By Shiprah Kwagala A day after legislators rejected a government proposal for mandatory vaccination of adults, local people have expressed a sigh of relief. This comes at a time when the government has been leading a drive for vaccination against Covid-19 for over a year and Parliament had attempted to pass legislation that required mandatory…
After a three day visit, Director of U.S, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky says there has been a return on investment to Uganda’s health sector. The CDC also committed to continue to support Uganda’s efforts to scale up border health systems. Dr. Walensky was at the CDC offices inside Uganda Virus Research Institute…
In the latest audit report released by the Auditor General John Muwanga for the financial year 2020/2021, show that UGX 511.42 million Shillings was wrongly deducted from salaries and savings of employees in five regional referral hospitals who are mostly health workers. Investigators into this matter suspect that senior hospital administrators connive with financial institutions to…
Non-motorized transport corridors – NMT in Kampala are turned into a garbage collection centres. Non-motorized transport in the form of walking, cycling and cycle rickshaws play an important role in cities. It is the primary mode of transport for the urban poor, and at the same time a climate and environmentally friendly form of transport. The…
The Minister of Education and Sports, also the first lady Janet Kataha Museveni is to introduce a vibrant sexual purity campaign. According to Janet Museveni, the campaign is one of the strategies to lessen the prevalence of child-to-child sex, incest, and teen pregnancy, which have had a negative impact on the nation and reached a…
More than 91 million Africans live with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) scorecard that was launched yesterday – ahead of today’s World Hepatitis Day. The Viral Hepatitis Scorecard 2021 looks at data from the African region but focuses on Hepatitis B…
The World Health Organization-WHO on Thursday released new guidelines giving countries a green light to use long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV. The guidelines that were released ahead of the annual International AIDS Conference will support countries as they plan for CAB-LA introduction as part of a comprehensive approach to HIV…
Taking 200mg of doxycycline within 72 hours of condomless sex significantly reduces the risk of gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis among men who have sex with men and trans women. Among those randomized to take doxycycline, 65% fewer were diagnosed with an STI each quarter than those not taking doxycycline. The DoxyPEP study found that participants in…
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has opened a process for countries to apply for funding and support to roll out the new malaria vaccine. The global vaccines body has asked Kenya, Malawi, and Ghana to apply to introduce the Malaria vaccine by mid-September 2022. Speaking at the virtual launch, Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi on…
Nobel laureates Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Joseph Stiglitz, have published an open letter with a call for the price of ground-breaking new HIV medicines to be reduced dramatically so that they can be used worldwide by all who need them. Former President of Malawi Dr Joyce Banda and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, and artists…