UGANDA: U.S. Government Begins Phase Two of Indoor Residual Spraying in Eight Districts

U.S. MISSION UGANDA PRESS RELEASE | May 27, 2020 | PR 04/20
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U.S. Government Begins Phase Two of Indoor Residual Spraying in Eight Districts

On May 25, the U.S. government’s President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) began the second phase of indoor residual spraying (IRS) in eight high-burden malaria districts in Lango and Teso sub-regions through its VectorLink Project. PMI is led by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented together with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the Ugandan Ministry of Health. Phase two of spraying is expected to last 24 days and will include the following districts: Otuke, Alebtong, Lira, Dokolo, Kaberamaido, Kalaki, Amolatar, and Serere. This second phase of spraying follows a March spraying completed by the VectorLink Project in Butebo, Pallisa, Kibuku, Budaka, Butaleja, Namutumba, Bugiri, and Tororo.

Indoor Residual Spraying has contributed to a significant decrease in malaria prevalence in children under the age of five, lower malaria prevalence during pregnancy and at delivery, improved birth outcomes, and a reduced risk of low birth weight, pre-term birth, and fetal/neonatal deaths. With U.S. government support through PMI, more than four million people in Uganda are protected from malaria every year through indoor residual spraying – 862,536 are children under five years old and more than 119,000 are pregnant women (Vectorlink Project Uganda 2019 End of Spray Report). The project will take all appropriate infection prevention and control (IPC) measures to protect both the spray operators and the beneficiaries.

Since 2006, the U.S. government has worked to prevent and control malaria in Uganda through PMI, helping to reduce child mortality by 53 percent and lowering malaria prevalence among children under five from 42 percent in 2009 to nine percent in 2019 according to the 2019 Uganda Malaria Indicator Survey. In spite of this significant progress, malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Uganda, accounting for 30 to 50 percent of outpatient visits and 15 to 20 percent of hospital admissions, according to Ministry of Health reports. Ongoing efforts are needed at all levels – individual, household, community, and national – to prevent transmission and ensure rapid diagnosis and treatment in order to control the disease.

We encourage everyone in Uganda to utilize the protective measures available, such as insecticide treated bed-nets and intermittent prevention of malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) to prevent the spread of malaria. We all need to work together to embrace preventive measures including IRS in order to reduce the burden of malaria on Uganda’s health systems during a time when it is overburdened with maintaining routine health services during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

We encourage those with questions and concerns about IRS to follow our Facebook and Twitter accounts during this next phase of spraying, while we work to provide accurate research-based information about IRS and dispel rumors and misinformation that often spread in response to IRS activities. For more information about IRS and the upcoming spraying, please see our May 21 Facebook Live discussion and Q&A here.

For additional information, please contact:
Dorothy Nanyonga
Information
Assistant
U.S. Mission Uganda
Email: NanyongaDX@state.gov

Tel: + (0) 414-250-314 x 6410 Cell: + (0) 772-138-194

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UGANDA: Pampers kids of Museveni's Baijukuru have nothing on us Nappy kids

Here is another story from one of #ThemGoodOldDays just to teach you to respect your elders.

Back in them Good Old Days, we had no Pampers. Our parents used cloth napkins whenever they took out us into public. Otherwise, at home, you went butt naked. Our parents had to wash  the nappies daily to prepare for the next day they would carry you to the hospital if you got malaria.

Our generation also did not have Cerilac (child formula) and so we used to drink from the boobies of our mothers until we were old enough to drink cow milk (goat, sheep, camel, horse, no difference).

In those Good Old Days, we had no Toilet Paper. We used to wipe our butts with old newspaper pages that one was even lucky to get given how few people bought news papers in Uganda. We had another option though. We used to go into the pit latrines or in the bush and use a leaf to wipe our butts clean after doing our business.

The telephone (if your family had one) was only for grown ups.

Kids used to fetch water and firewood after digging twice a day in the family land to grow food. We used to do our homework by the Tadoba. We used to roast maize by the fireplace after washing ourselves in cold water and then going to the fireplace to listen to our elders telling us stories of Mwambu and Nambi (something like Masaba and Kintu).

We used to ride in the back of a pick up truck with no seat belts or enforcement of safety. We also used to sing while riding in the back of that truck. Songs like "Born in Africa" by Philly Bongole Lutaaya.

We were a very proud bunch of future leaders and very focused on our homeland. Africa.

What happened after that, I have no idea. We now have many Pampers kids all over the internet who do not know their history.

