Monkey Pox in Uganda
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a global health emergency on July 23, 2022. We understand that many patients…
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared monkeypox a global health emergency on July 23, 2022. We understand that many patients…
By Shiprah Kwagala Leaders for People With Disabilities-PWDS have asked the Covid-19 task forces for inclusion in mass vaccination campaigns. After…
A Uganda based non-profit has filed a constitutional petition challenging the government’s inaction on regulating work places and breastfeeding. Their…
A USD$7.4 million Vaccination Action Network (VAN) has been launched by the Rockefeller Foundation for sub Saharan Africa. VAN will be…
By Shiprah Kwagala A day after legislators rejected a government proposal for mandatory vaccination of adults, local people have expressed…
In the latest audit report released by the Auditor General John Muwanga for the financial year 2020/2021, show that UGX 511.42…
Non-motorized transport corridors – NMT in Kampala are turned into a garbage collection centres. Non-motorized transport in the form of walking,…
The Minister of Education and Sports, also the first lady Janet Kataha Museveni is to introduce a vibrant sexual purity…
More than 91 million Africans live with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus, according…
The World Health Organization-WHO on Thursday released new guidelines giving countries a green light to use long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA)…
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has opened a process for countries to apply for funding and support to roll out the…
Nobel laureates Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Joseph Stiglitz, have published an open letter with a call for the price of ground-breaking new…
The Population Council, a global nonprofit research organization and developer of sexual and reproductive health pharmaceuticals, and the International Partnership…
A row has erupted over an ambulance from the people of Izimusano City in Japan to the the people in Gulu…
Surgeons are now offering clients an option of having endoscopy and laparoscopic surgery, which are relatively new in Uganda but…
Health activists have renewed the call to expedite the implementation of sexuality education which is key to the fight against…
Positive Youths in Action (POYA) an advocacy group made up of young people in Masaka are rallying the masses through…
Health activists have raised concern over the high prices of drugs and materials used in testing and treat treatment of…
The Executive Director of the Uganda Heart Institute, Dr John Omangino has defended a UGX 264 billion Shillings loan request…
Amidst food insecurity and hunger, the Italian Ambassador to Uganda, Massimiliano Mazzanti says Ugandans should maintain their taste buds to…
Activists opposed to the Reproductive Health Bill that among other things legalises abortion want it withdrawn from regional East African Legislative…
Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) is in collaboratory network with other researchers to find a cure for HIV. An HIV…
Twenty- four orthopedic patients are benefiting from free surgeries at a week-long surgical camp at Mulago Specialized National Referral hospital. Orthopedic…
In just one month, about sixty people have reportedly died of hunger in Kotido district. A report by the Integrated…
About 20 percent of all patients who present with Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) in Uganda die. This is above the globally…
Hepatitis B is leading to an increase in the cases of liver cancer in Uganda but this can be reduced…
A new pill that could make your alcohol handover go away is now available! But it works best for moderate…
A study by the Aga Khan University shows that one in every four healthcare professionals exhibits signs of depression. Conducted…
Learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70% of 10-year-olds unable to…
In the wake of the rising adolescent teenage pregnancies, Uganda Parliament has acknowledged the need for legislation on contraceptives access…
Lillian Kihumuro has described her journey of living with HIV for the last 25-years as long, tough and hard. She…
The United States Ambassador to Uganda Natalie E. Brown has handed over a modernised operation theatre to the people of…
Researchers are recording increased cases of pre-eclampsia after childbirth among women who had no prior history of high blood pressure.…
By Kaana Bright Rukia Sengooba a nurse and the head of vaccinators at Bweyogerere health center III has been at…
The Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Dr. Monica Musenero has refuted claims that funds were released directly to the…
Refugees in Uganda based at the Nakivale refugee settlement camp in Isingiro district are grappling with a rise in malnutrition…
In November last year the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (UNAS) released a report Trust in Our Nation: Building Effective Governance…
Researchers attending the International Conference on HIV Treatment, Pathogenesis and Prevention Research in Resource – Limited Settings (INTEREST) have called…
A total of 14,530 cases of post-abortion care for teenage girls and women were registered in various health facilities between…
Two thirds of women living with HIV in Uganda have never been screened for cervical cancer, preliminary results from a…
