function normally in the later years." Peterson Kato Kikomeko, an assistant lecturer of human nutrition and dietetics department at Kyambogo University.
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    Managing stroke among the elderiy.
    (Sunday Vision, 2017-07-09) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    The nation is celebrating the life of John Ssebaana Kizito, the former Democratic Party leader, who on Monday succumbed to stroke. Apparently, stroke is a health condition common among the elderly. In our article, Sunday Vision explores how the health condition can be prevented as well as to manage it.
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    Managing stroke among the elderly
    (Sunday Vision, 2017-07-09) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    According to Dr Joel Kiryabwiire, a neuro-surgeon at Mulago Hospital, a stroke is a sudden loss of brain function where one becomes unconscious and cannot move on side of the body or do one of the normal functions of the brain like hearing or speaking.
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    Managing stroke among the elderly
    (New Vision, 2017-04-07) Kyotalengerire, Agnes; Magezi, N Lilian
    " Even during fasting, the body needs an adequate supply of the different nutrients for one to maintain good health. This can only be achieved by ensuring a balanced diet", Kikomeko, an assistant lecturer in the department of human nutrition and dietetics at Kyambogo University.
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    Mulago conducts complex brain, spine tumour surgery.
    (New Vision, 2017-07-15) Kyotalengerire, Agnes
    Cost of Surgeries During the camp, the surgeries were done for free. However, Muhumuza estimates that in India, brain and spine surgery may cost between $6,000 and $ 10,000 ( about sh21.6m and sh36m). In Nairobi, the surgery costs about $10,000 (about sh36m). He said in Mulago hospital's private wing, a patient may pay not less than $5,000 (about sh18m) for the surgery. It includes the cost of specialised sundries, accommodation, ICU and medicines. Patrick Kato, 32, who had a brain tumour for two years is grateful to Mulago hospital: "I had lost hope because I could not afford to pay for surgery," he says. According to Kato, the disease had taken a toll on Him. He had a constant headache and had developed poor vision