The government has postponed mandatory testing for all incoming passengers at Entebbe International Airport. Last month, the Ministry of Health directed that effective September 3, all incoming passengers regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated against covid-19 will undertake mandatory testing at Entebbe Airport. Ministry of health officials led by Minister Dr Ruth Aceng…
HIV activists have raised concern about the continued high rates of HIV infection in Africa and renewed calls for strengthening prevention strategies. This follows another HIV vaccine trial that failed to make it through clinical trials – the Imbokodo study started in 2017 by big pharma Johnson and Johnson. Ntando Yola, an HIV advocate with the…
Gynaecologists have warned that cases of obstetric fistula among women are likely to increase as more teens become moms. The medical condition comes as a result of a hole created between the birth canal and bladder and the rectum, caused by prolonged, obstructed labour. It leaves women leaking urine, faeces or both, and often leads…
Health workers that are not yet vaccinated have made the choice not to get COVID-19 jabs, and the government does not have any special arrangement for their vaccination. As of today, according to Ministry of Health data, only 47,165 out of an estimated 150,000 health workers have been fully vaccinated countrywide despite them being the…
Several Ugandans seeking to return to the United Arab Emirates-UAE are struggling to meet the country’s revised travel restrictions during the pandemic. UAE suspended inbound flights from Uganda on June 11, 2021, due to a surge in COVID-19 cases as the country was battling the second wave of the pandemic. Some media reports showed that…
By Joseph Kato The judiciary has attributed the stagnated trial of 6,912 suspects in capital offences to Covid19 pandemic that has scaled down activities of court. James Karemani the spokesperson of the judiciary also cites lack of funds as another factor that has stalled the High Court sessions for already committed suspects. Karemani’s response follow a concern raised…
Uganda has declared polio a public health emergency after registering two positive cases from the surburbs of its capital city. The strain is from neighbouring South Sudan. This comes just a year after the World Health Organization-WHO declared Uganda and the entire Africa Wild polio-free in August last year. The Ministry of Health…
By Ben Musanje Days after President Yoweri Museveni has just rebuked Uganda’s security forces for using excessive violence, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola has admitted that some elements in the force still use torture to extract information from suspects. In a televised address on Saturday, Museveni publicly slammed security forces for using torture…
By Joseph Kato Two days after president, Yoweri Museveni, addressed the country condemning inhumane actions of individual security personnel, Uganda Police Force- UPF, Uganda People’s Defence Forces- UPDF and Uganda Prisons Service- UPS have pledged to get tougher on their own officers perpetrating the crimes. Museveni, in his Saturday address expressed dissatisfaction to the conduct…
The Ministry of health is considering allocating the Sinovac vaccines donated from China to the business community. The country at the moment has a total of 300,000 doses that were donated by the People’s Republic of China and the government wants to give them to groups of people in banks, companies and organizations that might…