Esther Makula writes for Chimp Reports and in this interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about lack of oxygen in hospitals during the pandemic and how this led to deaths. Esther Makula’s interview was done under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat…
Ben Musanje works with Radio Sapientia in his interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about his story about a spike in torture cases recorded by the African Centre for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims which was published by HEJNU. Ben’s interview with HEJNU was under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which…
Ruth Nazziwa works for the Vision Group and contributes to one of its publications Bukedde print, a daily Ugandan newspaper and writes in Luganda. In her interview with the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights she talks about one of the stories she wrote on human rights. She…
Ann Kajumba works with UBC, the state owned broadcaster and her was about a story which explored children’s rights to vaccines and included efforts by the government to keep learners in class despite the lockdown. She pointed the government’s efforts in keeping learners in class. This interview by Ann Kajumba was produced as one of the…
On a hot afternoon, 12-year-old Esther Adongor , is playing with peers under tree shades at Kalas Girls Primary School in Amudat town council. She is dressed in a grey skirt and a red T-shirt with readings in the back ‘education first.’ Adongor tells Uganda Radio Network –URN that she ran away from her parents’…
Purity clinic, one of the private health facilities in Pandwong Division in Kitgum Municipality has been temporarily closed after a patient it briefly admitted succumbed to coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The patient was reportedly admitted to the facility early this week and spent three days as a regular patient before being transferred to Gulu Regional…
A new drug, Ganaplacide can clear malaria infection including strains that are resistant to the currently commonly used Artemisinin- based Therapies -ACTs, a new study done in seven malaria endemic countries including Uganda has shown. According to a statement by Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company that manufactures the widely used antimalarial drug Coartem, the new…
Members of Parliament want a public holiday declared so as to scale up vaccination of learners in order to achieve the vaccination target required to reopen schools. The MPs on the Parliamentary forum on children noted that the prolonged lockdown on schools has exacerbated cases of defilement, teenage pregnancy and acute malnutrition. The forum together with the…
Uganda has received an additional 335,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The doses were donated by Ireland and received by government officials at the ministry of health and National Medical Stores-NMS. Nicole McHugh, the Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of Ireland handed over the vaccine doses to the government through Margaret Muhanga,…
Green cottage clinic in Mukono municipality is under the spotlight for issuing fake COVID-19 test certificates especially to people travelling abroad. Much as the clinic isn’t among those accredited to conduct COVID-19 tests, it issues PCR test results. Trouble for Green cottage clinic started when they issued a COVID-19 negative certificate to Esther Nambowa, 28,…