The African Union and Uniting to Combat NTDs have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across member states by 2030. The agreement highlights the African Union’s commitment to strengthen collaboration and cooperation among stakeholders to control and eliminate twenty NTDs, achieving the vision outlined by the “Agenda 2063′ ;The Africa We Want”…
By Esther Nakkazi Initiating an integrated approach for cervical cancer and Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) for affected women and girls presents an opportunity towards the World Health Organization (WHO) elimination target over the next decade. The WHO targets to eliminate transmission of cervical cancer by 2030 and its policy brief on deworming adolescent girls and…
The European Union in Uganda and the Ministry of Health officials are worried about the rate at which Ugandans are abandoning the COVID-19 prevention measures, warning that the Pandemic is far from over. This comes amidst an evident decline in the use of face masks, hand washing and sanitisers and even social distancing, among others,…
Uganda is improving its medical oxygen demand and supply ecosystem with a national scale up implementation plan that articulates a holistic approach. The oxygen ecosystem includes liquid oxygen cylinders and concentrators, as well as the clinical engineering and technical assistance to use the technology. The government and the private sector have joined hands to improve the…
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…