Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Wambi Michael BUDUDA, Uganda, Sep 29, 2010 (IPS) – John Mahanga sits on his hospital bed, coughing persistently. The 42-year-old has been suffering from tuberculosis (TB) for the past three years. He has been in treatment for it, but repeatedly stopped taking medication when he felt better. [...]
HEALTH-UGANDA: WHO Happy With Counterfeit Bill; Activists Not
August 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Rosebell Kagumire KAMPALA, Aug 10, 2010 (IPS) – The Uganda office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the country’s National Drug Authority are satisfied that the new version of the controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill does not threaten the importation and production of generic drugs by conflating [...]
KAMPALA BLASTS: INDIAN CASUALTIES?
July 13, 2010 By
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 666 Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN Seventy-four persons, 60 of them reportedly Ugandan nationals, were killed and 70 others injured on July 11,2010, in two explosions suspected to have been carried out by Al-Shabaab, the Somali wing of Al Qaeda, at a local rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant at [...]
UGANDA: HIV-positive Teens Infecting Other Teens
July 1, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA, Jul 1 (IPS) – HIV-positive Phiona* (19) had unprotected sex with her best friend and she prays that she did not infect him with the virus. She knew she should not have let it happen but Phiona was too scared to tell him her status, [...]
Q&A: ”Concern About Anti-Counterfeit Campaign Is Alarmist”
May 10, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wambi Michael interviews JUMA MWAPACHU, secretary general of the East African Community (Part 2) KAMPALA, May 10 (IPS) – Civil society criticism that the anti-counterfeit policy drive in East Africa could result in the blocking of legitimate and affordable generic medicines is merely aimed at raising fear among the [...]
Q&A: Anti-Counterfeit Policy Will Provide ”Proper” Generics
May 7, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wambi Michael interviews Juma Mwapachu, secretary general of the East African Community* KAMPALA, May 7 (IPS) – The anti-counterfeit draft policy and law that the East African Community (EAC) is currently considering will ensure access to ”proper” generic medicines and not fakes, EAC secretary general Juma Mwapachu says in [...]
UGANDA: New Version of Anti-Counterfeiting Bill Still Problematic
May 6, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Wambi Michael KAMPALA, May 6 (IPS) – The Ugandan government’s controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Bill has been amended after civil society organisations campaigned against provisions in the bill that may restrict access to generic medicines, which form the bulk of medicines used in the East African country. Organisations such as Health [...]
UGANDA: Fresh Concerns About Women in Captivity
April 20, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Evelyn Matsamura Kiapi Kampala, Apr 20 (IPS) – The fate of thousands of women and girls held as sex slaves and child soldiers by Uganda’s Lords Resistance Army rebels hangs in the balance. Since the insurgency began in 1986, the LRA has abducted thousands of women and girls. Some [...]
HEALTH-UGANDA: EU Supports Law Threatening Access to Medicines
March 15, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Wambi Michael KAMPALA, Mar 15 , 2010 (IPS) – The European Union (EU) is funding the drafting of Uganda’s controversial Counterfeit Goods Bill, a proposed law that has caused an outcry as it threatens access to life-saving generic medicines in this low income East African country. Some 90 [...]
ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides and floods – Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come
March 9, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA, Mar 9 (IPS) – Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in Bududa district in eastern Uganda. When he heard the [...]
