Parliament has passed a motion asking the government to urgently address the different challenges faced by the girl child. They cited trafficking, teenage pregnancies and early marriages as some of the issues that need immediate attention. Following a motion by Tororo Woman MP Sarah Opendi, legislators noted that the country was struggling to contain the…
Forty children suffering from the dreaded nodding syndrome disease in Angagura Sub County Pader district have died in the last three years. On average, this translates into more that one child dying because of nodding disease every month in this one sub county. Freddy Stephen Okello, the Angagura Sub County Chairperson disclosed to URN that…
The police in Lira City have intensified enforcement of the covid-19 guidelines. The one week operation which started on Monday was carried out by the police and members of the covid-19 task force. More than 70 people were arrested for not wearing face masks and later released with a caution. The heightened enforcement stemmed from…
Slum-dwellers in Kampala have resorted to mixing tobacco with marijuana, hoping that by so doing, they are avoiding diseases associated with cigarette smoking, according to preliminary findings of a study. The study which was carried out in Bwaise had a total of 422 participants aged between 18 and 30. It shows that 115 of the…
A number of people who have received the first COVID-19 shots can’t tell which vaccines types they were given. Dr. Misaki Wayengera, a member of the COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Committee says health workers have reported that upon turning up for their second jabs, some cannot tell whether they were given AstraZeneca or any other of…
Ninety-six percent of Mbale youths do not know how to use condoms. Speaking during a science cafe organized to train journalists on health reporting this afternoon, Robert Wandwasi , the district Community Development Offcer -CDO disclosed that only 4% of the youths in Mbale know how to use condoms, with vast majority using them wrongly.…
Lawyers and health rights activists are calling upon government to stop COVID-19 vaccine mandates because they are illegal. These are being introduced by several organisations across the country inspite of the vaccine inequity in the country. As a means to stop the spread of COVID-19, some government offices like the ministry of health, the National…
Agago district has registered a total of 1,972 teenage pregnancies within a period of 15 months. Agago District Probation Office records show that the people who visited different health centres to access antenatal services during the last year included 1,339 adolescent girls aged between 12 and 19. Another 633 cases were registered between April and…
The Uganda Prisons Service has said that it has so far vaccinated only 18 percent of its 66,832 inmates across the country. Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson, said only 2% of the already vaccinated prisoners have received the second dose. Baine explained that their target is to vaccinate at least 50 percent of the…
The Entebbe Deputy Resident District Commissioner Njuki Mbabali is urging all staff and operators of public transport services including those of MV Kalangala to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Njuki says service providers such as taxi drivers, conductors, boda boda motorcyclists and crews for water vessels like MV Kalangala should get vaccinated. “In future, it could…