The proposed national budget for the financial year 2023/24 in Uganda has raised concerns among health and political activists, as well as legislators, due to reduced allocations for the health and social development sectors. While the budget amount has increased to Shillings 52 trillion, a rise of four trillion Shillings from the previous year, the…
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda, who had recently announced his COVID-19 diagnosis, is attending today’s budget reading ceremony virtually. The president declared on social media that he had tested positive for the virus on June 7, 2023, but stated that he did not feel sick and only experienced slight feverishness in the initial days. …
The VLA1553 vaccine candidate for chikungunya disease was generally well tolerated and produced an immune response in 99% or (263/266) of participants, according to a phase 3 randomised controlled trial published in The Lancet. Because the study, VLA1553-301, was not conducted in regions where chikungunya is endemic, researchers were unable to investigate whether the vaccine…
Nigeria’s health system is getting a major boost from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology through a new international health partnership. Vantage Health Technologies, an international health technology provider – part of the BroadReach Group – is teaming up with Nigeria’s Network for Health Equity and Development (NHED), a public health and development non-profit organisation. NHED harnesses…
Patients battling Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Uganda will soon benefit from a significant reduction in their treatment duration. Doctors anticipate that this change will help decrease the number of unnecessary deaths caused by TB and reduce the high cost of treatment per person. MDR-TB is a form of tuberculosis infection caused by bacteria that…
Gulu District Health Department has registered a slightly low turn-up of locals for the yellow fever mass vaccination exercise against its expected target. The first phase of the yellow fever vaccination exercise rolled out by the Health Ministry on June 9 ended on Tuesday in 51 selected districts across the country. Through the campaign, the…
Former Aruu County Member of Parliament Samuel Odonga-Otto has proposed that the 11th Parliament consider enacting a law to regulate the declaration of sickness, health, and death of a sitting President. This proposal comes in light of President Yoweri Museveni’s self-isolation at State House Nakasero after testing positive for COVID-19. Odonga-Otto refers to a report…
Legislators within Mukono district, joined by the Leader of Opposition in Parliament -LOP in Parliament for an oversight activity in the area were on Monday shocked by cases of stillbirth happening at Mukono General Hospital. Mukono Hospital Medical Superintendent, Geoffrey Kasirye told the legislators that every month on average, the facility registers about 20 stillbirth…
By May 6, 2021, seasonal malaria chemoprevention was made available to children younger than 5 years in Karamoja through a project implemented by the Malaria Consortium with the assistance of Village Health Teams (VHTs) moving around from door to door to deliver medicines to the children. About two years later there is optimism in the…
The Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), H.E. Dr Jean Kaseya, has called for concerted efforts to protect the African population and ensure citizens have access to high quality health products through strengthening local manufacturing. This, he said, can happen if Africa must decrease its dependence on global agreements,…