With the increasing number of young learners leaving O’level, the Ministry of Education and Sports has cautioned against enrolling those…
An increase in measles cases in January and February 2022 is a worrying sign of a heightened risk for the…
Travellers moving in and out of Uganda, are no longer required to have a COVID-19 PCR(polymerase chain reaction) test, as…
The Government procured 3.4 Million covid-19 vaccines, this is according to records from the Ministry of Health. A total of…
With fourteen to sixteen people still succumbing to malaria every day, the Ministry of Health (MOH) signed a new $40…
Women in the Busoga region want screening for both Cervical Cancer and Breast Cancer extended to lower health facilities. They…
A study titled Mobile Health (mHealth) in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) has been published and addresses one of the key…
Uganda private healthcare providers want a mindset shift perception about them from a profit centre to a partner in providing…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has issued a license allowing two pairs of humanised mice needed in…
The government has allocated 3 billion UGX Shillings (USD $840,000) for studies into the efficacy of COVIDEX, a herbal solution…
Lalogi Health Centre IV in Omoro district is struggling to treat children with sickle cell disease and malnourishment. The facility…
A bad cough that lasts 3 weeks or longer, pain in the chest, coughing up blood or sputum (phlegm from deep…
The government has signed a contract to immediately procure a Positron Emission Tomography – PET scan for the Uganda Cancer…
The Late Speaker of Parliament Jacob Oulanyah died of cancer and multiple organ failure. This is according to a postmortem…
Harriet Kizza, 56 has been working with Kampala Capital City Authority-KCCA since 2011, desilting drainage channels in different parts of…
An astonishing 99 per cent of the world’s population breathes polluted air that exceeds internationally approved limits, with negative health…
More than two years after the world came to a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation…
Ten medical workers in Nama sub-county in Mukono district who were involved in the mass polio vaccination campaign in January…
The Ministries of Health and Education have resorted to vaccinating learners as the best way to control the spread of…
The mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign in several parts of Amuru District has suffered a setback because of the start of…
The private sector under the Malaria free Uganda council has rolled out a campaign dumped “Zero Malaria Business Leadership Initiative”…
About 700 Uganda health workers who were deployed in COVID-19 treatment units in National and Regional Referral hospitals under the…
As cases of of COVID-19 decline, most of Uganda’s hospitals have closed units that were designated to treat patients or…
Fully vaccinated travellers including truck drivers are no longer required to present negative COVID-19 PCR test results before entering Uganda,…
The Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF Engineering Brigade has taken over the construction of Nalubwoyo Health Centre III in Amolatar District.…
Atiak Health Center IV in Amuru District is grappling with understaffing and inadequate space to admit patients. The health facility…
The African Union and Uniting to Combat NTDs have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end neglected tropical diseases…
By Esther Nakkazi Initiating an integrated approach for cervical cancer and Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) for affected women and girls…
By Morounfolu Olugbosi As countries around the world—from Kenya to Canada, South Africa to Sweden—relish the prospect of an unofficial…
The European Union in Uganda and the Ministry of Health officials are worried about the rate at which Ugandans are…
Uganda is improving its medical oxygen demand and supply ecosystem with a national scale up implementation plan that articulates a…
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered innovations among scientists paving the way for Uganda‘s first attempt to manufacture a vaccine for…
You have got to give it up for women in Kyotera district. The fertility rate is over the top. At…
Princess Diana would dislike having her name on a facility in Soroti for its poor management and failure to serve…
Nobel Prize-winning economists Jayati Ghosh and Joseph Stiglitz and the pan-Africa director of Oxfam have praised South Africa’s President Ramaphosa…
More than half of the patients who visit Ugandan hospitals have to wait for more than an hour before they…
Residents of Nyamiringa village in Bulongo parish, Sembababule district are baying for the blood of George Musheijja Bakulu, the Nyamiringa LCI…
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of digital technologies to keep businesses, healthcare, education and public services running, commented Dr Amani…
Amuru District Health officials have halted a mass covid-19 vaccination exercise three days after it was started because of low…
Scientists have asked authorities to ensure municipal garbage dumped at landfills is first treated having found heavy metal concentrations in…
Uganda has to enact a law against selling blood to encourage donations. The Uganda Blood Transfusion Service (UBTS) wants enactment…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has directed the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to release Shillings 3.024 billion…
