Authorities in Napak district are struggling to contain a decrease in cases of teenage pregnancies due to the absence of a court and shelters in the area. According to statistics from the district, more than 3,395 got pregnant between 2020 and 2023. the district recorded 1,053 cases in 2020, a number that later jumped high…
Some 190 million children in 10 African countries are at the highest risk from a convergence of three water-related threats – inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH); related diseases and climate hazards, according to a new analysis done by UNICEF. The global analysis which reviewed household access to WASH services, the burden of WASH-attributable deaths…
A new study conducted in Uganda and seven other African countries has revealed that young women who have sexual partners aged 25 to 34 years are three times as likely to acquire HIV.Those with partners aged 35 to 44 have more than a ninefold increase in risk, compared to young women whose partners were in…
A section of Scientists have explained to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee- Central Government that developing a vaccine against COVID-19 will take a longer time, given the different processes involved. The scientists appeared before the committee alongside officials from the former Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in regard to a recent forensic investigation carried out…
Journalists from six African countries received various prizes at the 2022 Emerging Health Technologies (EHTs) Media Award of Excellence at a virtual ceremony held on 9 March 2023. One of them Hajara Namale Shahista, a member of the Health Journalists Network in Uganda was one of the winners of the AFIDEP award worth $2,500. The…
The government of Norway has partnered with the kingdom of Busoga in a 4.4 Million USD project aimed at ending teenage pregnancies in Mayuge and Kamuli districts. Records from the United Nations Population Fund-UNFPA as of 2021 rated Mayuge and Kamuli as some of the districts as having the highest teenage pregnancy cases in the…
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has started immunizing children aged nine months against yellow fever. This brings the total number of diseases being immunized under the routine immunization programme to fourteen. While this had earlier stalled having first planned to start in October 2022 during the Integrated Child Health Days campaign, the Ministry of Health…
The High Court in Kampala has confirmed Associate Professor Patrick Ogwang as the true owner of COVIDEX, the support drug used for treatment of COVID 19. High Court Judge Musa Ssekaana ruled Friday that the ownership of the COVIDEX support drug isn’t contested since Mbarara University of Technology conceded to having no formula for the…
This year marks 25 years since the Uganda government introduced Universal Primary Education or UPE, a program that has received criticism and praise in equal measures over the years. When the government introduced UPE in 1997, school enrollments increased by more than four times, and currently, according to the Ministry of Education, there are 8.6…
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has received notification of the detection of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) linked with the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2). Through ongoing surveillance, the viruses were isolated from the stool samples of seven children with acute…