At the height of COVID-19, mental treatment units were turned into COVID-19 isolation and treatment centres. As they remain closed the National Mental Referral Hospital in Butabika is overwhelmed now handling 850 to 1,000 in-patients every day which was not the case before the regional mental wards were seized for Covid19 patients. This is beyond the hospital…
The third wave of COVID-19 in Uganda is over and testing of travellers at Entebbe International Airport upon arrival has been stopped effective 26th February. However, pre-departure and pre-arrival are still a requirement. The Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng said there are few positive cases. The positivity rate in the country now stands at 1 percent.…
A Swiss-French team from Inserm, in France that includes University of Geneva (UNIGE) scientists has discovered how to trigger apoptosis in leukaemia cells by disrupting their energy maintenance mechanism. The previously unknown mechanism could lead to the development of new therapies for treatment of acute myeloid leukaemia, which affects blood and bone marrow cells, a particularly dangerous form of cancer.…
By AIDSMAP A woman in New York City has no detectable HIV 14 months after stopping antiretroviral therapy following a transplant of HIV-resistant stem cells, according to a presentation yesterday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2022) reports Aidsmap.com. The woman, who received the stem cell transplant to treat leukaemia, is doing well,…
A new study has found that fifteen percent of the women in Uganda can’t access contraceptives. In the survey which was conducted jointly by the Ministry of Health, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS), and Makerere University School of Public Health, researchers say sexually active respondents were asked whether they intended to get pregnant and they…
AHF Uganda care authorities have raised concerns over heavy taxes levied on consignments of condoms the organization imports into the country. Uganda cares says they want the government to eliminate the taxes on condoms altogether because these come in for free from donors. The high taxes mean that the volumes imported by non governmental organisations like…
The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah had spent three days without eating when he was evacuated from his home in Muyenga to Mulago National Referral Hospital and eventually out of the country. The alert about ill health of Oulanyah started his failure to return phone calls for three days. The Deputy Speaker, Anita Among and…
The Uganda Medical Association (UMA), the professional organization that brings together all the qualified and duly registered medical doctors in Uganda want the Government to grant them unrestricted and timely access to torture victims in detention facilities to save their lives. The Association officials were responding to recent incidents of torture involving physical bodily harm…
Vaccine production is a long process, while you need a recipe you also need capacity building and some privileged information shared by experts along the way as they look over your shoulder and point you to the right direction and later you demonstrate that it works on your own. Vaccine production is a serious matter…
New survey findings are showing a shift in the HIV burden in Uganda from the young people to middle and older age individuals. The Ministry of Health has released preliminary findings of the Uganda Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (UPHIA) survey showing a decline in the prevalence of HIV in all age groups, except among older…