A $USD 3 million project to assess the use of digital solutions to pay health workers involved in immunization campaigns…
People with a neck circumference of 35 centimeters and beyond have a higher risk of developing heart disease, experts at…
The Assistant Commissioner in charge of Nutrition in the Ministry of Health, Samalie Namukose has asked Members of Parliament to…
News from Kyotera District say that a dental clinic at Kakuuto Health Centre IV is under lock and key because…
South African Health Products Regulatory Authority’s (SAHPRA) has approved the monthly Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for use by women ages 18…
Spanish journalist Sadurni Carrasco Sumaya ,33, working with Agence France Presse (AFP) has died in a motor accident at Chopelwo valley…
So an isolation centre was established at Kakuuto Health Centre IV to receive, treat patients, and to investigate a strange…
Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) officials have alleged failure to take action amidst the increasing cases of torture and human…
Rotary International is in search of 100 children from Uganda with heart defects to benefit from fully sponsored surgery in…
Health rights activists are worried about the low adherence to the Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment among women with disabilities in…
Many vulnerable people including children were omitted from the Uganda Road Safety Act which affects their safety on the road. The…
Nakaseke district has a solution to absenteeism of civil servants from their jobs, it has started the system of pay…
13 million people representing 60 percent of the targeted group of 22 million people above 18 years have received one…
Medical practitioners who are registered under their umbrella body the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) want the Uganda Speaker of Parliament, Jacob…
At the height of COVID-19, mental treatment units were turned into COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres. As they remain closed the…
The third wave of COVID-19 in Uganda is over and testing of travellers at Entebbe International Airport upon arrival has been…
A Swiss-French team from Inserm, in France that includes University of Geneva (UNIGE) scientists has discovered how to trigger apoptosis in leukaemia cells by…
By AIDSMAP A woman in New York City has no detectable HIV 14 months after stopping antiretroviral therapy following a…
A new study has found that fifteen percent of the women in Uganda can’t access contraceptives. In the survey which…
AHF Uganda care authorities have raised concerns over heavy taxes levied on consignments of condoms the organization imports into the…
The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah had spent three days without eating when he was evacuated from his home in…
The Uganda Medical Association (UMA), the professional organization that brings together all the qualified and duly registered medical doctors in Uganda…
Vaccine production is a long process, while you need a recipe you also need capacity building and some privileged information…
New survey findings are showing a shift in the HIV burden in Uganda from the young people to middle and…
The Ministry of Health says 90% of Health Center IVs in Uganda can not offer blood transfusion services. A health…
Nutritionists at the Department of Public Health at Lira University are developing recipes to improve the nutrition of children suffering…
David Ssenfuka, the herbalist who claims to have a cure for non-communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes has announced today…
Scientists have provided the first evidence of the close interactions between genes and the environment in the social dysfunctions typical of autistic…
About 270 health workers were trained to roll out the vaccination against Polio for six days in Arua City. The…
Uganda will need to train more field epidemiologists in order to make major strides in disease surveillance and handling outbreaks…
The Health Ministry has delayed to upload the data of the more than 6.5 million Ugandans’ COVID-19 jabs on its…
The Ministry of Health has launched an integrated computer system to curb drug shortage and wastage in health facilities countrywide.…
Arua district has registered more than 20 cases of animal bites over the last three weeks. The latest victim is…
Medical workers at the Kawolo Hospital Maternity Department are failing to cope with the high numbers of babies born at…
By Steven Enatu The lack of adherence to HIV drugs by young people due to stigma from the community may…
The US Embassy in Kampala has temporarily suspended routine visitor visa interviews following a recent spike in Covid-19 cases in…
Uganda is moving to expand its cold chain storage capacity as it introduces new vaccines in its routine childhood vaccination…
In Gulu district, northern Uganda, pupils and teachers are undergoing a one-week-long psychosocial support as schools reopen. Several schools have…
Uganda’s budget for COVID-19 vaccines was allocated to purchases only. The Ministry of Health (MOH) says there are no funds…
Leaders in Lamwo district are concerned about the increasing cases of COVID-19 registered over the past four days. The District…
The public will be required to present proof of full vaccination to access transport services effective at the end of…
