The US Ambassador to Uganda Deborah R. Malac is set to visit northern Uganda next week, according to a statement released by the US embassy on Thursday.
Ambassador Malac together with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Uganda Director, Leslie Reed and staff of the Centre for Disease Control are expected to visit Gulu on Tuesday and Wednesday next week to tour US government funded projects.
The Ambassador is to visit Gulu Referral Hospital and St Mary’s Hospital Lacor. At Gulu hospital the Ambassador, according to the statement from the US embassy, will handover the renovated Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) – TB Clinic built with support from the US government.
Uganda is one of the 22 countries with 80 percent of the world’s TB burden. About 1 in every 100 newly diagnosed TB patients is estimated to have MDR – a more resistant form of TB.
Gulu Referral Hospital in Gulu district is a regional referral hospital which serves northern Uganda.
St Mary’s hospital Lacor, another health facility that the ambassador is expected to visit was founded by Comboni missionaries and is managed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gulu. Lacor also serves as a referral health facility for northern Uganda and even South Sudan. It serves over 250,000 patients annually.
Lacor Hospital has been receiving funding from the US government under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) since 2004 to date through the Centre for Disease Control (CDC), a role which is now transitioning from CDC to USAID.
The two day visit to northern Uganda by Ambassador Malac is her first since she was named Ambassador to Uganda by president Barrack Obama.
Malac presented her credentials to President Museveni in February this year and has since been vocal on governance and health issues in Uganda.
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Kot dong ocwee me larot rot lyek. Obedo caru lok. Ludwar ma gi yenyo ringo me acama. Giwango muru I kare me poto kot. Ci ka kot ocwee, gin bino ka roto kor lee ma owoto I wii liil. Lee nongo yiigi yom ni meno lyek manyen buru buru ki lum mayom, kun pe gi ngeyo ni kitye katemu gi me aneka. There is no free gifts from the western world. There is always hidden agenda which comes with propaganda. And on the other hand, they always try to do good to a community after the damaged they had done to cover up or divert people minds away from their evil did. Why MDR TB now, what drugs are these CDC group trying to use the ambassador to bring to Acholi people? Why can’t they solve the problems of the nodding disease first? Oh because they are now sponsoring Gulu hospital and Lacor they will have the right to test any of their new drugs on Acholi people in the name of MDR TB. Wugwoke and say YES to the buildings but NO NO NO to new drugs and vaccines. Lewic miyo wa camo awala ye jami weng lataaya labongo tam ni obimiyo wa peku madwong. Lacoc bedo I UK ento paru pi dano magang ma peku oumu wangi woko.
True Ebba, there is a report by Kissinger and another called global 2000 where it is said that there are too many human beings (they prefer 500 million humans). That the under-developed country constrains the developed worlds access to resources. Mind you the white race killed the native Americans with white disease like Cholera etc to which te native Indians had no resistance. Why vaccinate Africans against white man diseases? Read up on black / melanin and disease. No forced vaccine – that is genocide. Acholi mak kweri, grow bell, kabir, nyim etc and live health.