HIV cases in Mityana have doubled over the past year, rising from 1.5% to 3%, raising alarm among health authorities who attribute the surge to dwindling funding for HIV/AIDS interventions. The sharp increase set the tone for this year’s district commemoration of World AIDS Day, held under the theme “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response.”…
The Ministry of Health has launched a new digital platform designed to support tele-mentoring and continuous capacity building for practising health workers. The platform, the ECHO Supra Hub, will enhance the flow of information and keep health workers up to date with rapidly changing health technologies, according to Dr. Alfred Driwale, the Commissioner of Human…
The number of children dying before their fifth birthday is expected to rise for the first time this century, reversing decades of global progress, according to new data published Tuesday in the Gates Foundation’s 2025 Goalkeepers Report. In 2024, 4.6 million children died before age 5. New modeling by the Institute for Health Metrics and…
With Africa’s standing in global decision-making rising, policymakers, senior government leaders, central bank officials, economists and development partners from across West Africa met in Dakar on October 30th-31st, 2025 for the G20 Conference in West Africa: Empowering Africa’s Voice Within the G20. Organized by AfriCatalyst, the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), the United…
The government has reaffirmed its plan to establish Regional Cancer Institutes across the country as Uganda continues to grapple with rising cancer cases that are straining the national health system. The announcement was made by the Minister of ICT and National Guidance, Dr Chris Baryomunsi, during a plenary sitting on 30 October 2025 in response…
Sheikh Obilan Abubakar Umar, the Regional Assistant Mufti (RAM) for Teso-Karamoja Region, has raised alarm over the high HIV prevalence in Soroti City, which currently stands at 12.5%—well above the national average of 5.1%. He made the remarks while addressing parents at the Soroti Secondary School Annual General Meeting on Saturday. According to the Uganda…
A new study by researchers from Makerere University and the U.K.-based Nottingham Trent University has found widespread misuse of antimicrobials in Uganda’s public health facilities, raising fresh concerns about the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Published in the journal Infection and Drug Resistance, the study reports an 87.2% prevalence of antimicrobial use among inpatients. Ceftriaxone…
HIV activists are raising alarms over delays by the National Drug Authority (NDA) to evaluate and license the long-acting HIV prevention injection lenacapavir, despite Uganda being among the first countries expected to receive donated doses. Lenacapavir, administered twice a year, has shown high effectiveness as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in clinical trials carried out among adolescent…
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is accelerating worldwide and turning once easily treatable infections into deadly, hard-to-cure illnesses. Health and development experts warn that misuse and overuse of antibiotics in human health, livestock and agriculture, as well as environmental contamination, are enabling bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi to adapt and survive—putting global health, food security and healthcare…
The arrival of the first doses of lenacapavir in the Kingdom of Eswatini this week was a moment heavy with symbolism for Africa. For decades, lifesaving HIV medicines reached African communities long after being introduced in wealthier nations, a delay that cost countless lives and deepened inequities in the global response to HIV. This time…