Experts at Makerere University have embarked on training volunteers to quickly detect cases, amidst increasing new COVID-19 infections and fears…
Though highly preventable and treatable, cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in reproductive-aged women globally,…
Teen pregnant girls in Gulu are self prescirbing abortion inducing medication as they try to get rid of the unwanted…
Parents and educationists in Rwenzori region want the government to reconsider disseminating Sexual and Reproductive Health-SRH messages through schools as…
Kabale regional referral hospital has suspended the use of an antibiotic, IV Ceftrianxone 1g powder citing ineffectiveness in treating some…
Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) have urged their colleagues all over the country who had laid down their…
Kabarole District and Fort Portal city authorities have resolved to establish COVID-19 vaccination centers at every police checkpoint on major…
The Ministry of Health is concerned about the low response of elderly persons in the ongoing vaccination campaign against Covid-19…
The Uganda Government is crafting a plan to train key people in the community including teachers and village authorities about…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the mixing of COVID-19 vaccines attributing the latest move to the need for…
A new initiative has been unveiled to ensure that children with cancer living in low and middle-income countries have uninterrupted…
Over a year ago, the Ministry of Health (MOH) changed the policy of drug refills at health facilities from one…
Health Authorities in Karamoja have asked for more Johnson & Johnson vaccines to help them vaccinate pastoralists because they are…
In June this year, 52-year-old, Dr Emmanuel Mukunya was employed at Nakaseke Regional Hospital as a general physician. He died…
Researchers studying Uganda’s homemade COVID-19 vaccines reveal encountering huge challenges accessing mice to be able to test their candidate drugs.…
Health Rights activists have blasted Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC for downplaying the right of Ugandans to reject vaccination. It comes…
C. A Care Medical Center in Kitagwenda town council in Kitagwenda district is under the spotlight following the death of…
Nine cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant have been detected in the country. This is according to results released by…
At least 5,000 teenage girls have been conceived in the Katakwi district since October 2020. A new report released by…
The Ministry of Health will now distribute Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines to hard to reach areas, according to Health…
The prolonged closure of Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital has irked residents. The hospital closed the outpatient, dental, optical, maternal and…
Disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in considerable increases in malaria cases and deaths between 2019 and 2020, according…
The Opposition in Parliament has tasked the government to undertake necessary measures to detect and prevent the spread of the…
Today, the African Union (AU) Commission, UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria join the rest…
The International AIDS Society has highlighted key areas that researchers should focus on in their quest to find an HIV…
Two of the four COVID-19 vaccines currently developed in Uganda are reaching the animal trial phase, while one other is…
Despite being the most ill-planned exercise executed by the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI), the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination…
Doctors have warned of an increase in resistance to common antifungal drugs used for the treatment of infections like candidiasis. Drug-resistant…
Uganda registered an increase in Female Genital Mutilation cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to reports from the Ministry of…
Uganda is to get its first Human Milk Bank also commonly referred to as ‘liquid gold.’ The facility to be…
The Embassy of Sweden and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have signed an agreement of UGX 67 Billion Shillings to…
Health workers who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will be denied access to hospitals. This comes at a time…
Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) announced a strike on November 22, 2021. Now, hours after the strike began,…
At least 3,925 teenage girls in Agago district have been impregnated in the last one year, statistics from the District…
AstraZeneca vaccine seems to provide better protection compared to the other COVID-19 vaccines four months after inoculation. Prof. Walter Jaoko,…
Message from WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti On 14 November, the international community commemorates World Diabetes Day…
The Uganda Parliament has granted Tororo Woman Member of parliament, Sarah Opendi, the Woman Member of Parliament leave off parliament…
There has been a low turn up of people for the mass vaccination against COVID-19 in Lira City. On Monday,…
A generation of children might miss scheduled immunization jabs unless manufacturers find a way to make more single-use disposable syringes,…
Uganda has received an addition al 3.5 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States government…
