As we talk now, we don’t have Ebola in the country. Even the Congolese patient we have been treating has tested negative.
@DianaAtwine - PS Ministry of Health #Uganda
This is #Uganda’s truth about #Ebola
A Congolese national continues to undergo treatment after testing positive.
She was linked to the first case of a Congolese man who’d travelled to the country for treatment, died and was confirmed to have had the virus.
His body was sent back to the DRC.
Health workers and others who interacted with the two cases were traced and are now in isolation- being monitored.
None of them has so far tested positive for Ebola.
There are no local infections.
Meaning, no Ugandan or person living in Uganda has Ebola.
That’s our truth.
The final boss of big pharma and healthcare is selling you contraceptives in your most fertile years and a dream of good life ahead if you delay child birth, then sell you very very expensive and less effective , low success fertility remedies in your late and less fertile years.
Us who talk about it have been labeled the worst doctors, misogynists even when all the data is clear and at heart we care so much about women's needs.
Back in the days, fertility clinics and IVF clinics was a topic only studied in medical school but not that needed in practice but currently it's a lucrative branch of medicine built on a false dream.
Same healthcare that gives you free contraceptives won't give you free, not even subsidized IVF or fertility treatment. Of which IVF for example, each session is very expensive and you can have multiple sessions and all of them fail.
What do I know, I'm a "misogynist" but at the end, we are the true well-wishers and try to prevent sad families sold an expensive unrealistic dream.
And Happy Mother’s Day to the girlies; the firstborn daughters, the single moms,
the friends that mother our children and aunties who mother us.
Happy Mother’s Day to those holding loss, and those still waiting.
May life be gentle with you. ❤️🌸
Suggestion: Can we contribute for a Subaru for every outgoing @UOXUganda president, starting with @KwikirizaNova? (Afterall, he's the one that did a commendable job. He's the reason why Ugandans on X gained relevance.) Why not?
Shs. 60M can be raised here if every Ugandan on X contributes Shs. 10,000.
We need 6000 people to contribute 10k. Thank you.
I was initially hesitant to participate in this campaign because I wanted to first visit the patient and build a genuine connection with him and his family.
From my experience running similar campaigns, I’m most effective when I have a personal, physical, and authentic attachment to the cause.
Unfortunately, my current circumstances haven’t allowed me to make that visit yet, and Abdu’s life cannot wait.
Abdu needs us. We’ve done this before, and I believe we can do it again.
I will be reaching out to my brothers like @bruno_KUg and @Kasuku256 to take interest in this cause and help amplify the message.
I will also personally engage everyone within my network who can make a difference, and I encourage you to do the same.
We will be organizing a fundraising event for this cause, and full details will be shared soon.
For now, please contribute whatever you can.
#SaveAbdu
Hello twitter.
For accountability purposes, we’ve decided all contributions to be made to my contacts and I’ll be sending it to Abdu’s mother every evening and I’ll be bringing evidence here on a daily.
God bless y’all as we push this.
Please if you send in your contribution, kindly include the reason or send me a dm.
#SaveAbdu
I have followed Abdul’s repeated calls for help on Twitter, both direct and indirect, and his situation has weighed heavily on me. In my own small way, I have been supporting him privately.
However, I believe this moment calls for more than individual, quiet efforts. It calls for a coordinated and collective response.
Ugandans on Twitter have consistently demonstrated the power of community, showing up in moments of need with generosity and solidarity. I believe we are capable of doing the same, and even more, in this case.
I do not think we should wait until it is too late and then gather to express condolences, when we have the opportunity now to make a meaningful, life-saving difference.
@abdussekalala is in urgent need of a liver transplant. This is a critical situation, and one that I believe we can collectively respond to with intention and compassion.
I am therefore proposing the establishment of a structured fundraising campaign to support his treatment.
At the same time, it is important to acknowledge that public fundraising requires trust and accountability. To uphold the integrity of this effort and give confidence to all those willing to contribute, I propose that the funds be managed by a credible, mutually agreed-upon third party or a small accountability team, rather than the patient himself. This approach not only ensures transparency, but also relieves Abdul of additional pressure during an already difficult time.
I respectfully call upon everyone to contribute in whatever way they can and to help amplify this effort.
A life is at stake, and together, we have the ability to make a difference.
