Health rights activists are worried about the low adherence to the Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) treatment among women with disabilities in the Acholi Sub Region. Statistics from the Gulu Women with Disabilities Union-GUWODU, a health and rights group for women living with disabilities operating in Acholi Sub Region supporting persons with disabilities indicate that dozens…
Many vulnerable people including children were omitted from the Uganda Road Safety Act which affects their safety on the road. The omissions would have been covered if Uganda was a signatory to international charters and Regulations on road safety. Researchers from the Trauma, Injuries and Disability (TRIAD) Unit of the Makerere University (MAK) School of Public…
Nakaseke district has a solution to absenteeism of civil servants from their jobs, it has started the system of pay per day of work. Like other districts, Nakaseke faces the problem of chronic absenteeism by the government workers, which has blighted service delivery. Some of the workers report at their duty stations as late as…
13 million people representing 60 percent of the targeted group of 22 million people above 18 years have received one jab while another 2.4 million (32 percent) have got two doses. Records from the health ministry show that as of last week 15. 6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the ongoing…
Medical practitioners who are registered under their umbrella body the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) want the Uganda Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah to champion improvement of Uganda’s healthcare system once he returns from Seattle, USA after treatment. Oulanyah is currently undergoing cancer treatment in a hospital in Seattle City, where he was rushed on February 3,…
At the height of COVID-19, mental treatment units were turned into COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres. As they remain closed the National Mental Referral Hospital in Butabika is overwhelmed now handling 850 to 1,000 in-patients every day which was not the case before the regional mental wards were seized for Covid19 patients. This is beyond the hospital…
The third wave of COVID-19 in Uganda is over and testing of travellers at Entebbe International Airport upon arrival has been stopped effective 26th February. However, pre-departure and pre-arrival are still a requirement. The Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said there are few positive cases. The positivity rate in the country now stands at 1 percent.…
By AIDSMAP A woman in New York City has no detectable HIV 14 months after stopping antiretroviral therapy following a transplant of HIV-resistant stem cells, according to a presentation yesterday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022) reports Aidsmap.com. The woman, who received the stem cell transplant to treat leukaemia, is doing well,…
A new study has found that fifteen percent of the women in Uganda can’t access contraceptives. In the survey which was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Health, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), and Makerere University School of Public Health, researchers say sexually active respondents were asked whether they intended to get pregnant and they…
Road traffic injury statistics are the foundation to monitor the progress of the five pillars of the UN Road Safety Strategy – road safety management, safer vehicles, safer road users, post-crash response, and safer driving environments. This was the discussion at a webinar led by Dr Benjamin Wachira, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the…