A new study has found that fifteen percent of the women in Uganda can’t access contraceptives. In the survey which was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Health, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), and Makerere University School of Public Health, researchers say sexually active respondents were asked whether they intended to get pregnant and they…
AHF Uganda care authorities have raised concerns over heavy taxes levied on consignments of condoms the organization imports into the country. Uganda cares says they want the government to eliminate the taxes on condoms altogether because these come in for free from donors. The high taxes mean that the volumes imported by non governmental organisations like…
Road traffic injury statistics are the foundation to monitor the progress of the five pillars of the UN Road Safety Strategy – road safety management, safer vehicles, safer road users, post-crash response, and safer driving environments. This was the discussion at a webinar led by Dr Benjamin Wachira, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the…
The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah had spent three days without eating when he was evacuated from his home in Muyenga to Mulago National Referral Hospital and eventually out of the country. The alert about ill health of Oulanyah started his failure to return phone calls for three days. The Deputy Speaker, Anita Among and…
The Uganda Medical Association (UMA), the professional organization that brings together all the qualified and duly registered medical doctors in Uganda want the Government to grant them unrestricted and timely access to torture victims in detention facilities to save their lives. The Association officials were responding to recent incidents of torture involving physical bodily harm…
Vaccine production is a long process, while you need a recipe you also need capacity building and some privileged information shared by experts along the way as they look over your shoulder and point you to the right direction and later you demonstrate that it works on your own. Vaccine production is a serious matter…
New survey findings are showing a shift in the HIV burden in Uganda from the young people to middle and older age individuals. The Ministry of Health has released preliminary findings of the Uganda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (UPHIA) survey showing a decline in the prevalence of HIV in all age groups, except among older…
The Ministry of Health says 90% of Health Center IVs in Uganda can not offer blood transfusion services. A health centre IV is a mini hospital with wards for men, women, and children and should be able to admit patients and conduct surgeries such as the caesarian section births in addition to treating conditions such as…
Nutritionists at the Department of Public Health at Lira University are developing recipes to improve the nutrition of children suffering from nodding syndrome in Acholi and Lango sub-regions. The recipes will be from locally available foods that are cheap and accessible to the communities which will contain nutrients that the children lack. It will be…
David Ssenfuka, the herbalist who claims to have a cure for non-communicable diseases like cancer and diabetes has announced today that he will not treat patients anymore. He has cited frustration and sabotage from the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI). Ssenfuka’s announcement follows calls by the government to standardise herbal medicines in the country by taking…