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Cervical cancer is avoidable, if concern is taken.   I will thus insensitively say that ‘cervical cancers kill lazy women’. But because of inadequate affordable screening centers, I revoke my insensitive comment and instead demand for dispersed screening centers. Ladies can go for screening as well as teaching them about cervical cancer, which boast of claiming lives of mothers in Uganda. Doing so will empower them especially with knowledge about the ailment. The A-Z about cervical cancer Cervical cancer is a condition where there is uncontrolled growth of some cells in the mouth of the womb, call it cervix. This uncontrolled cells growth spreads to other organs, interfering with normal body functions. Its spread is slow, and all this time, one may not experience any pain, or irregular bleeding. Pain only presents when the disease has already spread to other parts of the body, making it hard to treat it. Cervical cancer is c

Net Photo. After braving the dusts in Bukomansimbi district, there we met a 15 year-old Namuwulya Josephine, former pupil of Bright Angel Primary School who had scored nine aggregates in her Primary Leaving Examinations. Namuwulya was one of the 200 pupils who had passed in Division one in the entire Bukomansimbi district who make 12% of the pupils who sat their examinations in 2016. Josephine whom we found doing her home cores jumped with vigor filling happiness as she was told by her former head teacher, Mr Adam Yiga, that she got a first grade.   “Am very pleased that I have passed well and am going to senior secondary,” Namuwulya said with a smile on her face after a speechless period. Mr Yiga described Namuwulya as a determined girl who was also focused while at school and therefore she deserved the grade. "If she remains focused as she has been her future is bright," Mr Yiga said and awarded Shs 20,000 to the candidate congratulating her.