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…
The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah had spent three days without eating when he was evacuated from his home in Muyenga to Mulago National Referral Hospital and eventually out of the country. The alert about ill health of Oulanyah started his failure to return phone calls for three days. The Deputy Speaker, Anita Among and…
The Uganda Medical Association (UMA), the professional organization that brings together all the qualified and duly registered medical doctors in Uganda want the Government to grant them unrestricted and timely access to torture victims in detention facilities to save their lives. The Association officials were responding to recent incidents of torture involving physical bodily harm…
New survey findings are showing a shift in the HIV burden in Uganda from the young people to middle and older age individuals. The Ministry of Health has released preliminary findings of the Uganda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (UPHIA) survey showing a decline in the prevalence of HIV in all age groups, except among older…