Hundreds of people are lining up at Bulange-Mengo, where a mass COVID-19 vaccination exercise is being held, in a drive…
Persons shortlisted for jobs in Pader District will not be interviewed if they do not present proof of vaccination against…
The government has come up with a robust surveillance system to detect, control and handle COVID infections among learners and…
Parliament has passed a motion asking the government to urgently address the different challenges faced by the girl child. They…
By Richard Nelson, the USAID Mission Director in Uganda I stepped onto Ugandan soil as the new Mission Director for…
Forty children suffering from the dreaded nodding syndrome disease in Angagura Sub County Pader district have died in the last…
The police in Lira City have intensified enforcement of the covid-19 guidelines. The one week operation which started on Monday…
Slum-dwellers in Kampala have resorted to mixing tobacco with marijuana, hoping that by so doing, they are avoiding diseases associated…
A number of people who have received the first COVID-19 shots can’t tell which vaccines types they were given. Dr.…
Ninety-six percent of Mbale youths do not know how to use condoms. Speaking during a science cafe organized to train…
Lawyers and health rights activists are calling upon government to stop COVID-19 vaccine mandates because they are illegal. These are…
Agago district has registered a total of 1,972 teenage pregnancies within a period of 15 months. Agago District Probation Office…
The Uganda Prisons Service has said that it has so far vaccinated only 18 percent of its 66,832 inmates across…
The Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner Njuki Mbabali is urging all staff and operators of public transport services including those…
While women are encouraged to always check their breasts to look out for any possible swelling five to ten days…
Health workers have been asked to embrace COVID-19 vaccination to protect themselves against COVID-19 infections. The call was made by…
Mbale Hospital administrators are requesting for a separate ward for fistula patients arguing that mixing fistula patients in the general…
Metrine Chemutai has endured an obstetric fistula for eight years, a situation she recalls came at the birth of her…
Between 80,000 and 180,000 health and care workers may have died from COVID-19 between January of 2020 and May of…
Mandatory testing for all incoming passengers is expected to commence this weekend at Entebbe International Airport. This after the Inter-ministerial…
The National Medical Stores, with a mandate to procure and distribute essential medicines and medical supplies to all public facilities…
The Ministry of Health has kicked off mass administration of drugs for river blindness disease among South Sudan refugees in…
Only 620 health workers have received COVID_19 Jab in both Lira District and Lira City. The two administrative units have…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has opened four additional vaccination centres in the Kampala Metropolitan area as the government bids…
Health authorities in Soroti have taken the Coronavirus vaccination campaign to socialization areas to help reach out to several people…
A total of 229 teachers in Bududa district have shunned vaccination, seven months since vaccination of teachers was rolled out…
Uganda has received 196,800 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine which were bought by the government. This is…
Some People Living with HIV/AIDS in Bududa district are selling life-prolonging Anti-Retroviral drugs (ARVs) to cattle keepers, especially those involved in…
The Soroti District COVID-19 Taskforce has suspended all church-related activities in Asuret Sub County for a month following the increasing…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the first-ever vaccine to prevent malaria, as it moves to save the lives…
Kibaale district has run out of COVID-19 Vaccines amidst an increasing number of people turning up at health facilities for…
The Joint Medical Store (JMS), a joint venture of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB) and the Uganda Protestant Medical…
The ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise has been slowed by the distances that residents have to travel to the gazetted vaccination…
Esther Makula writes for Chimp Reports and in this interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about lack of oxygen in…
Joseph Kato, a journalist with Uganda Radio Network, URN, talks about one of the stories he covered under the Health…
On a hot afternoon, 12-year-old Esther Adongor , is playing with peers under tree shades at Kalas Girls Primary School…
Purity clinic, one of the private health facilities in Pandwong Division in Kitgum Municipality has been temporarily closed after a…
A new drug, Ganaplacide can clear malaria infection including strains that are resistant to the currently commonly used Artemisinin- based…
Members of Parliament want a public holiday declared so as to scale up vaccination of learners in order to achieve…
Uganda has received an additional 335,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The doses were donated by Ireland and received…
Green cottage clinic in Mukono municipality is under the spotlight for issuing fake COVID-19 test certificates especially to people travelling…
Kwania district has reported a high incidence of teenage pregnancy in a period of about one and half-year, hence threatening to…
