By Flavia Nassaka Private health providers want the Ministry of Health to purchase COVID-19 vaccines from manufacturers on their behalf, Grace Ssali Kiwanuka, the Executive Director Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) said in an interview noting that they have also asked the ministry to allow them store the vaccines at the National Medical Stores (NMS) once…
Government has allowed medical and health training institutions to resume normal studies. Other institutions of higher learning remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes a week after the government instructed the Ministries of Education and Health and the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) officials to meet and discuss the safe reopening…
“Uganda has AIDS. We call it siliimu. And siliimu is within us and among us. And It is only Philley Bongoley Lutaya that has accepted to show us that it is here. And it is up to us know how to handle it,” said Victoria Kakoko Sebagereka, who was the Chairperson of the National Council…
Gulu has registered up to 4,477 cases of teenage pregnancies within a period of eighteen months. Statistics from Gulu City and district probation departments indicate that the cases were registered between January 2020 and June 2021. The victims are from the twelve sub-counties constituting Gulu district and the two divisions of Gulu City.…
The Ministry of Health has drafted amendments to the regulations on the marketing and sale of infants and child foods. Currently, the country uses the 1997 regulations on the marketing of infants and young child foods adopted from the 1981 International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes policy of the World Health Organizations. The regulations…
The Ministry of Health is still undecided on which persons will be immunized against COVID-19 using China’s Sinovac vaccine but has immediately started administering the Norwegian donated Astrazeneca vaccines. Since the COVID-19 vaccination excercise started, Uganda has only been using the Astrazeneca vaccines out of the eight that have been approved by the World Health…
By Flavia Nassaka 79% of the respondents in a new survey whose results were released over the weekend feel pregnancies have increased in their communities ever since the COVID-19 pandemic began. This isn’t an entirely new finding since some were already reported not to have returned when government briefly re-opened schools in a staggered manner…
The malaria-causing mosquitos have found a new safe haven in an invasive plant previously known to be habitat in South and North America. Researchers from Kenya-based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) say they have generated new evidence of the immense threat posed by a highly destructive invasive plant, known scientifically as Parthenium hysterophorus.…
The Parliament Covid-19 Taskforce committee has discovered discrepancies in the Ministry of Health Covid-19 expenditure. The accountability report was presented to the committee by the Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng. This is highlighted in the committee report that is scheduled to be presented before parliament by Chairperson Abdu Katuntu. During the financial year 2019/2020, parliament…
By Flavia Nassaka The government’s biggest pre-occupation now is ensuring that as many people as possible get vaccinated, after the suspension of lockdown restrictions that were instituted in June. This is according to Dr Immaculate Ampaire the Deputy Manager of the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI). Dr Ampaire said that they are exploring…