Can you imagine many of us used to walk to school with no shoes. Barefooted running to school to study and no lunch money or snack. We would run to school for the joy of learning.

HOW IS YOUR PAMPER spoilt Baijukuru group doing? I am certain that my generation is doing better. Likely because we were taught hard work from babyhood and we did not get bottle fed.

MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA
Moncton, Canada
Bududa, Uganda

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UGANDA: Reading during Corona lockdown

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Here is the story. The only one for tonight TGIF (Thank God It is Friday). Denis is a sensational writer. He brought us the X-Files From The Village.

I like to take some of his silly posts in our group #UgandaNewsBriefing outside WhatsApp. He has a cunning style of writing that just jolts you our of your comfort zone.

[05-29, 1:37 p.m.] Wabuyi: I am reading a revolutionary Book but reached a romantic part

[05-29, 1:37 p.m.] Wabuyi: Something which pulls your imagination to the scene, grasps your mind and takes you there to join the author in the narration, rather in watching the two love birds with differing perspectives in regard to the redemption of their people.

[05-29, 1:38 p.m.] Wabuyi: And then this👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[05-29, 1:38 p.m.] Wabuyi: “There are two kinds of saviors: those who want to soothe the souls of the suffering and those who want to heal the sores on the flesh of the suffering. Sometimes I wonder which is right."
[05-29, 1:39 p.m.] Wabuyi: But this was the romantic part of it👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[05-29, 1:39 p.m.] Wabuyi: But they felt enveloped in peace beyond understanding, peace
emanating from the forest even though the crickets were calling and
hyenas were howling from afar, and when Kamltl and Nyawlra looked at
each other, their eye beams pulled them together, Kamltl’s fingers
straying to Nyawlra’s nipples, the color of blackberries.
They slid into wordless wonder, and even on waking up in the
morning they were still firmly locked in each other’s arms as if they
would never ever part.

[05-29, 1:39 p.m.] Wabuyi: And then they realise that they have to part 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

[05-29, 1:40 p.m.] Wabuyi: “Maybe we are different. You are drawn to the ministry of wounded
souls, I to the ministry of wounded bodies."

[05-29, 1:40 p.m.] Wabuyi: Wizard of the Crow

[05-29, 2:02 p.m.] Martha Leah Nangalama: Someone needs to buy Denis books about African History and Politics. What is this rubbish he is reading about love? We are in a pandemic lockdown for heaven's sake!!

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Ugandan farmer kidnapped from garden, taken to Rwanda

MARTHA LEAH NANGALAMA - Now this story sounds like Kunta Kinte. I think it is in the book series or films called ROOTS. Kunta Kinte was in the palm plantation of his family minding his own business, digging, weeding and harvesting and POOF! Someone grabbed him, chained him up and sold him into slavery.  Here comes Uganda and Rwanda. These jokes are getting too stale. At least just go to war and we will be okay with it. After all, both of you put our 2 countries through decades of war and you think that you grab one lone farmer and we will be scared running to hide under our beds like little boys? Mtcheeeewww!!

Uganda-Rwanda border

May 28, 2020

Written by URN for THE OBSERVER

A Ugandan farmer, Obed Nicholas Tugumisirize alias Kacucu has been kidnapped from his garden in Kitojo village, Katuna town council at the Uganda-Rwanda border.

Kacucu has been missing since Monday, and his kidnappers allegedly disappeared with him to the other side of Rwanda. His family members have already reported a case of a missing person at Katuna police station. They say that he was kidnapped while in the garden together with his wife and children.

Katuna town council chairman Nelson Nshangabasheija suspects that the suspected kidnappers could be Rwandan security officers. Kigezi Region Police spokesperson Elly Maate says that the police have initiated inquiries to establish the victim’s whereabouts.

This is not the first incident involving Ugandan farmers and Rwandan authorities. In April 2019, three farmers; Susan Rwanjungu and Junensia Bazongoza, all residents of Mushenyi village and Jovia Ruvungafu, a resident of Nyinarushengye village in Katuna town council were arrested by heavily armed Rwandan soldiers while digging in their gardens and taken into Rwanda.

The Uganda-Rwanda border has been closed since February 2019 following a diplomatic row between the two countries. The spat started after Rwandan officials including President Paul Kagame accused Uganda authorities of abducting its nationals and locking them up in un-gazetted areas as well as hosting, sponsoring and facilitating dissidents.

Talks to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries stalled following the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. This week, 38 Rwandan nationals who crossed into Uganda via Kalangal for fishing activities were forcefully quarantined at Buvuma college school as they wait for their coronavirus test results.

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