The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered innovations among scientists paving the way for Uganda‘s first attempt to manufacture a vaccine for a disease. As well, due to scarcity of some therapeutics, chemotherapists began looking into medicines for covid-19. Dr. Monica Musenero, the Minister of Science and Technology who was then the Presidential Advisor on Epidemics says…
Nobel Prize-winning economists Jayati Ghosh and Joseph Stiglitz and the pan-Africa director of Oxfam have praised South Africa’s President Ramaphosa for rejecting a bogus proposal to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 medical products. This was contained in document that emerged from World Trade Organisation negotiations for a COVID-19 intellectual property waiver but was leaked. …
More than half of the patients who visit Ugandan hospitals have to wait for more than an hour before they can see a health worker only to be told there’s no medicine or equipment to assist in their diagnosis, according to a survey carried out by the Ministry of Health. The survey which was carried…
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of digital technologies to keep businesses, healthcare, education and public services running, commented Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, AU Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy at the Africa-Europe Digital for Development (D4D) Hub Multi-Stakeholder Forum. “These exceptional times have also shown the urgency to invest in Africa’s digital infrastructure and build on Africa’s innovation…
Amuru District Health officials have halted a mass covid-19 vaccination exercise three days after it was started because of low turn up. The District embarked on the second phase of mass covid-19 vaccination on March 15 with the exercise meant to last for a week. This was after the Health Ministry launched the second phase…
Scientists have asked authorities to ensure municipal garbage dumped at landfills is first treated having found heavy metal concentrations in milk from cows grazed along dumpsites. Researchers based at the Makerere University School of Public Health (MakSPH) have said that they found the presence of heavy metals in plants such as vegetables that are grown…
Uganda has to enact a law against selling blood to encourage donations. The Uganda Blood Transfusion Service (UBTS) wants enactment of a law to stop staff from public and private health facilities from selling blood to the public because it hinders blood collection. Samuel Davis Wante, a Clinical Team Leader at Nakasero Blood Bank explained…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has directed the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to release Shillings 3.024 billion to facilitate research on the use of Ivermectin prophylaxis in the treatment of COVID-19 infection. Ivermectin is approved for human use to treat infections caused by some parasitic worms and head lice and skin conditions like…
A $USD 3 million project to assess the use of digital solutions to pay health workers involved in immunization campaigns has been launched. The project by the Makerere University School of Public Health will over the next three years study the effect of payment of health workers using digital platforms. They will be paid on time…
People with a neck circumference of 35 centimeters and beyond have a higher risk of developing heart disease, experts at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) have established in their latest research. Dr. Isaac Senabulya a cardiologist based at the UHI says they conducted a study in which they assessed people living with HIV to…