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Health officials in Buikwe District are alarmed by a surge in malaria cases, with children and expectant mothers hit hardest. Bernadette Nabuuma, the Deputy District Health Officer (DHO), raised the alarm during a meeting with Village Health Teams (VHTs) at Ngogwe Health Center IV. Nabuuma revealed that 20% of patients visiting health facilities tested positive…
Without treatment, the parasitic disease is an all-but-guaranteed killer, but the current therapy is no walk in the park. Could new drugs make all the difference? 26 February 2025 by Kang-Chun Cheng Tightening the straps on his leather jacket, 33-year-old Isaac Nyeris prepares to ride his motorbike to Dungdung, a small village in northwestern Kenya. Here…
Tea-picking communities are home to more than their share of unimmunised children. An outreach project is changing that. 26 February 2025 by John Agaba The weather was cold, windy and threatening to rain, but Sylvia Nyasuku had given her word to vaccinate a group of kids from a tea-picking families at Kajugangoma, a village some five…
A month-long power outage at Asuret Health Centre III in Soroti District has plunged the facility into crisis, severely affecting night operations and emergency medical services. The health center relies on solar power, but the system shuts down around 8 PM, forcing nurses and midwives to rely on torches for critical procedures, including childbirth. Midwives…
AIDS care providers in Uganda are urging the government to waive inspection fees on imported condoms to help address the ongoing shortage in the country. The National Drug Authority (NDA) oversees the verification and quality assurance of all imported condoms before they are distributed to Ugandans. While the government scrapped importation fees on medical supplies,…
Kawempe National Referral Hospital has reported a sharp decline in the number of mothers delivering at the facility, raising questions about shifting maternal care trends. Dr. Lawrence Kazibwe, the hospital’s Clinical Head, revealed that while the facility once recorded an average of 30,000 deliveries per year, the number plummeted last year to just 23,000—nearly a…