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  • Thank You Mrs. Rose Aceng Okello

    Please join me in thanking Mrs. Rose Aceng Okello, our Former Finance and Administration Officer, who has agreed to briefly come out of her retirement, in order to assist me to induct our new Volunteer Part-Time Paid Administrative Assistant, Ms. Ann Parlaker Gumkit. During next week, Monday, 1st June to Friday, 5th June 2020, in…

  • Welcoming Ann Parlaker Gumkit

    I am very pleased to announce that Ms. Ann Parlaker Gumkit will be joining us as our Volunteer Part-Time Paid Administrative Assistant on 1st June 2020. 1st June is the official start of her contract, but Ann is already on the ground at our Lira Offices, that are located at our Lira Learning Centre, where she…

  • Use of GeneXpert in Northern Uganda

    The “gold standard has to be the GeneXpert” asserted respondents in CPAR Uganda’s qualitative investigation into pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). GeneXpert machines facilitate diagnosis of TB. As of 2010 GeneXpert is a World Health Organisation recommended technology for detecting TB. The Uganda National TB and Leprosy Control Programme (NTLP), in its current strategic plan, recommend the…

  • Prevalence of TB in Northern Uganda

    The Ministry of Health, in its 2015 publication: “The National Tuberculosis Prevalence Survey, 2014-2015 Survey Report,” estimates Uganda’s national tuberculosis (TB) prevalence rate at 253/100,000; an estimated 87,000 TB cases annually. Using the national TB prevalence rate, it is valid to surmise that, in 2017, the greater northern region (Karamoja, Lango, Acholi and West Nile),…

  • Tuberculosis in Northern Uganda

    As the world battles with the novel Coronavirus COVID-19, we find it timely to share this briefing on the findings of an empirical investigation into tuberculosis in Uganda. It should be noted that unlike in other parts of the world, TB is equally a pandemic in Uganda. Thousands of Ugandans are infected with TB and…

  • Publishing ePDFs and eBooks

    Yesterday, I took the plunged and risk to subscribe to “Designrr”, which I saw advertised on Facebook. It is a tool that enables one to create and to publish epdfs and ebooks. To learn how it works, I used my top blog post, “Letter to President Museveni”, which is now also available to download as…

  • Help with Kindness

    The way in which individual and corporate givers have politicized their giving to the Uganda COVID relief fund and their insistence to give loudly, is extremely insensitive to the feelings of those Ugandans whom COVID-19 has temporarily pushed into absolute poverty.

  • Tuberculosis is a pandemic

    Uganda’s forgotten active pandemic is tuberculosis (TB). According to TB Alliance, the World Health Organisation (WHO) acknowledges that “TB is the leading infectious cause of death in the world, killing 1.5 million each year.” World Health Organisation The New Vision published a story in which it was reported that the Ministry of Health TB Survey (2014-2015)…

  • Government Vehicles taking PLHIV to Collect ARVs is Problematic

    Government of Uganda’s provision that during the COVID-19 induced lock-down, districts will make available vehicles at designated points to drive people living with HIV (PLHIV) to health centres to pick their medication is humanitarian and compassionate, but only on the face of it. In real life, for some PLHIV this provision could be a death…

  • CPAR Uganda to Participate in Academic Research on Educated Unemployed Youth

    We, at CPAR Uganda, are delighted to announce that the academic research project in whose design we participated in, “Challenging Categories: Educated Unemployed Youth as Institutional Innovators in Rural Uganda” (Challenging Categories Project), that is led by Dr. Ben Jones of the University of East Anglia, competed successfully and has received a grant award from…