The Ministry of Health has launched a Satellite Laboratory at Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital. The facility, constructed under the Uganda COVID-19 Response and Preparedness Project is expected to improve clinical research at the hospital upon its completion. The construction will cost four billion Shillings while another 1.3 Billion Shillings will be spent on equipping…
As the country continues to wait for the establishment of a National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, the Insurance Regulatory Authority of Uganda, IRA, is moving a step towards responding to the gaps created by the lack of the scheme. For more than 10 years, it has been a back-and-forth situation regarding universal health insurance platform,…
Obstetricians and Gynecologists have joined the push to demand for immediate deployment and payment of medical interns warning government not to demand accountability for women dying in labor when they further delay. Dr. Othiniel Musana, the President of the Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Uganda (AOGU) told URN in an interview that medical…
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have expressed concern over restrictions by global HIV and Hepatitis drugs manufacturer barring other pharmaceutical companies from replicating their medicines to make generics. Speaking to journalists during a press conference on Wednesday, Kenneth Mwehonge, the Executive Director HEPs Uganda said drugs made by Gilead, an American Biopharmaceutical company are too expensive…
Ghana has granted full national licensure to the R21/Matrix-M™ malaria vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured and scaled up by the Serum Institute of India (SII). According to the WHO’s 2022 world malaria report, the disease killed 619,000 people in 2021 – with 96% of those deaths in the WHO African region,…
A UK biotech company has announced £13m of investment that they believe will fund them through to clinical trials next year of the world’s first treatment for a rare, incurable and deadly disease. The investment has been raised by Oxfordshire-based SynaptixBio, whose aim is to tackle TUBB4a leukodystrophy – a genetic and debilitating condition that mainly…
Summary: As fewer Ugandan mothers follow WHO guidance for six months of exclusive breastfeeding, newborns are at risk of infections, stunted growth and malnutrition. Picture credits : Polly Namiyingo, 27, breastfeeds her 5-month-old baby outside her home in Kampala, Uganda, on Oct. 22, 2022. Namiyingo says that breastfeeding her three children has enabled them to remain…
This story was originally published by Global Press Journal. ILLUSTRATION BY MATT HANEY, GPJ Summary: Cabotegravir is a promising HIV prevention medication that’s approved in countries like the United States. But in sub-Saharan Africa, access encounters a number of hurdles. By: Nakisanze Segawa, Global Press Journal Uganda. KAMPALA, UGANDA — Night after night, Annet worries…
A new report has revealed that half of the pregnancies in the Acholi Sub-region in 2022 were unintended, with the bulk recorded in the districts of Amuru and Agago.The 2022 survey report conducted by Makerere University School of Public Health indicates that 50.7 percent of girls and women between 15 and 49 years never intended…
The Ministry of Health has urged private health facilities to consider wellness facilities for the non-medical needs of mothers and babies that can improve maternal health outcomes. Dr Richard Mugahi, the Assistant Commissioner in Charge of Reproductive and Child Health says that because they are overwhelmed by numbers in free government facilities, they have had…