Despite being the most ill-planned exercise executed by the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization (UNEPI), the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination is the most expensive campaign carried out in the last ten years, according to officials. In the past four years, Uganda has carried out at least two mass vaccination campaigns including the Measles/Rubella and Polio…
Doctors have warned of an increase in resistance to common antifungal drugs used for the treatment of infections like candidiasis. Drug-resistant tuberculosis is also a growing phenomenon, while malaria parasites also are becoming resistant to once-effective first-line anti-malarial treatments. The World Health Organisation has already warned that over four million Africans a year could die as…
Uganda registered an increase in Female Genital Mutilation cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to reports from the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development. FGM is the deliberate cutting or injuring of genitals to change their appearance often for religious or cultural purposes. In Uganda, FGM is practiced in the districts of Bukwo, Kapchorwa,…
Uganda is to get its first Human Milk Bank also commonly referred to as ‘liquid gold.’ The facility to be hosted at Nsambya Hospital will also be the second in East Africa with one in Kenya. The 3.5 Billion Shillings innovation is being mooted as a solution to challenges faced by mothers of premature babies…
The Embassy of Sweden and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have signed an agreement of UGX 67 Billion Shillings to boost the Covid-19 vaccination in Uganda. Maria Håkansson, the Ambassador of Sweden to Uganda and the UNICEF Representative in Uganda, Dr Munir Safieldin signed the agreement on Thursday at the UNICEF offices in Kampala. According…
Health workers who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will be denied access to hospitals. This comes at a time when health workers are hesitant to get vaccinated. According to the health ministry’s plan, by now at least 150,000 health workers should have been fully vaccinated but data from the Ministry of Health shows less…
Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) announced a strike on November 22, 2021. Now, hours after the strike began, some doctors seem to have disregarded the strike by showing up for work but others are stuck to the decision by UMA. At many health facilities around Kampala, doctors dressed in their white coats are…
At least 3,925 teenage girls in Agago district have been impregnated in the last one year, statistics from the District Health Department has revealed. A report released Monday shows that 3,925 out of 19,503 expectant mothers who visited various health facilities for antennal care services-ANC between 2020 to August 2021 were girls of 18 years and below. The…
AstraZeneca vaccine seems to provide better protection compared to the other COVID-19 vaccines four months after inoculation. Prof. Walter Jaoko, a Medical Microbiologist at the University of Nairobi told journalists attending a virtual East Africa Regional Science Café that scientists established this in an analysis to determine efficacy estimates of various COVID-19. He says…
The Uganda Parliament has granted Tororo Woman Member of parliament, Sarah Opendi, the Woman Member of Parliament leave off parliament to introduce the surrogacy bill. Surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman agrees to carry a pregnancy for another person who will or becomes the actual parent. The proposed law will look at sperm…
There has been a low turn up of people for the mass vaccination against COVID-19 in Lira City. On Monday, the Ministry of Health launched the 7-day exercise in the Lango and Teso regions. In Lira City, 15 vaccination points were set up in health facilities and public places that include places of worship, bars,…
A generation of children might miss scheduled immunization jabs unless manufacturers find a way to make more single-use disposable syringes, according to a warning from the World Health Organisation-WHO. Based on a scenario where around seven billion people need two doses of coronavirus vaccine between now and 2023, the UN health agency said that a shortage of…
Uganda has received an addition al 3.5 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States government over the last two days. These represent the largest ever donation of COVID-19 vaccines to Uganda and the third donation of COVID-19 vaccines from the United States to the people of Uganda. The United States…
Hundreds of people are lining up at Bulange-Mengo, where a mass COVID-19 vaccination exercise is being held, in a drive to increase the uptake of vaccines. Queues started building up from the main gate of Bulange, the seat of the Buganda Kingdom, where several mobile vaccination statutes have been stationed, as early as 7 a.m…
Persons shortlisted for jobs in Pader District will not be interviewed if they do not present proof of vaccination against COVID-19. This is in line with a directive issued to the District Service Commission by the Chief Administrative Officer, Alex Chelimo. The District has registered a poor turn up for the ongoing vaccination exercise. Only…
