Half of the journalists who were covering the Uganda Parliament will be allowed to continue doing so due to COVID-19. About 30 journalists down from 60 were parliamentary reporters. As a measure of observing the Parliament standard operating procedures -SOPs to guard against COVID-19, Parliament had last month reduced the total number of journalists covering…
The National Medical Stores (NMS), the national drug distributor has so far delivered 93,360 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines to 94 districts across the country since the arrival of 175,200 doses of AstraZenca received last week as a donation from the French government. Sheila Nduhukire, the NMS Spokesperson says the agency dispatched 117,520 vaccine doses to…
Amuru district health department has resorted to the door to door delivery of the life-prolonging Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to people living with HIV following the suspension of public transport. The door to door campaign will benefit 3,194 people living with HIV in hard to reach areas and cannot easily access health facilities to get the…
After acquiring a new batch of vaccines donated by the French government, nationwide COVID-19 vaccination is scheduled to resume next week on June 28th, according to the Ministry of Health. Uganda received a total of 175,200 vaccines will be used. The vaccines were a donation from France through the COVAX facility. The new doses bring to…
Kwania district health department has run out of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to support the treatment of coronavirus patient amidst an escalation in the number of cases in the district. The district registered 59 cases in the past three weeks including eight health workers who were all referred to Lira Regional Referral hospital for treatment…
Health Workers in the Uganda-Kenya border district of Busia want the government to give them risk allowances as COVID-19 cases surge in the area. By last week, Busia district has registered 340 COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths out of 6,302 samples tested. Out of the targeted 160,000 registered health workers in the country only…
In Uganda, COVID-19 tests done for over 3,000 people to attend the different Parliamentary events in June, had over 100 turn positive. For every essential event conducted by the government new measures have been instituted for all attending to test at least 72 hours before the function takes place. “We are conducting COVID sterile government…
By Vivian Agaba Journalists in Busoga sub- region have been urged to embrace the health reporting beat in order to improve the health literacy and awareness among their communities. The call was made by Daniel Saire, Iganga District Communications Officer while addressing journalists from the region during two-day media workshop organized by Peer to Peer Uganda…
As part of JHR’s ‘ Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project, JHR’s media partner Health Journalists Network Uganda (HEJNU), led by Esther Nakkazi and supported by JHR Regional Coordinator Siyabulela Mandela, invited three speakers, Dr. Monica Musenero, Presidential advisor on Covid19, Robert Sempala, the Executive Director of Uganda Human Rights For Journalists and Paul Wasswa, Programs…
By Vivian Agaba More journalists in Africa are taking on the science beat and the quality of reporting it is picking up, according to media experts. Although there is no specific data on the number of science journalists in Africa, different reports indicate that more journalists on the continent are embracing science journalism reporting. Thus, science…