Bushenyi District has registered up to 2,103 cases of teenage pregnancies within eighteen months. According to statistics from the district…
Private laboratories that had set up COVID-19 testing centres at Entebbe International Airport are seeking a refund for all the…
Results from a baseline study conducted among cancer patients receiving treatment at Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) show a link between…
Kitgum District has run out of COVID-19 vaccines. The district received 1,571 doses of the Chinese vaccine Sinovac early this…
By Dr. Sabrina Kitaka I have had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of parents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. One…
At least 26 cases of grade two leprosy disease have been reported in the Acholi Sub Region. Statistics from the…
Health workers in the Acholi Sub Region have asked parents to support pregnant teenage girls to attend all cycles of…
Churches reopened on Sunday after almost four months of closure, with a call to Christians to embrace the vaccination. On…
More than 7,000 underage girls have been impregnated in the six districts of the Kigezi region during the Covid-19 lockdown.…
The strain of busy modern lifestyles and the ever-declining public healthcare system is leading to a rise in the demand…
On September 3, 2021, Kasese district was plunged into shock when a young lady, Brenda Biira, died after a self-induced…
Uganda has received an additional 655,053 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. 501,153 doses were donated by the French government…
Teachers in Kitgum opposed to the vaccination against covid-19 are buying vaccination cards without receiving the jab. The Kitgum Resident…
Educationists in Kotido District have asked parents to give pregnant teenagers a second chance when schools reopen. They argue that…
The closure of courts and lack of public transport during Covid19 Lockdowns delayed justice for suspected law breakers. The total lockdown…
Amuru COVID-19 Task Force has resolved to divert part of the Covid-19 vaccine doses meant for teachers to vaccinate Boda-Boda…
The Kitgum District COVID 19 Taskforce has embarked on tracing migratory farming communities to test and vaccinate against covid-19. The…
Persons vaccinated using the the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine might need to get a booster dose so as to…
Mityana Hospital will have to wait longer as the Ministry of Health seeks to recruit a contractor to repair the…
Uganda has received a consignment of more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine thanks to a donation…
The Ministry of Health says the 1 ,674,270 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine it has received from the US…
Global Pharmaceutical Company Pfizer announced on Monday that their COVID-19 vaccine is safe for children aged between five and eleven.…
The Kalungu district health department is battling with unsafe abortions due to a persistent increase in teenage pregnancies. Dr Daniel…
If there are people who have everlasting memories about this Covid-19, then 29-year-old, youthful Zack Kabagambe is one of them. When…
More than 1,298 teachers in Bunyangabu District have received their first jab for COVID-19. The district received 3,079 doses of…
More than 1,298 teachers in Bunyangabu District have received their first jab for COVID-19. The district received 3,079 doses of…
The UN children’s agency is closing down its social media channels for 18 hours to send one message to the world: #ReopenSchools for in-person…
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is more effective in protecting against hospitalisation compared to Pfizer and Johnson&Johnson, according to findings of…
The Ministry of Health is planning to reduce the age at which girls get the Human Papilloma Vaccines which protects…
A total of 157 volunteers have so far enrolled in a study happening in Masaka, one of the sites that…
Several teenage mothers in Luwero district are appealing for skills training to enable them to look after themselves and their…
Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has tasked a ten-member select committee comprising ten officials from the National Planning Authority-NPA, Uganda Civil…
The Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe municipality, the first of its kind in Uganda, has started bearing fruits less than…
The Ministry of Health has begun carrying out surveillance around communities neighbouring the Democratic Republic of Congo after an outbreak…
As leadership of Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) is finalizing with the recruitment of more 10000 Local Defense Units-…
Health facilities in Buvuma district are facing a shortage of drugs. The district has one health centre IV, three health…
Kyaggwe county leaders are concerned about the increasing number of pregnancies and deliveries involving school-age going children due to the…
Amuru district is struggling to diagnose and treat patients with Tuberculosis disease (TB) due to the lack of an x-ray…
At least more than 4000 schoolgirls and women in Kyotera district are set to benefit from a reusable menstrual pads…
As the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in Uganda wanes, the Uganda Prison Services have turned the Kampala Remand…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has declared a meningitis outbreak in the North-Eastern Tshopo Province where 261 suspected cases and…
