The Drowning Prevention Media Café was held on 4 September 2026 to launch the 3,000 Campaign, a three-month national effort to raise awareness about drowning in Uganda and mobilise support for training community responders in high-risk lakeside communities. The café highlighted the growing burden of drowning in Uganda and focused on practical measures that…
In September 2026, the Department of Pharmaceuticals and Natural Medicines (DPNM) presented a stock status update on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) commodities. Presented by Magona Sandra the diagnostic highlights significant inventory imbalances at the central level across combined National Medical Stores (NMS) and Joint Medical Store (JMS) holdings. While long-acting contraceptives…
Uganda is set to assess how well government, development partners, civil society and the private sector are working together to improve health outcomes for women, children and adolescents. The review will focus on the country’s expanded Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition platform, known as RMNCAAH+N, which brings together different actors involved in…
In August 2024, the WHO declared the mpox upsurge in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and its spread to neighbouring countries, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The emergence of a new strain and its rapid spread across eastern DRC, and later to other African countries and beyond, made reliable diagnosis essential…