Fellow Ugandans, especially the Bazzukulu, I congratulate the Ugandans on this day, the 39th Anniversary of the victory of the NRM in 1986. I salute all those who contributed to that victory and all those that have contributed to the social-economic development and peace-building in Uganda, eversince. Uganda is now stable, peaceful and developing at a good rate that is going to accelerate, given the policies we are putting in place. Happy Liberation Day.
15th May, our colleague Dr. Saadick Ssentongo presenting on Successful integration of recency testing in HTS program at INTEREST 24. The key take home message: “there is need to scale up integration HIV care with other services like Family Planning” at all levels. #INTEREST2024
Countrymen, countrywomen and, especially, the Bazzukulu.
Greetings.
I was in Arusha yesterday for the EAC summit, where Somalia was admitted as the eighth country. The EAC now has a combined population of more than 300 million People and a land area of 2,104,210.82 Sq. miles. This is about 56% of the size of the territory of the USA.
Remember that the minimum target of economic integration is to deal with the prosperity of our People.
The question that the Post-independence leaders of Africa had to answer was: “Where does prosperity come from?” “Does it come from begging from other countries or even from the Governments of our respective countries?” The answer is: “No. Sustainable prosperity can only come from every adult to be engaged in producing a good or a service that he or she can sell, get income and address his or her prosperity issues!”
Government spending can deal with some aspects of social issues such as health, education, etc., but not all the issues of prosperity beyond putting in place an enabling atmosphere for wealth creation (peace, infrastructure, policy stimuli, etc.).
If all the adults engage in producing goods or services, then who buys those goods or services? Are the internal markets of our respective countries enough to support the sustainable prosperity of our People? The answer is that the internal markets are not enough because if internal markets of countries were enough, why would countries like China or India, each with 1.5bn People, still struggle to sell their products in other markets? Africans not addressing this issue is the highest form of okulambaala (nino, kwebaka, kugwejegyera, sleeping).
It is, therefore, a source of satisfaction that the NRM, right from 1986, started, in concert with our brothers of Kenya and Tanzania, initially, working on the restoration of the EAC which had collapsed in 1977 on account of the tensions caused by the coming to power of Idi Amin in Uganda in 1971.
It is, therefore, a great source of satisfaction to see how it has grown. I salute Mwalimu who was still alive but out of Government who supported us through the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation.
I salute the Wazee Hassan Mwinyi, Arap Moi, Ben Mkapa, Mwai Kibaki, that helped in the resurrection of the nucleus of the EAC. Thereafter, the leaders of Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and DRC brought their countries into the EAC. I salute them.
Now Somalia has come in. Salutations to the Somali leaders and People. In 1968, both Somalia and Zambia, had applied to join the EAC. It was Amin’s coup in Uganda that interfered with those developments.
"We end up with a revolving door scenario where people are dropping in and out of care because of the #HIV [service delivery] transitions they are having to take. We need to keep the doors open to make it easy for them to come back." - @TASOUganda's Baker Bakashaba 🇺🇬 #IAS2023
@AnitahAmong Kindly follow through and have all interns deployed and paid.. An angry and hungry intern is a danger to the common Ugandan....Please handle common issues affecting common people. That is only immortal legacy u will live behind when u are gone ..
So MOH is politely saying the children of the poor, who cannot afford to pay bills for one year will never do internship, or u are confirming to Ugandans, that as long as you are a child of a common man attending medical school is as good as nothing! Where are we heading?
#Goal of the Strategy: To ensure accelerated programs towards #UniversalHealthCoverage through provision of quality, evidence based & integrated #community#health services, strengthening community participation, referral & linkages.
#INTEREST2023 Day 2: Dr. Saadick Ssentongo @DSaadick presents data from @TASOUganda on Improving TB Case Identification thru Intensive Door to Door TB Screening. They trained lay community workers to do this work.
9/5 - 12/5/2023 Is about #Maputo for the Annual @INTERESTconf. TASO's Dr. @DSaadick will be part of the opening debate & present a paper on improving #tuberculosis Case Identification in #TesoRegion. Full program ➡️https://t.co/5zhAKd1nqP | Conference ➡️https://t.co/ecgi0TL2R3
1/6: @TASOUganda is celebrating 35 years of service in Uganda 🇺🇬!
This NGO serves people living with and affected by #HIV, operates 11 Centres of excellence and provides Young Person and Adolescent Peer Support (YAPS). #TASOat35#YAPS
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Lawlessness breeds more lawlessness. We must all realise that until we subdue the gun and install the rule by law, everyone will remain potentially a victim of violence and brutality. Sympathies to the officer who was shot on duty. We are not fighting you. WE ARE FIGHTING FOR YOU
I joined fellow Ugandans to celebrate the International Day of Persons With Disabilities at State House Entebbe. Many factors that cause disability are lately preventable hence we need to focus on preventing the preventable, this is one of the groups I do not want to increase.