An increase in measles cases in January and February 2022 is a worrying sign of a heightened risk for the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases and could trigger larger outbreaks, particularly of measles affecting millions of children in 2022, according to the World Health Organisation and UNICEF. The risk for large outbreaks has increased as communities…
Travellers moving in and out of Uganda, are no longer required to have a COVID-19 PCR(polymerase chain reaction) test, as long as they are fully vaccinated. The requirement still stands for those who are not vaccinated as well as those who took only a single jab of the COVID-19 vaccine. The waiver was announced by…
The Government procured 3.4 Million covid-19 vaccines, this is according to records from the Ministry of Health. A total of 44,734,030 vaccines were received, but 3.4 million were procured using gov’t funds. The remaining 41 million doses of vaccines were donations from the United States, Norway, Japan, Britain, China, and Denmark among others. According to…
With fourteen to sixteen people still succumbing to malaria every day, the Ministry of Health (MOH) signed a new $40 million worth grant on Friday to popularize malaria prevention strategies in communities where prevalence is still very high. Dr. Jimmy Opigo who heads the Malaria Control programme in the ministry told journalists that unlike before…
Women in the Busoga region want screening for both Cervical Cancer and Breast Cancer extended to lower health facilities. They say that the lack of screening services has left many women to die silently without intervention. At Jinja regional Hospital, breast and cervical cancer screening is conducted weekly clinic on Wednesdays. Suspected cancer cases from the…
Uganda private healthcare providers want a mindset shift perception about them from a profit centre to a partner in providing health care. Speaking to Health Journalists Network members during a boot camp held in Kampala, Grace Kiwanuka Ssali, the Executive Director of Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) an umbrella body for private health providers said the private…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has issued a license allowing two pairs of humanised mice needed in the making of the homegrown Uganda COVID-19 vaccine to be ferried into the country. The triple immunodeficient humanised mice model was developed by scientists to lead to a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection, the…
The government has allocated 3 billion UGX Shillings (USD $840,000) for studies into the efficacy of COVIDEX, a herbal solution that helps relieve symptoms associated with COVID-19. Prof. Patrick Engeu Ogwang, a clinical pharmacologist behind the herbal concoction COVIDEX revealed during an interview. He, however, says that the money wasn’t released directly to his company,…
Lalogi Health Centre IV in Omoro district is struggling to treat children with sickle cell disease and malnourishment. The facility quarterly receives over 200,000 children from Omoro, Pader, Oyam, Lira and parts of Gulu district. However, it lacks adequate space in its children’s admission ward which has a capacity of only ten beds, forcing…
The government has signed a contract to immediately procure a Positron Emission Tomography – PET scan for the Uganda Cancer Institute. Parliament has also appropriated money for the construction of the Nuclear Medicine Unit to house a Linear Accelerator and other treatment units at the Uganda Cancer Institute to reinforce cancer care and treatment. The speaker…