Around 90 per cent of adolescent girls and young women do not use the internet in low-income countries, while their male peers are twice as likely to be online, according to a new UNICEF analysis issued on International Day of Girls in ICT. “Closing the digital divide between girls and boys is about more than just having…
Senior House Officers (SHOs), also known as senior medical doctors undergoing postgraduate training at regional and national referral hospitals, have announced their intention to resume a strike over non-payment of their remuneration by the government. The doctors had previously gone on strike in March for three weeks due to the same issue. The SHO’s Chief…
Police have blocked medical interns from holding a press conference that will inform the public through the media about their predicament. The medical interns are pushing for deployment by the Ministry of Health. The interns had gathered at Mulago guest house Monday morning, where they had called journalists to discuss the need for deployment to…
Experts are concerned that Uganda may not meet its commitment to defeating HIV as an epidemic by 2030, as children living with the virus struggle to stay on treatment. Michael Byamukama, the Country Director of the Regional Psycho-social Support Initiative (REPSSI), reports that the biggest reason children abandon treatment is lack of food. When…
There are high levels of alcohol use among people living with HIV, affecting their adherence to HIV medications, this is according to researchers at Makerere University School of Public Health. In a study conducted among fishermen operating around Lake Victoria, researchers screened over a thousand fishermen and individuals who closely work with them and found…
The Government of Rwanda, the United Nations Environment Programme, University of Birmingham and fellow project partners will receive £4 million to drive down harmful emissions from outdated air conditioning units, cooling refrigeration and cold supply chains. The funding will be provided this summer as part of Defra’s £21 million Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain Solutions programme. Announcing…
Activists are asking the Uganda Police to reintroduce enforcement measures that curb drunk-driving. Dr David Kalema, a Consultant at Safer Initiative Uganda, an entity created by the World Health Organisation to find solutions for alcohol-related harms, says the breathalyzers campaign which came to be popularly known as ‘Kawunyemu’ had helped reduce drunk-driving. He explains that…
Members of Parliament have accused the Attorney General of frustrating the Anti-Homosexuality Bill that was unanimously passed by the House last month. It has emerged that the Deputy Attorney General, Jackson Karugaba Kafuuzi, also the Kyaka South County Member of Parliament wrote to the President ‘disassociating’ the Attorney General’s office from the Bill and advised the…
A technique that identifies the build-up of abnormal protein deposits linked to Parkinson’s disease could aid in early detection and play a key role in the disease’s clinical diagnosis and characterisation, according to research published in The Lancet Neurology journal. Findings from the study confirm the technique – known as α-synuclein seed amplification assay (αSyn-SAA)…
People experiencing hearing loss who are not using a hearing aid may have a higher risk of dementia than people without hearing loss, suggests a new study published in The Lancet Public Health journal. However, using a hearing aid may reduce this risk to the same level as people without hearing loss. Dementia and hearing loss…