Kwania district health department has run out of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to support the treatment of coronavirus patient amidst an escalation in the number of cases in the district. The district registered 59 cases in the past three weeks including eight health workers who were all referred to Lira Regional Referral hospital for treatment…
Health Workers in the Uganda-Kenya border district of Busia want the government to give them risk allowances as COVID-19 cases surge in the area. By last week, Busia district has registered 340 COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths out of 6,302 samples tested. Out of the targeted 160,000 registered health workers in the country only…
In Uganda, COVID-19 tests done for over 3,000 people to attend the different Parliamentary events in June, had over 100 turn positive. For every essential event conducted by the government new measures have been instituted for all attending to test at least 72 hours before the function takes place. “We are conducting COVID sterile government…
By Jael Namiganda HIV community-based prevention services were greatly affected when Uganda imposed the first lock down but some service providers came up with innovative ways to help with the access to drugs and to keep services going. In Uganda, a lock down was imposed by the president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni in March 2020 and the…