Residents of Nyamiringa village in Bulongo parish, Sembababule district are baying for the blood of George Musheijja Bakulu, the Nyamiringa LCI chairman. They are angry that he was released by police after he was arrested for aggravated defilement. Bakulu, was arrested on Wednesday last week after being caught red-handed defiling a 15-year-old girl. It is said that…
News from Kyotera District say that a dental clinic at Kakuuto Health Centre IV is under lock and key because the one key staff has retired. Noah Mawaggali, a dentist at the clinic retired four months ago leaving no one to operate the dental clinic. Dr. Alloysious Musoke, the In-charge of Kakuuto HCIV, says that…
So an isolation centre was established at Kakuuto Health Centre IV to receive, treat patients, and to investigate a strange disease. However, the isolation centre has remained vacant for nearly two months due to lack of patients. Why?- Some residents believe it is a spiritual ailment that requires the intervention of traditional healers to cleanse…
Today, the African Union (AU) Commission, UNAIDS and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria join the rest of the world to commemorate World AIDS Day 2021 under the theme “End Inequalities. End AIDS”. This year marks an important milestone as the HIV community reach 40 years since the first reported case of…
Message from WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti On 14 November, the international community commemorates World Diabetes Day to raise awareness of the growing burden of this disease, and strategies to prevent and treat it. The theme this year, and until 2023, is “Access to diabetes care” because too many people still do…
By Richard Nelson, the USAID Mission Director in Uganda I stepped onto Ugandan soil as the new Mission Director for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in January 2020 — 58 years after the first USAID officer came to Uganda. This week marks USAID’s 60th anniversary: Uganda has been a part of USAID’s journey, just as USAID has been a part of Uganda’s journey since the…
By Dr. Sabrina Kitaka I have had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of parents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. One of their most common questions has been, “Doctor, do you think my baby could have COVID-19?” During the most recent wave, children are affected by COVID-19 in roughly equal numbers as adults. However, infected children…
By Esther Nakkazi It is not possible to honor all the health workers, advocates, and media personnel who have died of COVID-19 but telling the story of Dr. Charles Kiggundu and Patrick Luganda may serve as a tribute to them and others. Both Dr. Charles Kiggundu and Patrick Luganda were consultants in their fields, advocates…
By Esther Nakkazi Six-year-old Rahmah Kiiza is a special guest at World Cerebral Palsy day. She is in a wheelchair, on the front speakers’ row, seemingly attentive, sometimes making random noises during ongoing speeches and testimonies. Rahmah is one of 900 persons with cerebral palsy registered by the Uganda National Association of Persons…
By Esther Nakkazi Zimbabwe’s first death from Covid-19 is a journalist. A fine broadcaster Zororo Makamba, 30, was Zimbabwe’s second reported positive Covid-19 patient, health and child care minister Obadiah Moyo said on Saturday. Makamba died three days after admission with ‘severe respiratory distress’ at the Wilkins Infectious Diseases hospital in Harare, the city’s only…
By Vivian Agaba People living with HIV especially those not adhering to their drugs are more likely to be affected by coronavirus disease, experts say. In 2018, an estimated 1.4 million people were living with HIV, and an estimated 23,000 Ugandans died of AIDS-related illnesses. As of 2018 around 73% of adults living with HIV and 66%…
Anitah, not real name at 15 years old, is a teenage mother of one. The father of the baby is also slightly older however Anita’s parents arrested him and later released him so that he would fend for his new family. But this didn’t work because he had to return back to school. Apparently, Anita…