Friday, July 30, 2010

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Ten experts fly in to operate bomb survivors

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A group of 10 medical and technical experts from Kenya arrived in Uganda to carry out complicated surgeries and other delicate operations on patients who sustained severe injuries during the July 11 bombing in Kampala.

Health Minister Dr. Steven Malinga, who received the delegation of doctors at Mulago said Uganda needed their expertise since they had prior experience of treating bomb survivors when they participated in a similar exercise after the 1998 terrorist attack on the US Embassy in Nairobi.
 

Yvo's departure casts darker shadow on climate talks

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The resignation last week of Yvo De Boer - as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - the UN organ responsible for designing the global framework for policy response to climate change, has cast more doubt on a multi-lateral approach to fighting one of man's most urgent problems.

 

Aspirin found to reduce breast cancer deaths

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Research continues to show that aspirin remains one of man’s greatest discoveries.

The latest findings about the cheap painkiller, published by the mail online revealed that women who took two to five aspirins a week or 100 mg. every day, were far less likely to die from breast cancer or for the cancer to spread.
   

The story of man's survival is not just an environment story

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All too often people try to characterize stories of climate change as strictly environmental matters. You hear that the departments for water and environment in a number of countries, including Uganda are responsible for designing and implementing national response strategies to combat climate change.r

In Uganda for example the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) which is the government's blue print for responding to climate change, was the responsibility of the ministry of Water and Environment. Despite its completion and publication two years ago, its recommendations are yet to be reflected in the actual planning and resource allocation process of the budget and other programmes of government.

   
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