Message from WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti On 14 November, the international community commemorates World Diabetes Day to raise awareness of the growing burden of this disease, and strategies to prevent and treat it. The theme this year, and until 2023, is “Access to diabetes care” because too many people still do…
By World Health Organisation Africa is expected to experience the highest increase in diabetes globally. The number of people suffering from the disease is predicted to rise to 55 million by 2045—a 134% spike compared with 2021. At 70%, the continent also has the world’s highest number of people who do not know they have…
Gladys Kigozi works with The Scribe and is based upcountry in Mukono. She covered a story on children and COVID-19. She followed up a young girl who could not even use the free government provided radio to be online for school and instead became a market vendor stepping in her mother’s shoes to sleep in…
Cote d’Ivoire has launched Ebola vaccination of high-risk populations, including health workers and first responders in Abidjan, where an Ebola outbreak was declared on 14 August. The country was able to swiftly begin the vaccination on 16 August with the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine manufactured by Merck as the vaccine doses that the World Health Organization…
CanStaging⁺, a user-friendly tool aimed at facilitating the recording of comparable cancer staging data worldwide, has been launched. The tool has been developed by researchers from Queen’s University Belfast, the Northern Ireland Cancer Registry (NICR), the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). CanStaging+ will facilitate the recording…
26 January 2021 – Important advances in HIV prevention research were announced today at the 4th HIV Research for Prevention Conference (HIVR4P // Virtual), convened by IAS – the International AIDS Society. Highlights included findings from a pair of trials evaluating whether infusions with a broadly neutralizing antibody (bNAb) can prevent HIV acquisition and positive…
By Esther Nakkazi It is not possible to honor all the health workers, advocates, and media personnel who have died of COVID-19 but telling the story of Dr. Charles Kiggundu and Patrick Luganda may serve as a tribute to them and others. Both Dr. Charles Kiggundu and Patrick Luganda were consultants in their fields, advocates…
Regulatory review and introduction plans must be accelerated New York City, November 9, 2020— AVAC enthusiastically welcomes the news that another trial of the long-acting, injectable antiretroviral cabotegravir (CAB-LA) for HIV prevention for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has demonstrated safety and efficacy, this time among cisgender women. Today’s announcement from ViiV, the US National Institute of Allergy and…
By Esther Nakkazi Six-year-old Rahmah Kiiza is a special guest at World Cerebral Palsy day. She is in a wheelchair, on the front speakers’ row, seemingly attentive, sometimes making random noises during ongoing speeches and testimonies. Rahmah is one of 900 persons with cerebral palsy registered by the Uganda National Association of Persons…
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda developed a “COVID-19 Resource Toolkit” in collaboration with Uganda’s Ministry of Health and other partners in order to expand access to key COVID-19 information and resources across Ugandan society. The toolkit includes links to videos, public service announcements in various languages, posters, and other information on COVID-19 signs and…