Uganda indecisive on China vaccines donation deployment

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…

Malaria cases likely to spike due to invasive weed entry in East Africa

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.…

Missing COVID-19 funds discovered by Parliament

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…

New software to capture worldwide cancer data launched

CanStaging⁺, a user-friendly tool aimed at facilitating the recording of comparable cancer staging data worldwide, has been launched. The tool has been developed by researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR), the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). CanStaging+ will facilitate the recording…

Museveni blames parliament for delay in COVID-19 vaccines procurement

President Yoweri Museveni has blamed the 10th Parliament for delaying the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines, even as the country struggled to beat the pandemic during the first wave.  The Government Chief Whip Thomas Tayebwa today told the Chairpersons and Vice Chairpersons of the different Parliamentary committees that the President was unhappy about the delays in…

Activists up against raids on sex workers during COVID-19 lock downs

By Flavia Nassaka HIV advocates have condemned the continued harassment of sex workers by especially police officers who defraud them of their heard earned cash in the disguise of implementing COVID-19 Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Macklean Kyomya, Executive Director at Alliance of Women Advocating for Change (AWAC), an organization that advocates for…

Fund launched for health workers in distress of COVID-19 illness

The Western Region Parliamentary Task Force on COVID-19 has launched a Support Financial campaign titled “Rodney Fund” to facilitate purchase of drugs for Health workers who contract COVID-19 while on duty in Kabale District. The Rodney Fund is  named after  “Rodney Tabaruka,” the senior pharmacist in charge of the drug store at Kabale Regional Referral Hospital -KRRH.…