Uganda has received 196,800 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine which were bought by the government. This is the first batch of the nine million doses of the single-shot vaccines. The vaccines were delivered aboard Brussels Airlines, which torched down at Entebbe International Airport on Thursday night. The Health Ministry Permanent Secretary,…
Some People Living with HIV/AIDS in Bududa district are selling life-prolonging Anti-Retroviral drugs (ARVs) to cattle keepers, especially those involved in fattening bulls. Bududa district has over 500 people enrolled on ARVs, which they receive after every four months. Esther Wambewo, one of the People Living With HIV, says that she is forced to sell some…
The Soroti District COVID-19 Taskforce has suspended all church-related activities in Asuret Sub County for a month following the increasing cases of COVID-19. Asuret Sub County registered 173 cases of COVID-19 between September 22 and October 1, 2021. This is almost a quarter of the cumulative cases recorded in the district comprising 12 sub-counties since…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the first-ever vaccine to prevent malaria, as it moves to save the lives of tens of thousands of children in Africa, where the disease remains endemic. Malaria, one of the oldest known and deadliest infectious diseases kills about half a million people each year, nearly all of them…
Kibaale district has run out of COVID-19 Vaccines amidst an increasing number of people turning up at health facilities for vaccination. The district received 4,776 doses of Astra-Zeneca and 1,455 doses of Sinovac from the Health Ministry recently. Godfrey Timbihurira, the Kibaale District Health Officer-DHO told Uganda Radio Network on Tuesday that they ran out…
The Joint Medical Store (JMS), a joint venture of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau (UCMB) and the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB) is setting up a medical oxygen plant with a capacity to manufacture up to 150 cylinders per hour. Dr Bildard Baguma, the Executive Director JMS said that they are investing one million US Dollars…
The ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise has been slowed by the distances that residents have to travel to the gazetted vaccination centres in Lira City. The city with a population of over 10,000 people, has only six vaccination points; Ayago Primary School and PAG General Hospital located in City East Division and Lira University Teaching Hospital,…
Esther Makula writes for Chimp Reports and in this interview with the Health Journalists Network talks about lack of oxygen in hospitals during the pandemic and how this led to deaths. Esther Makula’s interview was done under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat…
Joseph Kato, a journalist with Uganda Radio Network, URN, talks about one of the stories he covered under the Health Journalists Network under the ‘Mobilizing Media Fighting Covid19’ project by Journalists for Human Rights which has contributed to international public health efforts to combat the spread of COVID-19 and its impact on human rights, in particular women’s and…
On a hot afternoon, 12-year-old Esther Adongor , is playing with peers under tree shades at Kalas Girls Primary School in Amudat town council. She is dressed in a grey skirt and a red T-shirt with readings in the back ‘education first.’ Adongor tells Uganda Radio Network –URN that she ran away from her parents’…