Parents and guardians in Acholi region are responsible for the high number of teenage pregnancies, according to a section of cultural leaders in the region. They particularly accuse parents and guardians of failure to monitor their children’s lifestyles. Cases of teenage pregnancies have skyrocketed in the region ever since the government closed educational institutions as…
The police in Lyantonde are investigating an incident in, which unidentified thugs gang rapped a woman and strangled her to the death. The body of 52-year-old Beatrice Kemirimo, a resident of Kabale village, Lyantonde rural sub-county was found on Friday afternoon lying in her house. She was alone at home when she was…
Less than half of the teachers in Mbale city have been vaccinated against COVID-19. Robert Wangwe, the Chairperson of Primary School Head Teachers Association in Mbale City, says that there are over 3000 teachers in both private and public schools in the city. He, however, says that less than 1500 of the teachers have…
Mulago Specialized Women and Neonatal hospital is still operating without key specialists three years after it was glamorously launched as a facility that epitomizes everything modern in a 21st-century health service. Dr Evelyn Nabunya, the Executive Director of the Hospital told their first board of 12 members that was inaugurated on Thursday that the…
The government has postponed mandatory testing for all incoming passengers at Entebbe International Airport. Last month, the Ministry of Health directed that effective September 3, all incoming passengers regardless of whether or not they are vaccinated against covid-19 will undertake mandatory testing at Entebbe Airport. Ministry of health officials led by Minister Dr Ruth Aceng…
HIV activists have raised concern about the continued high rates of HIV infection in Africa and renewed calls for strengthening prevention strategies. This follows another HIV vaccine trial that failed to make it through clinical trials – the Imbokodo study started in 2017 by big pharma Johnson and Johnson. Ntando Yola, an HIV advocate with the…
Gynaecologists have warned that cases of obstetric fistula among women are likely to increase as more teens become moms. The medical condition comes as a result of a hole created between the birth canal and bladder and the rectum, caused by prolonged, obstructed labour. It leaves women leaking urine, faeces or both, and often leads…
Health workers that are not yet vaccinated have made the choice not to get COVID-19 jabs, and the government does not have any special arrangement for their vaccination. As of today, according to Ministry of Health data, only 47,165 out of an estimated 150,000 health workers have been fully vaccinated countrywide despite them being the…
Several Ugandans seeking to return to the United Arab Emirates-UAE are struggling to meet the country’s revised travel restrictions during the pandemic. UAE suspended inbound flights from Uganda on June 11, 2021, due to a surge in COVID-19 cases as the country was battling the second wave of the pandemic. Some media reports showed that…
It is thirteen minutes to midday, Mariam Namakula, sits down to narrate her ordeal with security men enforcing directives intended to control the spread of Covid-19. Uganda recorded her first case of Covid19 on March 21 last year and this was followed with a total local down. Namakula starts by showing scars on her both…