The Ministry of Health has cautioned Ugandans on mixing COVID-19 vaccines in an attempt to get fully vaccinated. The call…
A fortnight after police’s director for operations Assistant Inspector General of Police- AIGP Edward Ochom, issued warning to police commanders and…
Several medical students have petitioned their leaders to stop their supervisors from compelling them to produce proof of COVID—19 vaccination…
Hundreds of teachers convened at vaccination centres in Lira as the exercise kicked off on Monday. The vaccination exercise which…
Doctors treating cancer patients at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) have expressed concern over the high number of patients using…
Uganda has today received 647,080 Moderna vaccine doses from the US government. This is the eighth batch of doses received…
The minister in-charge of higher education, John Chrysestom Muyingo has said that they do not know or have a plan…
Parents and guardians in Acholi region are responsible for the high number of teenage pregnancies, according to a section of…
The police in Lyantonde are investigating an incident in, which unidentified thugs gang rapped a woman and strangled her to…
Less than half of the teachers in Mbale city have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Robert Wangwe, the Chairperson of Primary…
Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal hospital is still operating without key specialists three years after it was glamorously launched as…
The government has postponed mandatory testing for all incoming passengers at Entebbe International Airport. Last month, the Ministry of Health…
HIV activists have raised concern about the continued high rates of HIV infection in Africa and renewed calls for strengthening…
Gynaecologists have warned that cases of obstetric fistula among women are likely to increase as more teens become moms. The…
Health workers that are not yet vaccinated have made the choice not to get COVID-19 jabs, and the government does…
Several Ugandans seeking to return to the United Arab Emirates-UAE are struggling to meet the country’s revised travel restrictions during…
It is thirteen minutes to midday, Mariam Namakula, sits down to narrate her ordeal with security men enforcing directives intended…
By Joseph Kato The judiciary has attributed the stagnated trial of 6,912 suspects in capital offences to Covid19 pandemic that has…
Uganda has declared polio a public health emergency after registering two positive cases from the surburbs of its capital city.…
By Joseph Kato Two days after president, Yoweri Museveni, addressed the country condemning inhumane actions of individual security personnel, Uganda…
The Ministry of health is considering allocating the Sinovac vaccines donated from China to the business community. The country at…
The Ministry of Education and Sports and the Health Ministry have clashed over who should be vaccinated in the education…
The Serum Institute, the official manufacturer of the COVISHIELD brand of Astrazeneca vaccine has confirmed to the World Health Organisation (WHO)…
COVID-19 new infections will average at 179 per day this week, according to the latest projections released by the National…
It is 18 months since schools were closed nationwide in a bid to curtail the spread of Corona Virus Diseases…
By Joseph Kato Police officers have joined the recent call by health workers to be supported emotionally and financially especially…
Members of Parliament who have not been vaccinated against the corona virus will not be allowed to attend parliament sessions…
By Joseph Kato “Mum, I will return with money and demolish this shack of a house. I will make sure…
“Uganda has AIDS. We call it siliimu. And siliimu is within us and among us. And It is only Philley…
Gulu has registered up to 4,477 cases of teenage pregnancies within a period of eighteen months. Statistics from Gulu City…
The Ministry of Health has drafted amendments to the regulations on the marketing and sale of infants and child foods. Currently,…
The Ministry of Health is still undecided on which persons will be immunized against COVID-19 using China’s Sinovac vaccine but…
The malaria-causing mosquitos have found a new safe haven in an invasive plant previously known to be habitat in South…
The Parliament Covid-19 Taskforce committee has discovered discrepancies in the Ministry of Health Covid-19 expenditure. The accountability report was presented…
CanStaging⁺, a user-friendly tool aimed at facilitating the recording of comparable cancer staging data worldwide, has been launched. The tool…
President Yoweri Museveni has blamed the 10th Parliament for delaying the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, even as the country struggled…
Public health experts have decried the low uptake of Hepatitis B vaccines in Sheema district which will expire in December…
The Intensive Care Unit-ICU at Lira Hospital is operating without specialized staff. A report presented to the Parliamentary COVID_19 Task…
The office of the district community development officer in Bukedea district has registered over one thousand teenage girl pregnant since…
The Ministry of Health has dismissed calls by activists for the resignation of Permanent Secretary Dr Diana Atwine. Ministry of…
By Pamela Mawanda The fake COVID-19 vaccines that were given to over 800 people were 99 percent water, according to…
