The Ministry’s review also identifies a number of factors that place some newborns at greater risk. Kampala has the country’s highest preterm birth rate, at 59.5 per 1,000 live births, compared with a national rate of 26.6. Lango and Acholi also have relatively high preterm birth rates, at 41.4 and 45.2 per 1,000 live births,…
Lango has the highest rate of male partner involvement in Uganda’s services aimed at preventing HIV transmission from mothers to their babies, with men reached at a rate more than eight times higher than in Busoga, according to the Ministry of Health’s latest performance review. The Lango region reached 40% of male partners through elimination…
Critical medicines used to care for sick newborns are currently out of stock at Uganda’s National Medical Stores, according to the Ministry of Health’s Aug. 14, 2026, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health commodity report. The report lists caffeine citrate, surfactant and cefotaxime injection among newborn commodities with no stock or critically low availability…
Uganda has substantial stocks of some contraceptives in its central warehouses, yet women seeking family planning services are still encountering empty shelves at health facilities, according to a Ministry of Health report. The disparity is particularly clear for injectable contraception. While supplies of DMPA, including Sayana Press, are described as fairly stocked at the national…
Kampala has Uganda’s highest institutional maternal mortality ratio, with adolescent mothers facing a risk more than seven times higher than the national average for their age group, according to a Ministry of Health performance review. The review for the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year puts Kampala’s institutional maternal mortality ratio at 157.8 deaths…
By Fred Kayongo The Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has unveiled measures aimed at managing garbage collection across the city ahead of the second National Cleaning Day, scheduled for August 29. Hajjat Sharifah Buzeki, the KCCA Executive Director, speaking at the permit awarding function on Friday, said the changes follow lessons learned from the first…
Agago District has received 100,000 doses of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines and a digital laboratory refrigerator from the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) to strengthen livestock disease control. The vaccines will be administered to cloven-hoofed animals, including cattle, goats, sheep and pigs, as the district continues to battle outbreaks of FMD and…
The Ministry of Health in Uganda has revealed that between 10 and 20 percent of school-going children have asthma, with urban areas bearing the biggest burden of the disease. Dr. Daniel Kyabayinze, the Director of Public Health in the ministry, said that while the rates of asthma are high, especially in the urban areas, many…
Reports indicating that up to 80 per cent of contacts linked to the thousands of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been traced are inaccurate, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has revealed. Speaking to journalists during the latest media briefing, Africa CDC Director General Dr…
The government may have to budget its own funds to finance immunization programmes and avoid dependence on donor money. The new move comes as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, made sweeping changes in its financing programme. The global vaccines body is introducing fixed vaccine budget envelopes as part of its reform programme for 2026–2030. Under the…