Daily Archives: August 16, 2023

Construction of Multi-Billion Intensive Care Unit in Arua Hospital Commence

The Ministry of Health has rolled out the construction of a modern Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Arua Regional Referral Hospital in Arua City. Funded by the World Bank under the Uganda COVID-19 Response and Emergency Preparedness Project (UCREP), the project is valued at Shillings 7.9 billion. The construction is projected to take approximately 15…

Global and regional estimates of genital human papillomavirus prevalence among men: a systematic review and meta-analysis

New study has been published today in The Lancet Global Health showing that almost one in three men over the age of 15 are infected with at least one genital human papillomavirus (HPV) type and one in five are infected with one or more of what are known as high risk, or oncogenic, HPV types.…