Moses Muwulya

World Cancer Declaration: Assessing Uganda’s compliance to the set ambitious targets for 2020   By Moses Muwulya   In September 2008 ,  a summit of more than 60 high-level policymakers, leaders and health experts adopted a global plan aimed at tackling the growing cancer crisis in developing countries. The plan was contained in the World Cancer Declaration in which nine ambitious targets were set for countries to fulfill. Listed from the first to the last, the targets included: Strengthening health systems for effective cancer control, measuring cancer burden and impact of cancer plans in all countries, reducing exposure to cancer risk factors, universal coverage of HPV and HBV vaccination, reducing stigma and dispelling myths about cancer. Other targets were:  universal access to screening and early detection for cancer, improving access to services across the cancer care continuum, universal availability of pain control and distress management a...

  Speaking "ill" about the dead: Is it the new normal we need to embrace internet photo By Moses Muwulya About five years ago, several prominent people in Uganda have died. We have witnessed people coming up,especiallyu on social media to talk ill about them. "How they thought they treated them as if they will never leave the world"; and so forth. A prominent radio personality, whose name I am afraid to mention, was a victim of this new normal: '"Talking ill about the dead", which in the past was never seen. People, in their eulogies could only talk about the good deeds of the deceased. Should they have nothing to credit them for, which is literally impossible, one would at least forge them. However, slowly but surely, this norm seems to be phasing away. The utterances made by Pastor Jackson Ssenyonga about Pastor Yiga,who went to be with his creator, yesterday continue to pave way for exit of this norm. Before I approach pastor Senyonga divinely, I ...

The scene is in Katerero,Byakabanda Sub county,Rakai District. I nearly lost my life after getting an accident at this point. Will thus say Ebenezer.

Cervical cancer and HIV—two diseases, one response: Cervical cancer—an illness that can be prevented by vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) and that is curable if detected and treated early—is developed by more than 500 000 women each year, half of whom die of the disease. If cervical cancer prevention, screening and treatment efforts are not urgently scaled up, it is projected that this number could double by 2035.

How my daughter’s battle with cancer grounded my faith in God,making me accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior  My Wife,Rhodah carrying our daughter before she had lost her vision.   BY MOSES MUWULYA   It is always joy when parents expect and finally get a baby. While this was the case, after God blessing us with a bouncing baby girl, on 10 March 2013, our joy barely lasted two hours. It was replaced with worry, tension and anxiety after the baby refused to breast feed from day one.   Her kind of deformed gum was too big to allow the nipple penetrate into her mouth to allow her suckle. We came to realize that she din’t even cry upon her delivery, as the norm is said to be. On her hands and legs, her skin looked like that of an aged person.  The midwife who had seen my wife through labor, despite her seniority, she could hardly avail answers Her weak neck could turn to any direction. But I was acoustic that this was common among infants, but even...