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From a lack of hospital beds and ambulances, to the widespread use of expired drugs, KCs document the impact inadequate healthcare resources have on communities.
KCS also report announcements of donor-funded projects from transnational bodies, governments and non governmental organisations, and the impact spending boosts and cuts are having on ordinary people's attempts to stay healthy.
KCs also examine the way international agreements such as Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights affect the treatment people living in resource poor settings receive.
58 MILLION SPENT ON HIV/AIDS PROGRAMMES IN 2010
From hacccambodia.org
Although the official NASA III data will not be released until June 2011, the preliminary findings reveal that $58 million was spent on HIV/AIDS programmes in Cambodia in 2010 and $58.9 million in 2009. go
Health units are run on peanuts in Uganda
One monthly salary of an MP is enough to run a health center IV serving a population of 200,000 people for a whole year. Can you imagine? No wonder our health services are appalling. more
Absent health workers ‘should be arrested’, says resident district commissioner
Health workers who absent themselves from work should be arrested, according to the resident district commissioner of Isingiro in Western Uganda, Fabian Bomera. more
Fight against counterfeit medicines
Every day, patients’ lives are being put at risk from counterfeit medicines. A two-day conference began in Nairobi, Kenya today (29 and 30 June) aimed at developing strategies to minimize their impact in East Africa. more
GlaxoSmithKline anounces 50 percent reduction on key drugs to increase medicine access
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) today announced cutting the price of key drugs to increase patient access to medicine more
Development INGO World Vision leaves Karugutu, Western Uganda
World Vision has wrapped up work in Karugutu, Western Uganda after 14 years of transformational development, reports KC Araali.
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5.5 million US dollars earmarked for maternal health in Rwenzori, West Nile
A 5.5 million dollar project focusing on maternal mortality reduction in Uganda begins this month. Dubbed Save Mothers, its pilot aims to half the number of maternal deaths in five West Nile districts within a year. more
Medical workers shun health centre due to lack of accommodation
From www.monitor.co.ug
Health workers at Katira Health Centre III have decried the poor state of houses at the health facility. They appealed to district leaders to compel the government to build better staff houses.
In an interview with Sunday Monitor, the health workers who preferred anonymity for fear of being victimised, said they are staying in poorly-built grass-thatched huts, and this is discouraging other workers from working in the area. Katira LC3 Chairperson Mr Tom Kapologo also confirmed to Sunday Monitor that health workers are shunning the facility because of dilapidated structures. go