The management of Holy family hospital Nyapea, a private non- profit hospital in Zombo district has called for the suspension…
1,453 health workers out of the 5,413 in the Acholi Sub Region have shunned taking the vaccination against the coronavirus…
Kabale Regional Referral Hospital and Kamukira Health Centre IV in Kabale Municipality have run out of drugs used in the…
By Flavia Nassaka Prior to the lockdown, for the 145 street children currently housed at Kaazi Scout National Camping Ground, all…
The Indoor Residual Spray-IRS conducted by the Ministry of Health to control malaria infections in Serere district has not led…
Health officials at Muko Health Centre IV in Rubanda district, western Uganda are struggling to provide adequate services for pregnant…
Regional Referral Hospitals are still dusting beds procured by the Ministry of Health for Intensive Care Unit- ICU wards. The…
COVID -19 survivors in Gulu are demanding discharge certificates to counter stigma and segregation from their communities. The survivors who…
Unionists want the Uganda government to borrow a leaf from their regional neighbours and reign in on ensuring that health…
Dr Alfred Driwale, the Program Manager for immunization says while no one likes to be scammed, the 800 people allegedly…
Mental Health Uganda has embarked on the door to door monitoring of their clients in Gulu and Omoro districts. The…
Kampala resident’s willingness to have a coronavirus vaccine is increasing, according to a new report on attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines.…
As Uganda experiences a second wave and cases surge, some regional hospitals are repurposing part of their space to accommodate…
On May 28, 2021, Irene Nakasiita, the head of communications and Public Relations at the Uganda RedCross Society tested positive for…
Medical workers at Entebbe Regional Referral Hospital are in panic after ten other medics contracted COVID-19 while on duty. The…
The Nakaseke Resident District Commissioner, Nayebare Kyamuzigita has banned the airing of death announcements on community radios because they are…
The National Planning Authority (NPA) says through its COVID-19 prediction model, Uganda ‘s current wave is likely to peak mid next…
The COVID-19 Task Forces in Acholi region have expressed concern about the unreliable ambulance services which are affecting timely care…
Half of the journalists who were covering the Uganda Parliament will be allowed to continue doing so due to COVID-19.…
The National Medical Stores (NMS), the national drug distributor has so far delivered 93,360 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines to…
Amuru district health department has resorted to the door to door delivery of the life-prolonging Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to people…
After acquiring a new batch of vaccines donated by the French government, nationwide COVID-19 vaccination is scheduled to resume next…
Kwania district health department has run out of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to support the treatment of coronavirus patient amidst…
Health Workers in the Uganda-Kenya border district of Busia want the government to give them risk allowances as COVID-19 cases…
In Uganda, COVID-19 tests done for over 3,000 people to attend the different Parliamentary events in June, had over 100…
By Esther Nakkazi It is not possible to honor all the health workers, advocates, and media personnel who have died…
By Esther Nakkazi Six-year-old Rahmah Kiiza is a special guest at World Cerebral Palsy day. She is in a…
By Esther Nakkazi The African region has seen a steady decline in new COVID-19 cases over the past two months,…
By HEJNU Fifty-four countries have signed up to a ground-breaking initiative, which aims to secure at least 220 million doses…
The Government of Canada has provided CAD$ 11 million to support the Government of Somalia, through UNFPA, on a new…
By Esther Nakkazi China has certified three traditional medicines for treatment of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The three Chinese patented medicines-Jinhua…
By Esther Nakkazi Zimbabwe’s first death from Covid-19 is a journalist. A fine broadcaster Zororo Makamba, 30, was Zimbabwe’s second…
By Vivian Agaba People living with HIV especially those not adhering to their drugs are more likely to be affected…
Anitah, not real name at 15 years old, is a teenage mother of one. The father of the baby is…
On 19th April 2017, a renowned local artiste Mathias Walukagga was aired on a national television, Bukedde, for having forced…
Government seeks to test 320,000 HIV positive people. Makerere Joint Aids Program(MJAP) has devised new models for HIV testing though…
Many at times, we are stuck with no condom as the body agitates towards the ultimate point. Thus we give…
The government’s endless efforts to uplift the living standards of poor people as a way to drive out poverty, through…
Are Ugandan Road Accident Deaths On The Rise? The Ministry of Transport and police disagree about whether increasing numbers of people…
Writing women’s reproductive health: A Uganda study By Rosanne Anholt and the Health Journalist Network in Uganda Research shows that…
Health Journalists Network in Uganda Wins Global Media Award Press Release: Congratulations HEJNU http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2014/health-journalists-award.aspx (December 2014) The Health Journalists Network…