Gulu District Health Department has registered a slightly low turn-up of locals for the yellow fever mass vaccination exercise against its expected target. The first phase of the yellow fever vaccination exercise rolled out by the Health Ministry on June 9 ended on Tuesday in 51 selected districts across the country. Through the campaign, the…
Former Aruu County Member of Parliament Samuel Odonga-Otto has proposed that the 11th Parliament consider enacting a law to regulate the declaration of sickness, health, and death of a sitting President. This proposal comes in light of President Yoweri Museveni’s self-isolation at State House Nakasero after testing positive for COVID-19. Odonga-Otto refers to a report…
Legislators within Mukono district, joined by the Leader of Opposition in Parliament -LOP in Parliament for an oversight activity in the area were on Monday shocked by cases of stillbirth happening at Mukono General Hospital. Mukono Hospital Medical Superintendent, Geoffrey Kasirye told the legislators that every month on average, the facility registers about 20 stillbirth…
By May 6, 2021, seasonal malaria chemoprevention was made available to children younger than 5 years in Karamoja through a project implemented by the Malaria Consortium with the assistance of Village Health Teams (VHTs) moving around from door to door to deliver medicines to the children. About two years later there is optimism in the…
The Director General of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), H.E. Dr Jean Kaseya, has called for concerted efforts to protect the African population and ensure citizens have access to high quality health products through strengthening local manufacturing. This, he said, can happen if Africa must decrease its dependence on global agreements,…
If you are a patient seeking health services at Arua Regional Referral Hospital in the West Nile Region and you do not own a smart phone but you need radiology services, chances are that you will be denied treatment. The hospital management claims to have fully operationalized the newly constructed Out Patients Department (OPD0 facility…
Over 200 lead mothers in Nakapiripirit district have been trained on how to combat child malnutrition within households. The training was provided by the organizations Food for the Hungry in partnership with ACTED Uganda, in response to the observed lack of diet diversity among families grappling with poverty and high food insecurity. The lead mothers…
At-home high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) sampling kits can help increase cervical cancer screening among under-screened women from low-income backgrounds, according to findings from a US-based clinical trial published in The Lancet Public Health journal. The trial shows mailing kits to low-income, under-screened women and helping them book an in-person clinic appointment led to a two-fold…
Taking a two-week course of metformin, a safe and affordable diabetes medication after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 leads to 40% fewer long COVID diagnoses over the following 10 months, compared to individuals taking a placebo, finds a new study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The long-term symptoms some people experience after SARS-CoV-2 infection,…
An analysis by the Ministry of Health has found increasing trends of antibiotic resistance with Kampala topping the list of places where drugs previously used to treat certain infections are no longer working. Anti microbial Resistance is about drugs failing to kill organisms for which they were formulated to kill. The bacteria become resistant to…