@AAgather@KwikirizaNova@GabrielBuule@SpireJim
My Nine Year Ordeal at KIU
In 2013, I left Buhweju district with a heavy responsibility on my shoulders. I was the first person in my family to reach university level. Scoring 19 points in UACE felt like I had finally broken a cycle of poverty. When I was admitted to Kampala International University under the district bursary scheme, my family celebrated a miracle. We believed the "bursary" was a hand reaching down to pull us up. Instead, it became a weight that nearly drowned me.
The "scheme" covered tuition, but the functional fees carried a hidden, lethal sting. During orientation, no one warned us that a small delay in payment would trigger penalties so aggressive they felt predatory. By my second year, a small balance had mutated into an 800,000 UGX debt. I went from being a brilliant student dreaming of a First Class degree to a beggar, moving from office to office every semester, pleading for an exam card just to sit for papers I had worked so hard to prepare for. Despite paying every semester's functional fees after learning about late payment charges, by the time I finished in 2016, the debt was so huge that there was no way I could clear it in a single swoop.
The financial pressure did not just empty my pockets; it invaded my mind. It is hard to concentrate on Literature and English when you are calculating how many days of food you must skip to pay a "late fee" that grows while you sleep. By 2016, I had finished every course with no retakes, no missed papers but I was a ghost of the man who had entered. I left the gates broken, emaciated in spirit, and carrying a debt that had ballooned.
I spent the next six years in a self imposed exile in Eastern Uganda, teaching for a meager salary. I lived like a hermit, sending every spare coin back to KIU. I was not working for a future; I was working to buy back a past that the university was holding hostage.
In 2022, I finally cleared the last shilling. The relief, however, was short lived. After buying the graduation gown and seeing my name on the notice board, on Tuesday, I did the one thing I had waited nearly a decade to do: I invited my parents. My father is a primary five dropout from the 1960s. For years, he had looked at me with suspicion, wondering if I had truly been studying or if I had wasted the family’s hopes. I wanted that graduation day to be his vindication.
We traveled from the village, slept in Kampala, and walked onto that campus with our heads high.
Then came the horror. When the official graduation book was opened, my name was nowhere to be found. In that moment, the world stopped. I stood there in a gown I had paid for, at a ceremony I had earned, looking at a father who now had "final proof" that his son was a failure. The humiliation was so absolute that the fact I am still alive today is a miracle of God’s grace.
I spent months fighting, sending emails, and knocking on doors that remained closed until I mentioned legal pressure and opportunities abroad. Only then did a "transcript" magically appear. I chose not to attend the later ceremony when my name finally appeared on the list. The joy had been systematically bled out of the experience.
I share this because a "bursary" for the poor should not result in paying more than the rich. A university should be a fountain of knowledge, not a "school for scandal" that exploits the very students it claims to support.
Those nine years left scars that no certificate can cover. This is for every student still trapped in that cycle fighting for a degree they have already earned.
On Parenting :
Incest is increasing in homes. Siblings are sexually abusing each other and the results are not good.
This is totally unacceptable.
As parents, we must bring back the conversation about Taboos. We must also teach our children early about boundaries!!
Girls must be taught to respect their brother’s space and boys must be taught that their sister’s bodies are off-limits.
Teach them to coexist without hurting each other. The lesson of “I am my brother’s /sister’s keeper!!” Must be taught always without shame. Take simple steps towards building a safe home.
-Discourage showering together.
-Discourage moving around the house naked or in undies.
-Encourage a “knock before you enter” approach at home.
Example “Keith if your sister is in the bedroom, knock and wait to allowed to enter”
Talk about healthy and unhealthy touches. And so much more.
Educate, Empower and Equip (EEE)
Declare this upon your life now👇🏻
I declare that miracles and breakthroughs are flooding my life, I declare a flood of God’s power, strength and anointing over my life, All the things I have prayed for are being answered by the will of God, I declare that God makes all grace abound toward me so that I always have all sufficiency and an abundance for every good work, I give and I receive. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will it be put into my lap, I declare that the LORD commands His blessing on my storehouses and in all that I set my hand to do, and He blesses me in the land that He is giving me, he is on my side, devouring the enemy, he is my stronghold, my truth and my life. I declare, IJN. Amen. 🙏